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Adobe Acrobat Distiller is a very powerful program that few designers seem to take advantage of. In this tutorial I will show you some reasons to use Distiller and some useful features. Before you can learn how to use it, you must learn what it is. Adobe Acrobat Distiller is a tool that turns postscript files into PDF files. Now why use Distiller instead of just exporting a PDF from Adobe InDesign or another Adobe program? Many reasons. Lets get into it.
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With all the cool things you can do with CSS3, probably the most used would have to be the box-shadow property. No longer do you have to use images to put a simple shadow on an element. Most don’t go beyond the simple drop shadow for things like containers and pictures. In today’s tutorial we are going to use some more CSS3 properties to create a more advanced shadow. To set the record right, I know that the shadow being used isn’t a likely shadow to occur in nature, but for tutorial purposes we are going to create both.
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It’s been a while since I have done a tutorial so I thought I would do a pretty neat HTML5/CSS3 tutorial. In this tutorial we will be creating a search form that expands to allow for more content to be added. We are going to be dealing with HTML for the markup, and CSS3 for effects and animation. This is much like the Apple search bar but the relation was not intended.
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CSS3 gradients are the mystery of the CSS properties. People love to use them, but few know the syntax. Typically users just go to an online generator and have the syntax automatically made for them. I must admin, I have done this too (and still do). It is easy and convenient. The purpose of this tutorial is not so much to write your own code for CSS3 gradients, but rather to understand the syntax behind it so you can modify and edit it. If you want to go so far as to memorize the syntax so you will never need an online generator again, go right ahead.
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Creating things with pure css can be a fun and exploratory process. Creating CSS triangles falls into that group as well. Even though that support for pure CSS triangles goes back to IE7 (yes really), it’s only with the introduction of CSS3 that we can really let it shine. In this tutorial I will give a basic overview of how to create pure CSS triangles as well as how to create a complex CSS3 button that involves triangles.