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The @page Rule Helps with Printing

When you're working on creating a print style sheet, you should be aware of the @page rule to help you provide specific styles for the pages. Just be sure to test any CSS you add to print style sheets with the @page rule, as many browsers still don't have good support for it.

Learn More About CSS Printing and the @page Rule

• The @page Rule
• CSS2 Media Types Create Print-Friendly Pages
• CSS 3 size Property
• CSS 3 marks Property

The @page Rule Helps with Printing originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at 23:18:29.

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Web Design Software Pick of the Week: ColorBlender

Finding color palettes can be a lot of fun, and with this tool you can create a palette and then email it to someone else to have them modify it. You can choose each color in the palette directly or have the tool give you a "blend" based on a color you start with.

• Color Palettes: ColorBlender
• Creating a Web Color Scheme
• Color Harmony
• Visual Color Symbolism Chart by Culture
• See all the Software Picks
• Suggest Software for the Pick of the Week

Web Design Software Pick of the Week: ColorBlender originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at 07:05:16.

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Poll: Have you ever used a CSS framework?

CSS frameworks are a tool for Web designers and developers to create websites quickly without needing to "reinvent the wheel". They provide things like layout structures, user interface elements, typography and more. Have you ever used one? Which one(s) have you tried? What did you like about it or not like?

Poll: Have you ever used a CSS framework? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, March 12th, 2010 at 19:39:27.

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Link Love - Color

Color is something that most Web designers obsess over. We have tons of color apps to help us pick colors, follow pages of color ideas, and even read articles on color theory like they are the latest best-seller. Here are some links I found this week that are about using color in Web design. If you know of other good color resources, let us know in the comments.

• Flexible Color Schemes in Layouts with RGBa
• A Look into Color Theory in Web Design
• Color Isn't Always Better
• Calculating Color Contrast for Legible Text
• 4 color palette tools for newspaper web site design

Link Love - Color originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, March 12th, 2010 at 16:24:54.

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Wordless Wednesday - Reader's Favorite Designs: Alcoholics Anonymous of Midland, Michigan

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Wordless Wednesday - Reader's Favorite Designs: Alcoholics Anonymous of Midland, Michigan originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 00:00:19.

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Tell Us About Your Web Design Blog

Do you write a blog about Web design, CSS, HTML or some other aspect of Web development? I would love to know about it. Submit your blog to my Blogroll by filling out this form.

Tell Us About Your Web Design Blog originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 05:23:34.

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Interesting Web Books - New Books on Web Development

I love to read. I read over 100 books a year, possibly as many as 200 books. And while most of these books are science fiction, dantasy, or general fiction, I also read a lot of Web development books. These are some of the books that have come out recently that I would like to read.

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• HTML and JavaScript BASICS by Karl Barksdale and E. Shane Turner (Compare Prices)
• Host Your Web Site On The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy: Amazon EC2 Made Easy by Jeff Barr (Compare Prices)
• Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML (5th Edition) by Terry Morris (Compare Prices)
• Web 2.0: Making the Web Work for You, Illustrated by Jane Hosie-Bounar and Barbara M. Waxer (Compare Prices)

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Interesting Web Books - New Books on Web Development originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 14:08:05.

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Project Managers Can Be Useful, But They Can Also Be Annoying

Last week I posted about some of the many ways that Web designers and Web developers can get on each others nerves. I then received a couple comments saying that that was what Project Managers were for - to make sure that the team members communicate. Well, I'm not arguing that point, but it made me start thinking about project managers - and if there's one thing that will make feuding designers and developers band together, it's in their hatred of Project Managers. :-) I have worked on many projects that wouldn't have been completed without the PM, but I have also been on many projects that were desperately hindered by the PM. And even good PMs have annoying tendencies. You might even argue that that's what makes them a good PM.

Share Your Annoyances

• What Web Designers and Web Developers Hate About Project Managers
• What do you hate about Project Managers?
• What Web Designers Hate About Web Developers
• What Web Developers Hate About Web Designers

Project Managers Can Be Useful, But They Can Also Be Annoying originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 05:42:16.

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Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Font-Stack-Tester

When you create a font stack, you are creating a fallback system for your customers. If they don't have the first font, the page will display with the second, and so on. But most designers don't test their pages looking at the alternate fonts, and this can cause problems with some designs. The challenge is that it can be tedious to view and remove all your fonts one at a time to do testing on them. And there aren't a lot of alternatives to doing that. But this script can help. The Font-Stack-Tester scans your CSS and puts an overlay on the page to allow you to remove the fonts manually. It's still in beta stages, and eventually it will be a bookmarklet, but right now it's pretty neat if you want to put the JS scripts into your pages for testing.

• Font Stacks: Font-Stack-Tester
• Font Stacks - How to Choose a Workable CSS Font Stack
• Share Your Font Stacks
• Web Typography Mistakes
• See all the Software Picks
• Suggest Software for the Pick of the Week

Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Font-Stack-Tester originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, March 7th, 2010 at 05:05:39.

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Link Love: CSS Tricks

This week I found some sites that teach how to do some nifty things with CSS. So the next time someone tells you that CSS creates boring designs, you can point to one of these sites and correct their perception.

• Pure CSS speech bubbles
• 4 Ways to Get Rounded Corners Using CSS
• Speed Up with CSS3 Gradients
• Create a smiley face using only xHTML and CSS
• A Fancy Photo Gallery - view the source to see how it was done
• Text Shadow Box
• CSS Tabs Without JavaScript
• CSS3 Menu Without JavaScript
• Creating an Image Map using CSS only
• Custom radio and checkbox inputs using CSS

Link Love: CSS Tricks originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Saturday, March 6th, 2010 at 14:55:01.

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