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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Second Edition
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Second Edition

by Ben Frain
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 6. Stunning Aesthetics with CSS3

The aesthetically focused features of CSS3 are so useful in responsive design because using CSS3 lets us replace images in many situations. This saves you time, makes your code more maintainable and flexible and results in less page 'weight' for the end user. Those benefits would be useful even on a typical fixed-width desktop design but it's even more important with a responsive design as using CSS in these situations makes it trivial to create different aesthetic effects at different viewports.

In this chapter we will cover:

  • How to create text shadows with CSS3
  • How to create box shadows with CSS3
  • How to make gradient backgrounds with CSS3
  • How to use multiple backgrounds with CSS3
  • Using CSS3 background gradients ...
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