When you spend most of your day to designing and coding, you don't have a lot of extra time to mess with server configuration. But neglecting this aspect of web design can cost you big time in the end. Your server shouldn't be bending you to its will—it should be the other way around. .htaccess is the key. You probably

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Ever wanted to create your own wordpress theme? It can be tough, you need to be able to use three languages, (x)html, css and php, and be able to use an art package like photoshop or the gimp. Here is one of best series of theme creation that I have seen.

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This is the next part in my series about WordPress themes. In this part I discuss what (free)tools you will need to create your page layouts. Next up, I go over what HTML and CSS is. There are some exercises for you to practise some very basic html and css coding. This was written with the total novice in mind.

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This is the next part of my WordPress series. In this part you will learn how to modify a WordPress theme. You shall be using the Sandbox theme as a base. You will learn how to edit the php and css files to change the appearance of the page header and navigation bar.

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Browsing around, I see a lot of posts about SEO but I rarely see a post that discusses how to validate your web pages. It's almost as if validation is taken for granted! There are two validations to be performed on a page - xhtml and css. In this post I show you:

1> Why you should validate a web page.
2>

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This is the next part of the WordPress series. In this part you will learn how to modify a WordPress theme. This part deals with modifying the comment section of the single post page.

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There is one big problem in the world of web design. Just ask any site designer, creator or manager. The answer you will probably get is "Internet Explorer sucks!".rnrnThere is no site that says it better than this. Strange that IE sucks an

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While there are many ways you can style your blog template to make it look more appealing to your readers, many bloggers pay little interest to styling their blog posts.

Long monotonous blocks of text can appear boring, but there are many different techniques you can use to make your posts more stylish, interesting and ultim

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Whether we like it or not, people are still printing information from the web. For years now the big question for newsletters, newspapers, and magazines has been, how do we get our printed product on the web? But as these mediums have gradually adapted to become more webcentric, the opposite question is becoming more appropriat

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Let me just say this is supposed to be the second part of What You Need To Know About CSS - The Basic which I wrote a couple of days ago. Today I’ll like to share with you a couple of CSS Styles you’ve probably know little about.

As we all know it, CSS controls the appearance and layout of your whole blog. As such a little C

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There are a number of ways to build a website. You can enter HTML code directly into a text editor like NotePad, then upload the files to your web server. Many people prefer to do it this way, because they retain the most control over their site. Of course, you need to be very familiar with HTML, and preferably also with CSS. T

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A short tutorial for implementing css :after element to your links for a better CTR.

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Ever wish you could look at a web page and understand its underlying structure -- its CSS format, for example? You can. How about trying a quick change to your website(s), say a new background color, so you can immediately how it looks, without altering it for other visitors? You can do that too. All that and more is possible when you lea

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Webkit recently posted an article their blog Surfin' Safari describing a new set of CSS functions currently in the works. The purpose of these new functions is to allow animation using simple CSS attributes. Vitamin's comment about the venture was "Now I don't know why you'd want to, but hey, you can". I couldn't disagree more.

How

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Have you ever wished that you could have a better blog template than what you're having right now? Have you tried to look online by browsing and seaching but still to have no luck? Then worry no more because Free-CSS can provide what you're looking for.rnrnFree-CSS has tons of web templates designed to help bloggers and webmasters. As w

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This tutorial is for the designer who wants to get acquainted with the basics of CSS layout. There are a lot of articles floating around with advanced CSS tips and tricks but there seems to be a gaping hole where the basic tutorials should be. An article like this would have been tremendously helpful to me when I first started into CSS layout

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WordPress 2.5 is coming soon, and this Round-up gives you a sneak preview of both the dashboard, and the new Widget Management area, plus an overview of handy new plugins, and a review of some interesting and unique themes. Written by BlogMaster, Scott Frangos (Managing Editor for WebHelperMagazine.com), the article also gives

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