CSS is a technology that web designers use everyday, but yet it is something that most struggle with as well. Whether it’s keeping stylesheets for large sites manageable or creating image effects that are cross browser compatible, there are plenty of things to cause frustration. This article is an attempt to provide you with a few resources that might help you with your CSS or introduce you to a few tricks you didn’t know about.
Organizing Your Stylesheet Using CSS Edit:
Rob Soule of Viget Labs shows you how to organize your style sheets using CSS Edit, a powerful CSS editor built exclusively for the mac.
Tips For Organizing Your CSS:
A set of practical tips for organizing your style sheets.
Write A Well Structured CSS File:
A detailed and well written post about how to write a well structured CSS file.
Expandable CSS Tabs Tutorials:
A tutorial on creating expandable CSS tabs.
Simple Round CSS Buttons:
Learn how to create rounded corner buttons with only One Image and One CSS file.
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In the times of impressive web2.0 designs and portfolio, designers have tough competition. It is said that first impression has the last impression, therefore it is important to have an interesting introductory text consisting of a few words about the company or designer behind the site.
These introduction is useful for readers as it provides clear information about the designer or the purpose behind the site.
These introductions text are generally highlighted through large text, positioned at the top of the site and always catch the visitor’s eye. Here in this article list 20 examples of excellent web page introductions style used in portfolio websites that you can use as inspiration for your own designs.
Digital Mash:
etonDigital:
Matt Dempsey:
Deaxon:
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which is an art and a science that helps search engines discover your content and understand how relevant it is to specific search queries. This post will help you choose the right tags, tell search robots what to work on, optimize your post titles and more. Few weeks ago we had already done a “10 Useful SEO Plugins For Wordpress“.
Automatic SEO Links: Automatic SEO Links allows you to choose a word or phrase automatic linking, both internal and external, set anchor text, choose if it should be nofollow or not and more. One of the best features of this plugin is that it will only do this for the first occurrence of a word in a post so you don’t have to worry about spamming your post with numerous links to the same thing.
Platinum SEO Plugin: The Platinum SEO Plugin offers you such features as automatic 301 redirects for permalink changes, auto-generation of META tags, post slug optimization, help in avoiding duplicate content and a host of other features.
Google XML Sitemaps: An essential tool in any blogger’s armory of SEO tools. While the name only mentions “Google” this plugin creates an XML-sitemap that can be read by Ask, MSN and Yahoo also.
Meta Robots Wordpress Plugin: An easy solution for adding robot metadata to any page you choose on your blog. You can use it to make your front page links into “nofollows,” prevent indexing of search pages, disable author and date-based archives, prevent indexing of your login page and numerous other features.
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Advanced Glow Effects:
Learn how to create advanced glow effects on lines or text.
Create a Dream Design With 3D Typography:
Create 3D organic text and an accompanying design with this excellent tutorial.
Trendy Geometric Lines:
Learn how to create the popular geometric line effects used in web and print design.
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