Sunday Web Design Roundup (06 Dec 09)

Sunday is for roundups of things I've been looking at this week. Mostly catching up on HTML5 and CSS3.

• Pushing Your Buttons With Practical CSS3 - Smashing Magazine

  We’ll show you here how to create nice button styles without any hacks or cheats.

• 24 ways: Working With RGBA Colour

  CSS3 introduces a couple of new ways to specify colours, and one of those is RGBA. The A stands for Alpha, which refers to the level of opacity of the colour, or to put it another way, the amount of transparency.

• 24 ways: Have a Field Day with HTML5 Forms

  How to style a beautiful HTML5 form using some advanced CSS and latest CSS3 techniques.

• HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You'll Soon Be Using - Nettuts+

  It might be a little early to start using HTML5 and CSS3 right now, but it seems to degrade gracefully. Though whether that holds true for IE is another matter.

• WordPress › Twitter Tools « WordPress Plugins

  Automatically send blog posts to Twitter.

• WordPress › Sociable « WordPress Plugins

  Buttons to add posts to many social networking and bookmarking sites, including Delicious, Diigo, Facebook and Twitter.

• Make Swatches From Photos In Photoshop

  A simple way to make colour palettes from an image inside Photoshop.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.