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Flash is open source… nothing has changed.

Simply put: Flash will not replace well-designed web sites based on html/css. To elaborate:

My honest opinion is that the argument of Flash taking over the standard web page is moot. There are practical, well executed uses of flash, and there are practical, well executed uses of any of the other technologies mentioned. However, it seems that there are …

How to clear floats for proper footer placement

Most novice CSS users have never even heard of the “clear” property. I know in the past, I hadn’t, and racked my brain for hours trying to get my layout to display correctly with a floating sidebar. Here’s how it works:
When rendering divs, the browsers normal flow is to place one, then afterwards in the [...]

Cascading Style Sheets

.class1{ font-size:16px; color:lightblue; font-weight:bold; }
.class2{ color:blue; text-decoration:underline; }
CSS. Cascading Style Sheets. Why are they named that?
This is a tutorial on how the cascading part of CSS works, and how to work with multiple classes.
The main thing to remember is the basic trump rule. Any newly defined properties overwrite any previously defined properties. Example:
p [...]

Easy CSS fixed footer

I’ve seen a lot of tutorials out there for how to have a fixed footer using CSS. Most of them require all kinds of nested div’s, wrappers, and so on. It’s really very simple, and this code can be copied and pasted into almost any website template without modifying the entire set up. See below.

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Creating a website template you can work with

Everyone wants a site that looks good, loads fast, and is easy to work with. It really isn’t as hard as one might think, as long as you follow some of the basic rules of design that you would with any development project. With this, I’m going to assume you’ll be writing a PHP based [...]