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Color Scheme Designer - A web tool to generate colour palettes

Submitted by tom on Sun, 20/12/2009 - 16:32

Color Scheme Designer 3 is neat little tool that can help you generate new and appealing colour schemes. It has a slick web based interface, a wide range of options and some really great hidden features. Read more »

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Cross browser web testing on Linux - Playonlinux

Submitted by tom on Sat, 08/08/2009 - 20:15

For the past year I have been running a full blown PC inside a virtual machine (vmware) in order to allow me to run Internet Explorer, Chrome and various other Windows based web browsers. Don't get me wrong, I have no desire to run Internet Explorer! But, as a web developer it's kind of a necessity. Read more »

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Vertically and horizontally center a div using CSS

Submitted by tom on Thu, 04/09/2008 - 08:02

As a web designer, I'm often asked to center content on a web page, vertically as well as horizontally. This is often referred to as 'the letterbox effect'. Back in the day, when we all used tables to mark up our pages, this was a pretty simple task. Read more »

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One form, many uses - server side jQuery with Jaxer

Submitted by tom on Mon, 25/08/2008 - 04:09

I'm sure many of you have had to do 'corporate reviews' at work. You know, you get given a form and are asked to grade yourself on various aspects of your job. You fill in your parts of the form and then give it to your employer who fills in the rest. After doing so, he probably photocopies it, gives back to you for reflection, and then proceeds to make some private notes on his copy. Read more »

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CSS shadows - A drop shadow roundup

Submitted by tom on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 05:10

I've come across loads of different techniques to create a browser based drop shadow effect. Some use only CSS whilst others need the help of JavaScript, some are cross browser friendly, others are not! Read more »

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