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CSS Frameworks + CSS Reset: Design From Scratch

September 21st, 2007 in CSS | 146 Comments

You don't have to write the same CSS-code or (X)HTML-Markup over and over again. Whatever project you're starting to work with, at some point you have to define classes and IDs you've already defined in your previous web-projects. To avoid unnecessary mistakes you might want to start not from a blank file, but from an almost "perfect" scratch. The latter might contain some basic definitions you'd write in your code anyway. However, once you've decided to create such a scratch, you need to make sure it is really bulletproof — besides, if the stylesheet also sets up optimal typographic rules and basic form styling you manage to kill two birds with one stone. And this is where CSS Frameworks and CSS Reset are becoming important. Using them, you can get yourself a perfect default-stylesheet and markup, save your time and ensure the best quality of your code from the very beginning. But what are CSS Frameworks? And why do you need the Reset for? Let's take a look at the idea behind CSS Frameworks, their advantages and disadvantages, most popular CSS frameworks and dozens of default-stylesheets you can use designing a new web-site from scratch.

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Selected Wallpapers For Your Desktop

September 21st, 2007 in Graphics | 139 Comments

If you can't live without a nice wallpaper on your desktop you might need to invest many hours in the search for the perfect one - that fits to your resolution and has an appealing theme. The quality of the desktop images is often not the one you'd praise over and over again looking at your desktop. The best wallpapers aren't cheap photos, but are works of art in their own right. In the third part of our collection you'll find many different types of background images - beautiful wallpapers, devkits, Flickr pools, Widescreen and HD-monsters and even wallpapers-related social communites and wallpapers for gamers. You might want to take a look at the previous collections of wallpapers we've already put together:
- Selected Wallpapers: For Desktop & Web-Design 60+ selected posters, wallpapers, galleries and background images.
- More Creative and Beautiful Wallpapers 42 more galleries of wallpapers and posters.
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