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Designing With Grid-Based Approach
The main idea behind grid-based designs is a solid visual and structural balance of web-sites you can create with them. Sophisticated layout structures offer more flexibility and enhance the visual... More... 151 Comments
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Adobe Dreamweaver Tutorials
With the growing popularity of CMS, Wikis and Weblogs, WYSIWIG-editors lose their users. However, many of those editors offer many advantages, such as Integration of SVN, FTP Clients, Developer's... More... 56 Comments
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CSS-Based Navigation Menus: Modern Solutions
Navigation menus have to be intuitive, precise and easy-to-use. One simple, basic principle, which is common for all kinds of nav bars you would ever want to use for your projects. In fact, navigation... More... 190 Comments
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Tutorials Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, PHP and More
Coding or designing a page, it's always nice to have some basic templates you can quickly modify or adapt to your needs. However, at least once you have to know, how to create this "universal" template.... More... 109 Comments
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53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without
CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don't have in table-layouts - and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design... More... 914 Comments
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Free CSS Layouts And Templates
As a web-developer you don't have to re-invent the wheel all the time. If it just has to work, and has to be valid, and has to have a nice, visually appealing design hierarchy, you just can use... More... 72 Comments
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The most memory efficient browser is Firefox 3.0. Not only trumps its older version, but every other popular offering on Windows. Sam Allen's findings.
Everyday Icons offers over 30 sets of beautiful patterns and icons for free download. Some of them are just sexy. 
Finetuna is a free service that allows you to upload an image, comment on it and share it with clients and co-workers. Firefox-extension is available as well. Useful.
Designers can design everything. For instance, packing tapes. Examples of pretty and clever packing tapes designs.
Euro 2008 icons is a collection of transparent .png-icons of each country up to resolution 600×600px. Germany plays in a semi-final.
Tiles Generator generates tiles, patterns and stripes on the fly.
Envelope icon set features a variety of different envelopes and folders of different sizes. Available only as .eps.
Hyphenator is a Javascript that implements sophisticated, automatic, client-side hyphenation. It inserts soft hyphens using an algorithm commonly known from LaTeX and Openoffice. Useful.
To comfort your visitors with a pleasing and intuitive composition use the Golden Ratio Calculator for your designs. More on this topic.
Kotatsu is a simple html table generator. The tool lets you attach classes to cells in the same column easily.
