Photo by Zack Birkenbuel (license)
If you spend any amount of time in the field of photography, you have probably come across the concept of the rule of thirds. For those not familiar with the rule, it states that compositions will tend to be more interesting if the areas of interest are located along the horizontal […]

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One of the perennial complaints of web designers, particularly those who write CSS, is dealing with bugs in Internet Explorer. Though IE7 has improved things a great deal, there is a sizeable chunk of the browsing public who are still stuck with IE6.
There are a few different ways to work around IE6’s bugs. (Conditional comments, […]

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Over the years, I’ve used several different editors to build websites, ranging from MS-DOS’s Edit, to Netscape Composer, to (horror of horrors!) MS FrontPage. But most of that was before I was doing anything serious with the web. For true seriosity, I’ve used Dreamweaver almost exclusively.

But recently I’ve begun using E - TextEditor for more […]

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Rob Goodlatte has just released a really handy bookmarklet called Syncotype to help check the vertical rhythm of the typography on a web page. Once you’ve installed it, just click the Syncotype bookmark. You’ll get a box to input the line-height and an offset from the top of the page so that Syncotype can overlay […]

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