Design your way

Monday, May 12, 2014

When you can use CSS3 properly, designing animated effects is so much more fun. Once you have a good knowledge of CSS3, beautiful designs, created efficiently and easily, are immediately at your fingertips.

Developers have been using more and more CSS3 based designs. CSS3 key frames and transition animations are opening up a myriad of possibilities. In the old days, 3D animation could only optimally be used on flash based websites. Now, recent further advances in Javascript and CSS3 give designers new impressive code tools to add to their design tool kits.

CSS animations are great fun, their beauty is enhanced by the fact that it is simple to create anything from a professionally elegant fade in to an effect that will shock you with its awesomeness.

In this article you will find several open source code samples using 3D animation effects and also tutorials for creating these. Some were created using only CSS3 and others using a mixture of CSS3 and JavaScript. Do remember that people who are using old internet browsers may not be able to appreciate your animations in their full beauty.

That does not mean that you cannot begin to learn how to create wonderful animations using CSS3.