This tutorial is the first part of the three part tutorial that shows how to implement three dimensional shadows for images and text using javascript and css. The first part shows how to build a few basic shadowed web page elements using some basic css.

The piece of code that explains how to build this javascript and css shadows is also given.

The following are covered in this.
1) creating simple background images using css
2) css borders for shadowed web page elements
3) Creating shadows for web elements with liquid dimensions