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Firefox, Microsoft, and Opera have all come out with new browser version in the past couple of months. Which upgrade is the most significant? And which browser has the features and usability you’re looking for?read more | digg story

The W3C’s CSS working group recently released a draft of a new multi column layout module–to be included (with possible modifications) into the CSS 3 specs. For those web developers that have been lamenting the lack of adequate multi column support in current supported versions of the CSS specs, this is an exiting […]

“Doodle up a Google map.” Draw pictures and label things on a google map using simple clicks and drags.
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How to make a desktop background to help gauge how websites look on different monitor sizes. A downloadable template is provided.read more | digg story

Some people just misinterpret how the web should be used/designed.read more | digg story

Designed and developed by Jonathan Harris, WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The […]

This is for designers who are going to be working with Rails and is intended to give them a good starting point to jump into work with a Rails developer. This is all introductory material. Basics are covered (MVC, locations of files) as well as a code example and more advanced topics (partials, ActionView helpers).
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CSS sprites allow you to create a single file that contains all the images laid out in a grid, requiring only a single image and only a single server call. Jason Cranford Teague shows you how to tame your Web site graphics using CSS sprites to consolidate images into a single file.
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Web 2.0 eats itself. A web application that creates the design for other web applications, using all the W2.0 tricks everyone is already getting bored of. pretty funny.
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Here is a collection of various textures. May come in handy.
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