I want to create a rounded border in CSS that looks pixelated when zoomed in.
This is what a rounded border looks like up close: http://imgur.com/zbNv8pB
And this is what I'm trying to make it look like: http://imgur.com/ODK6Cm3
This is a specific aesthetic that I'm trying to achieve with my site, but I could not find any tutorials on how to do this. What I want to know is if this is possible outside of going oldschool and using images. I'm sure anyone who wants to recreate old-fashioned looking webpages will find this useful, and there's an entire community of pixel-artists that would love to use this too.
The fact that I can find no help on this tells me it's either not possible or I'm literally the only person who cares about this. If it's the latter then that's a serious negligence on the part of this programming language, especially when this option is already available for images with image-rendering.
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I am looking for some insight on how to achieve a certain result with email-specific HTML+CSS. I've done some searching and I can't really find anything quite specific enough to fit my needs. I am a decently experienced front-end website designer/builder, but I am new to email HTML. My clients have always used a drag and drop service, but I want to be able to offer higher-quality email designs.
Here is an image that shows my desired outcome, with the green color being the background of the body of the email so that the shape just blocks out the correct parts of the image:
I know this might not be possible with the limited html/css that is required in email design, but if it is I'd love to see an example of it working or if anyone knows a good resource to learn the ins and outs of email code I'd really appreciate it.
My idea originally was to use image 1 as the background of a table, then the 2nd layer of the table, use image 2 as the background, or just add in the image inline with full width. I'd love to be able to put text positioned center, but again that might not be possible, I just don't know the limitations well.
Thanks!
I am planning to create a little website(forum) with Quiz questions. So I had an idea to make cool borders in Photoshop(ice, fire, earth) and to implement them on the website. I don’t have any experience in creating live websites whatsoever, so I am interested to know what are the best practices for doing this? The problem is that questions could have anywhere from 10 to 100 words so I need different border sizes.
I currently have two ways of doing this, but neither really satisfies me.
1) Create different border sizes in photoshop and when posting questions check for character length and use appropriate border.
2) Create images with questions already, and post it like that.
I am also worried about the speed of the site. I realize that this is not a common practice, but is it doable? Any input or guide is appreciated.
The easy way to do this is with the CSS border-image property. You can create a square image with the borders you want and then add a CSS prroperty with the following format:
question-border{
border-image: url(<url of image on webserver>) <px size of border> <stretch/round>
}
Using stretch will stretch the middle part of the image, while using round will tile it.
The example on w3schools shows this well.
So the title pretty much say's it all, In case anyone is interested I'm self thought so please don't be so hasty to say I did no research or put any effort into this because I've messed around with a lot of various things on this somewhat BS page and searched using Google Yahoo and Bing looking for a similar issue. Basically the table layout seems to to get like a default transparent overlay, I noticed its only directly on the table because the background images are clearly visible when scrolling past the top of the page and its visible in each table cell.
Like I said I've tried various things with no luck but if this is just some common newbie mistake please point me to some reading material or even a good book for web design as I could really use the know how and wouldn't mind learning something as apposed to shooting in the dark with random bits of HTML, CSS and JavaScript in the little free time I do have..
*Also I was doing all this using blogger as my "host" mainly because I plan to ingrate the blogger framework or whatever into the page after I know its good to go. Find a link to the page below, If you need the raw HTML not formatted to blogger just let me know.
https://layout-dev.blogspot.com
Turns out the image host for the body background-image wasn't loading in the image on apple device's, still not sure why but after relocating the image to my personal Dropbox and directly linking to it that solved the problem. *As weird as that may sound the original url was http://subtlepatterns.com/patterns/binding_dark.png and simply replacing it with https://dl.dropbox.com/s/njcu65h90cmsbp8/binding_dark.png solved the problem. -Figured I should post the answer just in case someone ever has a similar issue.
So I know that the question of how to make a radial menu has come up before and I am aware that some people have done absolutely amazing things already, but! I have to make one and I can't use anything more than css and js. The problem is, I have to implement the menu on the clients piece of crap drag and drop editor. It doesn't have anything fancy installed and isn't the most wonderful environment to work in.
To make matters worse, it has to be compatible back to IE8. I know. Trust me.
I was initially thinking of using a bunch of divs shaped as triangles layered over each other, but then I would have to cut off all of the tips poking out. Not sure how to do that.
Any ideas?
By the way, this is the triangle idea: http://imgur.com/YcWeOjE
Bit of background
I've been producing a Flash-driven webcomic for three years now, incorporating some basic animation, a synced soundtrack and zoom-drag page viewing. The recent Flash-bashing, my desire to reach iHandhelds and my preference for open versus proprietary means that I want to make the move to HTML5 techniques this year. In the long-term, I think the writing's on the wall for Adobe's product, and I'm not entirely convinced that's a bad thing.
I'm relatively comfortably with both CSS and HTML, having worked a little in web design before. However, JavaScript is a foreign country to me, and I simply wanted to get some advice as to
whether what I want to achieve can be accomplished consistently across all browsers and
what the best techniques/approaches to the problem would be.
Any advice, even general principles, are very welcome. I've already sought out several HTML5 tutorials and introductions, which lead me to believe that the canvas element will be foundational to my plan; however while all the individual problems I face have been answered by many blogposts and guides, combining the various solutions into a single entity is something I'm not currently able to figure out, as I'm not certain of the limitations of the new HTML5 tags, or of best practice.
If I'm successful in achieving what I'm after, I'm going to post the full code online with an explanation of all the elements. Webcomics might not be a huge domain, but having a resource that did this would have made my life a lot easier - hopefully it'll help someone else in a similar position.
What I'm after
Here's a diagram giving the basics of the design requirements. I'll explain the elements, and the desired extras, below.
(Perhaps the simplest way to demonstrate what I'm after would be for interested folks head over to my website and see how my comic currently works. This isn't a plug - it would simply give the quickest insight.)
At core, I'm after a viewer that will:
display text (SVG image) in a canvas element above an raster image the page's panel art
both images should be zoom-and-draggable in sync but should ideally fade in separately, with the raster image coming first, followed by the SVG image
I'm guessing that the best way to accomplish this would be to layer two canvas elements one above the other using z-index, with the SVG file in the uppermost element. These could then be nested, as in the diagram, within a div element that would carry the zoom-drag function. Is this a reasonable approach, or are there more efficient options?
The next and previous buttons are self-explanatory. Would it best to have each page (bearing in mind some will involve animation and music) on a separate page, or to have all pages within a chapter on a single page, with the buttons making them visible progressively? I imagine this would have a great impact on loading speeds.
Finally, I'd like to have the viewer capable of displaying fullscreen if the reader desires. I imagine this could be accomplished by using Javascript to make the canvas elements and their surrounding div switch between different CSS giving a px-defined size and 100% height and width. Is this a good approach? Is it possible to apply the size change to the div element only and have the canvas elements automatically follow suit, possibly by defining their size via % in CSS?
Desired extras
At various points in the comic I make use of basic animation techniques - simple movements of layered raster images across the viewing pane. This would be simple to accomplish, I imagine, using Javascript; am I correct in thinking that applying overflow:hidden to the wrapping div will prevent images larger than the viewing area from spilling outside the viewer area?
I also want to synchronise audio with some of these animations. I understand that synchronising canvas events with the audio would be the best way to do this on, permitting both to begin activity only upon page loading or next button click.
That's about everything. As said, any advice at whatever level would be greatly appreciated, even if it's 'yes' or 'no' to the various questions I've asked. At root, it would also be good to know if HTML5 is the best option for what I'm after or whether (with gritted teeth) I should stick to Flash for now and go after handhelds using Adobe AIR.