Monthly Archives: December 2009

350+ Resources to Help You Become a WordPress Expert | LeVoltz – iPhone Games, Engineering Projects, WordPress Themes

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms available today. And a fair amount of people really like it. It’s powerful enough to be a complete Content Management System, it has every feature/function a blogger could ever dream of … Continue reading

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Twitter Updates for 2009-12-23

Going to see Starry Nights (giant Xmas lights display) with Cookie & Phillip. #

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How to Get a Professional Look With Color | Webdesigner Depot

What makes a design look coordinated, planned and professional? The answer is: ‘color’. Not every project needs bland corporate blue to look professional. Planning color means creating a framework that describes which colors to use and how to use them. … Continue reading

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Twitter Updates for 2009-12-22

Starting the new year with a phone interview. They are "very interested. " # @ottom yeah, it'd mean moving though. in reply to ottom #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-12-21

Setting the table for Sunday dinner. http://yfrog.com/4exo7lj # My grandfather is going to be 92 next month. # Love my dad's family but now I smell like cigarette smoke. http://yfrog.com/1dn0fij #

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24 ways: Cleaner Code with CSS3 Selectors

The parts of CSS3 that seem to grab the most column inches on blogs and in articles are the shiny bits. Rounded corners, text shadow and new ways to achieve CSS layouts are all exciting and bring with them all … Continue reading

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A Look at Some of the New Selectors Introduced in CSS3 – Inspect Element

Everyone who has been using CSS is immediately familiar with selectors as they are what is used to target elements on a page and style them. CSS3 brings even more options as far as selecting elements goes. It will allow … Continue reading

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Twitter Updates for 2009-12-19

Want to get on Internet but too tired to leave house. # Going home for Xmas may have some advantages. Home made chocolate covered cherries aren't as overly sweet. http://yfrog.com/37bxssj #

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Soma FontFriend • Soma Design

This is a bookmarklet made for web designers who want to rapidly check how different fonts and font styles look on their screen without editing code and refreshing pages. Trying to develop attractive, consistent font stacks is what prompted its … Continue reading

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24 ways: Spruce It Up

24 ways: Spruce It Up The landscape of web typography is changing quickly these days. We’ve gone from the wild west days of sIFR to Cufón to finally seeing font embedding seeing wide spread adoption by browser developers (and soon … Continue reading

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