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Without a doubt, a logical and structured layout is the best way to go. Not only because your layout varies between browsers, but also because CSS has a lot of ways to position every element you have. Today we wanted to share with you some quick tips on how to avoid easy pitfalls when creating your CSS layout.
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Illustration is usually done in vector graphics applications like Adobe Illustrator or CORELDraw. But with the robustness of Adobe Photoshop, designers who don’t have access to vector graphics software can achieve vector-like objects and compositions with it.
In this collection, you’ll find 30 brilliant illustration/drawing tutorials using Adobe Photoshop from top-notch Photoshop tutorial sites.
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It’s hard to define design. We have a broad range of definitions to choose from: design refers not only to graphic design, but to design strategy, too. It is used in a variety of industries, such as engineering, architecture and Web design.
This means that design is not just graphical in nature (which is a form of visual artistic representation), but [...]

CSS has fundamentally changed web design, it has provided designers with a set of properties that can be tweaked to make various techniques to make your pages just look right.
Today we are presenting a round-up of 101 CSS techniques designers use all the time. Definitely worth taking a very close look at! This is just the first series , the [...]

CSS can powerfully open the doors to a lot of rich and unique techniques. Today we are presenting a round-up of CSS coding, creative approaches and techniques. Definitely worth taking a very close look at! We also included some basic techniques you can probably use in every project you are developing. This is just the third article in this series [...]

Macworld, a Macintosh conference that we usually try to attend every year, is happening January 5-9, 2009 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The Expo is open January 6-9, 2009. We can attend the Expo for free, but you must sign up at https://register.rcsreg.com/regos-1.0/macsf2009/ga/index2.html. When signing up, be sure to select the Expo only pass .I [...]

Google has introduced a new Web browser, called Chrome, aimed at wresting dominance of the browser market from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The move takes the Google-Microsoft rivalry to a whole new level. If Google succeeds, it will be a big deal, with major ramifications for the future of the Web.
But just how good is Chrome? How does it differ from [...]

Slides and live demos synchronized with audio

Ability to search by title, keyword or speaker name
Speaker bios and presentation abstracts
Ability to post comments and discuss presentations online
High quality (640×480) videos

Now you can see all of the presentations that you may have missed or couldn’t afford online. What a deal!
See these presentations at MacWorld Encore.

Eric Meyer has posted his reset styles CSS for the public on his blog. The CSS will help you to reduce browser inconsistencies like different margins, padding and line height. It’s a good idea to use a reset CSS file any time you are creating a new site or page.
Check out the reset styles CSS.

Noupe.com has created a small showcase of more than 70 outstanding header graphics with excellent use of visual elements and interface design. This is an excellent example of current trends in Web development.
Take a look at this article @ http://www.noupe.com/design/70-visually-impressing-header-graphics.html