How I Learned HTML & CSS
TO DO ———————————————
Zen Coding for Aptana
http://coding.
RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN (priceless roundup)
http://www.mayfielddigital.co.
Fluid Design Examples w/ Media Queries
http://zomigi.com/blog/
Responsive Design
http://csstips.org/2012/02/27/
http://www.wpmayor.com/
Example: http://thisiscounterculture.
Responsive Navigation Patterns
http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/
TOOLS & Reference
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Benzier Curve Builder – Animation Ease-In / Ease-Out
http://www.roblaplaca.com/
CSS / HTML Playground
http://dabblet.com/
HTML Outliner – Give URL or Upload File to get Outline of page
http://gsnedders.html5.org/
Fonts – Web Safe
http://www.ampsoft.net/
css transition timing – REFERENCE *GREAT*
http://www.the-art-of-web.com/
Chroma Color Picker & Saver
http://lucumalabs.com/chroma/#
MOBILE
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45 Design Templates
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/
Website design for mobiles
http://blog.savvydog.com/?p=60
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HTML ==============================
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Structures: div, section, article
http://oli.jp/2009/html5-
Smartphone Screens Resolutions
http://cartoonized.net/
HTML Dog’s Guides on HTML and CSS
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/
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CSS ==============================
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SM – CSS3 Learning Guide
http://www.smashingmagazine.
SM – Mastering CSS Principals
http://www.smashingmagazine.
45 Powerful CSS / Javascript Techniques – TUTORIALS
http://coding.
Designer Web Trends (parallax scrolling,
http://webdesignledger.com/
Fluid Layout (relative to default font)
http://www.alistapart.com/
LukeW – Multi-Device Layout Patterns
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.
Media Queries in Basic Responsive Design Grid (must watch)
http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/
Responsive Design Examples
http://mediaqueri.es/
Progressively Enhancing HTML5 (setup Fallbacks)
http://css-tricks.com/
CSS Menu – using Hover and Position
http://www.noobcube.com/
Inline Blocks
http://www.search-this.com/
The Display Declaration
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/
Horizontal Centering
http://haslayout.net/css-tuts/
Vertical Centering Methods
http://www.vanseodesign.com/
Inline Blocks and Why it Sucks
http://robertnyman.com/2010/
Positioning
http://www.barelyfitz.com/
http://www.brainjar.com/css/
Rounded Corners – REFERENCE – including using images
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-
http://www.css3.info/preview/
Lists – Stylized – REFERENCE
http://www.marcofolio.net/css/
Selectors – Advanced (good for dynamic lists in forms – REFERENCE
http://sixrevisions.com/css/3-
Multi-Columns – CSS and Javascipt Alternative for IE – REFERENCE
http://www.csscripting.com/
Speech Bubbles & Killer Buttons
http://webitect.net/design/
Animated pop out Button
http://designshack.net/
STYLE GUIDES
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http://paulrobertlloyd.com/
http://oli.jp/2011/style-
Color Guide w/ thumbnail preview of color story
http://www.cssdrive.com/index.
STYLES – RESUME
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6 Professional Looking CV/Resume Web Templates
http://www.bitrepository.com/
40 Paid CVs (nice reference)
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/
Jason has a pretty example
http://www.brianjaystanley.
Another minimal one
http://courseweb.lis.illinois.
ANIMATION & FX (CSS)
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SIMPLE beginnings
http://www.webkit.org/blog/
CSS Gallary – (color swatches) Dark of Black
http://www.cssdrive.com/index.
Using CSS3 Transitions, Transforms and Animation – LEARN BABY
http://css3.
Cast Shadow from cursor
http://www.zachstronaut.com/
CSS animation principals and tools
http://coding.
jflow video tutorial
http://net.tutsplus.com/
3D Parallax Painting
http://www.romancortes.com/
Thumbnail Navigation Gallery
http://tympanus.net/codrops/
Sticky Header (top) – Content scrolls up under transparent header
http://youloveus.co.uk/blog/
Sticky Footer (bottom w/ jQuery)
http://www.hardcode.nl/
Footer using CSS
http://www.alistapart.com/
W3 Schools (try me)
http://www.w3schools.com/css3/
transitions without javascript – REFERENCE
http://www.w3schools.com/css3/
Rebuild Conent w/ a Fade
http://css-tricks.com/dynamic-
Frame by Frame Animation
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/
SCROLLING / SLIDING
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Build a Conent Slider with jQuery
http://brenelz.com/blog/build-
Anything Slider
http://css-tricks.com/
5 Scrolling Content Examples
http://www.noupe.com/design/
13 “Beautiful jQuery Conent Slider Scripts – COLLECTION
http://webdesignledger.com/
jQuery – How to animate the scroll
http://designshack.net/
“Scrollable” jQuery Toolset
http://flowplayer.org/tools/
8 ways to integrate ImageSwitch and jQuery
http://www.hieu.co.uk/blog/
Sliding Content
http://www.queness.com/post/
jQuery.ScrollTo
http://demos.flesler.com/
Slideshow
http://www.agilecarousel.com/
SIDEWAYS – Badass Fullscreen Sliding Image Gallery
http://manos.malihu.gr/
50 more Slideshows! – COLLECTION
http://www.tripwiremagazine.
jQuery Slide
http://api.jquery.com/
Dynamic Scroll – like google reader’s autoloading content
http://webdeveloperplus.com/
Scroll Background – ball through trees w/ CSS & Javascript
http://www.storiesinflight.
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JAVASCRIPT ==============================
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Datepicker
http://jqueryui.com/demos/
ANIMATION (Javascript)
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Rebuild Content via Menu Buttons – jQuery TUTORIAL
http://net.tutsplus.com/
Rebuilt conent w/ Fade – jQuery TUTORIAL
http://perishablepress.com/
Pop-up Speech Bubbles using JQuery
http://demo.marcofolio.net/
Character Rigging by Anthony Calzadilla
http://www.optimum7.com/
Excellent examples on fade examples
http://www.hesido.com/web.php?
Tweening examples
http://jstween.blogspot.com/
Dynamics (chain and more)
http://processingjs.org/
FORMS
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Top 10
http://www.catswhocode.com/
Simple Purple Login
http://www.threestyles.com/
Styling a dropdown
http://danielneumann.com/blog/
from this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/
Better Select Dropdown
http://v2.easy-designs.net/
24 Ways – Field day with forms
http://24ways.org/2009/have-a-
Fun with HTML 5 Forms
http://thinkvitamin.com/code/
Form Validation
http://www.tizag.com/
Dropdown conent tutorial
http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/
dropdown login menu
http://web-kreation.com/all/
Beautiful Forms
http://www.noupe.com/php/
UI Wireframes
http://www.smashingmagazine.
Robbie Manson: The Mindful Designer
Another great talk on web design, that feels like it shifts a little outside of the World Wide Web. What I learned:
- We are more efficient when designing away from the computer.
- One of the techniques he uses is called “6-Up Sketching”, where you set a timer for 5 minutes and try to quickly come up with 6 unique concepts. After the 5 minutes is up, you and your team try to find the strong and weak points in each concept.
- Intent has to be balanced with Experimentation. As slick as CSS is, it’s not flexible and an accident usually results in an error, not an innovation.
My notepad…
Legos for CSS Design Patterns
Thanks to Natalie Downe‘s Practical Maintainable CSS slideshow for this inspirational idea of using Legos for design grids for laying out web pages.

