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A website can be well decorated if you can implement some CSS tricks for the background.

For any color combination of background to highlight your content you have to spend some time with some useful tutorials of CSS Tricks. This article is a beautiful collection of CSS Gradient Tutorials for Web Designers.

CSS Gradient Background Fade

A quick and simple way to use a gradient background for you web site. Make the gradient look like it is fading out with no weird lines – just smoothness. It’s really quite easy to do using CSS to edit the body property of the HTML document.

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Speed Up with CSS3 Gradients

Safari 4+, Chrome 1+, Firefox 3.6+, and Opera 11.10+ are all now supporting CSS3 gradients. This wide browser support makes using them for progressive enhancement all the more appealing. More good news, CSS3 gradients fall into the camp where you can specify fallbacks (i.e. images) so that browsers that don’t support them just use the image instead.

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CSS gradients – quick tutorial

CSS3 gradients aren’t something new, but because of cross browser incompatibility, they weren’t used that much until now. However, you should know that they are available to use in Safari, Chrome (Webkit) and Mozilla Firefox (from 3.6) browsers.

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Background gradients and CSS

Here is a short description in the gradient, along with the HTML and CSS.

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CSS Gradient Tutorial

Gradual changes in color, or gradient effects, are a common visual design element of Web 2.0 websites. Used appropriately, they can add a feeling of depth to a website and give it a more polished look. The most common method of accomplishing gradient effects is by using a background gradient image. There is also a proprietary gradient filter property in Internet Explorer that can be used to create gradient effects via CSS without the use of images. In this tutorial we will look at both methods of creating gradient effects.

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CSS3 Gradient Generator

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Mastering CSS Gradients in Under an Hour

Have you refrained from using CSS Gradients because either you didn’t understand them, or thought the browser support for them wasn’t good enough to consider using them in your projects?

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Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator

You’ll need a recent version of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera or IE to use this Gradient Generator. The resulting CSS gradients are cross-browser – they will work in these browsers and will also fall back to a simpler gradient in older versions of Internet Explorer.

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Cross-Browser CSS Gradient

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CSS Gradients for All Web Browsers, Without Using Images

One thing that is quite nice is that we now have the ability to create gradients in our pages just from CSS code, and without the use of any images.

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