Cell phone usage is huge in today’s world.  Whether it’s actual mobile usage while on a train or on the road, or it’s just someone sitting on their couch, the use of cell phones to access the internet is increasingly becoming popular.  Personally I hate using my cell phone for browsing, but that could be because the sites I’m trying to access aren’t mobile friendly yet.  I get frustrated with the speed, which...

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I thought I’d highlight a great online tool for choosing colors. www.colorpicker.com The tool gives you lots of features: Hex Code for CSS RGG & more codes Saved color list Automatic color scheme calculations

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I’d like to mention iconfinder.net. They’re a great site with a ton of free icons. You can even use some commercially without links back to the site for credit. The icons are not cheap looking either.  There are high quality icons and some really unique styles as well.   They have a great search and you can filter by size/licence. I get icons there all the time. Now if someone had free commercially usable stock photography,...

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I finally found an image gallery that I liked, and didn’t think was bloated.  The admin page is simple to use, there’s no hoops to jump through, and you can include it in pages or posts. If your main site is an image gallery, you can even have it generate new pages for you with the album title.  It’ll nest as well, so if you have navigation that’s based off pages, and not based off a menu system, it...

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Every now and again you need to taget a specific browser with a style because your main style just doesn’t perform right. Usually it’s Internet Explorer acting up for me, but this time it was Firefox. For some reason, I had a text field that was changing sizes 1 pixel smaller on Firefox than it did on every other browser on my hover event. Therefore I needed to change the border for only Firefox. You could create a specific...

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If you’re trying to use a style sheet and are wondering why you can’t change say the border around a checkbox the same way you’re changing the border around text boxes, don’t fear, because it’s not the same syntax. Even though they’re inputs, if you want to target them specifically, you need to use the syntax below. Using that, you can target any of the sytle options you may want to...

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