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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:09:24 -0700

New Screencast: Designing for Wordpress: Part One
WordPress is a hugely popular CMS for blogging. The blog section of CSS-Tricks is run on WordPress and I am very happy with it....
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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:09:24 -0700

4th of July, Happy Birthday CSS-Tricks!
Today is the 232nd birthday of the United States and the 1st birthday of CSS-Tricks! Been a great year! This blog and this...
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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:09:24 -0700

Featured Review: Markup Factory
It would be fair to call Markup Factory a CMS (Content Management System), but that would be cutting it short. Markup Factory...
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Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:32:55 -0700

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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:44:35 -0700

Coming Soon.
My personal site is coming back home to WordPress. I am using the experience to shoot a series of screencasts on designing for...
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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:53:20 -0700

Cutting Edge Browsers and Their Development Tools
This is a hot time in the world of browsers. Despite a rocky morning, Firefox 3 got over 8 million downloads when it was...
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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:36:53 -0700

Coming Soon.
My personal site is coming back home to WordPress. I am using the experience to shoot a series of screencasts on designing for...
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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:59:42 -0700

Links of Interest
Students: Are you going to be employable? Andy Rutledge’s article The Employable Web Designer is about how schools may...
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Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:07:42 -0700

All About Floats
What is “Float”? Float is a CSS positioning property. If you are familiar with print design, you can think of it...
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Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:52:07 -0700

Poll Results: Which Next Gen Web Language?
Surprising results again, at least for me. “Don’t Care - As long as there isn’t a standards war” was...
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Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:22:13 -0700

New Screencast: Rounded Corners
Here are FIVE different techniques you can use to create rounded corners for boxes on a website. There are always different...
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Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:09:46 -0700

Interesting Reader Questions
Why a CMS? I was recently criticized that my sites weren’t dynamic, and that no one would hire me because everyone wants...
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Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:28:41 -0700

Build Your Own Social Home!
View Demo Download Files Many of us have many “homes” on the interwebs. Personally I use Twitter, Flickr,...
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Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:20:50 -0700

Forums Now Have RSS Feed
It blows my mind that phpBB doesn’t come with RSS feeds for forums. The new v3 is incredibly nice in so many other ways,...
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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:02:58 -0700

Elastic Calendar Styling with CSS
This post was co-authored by Chris Coyier and Tim Wright of CSSKarma A traditional calendar is a grid of numbered boxes on a...
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Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:11:19 -0700

MaxSide: jQuery Plugin (and How-To)
Abstraction is an important concept in any language. You can think of CSS as a way of abstracting the design away from the...
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Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:30:58 -0700

Links of Interest
Enkoder Worried about putting your email address right out in the open for all the world’s spam bots to see? Enkoder will...
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Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:49:18 -0700

Yahoo’s Secret Text-Sprite Generator
Well I’m not sure if it’s a SECRET, but it’s certainly neat and I don’t think they publicize...
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Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:26:17 -0700

Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positioning
A page element with relative positioning gives you the control to absolutely position children elements inside of it. To some,...
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Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:30:44 -0700

From the Forums: Disappearing Background Graphics & More
Disappearing Background Graphics Paul Smith posted about a weird CSS problem he noticed, disappearing background graphics. To...
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Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:39:25 -0700

New Screencast: Cutting Clipping Paths
We’re back in Photoshop this week because I wanted to talk a little bit about a very specific skill that I think is...
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Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:19:48 -0700

Hot off the Presses: jQuery UI v1.5 featuring “Themeroller”
jQuery UI version 1.5 was just released, and it’s going to be a big one. For us designers and CSS coders, here are a...
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Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:43:30 -0700

Free PNGs for Creating Transparent Fills
If you have worked much with CSS opacity, you know that one of the most frustrating things about it is that by setting it on...
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Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:21:41 -0700

Links of Interest
Web Designer Diary I (literally) Stumbed Upon this video of a web designer working on a website. It goes from a blank page in...
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Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:48:38 -0700

Create a Slick iPhone/Mobile Interface from any RSS Feed
I kid you not folks, this is a seriously cool tutorial. It’s so cool actually, that I’m going to let you buy me a...
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