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Better Pull Quotes: Don’t Repeat Markup

Pull quotes are wonderful. They can really draw a readers attention and they are a great opportunity for cool typographic work. On a blog though, pull quotes are particularly difficult to “pull off” (get it?!).
This is because of RSS. On your own site, you can create a pullquote using any kind of markup you [...]

Using CSS for Image Borders

The following is a Guest Post written by Volkan Görgülü. Thanks Volkan!
The picture used in this article, The Solitude of the Fisherman, is from Daniel Cheong. I have come across with this picture in an article at Smashing Magazine.
Generally when we put borders around our images, as you can see in the example below, they [...]

A Quick and Dirty Way To Randomize an Image

Here is a little trick for randomizing banners on your website. A bit quick and dirty. It needs to be on a PHP page to work.
First off we need to setup a folder on your server where the pictures will go. We need to name the pictures in order, for example, mypicture1.jpg, mypicture2.jpg and mypicture3.jpg [...]

The All-Expandable Box

I wrote a guest tutorial over on Web Designer Wall detailing how to create an All-Expandable Box. This is a box that will expand both vertically and horizontally when text is resized in a browser, while maintaining the graphically unique corners of the box.

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 [...]

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