Monday, November 28, 2011
Przegląd prasy, czyli ciekawostki czytelnicze 14
- Rodziny ofiar wypadków drogowych powołują się na Smoleńsk
- Zapomniane niemieckie kasyno - gdy robotnicy zerwali boazerię, ich oczom ukazały się rysunki. Herby niemieckich miast, proste pejzaże, szkice produktów spożywczych. Pozostałość hitlerowskiego kasyna
- NBP szykuje zamach na przelewy ekspresowe
- Ciekawa historia pakistańskiej aktorki, która rzuciała wyzwanie mułłom
- 0 18-letniej burdelmamie
- Louise Hawson of 52 Suburbs
- Directly Install Mac OS X Lion on Your Hackintosh, No Crazy Update Process Required
- How to Be Your Own Therapist and Solve the More Manageable Problems in Your Life
- The Kinfolk Urban Expedition bag
- Stop Wasting Time Being a Perfectionist & Make More Bad Stuff
- The Expert Enough Manifesto
- A Grip Like a Vice: Grip Strength Training Tips
- Kapitalne kieliszki
- Flier, displaced by obese seatmate, forced to stand for 7 hours a myślałem, że takie historie to tylko w PKP
- The Testosterone Dilemma - Toxins, obesity, and even fatherhood could be causing a drop in testosterone
- Edison vs. Westinghouse: A Shocking Rivalry
- Occupywallstreet domains - The OWS Digital Land Grab
- Wallet Shapes & Functions
- Czy rzeczywiście mamy do czynienia z "epidemią" niepłodności męskiej?
- Google Authenticator
- Five features to look for in a carry-on bag
- Wyspiarz zbudował chatę hobbitów dla swojej rodziny za jedyne 3000 funtów
- American doctors disappointed with the results smoking ban in restaurants - The largest U.S. think tank Rand Corporation, said that the ban on smoking in restaurants, cafes and bars does not affect the number of heart attacks
- Ultrabook Features Guide
- Lenovo IdeaPad U300s review
- First Look: Pics and Official Specs of Upcoming HP Ultrabooks
- HP Folio 13 Ultrabook official
- HP Folio 13 gallery
- HP Folio 13 Ultrabook - comments
- HP Folio 13 ultrabook: 3.3 pounds, 128GB SSD, and a backlit keyboard for $900 (hands-on)
- HP Folio Ultrabook shows up early Down Under
- Dell intros slimmed-down Inspiron 13z and 14z laptops with aluminum lids, USB 3.0
- Dell XPS 14z review
- ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime: 10-inch Super IPS+ display, 12-hour battery and quad-core Tegra 3, ships in December for $499
- $399 HP Pavilion dm1 Hands-on: Who Needs An Ultrabook ?
- $399 HP Pavilion dm1 isn’t an Ultrabook
- Zdradził? Sama jesteś sobie winna - kobieto pamiętaj, wystarczy nie zrzędzić, smacznie gotować i dostarczać partnerowi satysfakcjonującego seksu
- This Machine Can Tell You If Your Photos Suck Or Rule
- Increase Your Dating Success with Statistics
- National Geographic Photo Contest 2011
- Siri Argument
- Robotic bear pillow stops your snoring by gently mauling your face (video)
- How to Make Waking Up Comfortable and Pleasurable (Instead of Punishing)
- How to Deal with Family Members that Stress You Out or Drive You Crazy
- Jak samemu zrobić książeczkę do kolorowania dla dziecka
- How-to: use Google Music from anywhere (yes, outside of the United States)
- What’s the Right Pillow for You?
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 review
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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WootsonTV - Dreamland
Taka ciekawostka : na tym video, wśród uznanych gwiazd można zobaczyć polską modelkę Monikę Trzpil ... znaczy się Polki rządzą :)
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Przegląd prasy, czyli ciekawostki czytelnicze 13
- Toughstake - nowy pomysł na śledzie do piasku i śniegu
- Lenovo IdeaPad U300s review
- The Hoefman’s Little Dutch House Stays Warm with Passive Design
- Digital Photos Make For Great Memories But Crappy Photos
- Solar Backpacks That Charge Laptops!
- Tower for the Dead = czyżby przyszłość naszych cmentarzy ?
- 2011 Zombie Safe House Competition - trochę nietypowe podejście do projektowania domu :)
- Coke and WWF Turn Classic Red Soda Cans White in Honor of Endangered Polar Bears - ciekawe czy u nas też da się je kupić ?
- Nokia Unveils OLED Phone You Control by Bending - przynajmniej będę nosił spokojnie telefon w kieszeni na dupie wiedząc, że go znowu nie połamię :)
- Compact Kitchens from Kitchoo
- Artisan's at work: shoe & shirt - czyli prasowanie koszuli i pastowanie butów po samurajsku
- Irreversible Climate Change Will Occur in 5 Years if Major Infrastructure is Not Changed
- The Science Behind Tangled Earbuds - a ja nadal uważam, że to skrzaty :)
- Height Restrictions :)
- Zwiebelmarkt Eichen - pencil drawing and computer rendered
- Secret To A Long, Healthy Life: Bike To The Store
- Forgetting your beacon is manslaughter in Europe….if you wife dies in an Avalanche
- Microsoft Security Advisory: Vulnerability in TrueType font parsing could allow elevation of privileges
- Jak zrobić szlifierkę z dysku twardego?
- About MacBook Pro and SATA III Drives Compatibility
- FotoVideo.nu : Sony NEX-5N review Sony NEX-5N review
- Nikon Coolpix AW100 review
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Przegląd prasy, czyli ciekawostki czytelnicze 12
- Rolands Sands "Hawkized" Triumph Thruxton - ślicznota :)
- 10 Upcycled Wine Bottles Turned Home Accessories
- CB Coombs Organized Chaos (DeskTops - The Best of Readers' Desks)
- How To Properly Calibrate Your New Solid State Drive
- Art Tutorial: Drink Up These Kitchen Colorants! - How To Use Coffee, Tea, and Wine To Create Works Of Art
- The FitDesk Lets You Race the Tour de Smaller Pants
- 5 Unusual Repurposed Wall Hooks
- Marleen Jansen’s See-Saw Table Explores Mealtime Manners - stoliko - huśtawka, genialna zabawka jak dziecko nie chce jeść
- Africa’s First Plastic Bottle House Rises in Nigeria
- FotoBag.no
- Cognac Nubuck Leather Weekender 2.0
- Stylizmo Blog : DIY: Pallets - czyli co ciekawego można zrobić z palet
- The million-pound mutt: Red Tibetan Mastiff becomes world's most expensive dog - czyli pies za milion funtów
- Z-Bolt Trip Wire Illuminator
- Rusza 11.Festiwal Slajdów Podróżniczych TERRA
- Nuclear powered aircraft, the Convair NB-36H a.k.a. Peacemaker
- Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime - najciekawszy tablet tego roku
- EE Pad at Asus.com
- ITS Challenge Coin (Spy Coins Edition)
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Przegląd prasy, czyli ciekawostki czytelnicze 11
- Alyssa Miller – Intimissimi Lingerie Photoshoot
- About that Swedish commute vs health study - correlation and causation?
- Revisiting the Panasonic 20 1.7 Micro 4/3 Lens on the Olympus E-P3
- cyclelicio.us : Specialized Source Eleven
- FIXED GEAR GIRL TAIWAN : Photo of the day
- The Phoblographer : Review: Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM for Canon
- Luxy Vespa Helmet
- Beatiful mountain bike wallpaper :)
- another bike wallpaper
- It's Better In The Wind - Short Film
- 2012 Nissan GT-R photos
- Classic Scarlett Johansson in Vanity Fair - bardzo ciekawa sesja
- Lego Angry Birds
- Megan Fox by Kayt Jones for ELLE China, 08/2011
- Znów zamrożenie płac w budżetówce, podwyżki akcyzy na olej napędowy i papierosy, koniec lokat antybelkowych - tak fiskus chce zaciskać pasa w przyszłym roku
- Trochę spełniłem marzenia - z Grzegorzem Turnauem rozmawia Małgorzata I. Niemczyńska
- Ojciec karmiący - o podłości kobiet walczących o dzieci
- Pani adwokat po stronie tatusiów
- Dumne śledzie - Przyklejają do swoich samochodów nalepki z napisem "Gdynia. Moje miasto" :)
- O zaletach posiadania rudych włosów
- Samsung NX11 – krótki test
- The Library Workspace
- A New Form Is All You Need To Avoid Running Injuries
- Dyskusja o Olympusie E-P3
- Żebracy pobili się w kruchcie kościoła. Są zniszczenia - o zorganizowanym cwaniactwie i naciąganiu wiernych
It's Better in the Wind
After two years of production "It's Better in the Wind" has been edited together and is now available for your viewing pleasure. A short film all about guys out on the road enjoying the two wheeled lifestyle of wrench, ride and repeat. Photographer Scott Toepfer's film was funded through the sale of his "Better in the Wind" book and we can only hope this film will make it much easier for him to find funding for many more. Here's what Scott has to say about the project...
"For the last two years I (Scott) have been taking still photographs for a personal project entitled 'It's Better In The Wind,' all the while collecting video footage from each ride as we traveled around the Western United States together.
I have been slowly editing the footage into a visual scrapbook of sorts for those who partook, and those who followed us via the web. No preaching the triumphs and failures of the motorcycle industry, no divisive commentary between manufacturers and styles...just a collection of imagery that will hopefully inspire more people to take to the road and discover what there is outside of our respective communities.
Chuck Ragan was kind enough to collaborate with me to write an original soundtrack for the film, to give me some anthemic tunes to edit with, and I can't thank him enough for the kind gesture towards a fellow traveler.
Please, enjoy the film, everybody who took part in it is family, we are all grateful for your support these past two years while we tried to build a concept around the positive nature of motorcycling."
All photographs by Scott Toepfer
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
Przegląd prasy, czyli ciekawostki czytelnicze 10
- Underwater photography by Sarah Lee - swietne zdjecia !
- Miranda Kerr in Russell James' book
- 10 Best Netbooks In 2011
- PCMag.com : The Top 10 best netbooks
- Hands On: HP Pavilion dm1z (E-450)
- PCMag.com : HP Pavilion dm1z
- PCMag.com : Lenovo ThinkPad X120e
- Samsung NC215-A01US 10.1-Inch Solar Powered Netbook - genialne :) w końcu ktoś zrealizował moją wizję :)
- The Brazos Performance Preview: AMD E-350 Benchmarked
- forum.notebookreview.com : HP DM1z discussion
- forum.notebookreview.com : HP Pavilion dm1z Review Discussion
- engadget : HP Pavilion dm1z (with AMD Fusion) review
- Hands on with the HP Pavilion dm1z: The anti-netbook
- HP Pavilion DM1Z Review
- The Evolution of the Pavilion dm1
- 9 Amazing Bags Available Now
- SQUARE1 HOLDALL / CAMPFIRE BAG
- Killspencer : Classic Black Weekender
- Dear Christianity: An Apology
- Men's Bags 2011
- Power poses to win in the boardroom
- Test Dell Vostro V131
- Laptop do pracy w terenie – jaki kupić?
- Road Test – Millican’s Keith the Writers Bag
- Buyers Guide: 9 Amazing Bags Available Now
- Cycling safely in Amsterdam
- Mind & Brain : What You Don't Know Can Kill You
- The fashionable cyclist: Why let a little rain get you down?
- Best Netbook Computers 2011 – Specs, Reviews, Comparisons, and Buying Guides
- kwejk.pl : Najciekawsze uwagi z dzienniczków uczniowskich
- Effects of Male Masturbation on Attracting Women
- The Problem of Pornography
- Masturbation In Marriage: Part I
- Redefining Fidelity
- Marriage and Pornography: The Experts’ Take
- How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi
- simplemarriage.net : Ahem, let’s talk about the M word
- Kobieta po przejściach i mężczyzna z przyszłością
- Piraci, blogerzy i e-11 września - prof. Lessig dla POLITYKI
- +1 For Fathers
- Trash Messenger Bag
- Gallery of Trash Messenger Bags
- New Cycling Initiatives in Ukraine - The city of Lviv in western Ukraine has begun a 9-year initiative to build 168 miles of bicycling infrastructure to the region - to więcej niż w całej Polsce rocznie - pozostawiam bez komentarza
- Steven Alan shop (bags etc)
- allegro.pl : Dell Vostro V131, i5, 8GB, Dysk SSD 128 GB
- Dell Vostro V131: Thin and powerful laptop for small businesses
- business Iron Man velocity measurement. Dell Vostro V131 ??? Dell Vostro V131 the first to test
- Test Dell Vostro V131 notebook
- allegro.pl : DELL V131 13,3' I5-2410 4GB 128GB SSD W7Pro64 3G - 3599 PLN
- 60 Popular Pieces of False Knowledge
- enric adrian gener underwater photos
- Glenn Jones - A growing collection of designs created for online t-shirt store www.glennz.com
- Bert & Ernie tries Gangsta-Rap - kapitalnie zrobione :)
- Ben Watts shoots for the 2nd Issue of treats! magazine part 1 ;)
- Ben Watts shoots for the 2nd Issue of treats! magazine part 2 :)
- Ben Watts shoots for the 2nd Issue of treats! magazine part 3 :)
- Alcohol as a recovery drink
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Przegląd prasy, czyli ciekawostki czytelnicze 09
- How the characters from the Angry Birds video game would look in the real world
- Pepsi used the remains of aborted babies for their products
- House Rules Vinyl Wall Stickers
- Nine Life Lessons Learned From Hunter S. Thompson’s Viral Legacy
- Katarina Ivanovska – Victoria’s Secret Lingerie Photoshoot
- 10 Funny/Rude Replies & Sayings Coming From Siri
- 10 Funny/Rude Replies & Sayings Coming From Siri - Part 2
- flickr: michael sweet's photostream - mnostwo zdjęć z oceanem i plazami
- antraxw gallery on deviantart.com
- kapitalny loft w starym mlynie
- Would You Buy a 10 Foot Wide Home for $849,000?
- Jeep Jeepster Commando Convertible
- Miranda Kerr Rag & Bone Photoshoot
- Electric DeLoreans Coming In 2013
- The Difference Between Married Men And Married Women
- 7 kroków Akceptacji Siebie przez duże S
- Burzowe chmury poczucia winy
- Jak skonstruowane jest EGO?
- Myśli i obserwacje
- Poczucie bezsilności i braku energii, a granie fałszywej roli ofiary
- Podstawowe pułapki EGO
- Win Hearts, Not Arguments
- 20 Ways to Eliminate Stress From Your Life
- The Sony NEX-7 Digital Camera Review by Steve Huff
- I just want to be happy
- 6 Signs You Are Stuck in a Bad Marriage
- Procrastination Rewards
- Oracle Performance and Backup blog
- Po prostu puść to, technika uwalniania – Mooji
- 17 nienaruszalnych praw kobiet - bardzo prawdziwe
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- 10 Rules For Being Human - bardzo mądre
- Dell Vostro v131 - what win services to stop for SSD
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- Top 10 ultraportable laptops
- zdnet.co.uk : Dell Vostro V131 review
- allegro.pl : Dell Vostro 3350 i5-2410M 4G 500G USB3.0 NBD złoty
- allegro.pl : DELL V131 13,3' I5-2410 4GB 128GB SSD W7Pro64 3G
- forum.notebookreview.com : Dell Vostro V131 discussion
- konfiguracje V131 do nabycia od reki
- notebookcheck.com : HP Pavilion dm1z
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Blur Menu with CSS3 Transitions
There are so many great things we can do with the additional properties and possibilities that CSS3 brings along. Today I want to show you how to experiment with text shadows and with transitions in order to achieve a blur effect that we’ll apply to a menu on hovering over the elements. The main idea is to blur the other items while enhancing the one we are currently hovering.
The images in the demos are by fabulous Mark Sebastian and they are licensed under the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) License. Visit Mark’s Flickr Photostream or his website to discover some beautiful photography.
Please note that this will only work properly in modern browsers and unfortunately Internet Explorer does not belong to that category yet since it does not support transitions (and many other suggested CSS3 properties that others do support). It also does not support text-shadows, so I’ve added a additional stylesheet for IE which will at least show the menu elements.
The Markup
Let’s create the HTML structure for our menu first. We’ll add it to a container with a fixed width. The menu is going to look as follows:
<ul class="bmenu">
<li><a href="#">About</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Illustrations</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Photography</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Web Design</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Personal Projects</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
Now we’ll add some style!
The CSS
In almost all of our examples we’ll have the same style for the ul and for the list elements. Just the link element will be modified. So, the common style for the unordered list is the following:
.bmenu{
padding: 0px;
margin: 0 0 10px 0;
position: relative;
}
.bmenu li{
font-size: 50px;
display: block;
}
Now, let’s take a look at each of the seven examples.
Example 1
In the first example we want to show the menu items slightly blurred initially. For that, we’ll give the link elements transparent color and a white text-shadow. We’ll also add the transitions for all properties:
.bmenu li a{
color: transparent;
display: block;
text-transform: uppercase;
text-shadow: 0px 0px 5px #fff;
letter-spacing: 1px;
-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
}
When hovering over a link element, we want it to become “clear” and all the others should become blurry. Now, we cannot say “on hover of a particular element do x to all the siblings” in CSS because the sibling selector is not really a sibling selector, it will just give you the next siblings in the HTML.
Anyway, we can do a little trick here. Since we have all our items nicely laid out as block elements, we can simply say, make everything blurry when we hover the whole menu (the unordered list) and then when hovering over a specific item we’ll crisp it up:
.bmenu:hover li a{
text-shadow: 0px 0px 5px #0d1a3a;
}
.bmenu li a:hover{
color: #fff;
text-shadow: 0px 0px 1px #fff;
padding-left: 10px;
}
By adding a padding left, we’ll animate the currently hovered item a bit to the right.
Example 2
In the second example, we’ll show the items in the menu a bit skewed initially. We’ll do that with the 2D transforms property skew. The value will be -12 degrees which is the skewing angle along the x axis. The link s will have a semi-transparent background that we’ll achieve by using an rgba value. We’ll also add a slighty transparent text-shadow using rgba:
.bmenu li a{
display: block;
text-transform: uppercase;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgba(89,22,20,0.3);
color: #581514;
padding: 5px 20px;
margin: 2px;
background: rgba(255,255,255,0.2);
letter-spacing: 1px;
-webkit-transform: skew(-12deg);
-moz-transform: skew(-12deg);
-o-transform: skew(-12deg);
-ms-transform: skew(-12deg);
transform: skew(-12deg);
-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
}
Hovering over the menu, we’ll change the skew angle to 0 and make them appear blurry with a semi-transparent background. The currently hovered link will have no background:
.bmenu:hover li a{
color: transparent;
text-shadow: 0px 0px 10px #fff;
background: rgba(88,22,22,0.2);
-webkit-transform: skew(0deg);
-moz-transform: skew(0deg);
-o-transform: skew(0deg);
-ms-transform: skew(0deg);
transform: skew(0deg);
}
.bmenu li a:hover{
background: transparent;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 10px rgba(89,22,20,0.6);
color: #581514;
}
Example 3
In the third example we will play a bit with the sizes of the elements. We’ll initially scale them down and blur them. We’ll use a fairly slow linear transition:
.bmenu li a{
white-space: nowrap;
color: transparent;
display: block;
text-transform: uppercase;
text-align: center;
text-shadow: 0px 0px 6px #fff;
letter-spacing: 1px;
-moz-transform: scale(0.5);
-ms-transform: scale(0.5);
-o-transform: scale(0.5);
-webkit-transform: scale(0.5);
transform: scale(0.5);
-webkit-transition: all 0.6s linear;
-moz-transition: all 0.6s linear;
-o-transition: all 0.6s linear;
-ms-transition: all 0.6s linear;
transition: all 0.6s linear;
}
Hovering over the menu, well blur the items even more and the currently hovered element will be sharpened up and scaled to the original size:
.bmenu:hover li a{
text-shadow: 0px 0px 15px #fff;
}
.bmenu li a:hover{
text-shadow: 0px 0px 1px #fff;
-moz-transform: scale(1);
-ms-transform: scale(1);
-o-transform: scale(1);
-webkit-transform: scale(1);
transform: scale(1);
}
Example 4
In this variation, we’ll give the link elements a semi-transparent black background and a vibrant orange text color. We’ll use the linear timing transition function here:
.bmenu li a{
display: block;
text-transform: uppercase;
text-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #eeb213;
color: #eeb213;
padding: 5px 20px;
margin: 2px;
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.7);
letter-spacing: 1px;
-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear;
-moz-transition: all 0.2s linear;
-o-transition: all 0.2s linear;
-ms-transition: all 0.2s linear;
transition: all 0.2s linear;
}
When we hover, we want the menu items to blur and and also to make their backgrounds more transparent. A single hovered item will become more opaque:
.bmenu:hover li a{
text-shadow: 0px 0px 10px #eeb213;
color: transparent;
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
}
.bmenu li a:hover{
background: rgba(0,0,0,1.0);
text-shadow: 0px 0px 1px #eeb213;
}
Example 5
The fifth example will be a subtle one: we’ll use only white for the text-shadows and font colors and just blur the elements slightly:
.bmenu li a{
color: transparent;
display: block;
text-transform: uppercase;
text-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #fff;
letter-spacing: 1px;
-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
}
On hover we’ll blur a little more and crisp up and move the currently hovered link element a bit:
.bmenu:hover li a{
text-shadow: 0px 0px 6px #fff;
}
.bmenu li a:hover{
color: #fff;
text-shadow: 0px 0px 1px #fff;
padding-left: 10px;
}
Example 6
In this example we’ll give the elements a semi-transparent white background and leave them crisp initially:
.bmenu li a{
white-space: nowrap;
display: block;
text-transform: uppercase;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgba(71,80,23,0.3);
color: #fff;
padding: 5px 20px;
margin: 2px;
background: rgba(255,255,255,0.2);
letter-spacing: 1px;
-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;
}
We want to give the first and last element some rounded borders so that the menu looks like a neat unit. We’ll target our desired elements with the first-child and last-child selectors:
.bmenu li:first-child a{
-webkit-border-radius: 15px 15px 0px 0px;
-moz-border-radius: 15px 15px 0px 0px;
border-radius: 15px 15px 0px 0px;
}
.bmenu li:last-child a{
-webkit-border-radius: 0px 0px 15px 15px;
-moz-border-radius: 0px 0px 15px 15px;
border-radius: 0px 0px 15px 15px;
}
On hover, we want the elements to look blurry and the currently hovered element to change colors and have a transparent background:
.bmenu:hover li a{
text-shadow: 0px 0px 10px #fff;
color: transparent;
}
.bmenu li a:hover{
background: transparent;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 10px rgba(71,80,23,0.6);
color: #c4d85a;
}
Example 7
In the last experiment we’ll make the whole menu look like a circle by adding a border radius with the value of half of the menus width/height:
.bmenu{
padding: 50px 0px;
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.7);
width: 500px;
height: 400px;
-webkit-border-radius: 250px;
-moz-border-radius: 250px;
border-radius: 250px;
-webkit-transition: background-color 0.5s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: background-color 0.5s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: background-color 0.5s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: background-color 0.5s ease-in-out;
transition: background-color 0.5s ease-in-out;
}
We’ll add the transitions here because we want to animate the background color when we enter into the menu. We’ll make it more transparent by using rgba values:
.bmenu:hover{
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
}
We’ll adjust the font size and the line height of the list element a bit:
.bmenu li{
font-size: 40px;
display: block;
line-height: 66px;
}
The elements will be scaled down and blurred:
.bmenu li a{
white-space: nowrap;
color: transparent;
display: block;
text-align: center;
text-transform: uppercase;
text-shadow: 0px 0px 3px #fff;
letter-spacing: 1px;
-moz-transform: scale(0.8);
-ms-transform: scale(0.8);
-o-transform: scale(0.8);
-webkit-transform: scale(0.8);
transform: scale(0.8);
-webkit-transition: all 0.4s linear;
-moz-transition: all 0.4s linear;
-o-transition: all 0.4s linear;
-ms-transition: all 0.4s linear;
transition: all 0.4s linear;
}
Hovering over the menu will also make the elements more blurry and give the currently hovered one a nice background color while crisping it up and scaling it to its original size:
.bmenu:hover li a{
text-shadow: 0px 0px 10px #fff;
}
.bmenu li a:hover{
text-shadow: none;
color: #fff;
background: rgba(129,6,29,0.8);
-moz-transform: scale(1);
-ms-transform: scale(1);
-o-transform: scale(1);
-webkit-transform: scale(1);
transform: scale(1);
}
Remember, IE is the party pooper here, but if you’d like to try your luck and use IE’s proprietary shadows, check out the following resources and go wild:
CSS Blurred Text-Shadow in IE — Part I
IE Visual Filters and Transitions Reference: Static Filters
And that’s it! What’s your favorite one? I hope you like these experiments and find them inspiring!
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