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Creating a Parallax Effect in CSS3
In the ancient video game days, although you may have assumed you were actually moving a character around, you probably weren't. Games like Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario World used a technique known as parallax scrolling. This is a method used to achieve a "movement" effect, when really all that is happening is the background is scrolling from right to left. Today, we'll see how to achieve a similar effect using some clever positioning and some CSS3 transitions.

Multiple Borders
Although some may not see a use for having more than one border on a CSS element, it can really be a useful tool in more than one situation. I've seen the effect used most often in image galleries and such, and it can really help elements on your page to stand out a bit more by giving them more depth. Today, we'll see how to implement multiple borders in CSS using some not so common pseudo classes.

Creating CSS3 Pop-Up Dialogue Boxes
This tutorial describes how to create a pop-up dialogue using CSS3. Today, we'll combine a few of the new features we've learned thus far to create a dialogue box that pops up and displays more information about a link in our page. We'll come across some transitions, some shadows, and even some rounded corners.

CSS3 Transitions
A tutorial describing how to use CSS3 transitions. Today, we'll start simple and build a rather cool looking button with a color transition, as well as a background transition.

Creating a Dialogue Bubble in CSS
Today we'll learn how to create a dialogue bubble in CSS, which is a great way to learn to create circles and triangles. Let's get started!

Create a 3D Cube in Pure CSS3
CSS3 comes with a few amazing properties to help us create 3D shapes from nothing but standard HTML Divs. The transform: skew property is the one we are interested in today particularly, and we'll see how this comes into play when creating our 3D cube.

Create a Pure CSS3 Ribbon
A recent trend in modern web design is the use of CSS3 to add depth to normally bland-looking elements. Things like rounded corners and shadows are being used in extremely creative ways, and today we'll see how to create one of the more commonly used effects known as the ribbon technique.

Basics of CSS3 Animation
CSS animation has been around for a while, but wide range support is now starting to flourish. Today, we'll build a "splash screen" of sorts, with a rotating spinner to let a visitor know that our site is loading.

The CSS3 Resize Property
CSS3 is adding quite a few new features to our styling toolkits, and today's brief tutorial will talk about one of the ones that you may have not heard about yet, the resize property. In the past there have been a few hacks to give a box the ability to be resized, but now with CSS3 it only takes a single line of code.

CSS3 Columns
A tutorial describing how to use the CSS3 column properties.
With frameworks like the 960 Grid System and others floating around to make page layouts easier, there seems to be a growing emphasis on grid or column based design on the web. CSS3 is once again coming to our rescue and attempting to make things even simpler by providing a standard way of splitting up large blocks of text into columns. This is honestly one of the most useful things in the new CSS3 specification, and is guaranteed to make your life as a web designer easier. Let's see what this new property can do.

Creating Drop Caps in CSS
Drop caps are a very useful technique for making your paragraphs stand out a bit. Today, we'll have a look at how to implement drop caps with care, and some of the pitfalls surrounding their use.

Selectors and Declarations in CSS
Before CSS came around, it was common to create an entire page layout with HTML tables. While this can still be done, it should certainly be avoided at all costs. Besides, CSS makes everything so much simpler. You give your HTML elements a Class or an ID, and then you style those elements based on the Class or ID that you've given them. Let's have a look at how CSS works!

Declaration of Colors and Borders in CSS
There are several ways that CSS will allow you to make elements on your page stand out. Without some creative styling, most of your page will simply be text and images. While this can be OK in simple situations, most sites will require a bit more flavor. Today we'll see how to make our page elements stand out by using the CSS background-color property along with the border property. Let's jump in and see how it works.

Fundamentals of CSS Positioning
CSS positioning properties allow you to determine where on your page certain elements will appear. Elements can be positioned using the top, right, bottom and left properties, however to set these properties the elements position property needs to be set first. Let's dive in and see what position properties are available to us.

Commenting your CSS code
A tutorial describing the proper way to implement comments in CSS.
It's important that you comment your code properly so that when you need to come back to it, you can quickly find your way around and change what you need to.