Here’s a tutorial on how to pull off a pretty neat trick with CSS to “decorate” images on a website. Want a nice frame or thumb-tack on your gallery’s thumbnails? A little bit of CSS code and a transparent PNG is all you need. Here’s the CSS tutorial from WebDesignerWall.
The same designer has a very similar tutorial on creating gradient effects on web text (really, its the exact same concept). Although I found it amazing at first, when looking at the demos again, it seems to bring out the text aliasing…
Another neato CSS trick is the “blurry background”. A first, I thougt it was a trick similar to the one’s above, but its nothing like it. It’s basically two backgrounds, one blurry, one crisp and clear, and a little-known CSS property for backgrounds called “fixed”. Confused? Read the how-to here.
