Exploring the New Features of CSS3

There has been a tidal wave of buzz recently about all the new CSS3 features and properties. Just what exactly do these new properties mean for web designers, though? Well, CSS3 is pretty cool, no longer will you need to rely as much on graphics or Javascript, and more importantly it allows for better control over HTML elements, allowing you to create more flexible and even more complex web sites. Really, whats not to love about it all?

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Quick Tip: 6 Websites for Photography Inspiration

Although it’s important to find inspiration everywhere , there are some great places to look online. Whether you’re wanting to connect with other photographers or learn a new technique, today’s Quick Tip will have something useful for you. 1. Flickr Where else did you think we were going to start?

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47 CSS Tips & Tricks To Take Your Site To The Next Level

CSS is a wonderful language for presenting web pages. It’s not too difficult to learn, though like most things, it does have a learning curve. Where many people seem to get tripped up is in specific solutions to specific problems. Fortunately there’s a good chance that someone before you has already had the same problem and even better has found a solution.

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Quick Tip: Working with the Group Selection Tool

A quick look at the little-known, but very useful Group Selection tool in Adobe Illustrator. This tool allows you to select individual object within groups, as well as sub groups within groups. Watch the demonstration video to learn the usefulness of this tool and how to work with it. Subscribe to the Vectortuts+ RSS Feed to stay up to date with the latest vector tutorials and articles.

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Photography and Photo Editing Cheatsheets

Even if you are a seasoned professional photographer the chances are you will from time to time need one or maybe all of these cheat-sheets, whether it be to remember a shortcut key when photo editing or it could a simple reminder when taking a difficult or tricky shot. For today’s news we have a great collection of useful Photography cheat-sheets, visit the resources for the full articles and download pages. Helpful Photography Cheat Sheets to Make Your Life Easier Here is a list of all the cheat sheets available from this resource: Portrait Lighting Cheat Sheet Card; The Photographic Cheat Sheet by Gordon McKinney; 49 Photo Tips Cheat Sheet; Light Falloff Cheat Sheet Card; Photography Cheat sheet; PhotoBert Cheatsheets; Reflector Card Cheat Sheet. You can download the all of the photography cheat sheets from here: Helpful Photography Cheat Sheets to Make Your Life Easier .

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Quick Tip: 4 Photo Documentary Guidelines

Documentary photography can be fun, rewarding, and offer a real insight into a particular subject or event. It can be difficult to get right, and today we’ll be offering four guidelines to follow when embarking on your first documentary project! Plan and Research in Advance Photo by guccio You need to have a good background to the situation in question before attempting to document it. This requires research, reading around the event, and generally becoming well-versed in what you’re about to capture. It’s also important to build up a relationship with the people involved in the photo shoot – a child’s mother, the staff in the workplace, or the people organising a charity event.

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Quick Tip: Working With Illustrator’s Workspaces

Learn how to work with Workspaces in Adobe Illustrator. Workspaces allow you to arrange the Panels and other interface elements in Illustrator. Learn to work with the built-in default Workspaces Illustrator CS4 comes with, as well as how to customize your own workspaces to suit the type of job you’re working on. Subscribe to the Vectortuts+ RSS Feed to stay up to date with the latest vector tutorials and articles.

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8 Tips for Taking Interior Shots Like a Pro

In this article you’ll learn some of the tips and secrets to lighting and staging a room for great interior photos. These include how to approach lighting, flash, styling, where to position yourself, and how to stay creative. Introduction This article does not deal with camera settings, but rather with the general principles to getting the perfect shot and making sure the scene looks good. Some general camera tips, however, include shooting above f/6.3 to allow good depth of field and shooting at a low ISO to avoid noise.

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4 Awesome Recently Released jQuery Plugins

Where would web design be without the wonderful jQuery and its marvelous library of free plugins? Of course there are other Javascript libraries, but none of them have had such a dramatic impact on modern web design as jQuery. It really is indispensable. For today’s news we take a look at four very different recently released jQuery plugins and, as we try to do, keep you up to date with its development.

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5 Practical Ways for Using Ajax

Over the past few years we’ve seen an increase in awareness and interactive use for AJAX, it’s becoming more and more popular and it has empowered web apps with the functionality of desktop applications. This is Ajax, a powerful web-based scripting language that stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It’s main use is to allow an application to communicate with a server without having to refresh your web page. Within this article we’ll discuss a variety of ways for you to embed AJAX into your web designs, we will also touch base on how they can benefit you.

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