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Most Used Fonts By Professional Designers

The fonts are one of the most important parts of every web Project. All though there have been many other selective collection font posts around which most of the time leads to big confusions Like which typefaces is really useful for your project or how to choose your font from the list of hundred fonts. (full story)

3:17 pm on November 3, 2008 | 0 | # |
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The Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processable by machines, on a global scale. You can think of it as being an efficient way of representing data on the World Wide Web, or as a globally linked database. (full story)

7:12 am on August 18, 2008 | 0 | # |
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Some Useful CSS tricks

We wanted to drop this article as we use these CSS gems on almost every site we design, yet once upon a time never knew they existed. We’ve also ordered the list so each tip should follow the last in terms of practive & usability. (full story)

3:16 pm on August 14, 2008 | 0 | # |
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Style Sheets

203 Style Sheets Computer technology sites (full story)

2:42 pm on July 30, 2008 | 0 | # |
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Input Field Formatting Tips With CSS

We’re all trying to build an effective and good looking web forms. But there are always a new challenges. If you read my previous articles on how to build a better web forms, you could have noticed there are so many details. Label positioning, context highlighting or justifying elements. (full story)

1:21 am on July 29, 2008 | 0 | # |
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Great Gallery With CSS

Today we are going to create a pure CSS image gallery, including a description of each image, from scratch. There are many advantages to using a CSS image gallery as opposed to a JavaScript gallery. For one, you need not worry about learning JavaScript or finding a quality script, and you also needn’t worry if the user has JavaScript Disabled. One of the original pure CSS image galleries may be found at CSS Play, which features a CSS gallery with the images on the bottom and no descriptions. (full story)

3:48 am on July 26, 2008 | 0 | # |
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CSS Table Gallery

CSS Table Gallery - Great list of different table designs with CSS Formatting (full story)

3:02 am on July 26, 2008 | 0 | # |
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CSS Tricks

CSS Tricks (full story)

2:20 am on July 26, 2008 | 0 | # |
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Color Palette Generator

Choose or upload a photo and a palette of colors based on the colors in the photo will be generated automatically. Use it to help with art projects, website design, or even with decorating your home. (full story)

2:50 pm on July 19, 2008 | 0 | # |
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Blockquotes Styling Tips

The blockquote XHTML tag is a fairly useful (if somewhat underused) element. Semantically speaking, a blockquote should be used any time you’re quoting a longer piece of text from another source – another speaker, another website, whatever. (full story)

11:21 pm on July 17, 2008 | 0 | # |
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XHTML Characters Table (Reference)

This page contains the 252 allowed entities in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0, as outlined in section 24 of the official HTML 4 specifications, published by the W3C. If you’re new to this site, you can find help on how to use this reference. (full story)

7:35 am on July 16, 2008 | 0 | # |
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CSS Text Box Design Formatting

Some nice designed text boxes with using CSS (full story)

7:26 am on July 16, 2008 | 0 | # |
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8 Great Fonts to use in CSS

CSS has brought us many capabilities in terms of typography and the web, but we always seem to be limited to the same 4-5 typefaces over and over again. There is an inherant problem, if the font you specify isn’t on the viewers computer it won’t render in that font. (full story)

3:47 pm on July 14, 2008 | 0 | # |
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List of Web Safe Fonts

Here is the list of websafe fonts that I use in my own personal web development. Websafe (or “web safe”, “safe for the web”) fonts are supposedly fonts that are common among all versions of Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. Fonts that you expect everyone viewing your webpage to have. Please contact me if you know of any other web-safe fonts that should be added to this list. (full story)

3:08 pm on July 13, 2008 | 0 | # |
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Free CSS Menus

Choose from the list of CSS menus below to download / purchase the appropriate files to build your menu.
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3:02 pm on July 13, 2008 | 0 | # |
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Pixels to Ems Conversion Table

The em values in the table assume that the generic browser default setting of 16px font size has not being changed. It also assumes that the has font size set to 1em or 100%. (full story)

8:09 am on July 13, 2008 | 0 | # |
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950 Pixel CSS Layouts

These CSS Layouts offer full Grade-A browser support. That means that these CSS Layouts will look and behave the same in all internet browsers, like Internet Explores 6 (IE6), Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), Firefox, Opera, Safari and so on. Since Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is very important to websites, these CSS Layouts have been optimized to give you the best possible search engine results. (full story)

5:49 am on July 13, 2008 | 0 | # |
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Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding

Sometimes being a web-developer is just damn hard. Particularly coding is often responsible for slowing down our workflow, reducing the quality of our work and sleepless nights with pizza and coffee laying around the laptop. Reason: with a number of incompatibility issues and quite creative rendering engines it sometimes takes too much time to find a workaround for some problem without addressing browsers with quirky hacks. And that’s where ready-to-use solutions developed by other designers come in handy. (full story)

3:42 pm on June 23, 2008 | 0 | # |
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