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10 Dirty Little Web Development Tricks
We all have them - little coding tricks and snippets of knowledge that we’ve picked up over years of experimentation and evolution of our processes, that are now part of our regular routine and save us time, gnashing of teeth and allow us to work quickly and efficiently. Here’s some of mine - perhaps you know a few of these already - I’d be interested in hearing yours in the comments.
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12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean
Beautiful HTML is the foundation of a beautiful website. When I teach people about CSS, I always begin by telling them that good CSS can only exist with equally good HTML markup. A house is only as strong as its foundation, right? The advantages of clean, semantic HTML are many, yet so many websites suffer from poorly written markup.
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15 Tools for Monitoring a Website’s Popularity
As a web designer or developer building a site, it’s helpful to first scout similar websites (i.e. the competition) to help you make design and development decisions. Knowing what websites work and which ones tank can give you insights and inspiration on what design elements, website features, and website content is effective.
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50 websites you'll wonder how you lived without
research, find good links, add to bsundry links, remove this link
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Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Designers
Cheat sheets (also known as reference cards, reference sheets, etc.) not only helps you remember things quickly, but can also serve as wall decoration for your workspace.
In this post, you’ll find 28 excellent, useful cheat sheets in various file formats for Photoshop, Dreamweaver, colors, typography, and other web-design related topics all in one page with pictures of each cheat sheet.
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10 Ways to Save Time While Building a Website
As a freelance web developer, time is money. I use many different tricks to increase my productivity and these are my top selections for saving time. Please make you own suggestions for other time savers in the comments.
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Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques
Designing effective web forms isn’t easy, as we need to figure out more practical styling and functionality techniques to provide a great user experience.
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30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions
We’ve put together a list of 30+ must-have Firefox 3 extensions that we know you’ll enjoy, whether you’ve upgraded to Firefox 3 and are looking for something new to add to your browser, or have yet to make the upgrade and are looking for a reason.
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How To Use Icons To Support Content In Web Design
Why use icons? Design is all about communication: it doesn’t matter how important or exciting the information that you’re sharing is if you fail to hook your visitors. When initially viewing a website, most users will first scan the page for visually interesting content, and only after something grabs their attention will they actually begin reading. Icons are a simple, effective way to draw users into the content of your website.
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