It’s October and I got to give a shout out to Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. See my previous mentions dedicated to breast cancer awareness in 2008, 2009, and 2010.

Now per the suggestion of a friend, the organization that I’ve selected is The Shade Tree. The Shade Tree is one of Nevada’s largest shelters offering free assistance to women, children, and elderly experiencing abuse, homelessness, female veterans, and those with physical disabilities.

The Shade Tree Mission – To provide safe shelter to homeless and abused women and children in crisis and to offer life-changing services promoting stability, dignity, and self-reliance.

At The Shade Tree, we believe…
That no one should ever have to endure a state of homelessness, existing in fear for personal safety and without the means to meet even the most basic of human needs – food and shelter.

That every human being, regardless of social status, has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

That all homeless children are victims because they lack choice and mobility.

That homelessness is a community problem that impacts everyone. That everyone can be a part of the solution.

Established in 1990 The Shade Tree has grown to be one of the largest shelters in Nevada. With the aid of Donald W. Reynolds Foundation The Shade Tree has a facility that is that largest of it’s kind in Nevada with 364 permanent beds providing over 100,000 nights of shelter each year. A few programs that they offer include Day Shelter Program, Emergency Shelter Program, Life Skills, Children’s Activity Center (CAC) and many more.

They do great work to help those in need, so find out how you can help at http://www.theshadetree.org/ and $5.00 can go a long way.

Here’s how a $5 donation can help:
$5 buys a gallon of milk to help our children stay healthy
$5 buys two 24-hour bus passes to help our women seek employment
$5 buys 18 4oz. packages of applesauce; a nutritious snack
$5 buys a package of laundry detergent to keep our families’ clothes clean and fresh
$5 buys 6 boxes of Kleenex to stop the sniffles in the winter time

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Web design has reached the next level with the recent releases of CSS3 and HTML 5, so in the redesign of the Pure Adapt website we worked in some new design styles and techniques. In this post I’m going to specifically go over CSS3 styling that we used in the new design.

CSS3 Transitions are effects that allow you to change the style of an element gradually to another style. This is a great new property that adds animation without having to use Javascript or Flash. We used this in our top navigation so when you hover over one of the navigation icons it gradually drops the name of the link. see CSS3 transition property tutorial

CSS3 Border Radius property lets you create rounded corners without having to use photo editing software to create rounded corners and piecing it together in HTML. We used this property throughout the entire site. see CSS3 border-radius property

CSS3 Box Shadow property adds a shadow to elements like your div. We used this property right on homepage so when you hover over our featured sites there’s a light glow around the image. It’s not a shadow, but it’s done with the box-shadow property. see CSS3 box-shadow property

CSS3 Media Queries have been around, but with CSS3 you have much more control. Now you can assign different style sheets depending on the screen resolution, which is extremely helpful with the amount of devices that websites are viewed from. This feature was put into good use helping us create a responsive designed website, so as the resolution changes it’ll adjust to a better viewable layout. There’s more to responsive design than just media queries but that’s for another post. see CSS3 media queries tutorial

Those are examples on how we used CSS3 in the redesign of the Pure Adapt site and that’s only small sample of all the great stuff the CSS3 has to offer. Visit PureAdapt.com to see the complete redesign. Also note that CSS3 doesn’t work across all browsers. Working properties may vary across browsers, but most modern browsers have adopted CSS3. For more details on CSS3 visit w3schools.com for CSS3 tutorials and much more, it’s great web design resource.

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