Intro, motto, greeting or tagline. A brief paragraph is the first thing you can see on most of the websites when you enter them. Most of them are multi-lined but also boring and plain. While breaking the text into multiple pieces you can create interesting effects that can convince the recipient to stay longer on the page. By adding just one parameter to the CSS you can make it way more interesting. Let’s see how we can achieve it.
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December CodePen challenges
According to CodePen December was the month of a CSS. With tied hands, we were experimenting with different types of limitations all gathering around this powerful language. That’s why this month’s challenges theme was “Binding Your CSS Hands”. Sometimes we were not allowed to use JavaScript and other times we could use only pseudo selectors. And as we already know – sometimes limitation can free creativity. Let’s see what happened.
November CodePen challenges
In November CodePen decided to pull out the more geeky side of us. They chose something really iconic as a theme of the challenges that month – board games. We have contact with them practically from an early age and they have been played in most cultures and societies throughout history. I’m sure each of us can name at least one board game, like Cluedo, Monopoly or even Tic-tac-toe. The main goal of the challenges was not to re-create the games but to use them as a theme for the design. Does it sound easy? It sounded for me in the beginning. While getting through, it started to be more and more challenging. Let me show you what I achieved. Shall we?
October CodePen challenges
October – the first month which always reminds me of autumn and it represents a lot of contrasts in nature. Rain and sun, cold and warm weather, green grass and yellow leaves – all of those are opposites. And this was the main theme of this month’s challenges from CodePen. Despite it was a really busy month for me, I still managed to finish all of the tasks and that makes me really proud. What’s more – I finally gave a try to the pattern library I wanted to try for some time. Let’s see how it went!
How to create a classy slider with pure CSS
It doesn’t matter if you are creating a website or an app – you don’t want to use the default style of a slider. It won’t match any modern sexy design. For instance, you can use external libraries like Bootstrap or Foundation but most of the time, you don’t want to install an additional package just for one component. What you actually want to use is an HTML input range element. In this tutorial, I will be focusing on styling the slider without using JavaScript. It will be as simple as possible so you can achieve a really nice effect in a short amount of time.
September CodePen challenges
September’s CodePen.io challenges brought us new fun opportunities to improve our programming skills. The theme was really unique – each week we had to follow a different type of a limitation. I’ll show you what I’ve designed with a short description. So sit comfortably and let’s embrace the limitations together!
backdrop-filter property
“Frosted glass” effect kicked around the Internet more than 10 years ago and it’s still popular. You can create a faded background effect and other complex design effects with just a single line of CSS!
background-blend-mode property
Some people think that stunning image effects can be achieved only in graphic editors – nothing could be further from the truth. Adobe’s Photoshop did not invent blend modes and you can use them to style your image dynamically with CSS. ..