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10 Wonderful CSS3 Creations

We have already shown what CSS3 with HTML5 can do for your website. But beside websites CSS3 with jQuery can do a whole lot more. You can make animations with it that could only be done with Flash before and create designs only possible with Photoshop.

Once FireFox and Internet Explorer have finally catch up with WebKit developers and designers will finally have more options to serve data and graphics. Here there are 10 exceptional animations and graphics done with CSS3 mainly and some with jQuery added. All of them are best viewed in Chrome and Safari, only the Star Wars animation is Safari 5 only.

My favorite one is the Dribble infographic, which really shows how CSS3 can best be used for data display supported with CSS3 graphics. Of course the use of image files is not totally ruled out but the largest parts are code based.

While this is all great in showing the power of CSS3 I can imagine it takes a lot of hours to create something like this, while just using Photoshop is a lot faster. But take advantage of these pioneers who take hours to create great things from CSS3 and learn from their code. It will only help us all to improve and create better websites.

Opera Logo

css3

Creating a logo from CSS3 only makes scaling possible, plus point for usability.

Dribble Infographic

css3

Infographics are popular, like them or not they are the best way to show data without boring your readers.

Space

css3

Add a few planets and it will make a great educational website.

Pure CSS Coke Can

css3

Loads much faster then a Flash animation.

Pure CSS 3D Meninas

css3

jQuery DJ Hero

css3

A Colorful Clock with CSS & jQuery

css3

Star Wars a New Beginning

css3

Matrix

css3

AT-AT Walker

css3


  1. By Bratu Sebastian posted on July 29, 2010 at 8:20 pm
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    COOOL!!! Great effects!

  2. By TCE posted on July 31, 2010 at 10:09 am
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    very help full post

  3. By Jarkko Sibenberg posted on August 3, 2010 at 8:24 am
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    Great stuff. The 3D image looks nice, and with such a quick loading time I can see a lot of great possibilities for the effect. The coke can looks brilliant too. I can only imagine how much work it takes to create any these images, so probably it isn’t taking over flash and normal illustrations just yet.

    Is there any software around yet that allows you to make CSS illustrations with a user friendly design view, or is all this done in code by trial and error?

  4. By Eric posted on August 3, 2010 at 9:51 am
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    Sorry, but Pure “CSS Coke Can” is not css3…

  5. By design_surfer posted on August 19, 2010 at 11:55 am
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    Nice effects!!!
    I like the pure css coke can and a colorful clock with CSS & jQuery.
    Makes me want to create my own.

  6. By Amy posted on August 20, 2010 at 2:51 pm
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    These are really good!

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