Animation

Lottie.JS is a fantastic animation platform, but what animation tool should you choose? Alex has the ideal Lottie primer.

Animation is a part of a UI designer's job. Here are 9 free animation libraries we think deliver the most power for the smallest file size, while being relatively easy to use for reasonably code-savvy designers that aren't full-blown developers.

There are lots of cool ways to add interest and delight to your web pages with CSS. Learn how to create an animated CSS typewriter effect.

Learn how to make impressive 3D objects in CSS, and even how to make them do amazing things like print a real image from a URL you supply!

Ever thought of adding lighting effects to your UI buttons? You can! Learn how to create directionally lit 3D buttons with CSS and just a little bit of JS.

Do animations need JavaScript? No! Learn some amazing CSS animation tricks you can perform with just a small amount of really cool CSS.

To celebrate Cyberpunk 2077's long-awaited arrival, Jhey Tomkins shows you how to create the famous buttons with a glitch effect on hover in CSS.

Craig explains how to add CSS styles to SVGs when used as static images, inlined backgrounds and HTML, sprites, HTML content effects and portable files.

We've got CSS, SVG, canvas and JavaScript solutions to Code Challenge #1. Now it's time to pick a winner for the $200 Amazon Voucher.

The user interfaces we see in popular culture are often more fun than ones we build at work. Here's a code challenge to show us how you'd build your own.

Ilya Bodrov explains how CSS transforms can be used in the real world to solve various tasks and achieve interesting results — showing how to adjust elements vertically, create nice-looking arrows, build loading animations and create flip animations.

Craig Buckler shows how to add another dimension to your web pages and applications with the new 3D transformation functions and properties in CSS, covering transform, translate, rotations, scaling, perspective and more, along with z-index, browser gotchas, and ideal use cases.

Maria Antonietta Perna walks you through CSS variables/custom properties, the awesome new technology that adds more flexibility and fun to CSS coding.

Jonathan Deutsch offers an easy-to-follow guide on how you can fine tune animation timing functions with Tumult Hype, a visual tool for advanced animations.

Maria Antonietta Perna uses some jQuery and the Animate.css animations library to add some extra subtle visuals to the slides in the Bootstrap carousel.

Maria Antonietta Perna explores the Performance Tool available in the Firefox browser to find out more about CSS animation performance.

Maria Antonietta Perna gives you an overview of GreenSock plugins to add complex animations to your project quickly and in a few lines of code.

Michael Romanov explains how you can build a frame by frame animation with just HTML, CSS and JavaScript which performs well and works great on all browsers

In Part 2 of her GreenSock (GSAP) tutorial for beginners, Maria Antonietta Perna shows how GSAP timeline makes coding complex animations easier and faster.

Giulio Mainardi shows you how to build a 3D rotating carousel using CSS 3D transforms, with some nifty math tricks and some JavaScript to enhance.

Maria Antonietta Perna introduces GreenSock in a multi-part article for the Beyond CSS: Dynamic DOM Animation Libraries series. Ready for some cool effects?

Gajendar Singh shows how the AOS library (Animate On Scroll) works and how you can quickly animate your site to life with stunning effects on scroll.

Simon Codrington illustrates some stunning UI design ideas using CSS animation and gradients to inspire your creativity for your next website project.

Maria Antonietta Perna introduces Velocity JS, a super featured JavaScript library for DOM animation, and shows how to use it without jQuery dependency.

GIFs are the jokers of the web image formats – usually funny and playful. But can they be turned into a dangerous weapon in the right situation?

Good design comes down to 3 or 4 fairly simple decisions at the beginning of a project – and then just carrying them through.

Maria Antonietta Perna presents some front-end learning resources and the new SitePoint Premium's CSS Animation course by Donovan Hutchinson

CSS animations are fast becoming an essential design tool and tap into a more engaged audience through micro interactions and visual validation.

Often the key to understanding complex things is to understand their simpler parts first. SnappySnippet is a tool that can help you with that.

Maria Antonietta Perna introduces KUTE.js, a versatile library as her second installment in the Beyond CSS: Dynamic DOM Animation Libraries series.