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A guide to CSS Opacity

Published: March 25, 2010

CSS opacity has been a bit of a trendy technique for a few years now, and it’s been especially frustrating for developers trying to implement opacity (also referred to as CSS transparency) in a cross-browser fashion, because it’s taken a while for the different browsers to finally agree on settings. There is still not a [...]

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HTML5 & CSS3 Tools, Resources And Guides

Published: March 25, 2010

HTML5 and CSS3 are bringing new features to us and in this article you’ll be able to find some great tools, cheat sheets and much more you could need to master these new features. Maybe those new features aren’t yet supported fully, but it’s a very good thinking to learn new technologies now so you [...]

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10 tips for front-end web developers

Published: March 16, 2010

Explain which div you’re closing Most of the time when I’m viewing a website source, I see, at the very bottom of the page, an almost endless list of closing </div> tags. In fact, many beginners think they just have to use divs instead of tables to produce quality code. Divs are cleaners than tables, [...]

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Pseudo Classes to the Rescue

Published: March 12, 2010

5 Advanced CSS Pseudo Classes that will Save your Day CSS3 provides powerful pseudo-classes that allow the designer to select multiple elements according to their positions in a document tree. Using these pseudo-classes can be a little confusing at first, but it becomes a lot easier over time to set up your layout. In today’s [...]

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HTML and CSS Common Mistakes

Published: March 10, 2010

Beginners through advanced coders make mistakes in their HTML and CSS files, either through carelessness or lack of experience. Clean code is very important though and will help further your skills as a developer, as well as save you time in editing later on! It never hurts to review if you’re a skilled developer, many [...]

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CSS: The Box Model, Margin, & Padding

Published: March 8, 2010

In the first of the CSS In depth series, we’ll be talking about margins, padding and the box model. Margins and padding are some of the most widely used styles in CSS, but are often the source of frustration in cross-browser compatibility. In this post, we’ll explain the difference between padding and margins, how the [...]

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CSS3 Pushing Web Design Into The Future

Published: March 5, 2010

There are exciting new features in the pipeline for Cascading Style Sheets that will allow for an explosion of creativity in Web design. These features include CSS styling rules that are being released with the upcoming CSS3 specification.

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Predictable Design – Subjective?

Published: February 25, 2010

The $64,000 question in software industry today is: How do you transform a software design process into its ideal form—an objective, deliberate activity that furthers the cause of commerce—from its typically subjective, clumsy one, which always seems at odds with the bottom line? Its deceivingly simple answer requires that we overcome some elegant human imperfections. [...]

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CSS3 Pushing Web Design Into The Future

Published: February 23, 2010

There are exciting new features in the pipeline for Cascading Style Sheets that will allow for an explosion of creativity in Web design. These features include CSS styling rules that are being released with the upcoming CSS3 specification. Realistically, you won’t be able to use these on your everyday client projects for another few years, [...]

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The Differences between Usability and User Experience

Published: February 3, 2010

The rapid growth of RIA technology into the lives of every day people just a few years ago has carried both the usability and user experience industries to a new high in popularity. The success of software (particularly on the web) has driven both of these terms into our vernacular, and yet they are still [...]

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