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10 awesome CSS tricks to enhance the design of your website

February 10th, 2010

10 awesome CSS tricks to enhance the design of your websiteCSS (Cascading Style Sheets) provides amazing solutions for an infinite number of web design challenges. The benefit of CSS is that it allows a website to be flexible and easy to update. With all your styles in one file, CSS eliminates the need to update every single page of your website everytime you want a change. CSS not only makes a website easy to maintain, but it also poses countless creative ways to enhance the design and usability of the website. . . . more »

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15 annoying Internet Explorer 6 bugs + simple solutions

March 26th, 2010

15 Internet Explorer 6 bugs, and how to deal with them in your web designIf you’re a web designer, IE6 probably makes you cringe. What’s worse than having to waste countless hours resolving IE6 bugs? – The advice of other fed up designers – “Just stop supporting IE.” It’s just not that simple my friend. Even today, 1 out of every 10 internet users have IE6. Check out the statistics.

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How to create hyperlinks anywhere you want in a PDF

March 11th, 2010

How to create hyperlinks anywhere you want in a PDF

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PDFs are highly used documents these days. Back in the day, people used to send out all types of stuff as Word documents (like resumes, essays, flyers, etc.), but realized that anyone can manipulate their content. With PDF, your content stays aligned, and untouchable. Another great reason for PDF popularity is that a PDF can be created from all sorts of files, including Photoshop files. But one thing people may not know is that you can make text, images… (and pretty much ANYTHING you want) …clickable within a PDF. This demo will teach you how to create hyperlinks in a PDF.

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How to vertically center text in a div using CSS

February 27th, 2010

How to vertically center text in a div using CSS

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It’s pretty easy to center text in a div using CSS…horizontally that is. But what about when you try to use CSS to center text vertically? Just a bit tricky, huh? The trusty “vertical-align:middle” CSS method works wonders in a table td, but somehow fails you when you try it in a div. And you don’t want to have to resort to using a table JUST to vertically center text. Here’s the CSS solution that lets you vertically center text in a div.

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How to create a simple yet attractive CSS horizontal menu (with depth effect)

February 17th, 2010

How to create a simple yet attractive CSS horizontal menu with depth effect

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Using CSS to create your website navigation (or menu) is the smartest thing you can do. Why? – Because updating it is a breeze, and you will thank yourself everytime you have to add or remove a menu item while avoiding having to edit tons of individual pages on your website.

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How to change case of text in a Word document with one click of a button

February 15th, 2010

How to change case of text in a Word document with one click of a button

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It’s annoying when a Word document is composed in all capital letters. The text appears to be yelling rather than speaking, and the last thing you want to do is rewrite the entire thing in lowercase letters. Grrrreeaaat, now what?

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How to place a pattern as your website background

February 10th, 2010

How to place a pattern as your website background

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Using a pattern for your website background is a great idea, especially if your website needs a little something to jazz it up. There are many perks to using a patterned background on your website. Not only is it bandwidth friendly, but it also provides a finishing touch to a website that may otherwise have very little going on. Patterns can be subtle or bold, whichever suits your personal preference. The first thing you have to do is find (or create) a pattern that you like.

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