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Senate takes last run at longer jobless benefits
By LAURIE KELLMAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wary of playing Scrooge during tough economic times, Congress is defying President George W. Bush’s veto threat and considering extending unemployment benefits to the nation’s growing jobless masses.
The Senate this week is expected to take up legislation already passed by the House that would extend unemployment insurance for [...]

Firebug is a Firefox extension that helps to troubleshoot, XHTML, CSS, and other coding issues you may encounter while developing Web sites. The Firebug extension is installed on all workstations and can be accessed by clicking Tools > Firebug > Open Firebug from the Firefox menu. 
Firebug Official Web Site
Introduction to Firebug
Build Better Pages With Firebug
Firebug Tutorial: Getting Started
HTML/CSS/Javascript in Firefox
Debugging [...]

Everybody or every company like to have a beautiful unique business card, but if you aren’t going to outsource it, this post is your chance to learn how to make your own professional business card using these awesome Adobe Photoshop tutorials.
Continue reading 19 Photoshop tutorials to design your own business card

Collections of free high quality Adobe Photoshop brushes and resources that you can use for your next design project.
Check out the 4089+ High Quality Free Photoshop Brushes

For the next 14 days you can download the book The Art and Science of CSS for free (a $30.00 value). You can access this terrific free offer at SitePoint’s Web site.
Once you submit your personal email address you will be sent a link to download the Zip file (23mb). Please DO NOT print this book in class. [...]

This is a summarized explanation of Photoshop’s Tools palette with a short and to the point description of each tool’s functions and shortcuts. This is a great tutorial for novice Photoshop users, as well as professional advanced users who would like to brush up on their Photoshop Tools knowledge.
Continue reading Photoshop Basic Tools Overview

Photoshop users have the opportunity to drastically improve productivity and efficiency by gaining a solid understanding of the Photoshop tools, the capabilities of the program, and by learning some handy shortcuts.
This article looks at more than thirty useful resources for getting more out of less time when working with Photoshop. There are a few different collections of keyboard shortcuts, guides [...]

Naming convention in CSS coding is an “hot” discussion topic. In this post I want to illustrate some suggestions and guidelines to use a semantic approach instead of a structural approach in naming CSS classes, analyzing the essential elements of a popular 3 column layout.
Continue reading CSS coding: semantic approach in naming convention

Six Revisions has an excellent list of cheat sheets for Web developers.
Check out the Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers

Working with CSS can seem like a constant battle. Browsers are always changing they way they read the code (*cough* Internet Explorer *cough*), and it seems that there are lots of tiny little CSS “gotchas”. While it’s an incredibly powerful language, it can easily be used incorrectly, which will doom your development to a lifetime of imperfections.
Continue reading Are You [...]