CSS3 has come up with the new properties such as transform, transition and animation. By combining these properties, cool CSS animations can be developed. The similar effects used to be made using JavaScript and JQuery. The examples on this page work on Safari 5, Chrome 6, Firefox 4 Beta and Opera 10. As usual, the Internet Explorer still makes no sense on these properties lol.
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The resize property of the CSS3 helps you to declare a flexible and resizable div box in a web page. Instead of using iframe to place some content in a small space, the resize property of CSS can be used having less code and more versatility. You can provide the scrollbars, resizable box or even both. Hence, this property definitely saves your time to write codes.
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CSS text-shadow is a fantastic property that can be used in web design. I was searching on the web to find some cool examples of this property, but no one seems to have a nice one. I found some examples of text-shadow applied on body text and well, that is not actually good use of this great property.

CSS text-shadow property can be used to design logo, menu and other areas where just a plain text may not be so impressive. Sometimes you can be little tricky to your users just by showing your text shadow and hiding the actual text. If users try to select the shadow, they surprise that the object they are trying to select is not text and not even an image. So what is it? Well, this is shadow. Even in real life, you never can catch a shadow, do you? Go to live demo of this example and try to identify the real text on CSS CSS CSS CSS CSS CSS .
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In database transaction, any changes that started must be completed successfully. Unlike other phisical transactions, it can not process half transaction at one time and other half at other time. Suppose, you transfered the money to other bank account, money deduction on one account and deposit on another both must have done at the same time. If only one of those transactions happened, the system will calculate the wrong balance. The ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) is the set of properties that guarantee the transactions processed reliably in the database system.
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Aren't you too tired drawing some gradient images on photoshop to make a gradient background in web pages? Certainly you are. There is a great way in CSS3 to make the gradient color background without using images. If you want to change the gradient color or its style, just change the 6 digits in CSS code and the job done; no need to redraw the gradient images and upload on ther server.

The basic idea of the gradient color is supported by all latest version of major browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE (including IE6). However, because of Chrome and Safari using the webkit browser engine, they support the extra property called color-stop.

The example of CSS3 gradient color background and explanation is given below-
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