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Centering navigation menus using CSS. 

"Faux Columns" by Dan Cederholm of SimpleBits discusses "[a] simple way to make CSS columns appear equal in length, regardless of the content that they contain." This technique requires a good amount of skill in positioning elements on a page and understanding the nuances of the background image. I'd like to try it, but don't anticipate using it any time in the near future, but because we're using Wordpress I'm not sure I'll be needing to any time soon.

If you're creating a background image, you might find this helpful!

This is a quick reference site with tutorials for CSS, HTML and PHP help and Beginners tutorials. If you need a quick reminder of some code this site can link you to it or you can scroll through a more detailed tutorial.

Very good demonstration; however the narrator moves along quickly so you have to pause and go back alot in order to catch on.

An in depth review of Macrabbit's CSSEdit OSX software. Mac360.com takes a look at the popular CSS editing software.

While looking for cool website designs I stumbled upon quite a few that I really liked. Turns out, a lot of them were designed by this guy. He is awesome.

This is the web practictioner's blog. Some of the blog posts are over our heads at this point, but it's still interesting to read. It gave me an idea of what's going on in this web world we're entering.

UX is user experience. It's interesting to think about in terms of usability - the visual experience is important to a successful website not just functional features like links and a pretty header

We love fonts. We talk about them and how important they are and sometimes we even judge a website by its fonts. This is a cool article about typography.

This is site that can help liven up any website

This site helps clarify some of the things we covered in class last week with the Box Model. Again, it's not something that we necessarily need to look at. But if you're looking for some quick reminders of what we covered in class. I think this site does a pretty decent job.

A great article on how to choose typefaces