Useful CSS3 Tutorials & Techniques for Web Designers

CSS3 makes design a lot more fun and engaging. With a sound knowledge of CSS3, you can create beautiful designs with great efficiency and ease. Tutorials are extremely helpful and following CSS3 tutorials and techniques are useful, not only for the professionals, but also for the beginners.

Scroll through our list of CSS3 tutorials and techniques, you can use them to create engaging and fun websites. Enjoy!

How To Customize Your CSS Buttons With Pictogram Icons

This tutorial focus on the power of CSS3 icon fonts for designing user interfaces. You will be creating some generic CSS3 buttons with added icons for design aesthetics. However the icons will not be loaded from static images or sprite sheets. Instead you will be using the Entypo icons font for generating pictograms inside your website layout.

 Using Custom Data Attributes and Pseudo-Elements

In this tutorial we’ll show you some simple CSS tricks using data attributes and pseudo-elements. The aim is to create an image caption using only an anchor and an image as markup. We’ll be exploring how to create pseudo-elements from some data attribute values and use them in a hover effect or simply show them next to the image.

 Create Super Cool Text Effect using CSS3 and Lettering.js

Using CSS3 Filters to Enhance your Transitions

CSS3 Filters are a pretty exciting prospect for us Web Designers as they make effects that we typically associate with Photoshop, possible to apply in the browser with ease. Assuming across-the-board support eventually arrives, we can wave goodbye to countless annoying sprites for simple hover effects and instead, replace this tedious process with a single line of simple CSS.

How to Create a Stylish Image Content Slider in Pure CSS3

In this tutorial you will see how to create a clean and beautiful CSS3 only image slider.

How to Build A Smooth Diagonal Fade Gallery with CSS3 Transitions

In this tutorial, you’ll make a gallery with a smooth diagonal fade effect, powered by css3 transitions. It will scan a folder with photos on the server and display them in a grid that spans the entire browser window.

How to Create a Vertical Navigation Menu With CSS3

By following this tutorial you will learn to recreate Orman Clark’s vertical navigation menu with CSS3 and jQuery while using the minimal amount of images possible.

How To Create a Trendy Flat Style Nav Menu in CSS

This CSS3 flat menu tutorial building a dropdown menu with some fancy hover effects. With the Flat design trend being so popular, the author adopts flat dropdown menu style for this tutorial. It uses various must-know CSS techniques so this is a great tutorial for any web designers learning the basics.

Responsive CSS Timeline With 3D Effect

A tutorial about how to create an experimental CSS-only timeline with a 3D effect. The idea is to expand a content area when the associated radio input is selected.

Create the Illusion of Stacked Elements with CSS3 Pseudo-Elements

In this tutorial Tom Kenny will guide you in creating the illusion of stacked elements with CSS3 pseudo-elements.

How To Create a Pure CSS Dropdown Menu

With the help of some advanced selectors a dropdown menu can be easily created with CSS. Throw in some fancy CSS3 properties and you can create a design that was once only achievable with background images and Javascript. Follow this tutorial to see the step by step process of building your own pure CSS dropdown menu.

Create Fluid Layouts with CSS3 and HTML5

In this exclusive excerpt from Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Ben Frain explores how to convert pixel-based designs to their proportional equivalents.

How To Create Modern CSS3 Hover Effects

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a modern CSS3 hover effect by using CSS transitions, transforms and delays.

CSS3 Tilt-Shift Text

Create a Sticky Note Effect with CSS3 and HTML5

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to transform an HTML list into a wall of “sticky notes”.

Accordion with CSS3

In this tutorial you will see how to create an accordion that will animate the content areas on opening and closing using hidden inputs and labels.

CSS3 Background Clip

CSS3 Breadcrumbs

Catalin Rosu will show you how to create your own cool CSS3 breadcrumbs in order to increase website’s usability.

CSS3 Loading Spinner

CSS3 Pricing Table

This tutorial consists of a whole bunch of new CSS3 features including: transforms, gradient, shadow and nth-child.