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Microsoft Expression Web Final Release
2009-06-19 04:19:35
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Having reviewed Microsoft Expression Web back in June 2006, giving it rating of 3 out of 5, I was glad of the opportunity to have a look over the final release version of the product, to see how well it supports designers in creating sites using CSS....
Book Review ‘Beginning CSS Web Development’, by Simon Collison
2009-06-19 04:19:01
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The cascade, inheritance, contextual selectors. As someone who has been using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in the real world for a while it’s sometimes easy to forget it can be tricky to get started. Beginning CSS Web Development, written by Simon...
The Standards Way to Do Dynamic Data
2009-06-19 04:18:51
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Somewhere in between presenting static information graphics and complex, interactive data dashboards there’s a need for a way to visualize moderately dynamic data on the web. Oftentimes the solutions you see implemented are clunky, for example,...
Creating Sexy Stylesheets
2009-06-19 04:18:37
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Lately, I have taken interest in discussing methods of creating sexy stylesheets. While CSS can be used to create sexy websites, writing CSS can actually be an artform by itself. The way in which CSS is created, structured, and maintained can be a thing...
Stay on :target
2009-06-19 04:18:27
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In this article, I want to introduce you to a really powerful CSS3 pseudo selector called :target. Much like :hover, :target is invoked during certain interactions with the website. Specifically, when applied to a fragment identifier. On a page such...
Handy Tips from Tipster
2009-06-19 04:18:03
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There have been a ton of helpful and interesting tips posted to Tipster recently, so I thought we’d pull a few out for you all (and give the submitters a bit of well-deserved publicity). Topics that we’re covering are: MySQL, CSS, JavaScript,...
HTML Emails - Taming the Beast
2009-06-19 04:16:23
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HTML email - you either love it or you hate it. Some love the simplicity of text-only emails, while others praise the flexibility and good looks of HTML. But it doesn’t really matter whether you love it or hate it because sooner or later a client...
Ensuring your HTML Emails Look Great and Get Delivered
2009-06-19 04:15:58
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Boy what a difference 18 months can make! In my last Vitamin article I was singing the praises of standards based email and encouraging the use of CSS in your email designs. While the browser market has continued to strive for better standards support,...
Review: Campaign Monitor, Email Newsletter Software
2009-06-19 04:15:48
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Campaign Monitor is an online email marketing application that enables designers to create, send, manage and track branded emails for themselves and their clients with ease. Freshview, the company behind Campaign Monitor recently updated the software,...
Twitter followers counter PHP script
2009-06-08 06:15:00
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We have created simple PHP Script to count your Twitter followers and cache the result. As you can see the script is very simple and it can be used in every application. It returns text value of the number of followers for given Twitter username.
PHP Speeds to the Cloud With Zend Framework 1.8
2009-06-09 05:23:58
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Zend Framework 1.8 expands the PHP framework to work with Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service. Zend Framework has also added new rapid application development (RAD) features to accelerate PHP development. The Zend Framework is the PHP competitor...
Jquery ajax utility function - $.ajax()
2009-06-09 04:44:34
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For those times when we want or need to exert a fine-grained level of control over how we make Ajax requests, jQuery provides a general utility function for making Ajax requests named $.ajax(). Under the covers, all other jQuery features that make Ajax...