The following quick-tip shows how to obtain a blurred-text effect using purely CSS. The trick is to set the color property to transparent and set an appropriate text-shadow Code p.blur { color:transparent; text-shadow:0px 0px 4px #333333; } Output Live Example
How to take full-page screenshots with Firefox’s developer toolbar
Taking screenshots of webpages is a handy and quick way of saving interesting stuff for later reference or for documentation purposes if you are a developer. While the quickest and easiest way is to just hit the Print Screen key on your keyboard and save the screenshot in an image editor, sometimes you may require [&hellip
C++ tip: Check if input is of valid data type using cin.fail()
When accepting user inputs in C++ console applications using cin object, it is always a good idea to check the input stream for possible errors. If you intend to read a numeric value using cin and the user inputs a character or string instead then it can lead to unexpected results and run-time errors later [&hellip
Top Mistakes to Avoid while Designing A Website
While using the Internet, sometimes you don’t find some sites as attractive as others are. While web designing is not a difficult task, still few people fail to accomplish his job. It is very important for a website to be user friendly and interactive. It helps in directing visitors towards your site. An ill designed [&hellip
Essentials of Mobile Website Designing
It is very essential for the mobile website designers to put an extra effort on the aspects of the website design. As the designed website should not only be user friendly but also complement your site. A few considerations while designing mobile website are as follows
HTML5/JavaScript maps by Simplemaps.com
This weekend, I got the chance to play around with HTML5 maps by Simplemaps.com. Here are the stuff you need to know to set up HTML5 maps on your website and my thoughts on the same
Decrease Page Load Time by Suturing CSS and JavaScript files
While designing a medium-large site, one may require linking to multiple stylesheets and JavaScript files in the head section of HTML document. Here is a sample HTML document that similarly includes many CSS and JavaScript files < !DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>My Site</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="path/to/cssReset.css"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="path/to/960framework.css"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="path/to/base.css"/> [&hellip
Change Text Selection Background Color with CSS
Almost all web browsers by default highlight the selected text on a webpage with a light blue background. But did you know that using CSS, you can change the color, background-color or any other CSS property of a selected chunk of text? You may have seen such effect on several beautifully designed websites and may [&hellip