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Most of the times you need to take the print out of the web pages. But, when the printed web pages come out too small then it is really irritating. This is generally due to "Shrink to Fit" option. According to this option, Internet Explorer squeezes all the elements of a web page by default onto a sheet of paper. Thus, go through this tutorial and fix it.

In case, you find the need to change the DNS server for your entire network on your router or set it individually on a PC or other device then have a look on this tutorial.

It is important to safeguard your PC against malicious software. You need to resist dodgy downloads, suspicious pop-up and ads.

download and/or convert fonts Upload a font and this will spit out everything you need to embed it into a website including HTML, CSS and multiple font file formats. You'll definitely want to bookmark this one! Each @font-face font kit come with: Original TrueType or OpenType Fonts for Firefox 3.5+ , Opera 10+, Safari 3.1+, Chrome 4.0.249.4+EOT fonts for Internet Explorer 4+Demo.html and stylesheet.css so you can get going fastNOTE: All fonts are subset to the Mac Roman char set.

The CSS3 Playground is a web application for experimenting with some new css3 capabilities. Primarily those than conform to the progressive enhancement philosophy, which means that the styles can be used on all sites without severely changing/limiting the experience on browsers that does not support them (=Internet Explorer 8.0 and older). But there are also styles that may need better replacements on Internet Explorer such as rotation, and I hope I will have the time to add more in the future.

Web forms. Everybody knows web forms. Each day we have to fill in some information in a web form, be it a simple login to your webmail application, an online purchase, or signing up for a website. They are the basic, and pretty much the only way of gathering information on the web. You basically know a web form when you see one as they always look the same and they've kept this look over the years. Try as hard as you might but web forms can only change their appearance so much. Some may argue that this is a good usability feature, and I tend to agree, but there comes a time when you just need to style web forms so that they look different. How do you do that? Niceforms comes to the rescue! Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones. You can either use the default theme that is provided or you can even develop your own look with minimal effort.

You know you can be better. We all can. It's the reason productivity and personal development has made such a surge in recent years. The time of freelancers, writers, designers and other web workers has exploded, and the need for tools and methods to make them more productive has aligned naturally with that explosion.

The final section "What size do I need to support?" has the findings summary, but the entire article is a very worthwhile read.

This is a creative example of quantitative user research. According to the findings from this article the "above the fold" size that will apply to the most people browsing is 776px wide by 424px high. This takes into account the browser chrome and surfing w/o being maximized. I think this study should be performed regularly, every couple of years perhaps to follow display size changes.

Namechk is a new web application, that help users to find an username over 84 websites with less than 8 sec. This is amazing user don't need to got to each website to check availability of the preferd username. Namechk brings complete solution on checking for username availability is various social media and bookmarking websites.

iGoogle gadgets interact with the user and utilize the Google Gadgets API. Some gadgets developed for Google Desktop can also be used within iGoogle. The Google Gadgets API is public and allows anyone to develop a gadget for any need. iGoogle recently added a new gadget named " What's Popular". It seems to be similar to Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon. where you can vote the web pages and add content you find interesti

AppLocker provides a comfortable way to block software programs from being executed on a target system. If you need to prevent an application from running accidentally or would like to disable an application you can't uninstall, AppLocker provides a simple interface to do so.

Some bright folks also feel the same pain and went ahead and built meta-languages and compilers that take their own version of CSS and compile it to standard CSS code. Their own CSS meta-language is thus able to have new features, like variables, mixins, operations and so on. The most notable of these right now is SASS (part of HAML). I've tried SASS and really liked it, but one thing really bothered me. I didn't like how all the syntax was different to CSS. Sure, it's not CSS anymore, it's SASS, but do we really need to change the syntax of the stuff already present in CSS - why not just expand it? I've asked a friend of mine who is much more competent at programming than me about how long it would take to code a CSS compiler that retained the original CSS syntax but added a bunch of new features. He liked the idea and so we've put together our own version of CSS together with a compiler we call LESS, which stands for Leaner CSS.

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It's a simple and quick web toy that lets you explore CSS in real time. Just click and see the effect instantly, no Reload needed. It's fast and funny!

MooShell is a shell editor where you can write your JavaScript, HTML and CSS code and run it. It might prove to be useful in various cases where you need to test your code without reloading your browser.

batch process many images: allows you to send a zip file containing your images. It will returns you your images combined into a sprite, and even better, the CSS code that you'll just have to paste in your main css file. The CSS sprite generator takes a number of source images and combines them into a single "sprite" image and supplies CSS to map to each image within the sprite. The technique this tool employs is often used to improve the performance of a web site by reducing the number of HTTP requests that the client's browser needs to make.

ABOUT THIS PAGE: This is a little experiment to try some new stuff with the new browsers and the @font-face rules. You'll need the latest versions of Safari, Firefox or Opera to view it. We didn't design it to degrade gracefully.

Today I will tell how you can use jQuery to animate and control your text. We will changing font size, font family and other properties. Where we can use this? As example to allow your users to customize view of text boxes in your website. So, playing with styles - users will be able to select preferred styles, and you will need just save these styles for him, or, you can use this as some zoon for your website, which will allow to change font size in realtime. Also we will using jQuery slider to manipulate with properties to make it more interactive.