Using gradients, a progression of color that goes seamlessly from one shade to the next, can be an ideal way to dress up a background or add a jolt of color to a logo, avatar or other image file.

Make posters and invitations with more eye-catching designs by setting color, gradients, or images as your document background in Pages. It’s a super-simple trick that can make a big difference. Find ...

Major browsers support CSS3 gradients (including Internet Explorer 10), but with different rendering engines, it's still good to have fallbacks. Designing the presentation layer of an HTML5 ...

Generally, people prefer to create slides using Microsoft PowerPoint, but nowadays, with the advancement of Google Slides, a large section of the crowd prefers to use Google Slides rather than MS ...

PowerPoint has a great set of special effects, graphics, animations, and template themes. There’s just one problem: Everybody else has the same effects, animations, and template themes that you have.

It’s easy to turn an Excel chart into a visually compelling object. Susan Harkins walks through the steps for jazzing up data points with a simple formatting trick. Excel charts don’t have to be ...

Two years ago in our MacStories Weekly newsletter for Club MacStories members, I shared a shortcut that enabled creating wallpapers for iPhone and iPad featuring solid colors or gradients of your ...

Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful presentation program that offers a variety of features and tools. In this post, however, we will learn how to customize and format the background of a PowerPoint ...

The default view when you open most of the programs in the Microsoft Office 2007 Suite is almost entirely black and white. You'll usually get a replica of a page, such as a piece of paper, a ...

gradient syntax for different rendering engines. .bg { /* fallback color */ background-color: #000000; /* fallback image */ background: url(http://johnpapa.net/files ...