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Links of Interest

If you’ve ever had to deal much with your .htaccess files, you know it’s like learning a whole new cryptic language onto itself. It’s high time someone made it easy. This online generator takes you through the options in plain English (or any of of 10 languages). Then it’s just a simple copy-and-paste into the [...]

Avoid “CSS Jitter”

With more power, comes more responsibility.
One of the things that CSS allows you to control is the hover state of many objects, most notably, anchor (<a>) elements. Typically, the hover state is styled with color changes, or perhaps something a bit fancier like a background-image change (or a background-position change re: CSS Sprites).
But that’s not [...]

Utilizing the Underused (But Semantically Awesome) Definition List

A quick intro to semantics
When we talk about semantics in HTML, we are talking about how HTML tags are used to describe the content. Good semantics means that the tags are being used well to describe the content. Bad semantics means that the tags being used poorly describe the content. Good semantics doesn’t necessarily mean [...]

Quick Tip: Making a ‘Print This Page’ Button

Why bother?
Most people know how to print a web page, so including a “Print This Page” button on a website is often overkill. But there are some circumstances where it really makes sense. I just came across one of those circumstances in some work I was doing for a client so I thought I would [...]

Links of Interest

I wrote a guest post over on Tutorial Blog about taking control of image rollovers. In the tutorial, I show 5 different techniques for image rollovers ranging from relatively simple borders, to going from black and white to color, to displaying information about the image on rollover with some slightly more complex CSS.
From a recent [...]

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