Every so often, I see a common element in my every day (work) life, and become gripped by the unwanted, immutable urge to recreate it in CSS. I suspect this is not altogether a private compulsion, as I’ve seen it done in various forms almost daily. This is one of those occasions.

Continuing my series on the Amazon EC2 Cloud, I’ll share a quick how-to on upgrading your amazon server. If you’ve followed my other articles, this one should be a breeze.

I've been seeing a technique crop up that utilizes the CSS pseudo classes before and after to alter shadows on an image. The original resource I saw had an excellent technique to transform the shadows into a pure CSS3 drop shadow that with a page curl effect. Utilizing the same method, I'll use CSS to provide an inset effect that only appears on the top and bottom of the container.

To continue the trend of CSS3 gradients, I want to get a quick post out there about the advantages of using CSS3 for reflection gradients.