Cairns Web Design

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past six months, chances are you’ve heard of US interaction designers and strategists ZURB. Over the past few months their ZURBplayground has showcased some fantastic examples and demonstrations of the power of CSS3, alongside other web technologies, and has been covered by tens of thousands of [...]

The first public beta of the forthcoming Firefox 4 browser has been released bringing increased support for CSS3 amongst various other improvements. One of the most notable new additions in Firefox 4 is support for CSS3 Transitions (with the -moz- prefix). Webkit based browsers (such as Safari / Chrome) and Opera have supported CSS3 Transitions [...]

The W3C have today issued a last call working draft for the CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders module. The updated specification includes several changes from the previous Candidate Recommendation release including: * Addition of ‘content-box’ value of ‘background-clip’. * Change to the ‘background’ shorthand syntax for ‘background-clip’ and ‘background-origin’. * Removal of recommendation to use gradients [...]

They may have arrived late to the party, but Microsoft are keen to make their presence known, and in an effort to show just how engaged with the web standards community they are, or perhaps more a chance to try and gain one up on the competition, have published a set of results (on the [...]

A recent editors draft of the CSS3 Background and Borders module (published on 5th may) indicates that the box-shadow property could be set to make a reappearance before the specification is released as a Proposed Recommendation. The specification also features several other updates including the addition of a ‘content-box’ value to the background-clip property, changes [...]

Microsoft today announced further details of their forthcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser, along with the first platform preview for developers, at their MIX Conference 2010. Amongst the announcements comes increased support for CSS3, with support promised for CSS3 Selectors, Namespaces, Colors, Values, Backgrounds & Borders and Fonts, along with increased support for HTML5 and improvements [...]

This week has seen the announcement of a couple of new online tools for generating cross-browser CSS3 rules, CSS3 Please! and CSS3 Generator. CSS3 Please!, produced by Paul Irish and Jonathon Neal, aims to simplify the design process by allowing designers to enter one value, and have this instantly synced and normalised for each vendor-specific [...]

The announcement of our redesign last month received an overwhelming number of comments, with the majority expressing negative feedback. The main concerns raised were that the new design was too dark, lifeless / boring and lacking in fun, spirit and character. As previously stated, the main reason for the redesign was from a functional perspective [...]