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You know what a lightbox is – even if you don’t think you do. They’ve penetrated our daily internet lives as a way to dramatically display some content by popping up the content while graying out the background.
There have been some lists created with names of list boxes, but no one has sorted them [...]

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There are a lot of free image editors out there if you know which virtual rock to look under.
1. Irfanview has actually been around so long now that it’s a staple in a lot of digital photographers arsenal. It can create html pages of thumbnails on the fly – great for proofs, or quickly [...]

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With a little planning – anyone can have a website they can be proud of – or at least not embarrassed with anymore.

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10. You Hired Your Nephew
So he is an electronic wiz. He plays video games, accumulates 2,000 texts on his phone a month, knows how to use the remote for your entertainment system plus took a website class in high school. You’ve heard that he has created a website or two and see an opportunity to [...]

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Giving Your Audience What it Wants
Too often web designers make a web site that only contain fluff. The problem is, visitors don’t come to your site to wast time, but usually have a distinct purpose. Don’t give them what they want, and they are gone!
So how do you appeal to these visitors? The easy [...]

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Working as a freelance web designer, developer, graphic artist, or outsourcing service provider can be challenging. Long hours, high competition for jobs, tight deadlines, and low budgets make running your own web design firm difficult. There are a lot of websites that provide a way for clients and designers to come together, but which of [...]

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One of the main characteristics of Web 2.0 publishing is the change from HTML websites to DHTML Content Management Systems. Another is the Open Source model itself, leveraging user communities for development of the CMS platforms. Content Management Systems include all of the Web 2.0 calling cards – social networking, blogs, forums, wikis, image galleries, [...]

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Magento was only released last March, but already has been downloaded over 425,000 times. In that short time, Magento has become the preferred choice for ecommerce development for many web designers working with Open Source solutions. Why are so many flocking to Magento, and is the hype really justified by the functionality? We put Magento [...]

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Acquia, a start-up headed by Drupal founder Dries Buytaert is scheduled to release the first commercially supported version of Drupal, code named “Carbon” within a couple of months. The release is generating a lot of buzz in the development community, and many people are wondering what effect it will have on this popular Open Source [...]

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WYSIWYG (pronounced /ˈwɪziwɪg/ or /ˈwɪzɪwɪg/), is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. Popular WYSIWYG editors include Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Expression Web (formerly Microsoft FrontPage).
A WYSIWYG editor has a user interface that allows the web designer to see a result very similar to what their website will look like on [...]

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Web Design For The Beginner
I am in the field of children’s health and fitness, but I just love web design and photography. With no experience, many ask me how I have created some of my web designs, which to me, are still beginner level, but attractive and usable.
The first thing I tell [...]

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Not that many years ago, usability expert Jacob Nielsen recommended that links should be blue. No negotiation, just make that link blue. In 2006 Nielsen recently decided to pull back that guide line as “today’s users have seen links in many other colors”.
It doesn’t matter if a download link (or any other link) is [...]

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Move over Adobe, there’s a new powerhouse in the powerful graphics editors category of software. Corel, who has owned Jasc’s Paint Shop Pro software since 2004, and this summer bought out my favorite graphics software company, Ulead, has cornered the market on quality affordable graphics editors. Ulead created PhotoImpact, my graphics editor of choice. I [...]

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Many factors could make you refrain from designing sites completely in flash.
Maybe you like to grab and customize free HTML templates, maybe it’s the fact that you need your content easily to be probably indexed by search engines or maybe you just don’t like flash because it has become tantamount to an inferno of [...]

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Introduction
As a longtime jQuery user I was excited to take some time to read and review two new jQuery books.
Packt Publishing provided me free copies of Learning jQuery and the jQuery Reference Guide.
I spent most of October reading through them and making the most of my first book review experience.
In short, these [...]

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People have often asked me what making a website entails. What if you know nothing about web design? How much does it cost? How do you set it up? Where do you go? What do you do first?
While there are thousands of tutorials on web development, most of them assume the reader already knows a [...]

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Simplicity in design doesn’t necessarily mean just the layout or visual impact of a website or blog because it can also be applied to the way you actually create web content.
Many people entering the internet fray on their own will soon ask the question “what software should I use to write my code?” It’s an [...]

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Does the Bloggers blogging platform affect your commenting?
Yes… yes it does.
For me at least, I particularly have a negative reaction to seeing a blogger using Blogger/etc. What do I not like about them?

Interface:
for the Blogger: It’s a bit of a mess, I didn’t like the ‘new’ Blogger control panel (admin interface) and the old [...]

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We talk a lot about semantic and valid HTML. What people tend to forget are the structure of their HTML code. If you take a look at the source code of ten random sites, chances are that nine of them are very messy €“ source code-wise.
Is it worth spending time on structuring it probably? After [...]

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Have you ever had to deal with crazy symbols when using special characters, like the Scandinavian Æ, Ø and Å?
Well, you can solve the problem in many ways, but one thing that works 99.9% of the time is to open your .html, .php og .whatever document in Notepad (the classical windows text editor) and [...]

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