Tag archive: css3
New template: Variant Winter
As we are moving into February, I have enormous amounts of snow outside the window of my office. Inspired by the beautiful weather that I had last weekend, I created a winter-themed website template and named it Variant Winter. It is a simple but probably quite useful 2-column layout, 980px wide with a CSS background…
Variant Creative (alternate version) released
The single most popular template since its release a few weeks ago, Variant Creative, has been reworked and released as an alternate version: Variant Creative (alt). The new version comes with red/pink colors, an embedded @font-face font (Ubuntu, downloaded from Font Squirrel) and a new blog-styled layout (see the screenshot below) – a bonus that…
Currently in the works…
Year 2011 has started with several simultaneous projects going on at once here on andreasviklund.com. Some are not very obvious, such as optimization work to speed up the site using a cache plugin for WordPress and a significant update to the forum registration form to prevent spam robots from registering and posting in the forum….
How to add text shadows using CSS
One of many new possibilities that comes with CSS3 is the ability to add shadows on texts. It is an easy way of making a regular design a bit prettier, but it can also be useful to make some text elements easier to read. Browser support for text shadows is still not perfect as Internet…
HTML5 templates with CSS3?
The templates on andreasviklund.com are all written using XHTML and CSS2, but newer web standard drafts are on their way. HTML5 and CSS3 are gaining in popularity, and with more and more web browsers adding support for these upcoming standards the interest for using them for website production increases. As a logical result, the interest…