Setting rather than Resetting Default Styling

By Thierry Koblentz
Editors Note: In his first article for Think Vitamin Thierry Koblentz discusses the issue of “resetting” your CSS.
“base.css” versus “reset.css”
For a long time, the very first line in my styles sheets was:
* {padding:0;margin:0;}
This simple rule was very convenient as it leveled margin and padding values of all elements across browsers. [...]
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E-books, Flash, and Standards

E-books, Flash, and Standards

In Issue No. 302 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Joe Clark explains what E-book designers can learn from 10 years of standards-based web design, and Daniel Mall tells designers what they can do besides bicker over formats.
Web Standards for E-books
by Joe Clark
E-books aren’t going to replace books. E-books [...]. [...]
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Architecture Photography: Beauty of Interior and Exterior Designs

Architecture Photography: Beauty of Interior and Exterior Designs

American architect Julia Morgan once said, “Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.“.
Indeed, architecture serves as a voice to express the artistic stance of the architect at that time. Photography takes a step further to interpret architecture in several ways. What used to be an accurate portrayal of the structure [. [...]

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Get Satisfaction Turns Facebook Fan Pages into Customer Support Hubs

Get Satisfaction Turns Facebook Fan Pages into Customer Support Hubs

Get Satisfaction, the popular online customer service company, just announced that it is bringing its service to Facebook fan pages. This new service, the Facebook Social Engagement Hub, will allow companies that have a presence on Facebook to easily answer questions from their customers on Facebook. The Social Engagement Hub recreates the Get Satisfaction [...]

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Brizzly Releases iPhone App

For power users, the Twitter website is often just a thing of the past. We’ve moved on to third party interfaces with multiple columns, special user list navigation, search, and so on. But what about the novice user that wants something more than Twitter.com?
For that, there’s Brizzly, a web-based Twitter client that today is [...]

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Corey Haim Dies: Fans Pay Tribute on Social Media Sites

Corey Haim Dies: Fans Pay Tribute on Social Media Sites

Corey Haim, best known as one half of “the two Coreys,” was found dead in his home this morning at the age of 38, apparently from an accidental drug overdose.The actor was a teen icon and heartthrob in the late 1980s, known for his roles in films like Lucas, The Lost Boys, License to Drive [...]

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5 Free Android Apps for Web Developers

5 Free Android Apps for Web Developers

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.If you’re a web developer on the go, you may sometimes find the need to test some code, fix an error, or manage remote files when you’re away from your desktop. If you have an Android [...]

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Daytrotter Launches New Paid Downloads Option for Bands [EXCLUSIVE]

Daytrotter Launches New Paid Downloads Option for Bands [EXCLUSIVE]

Daytrotter is celebrating its fourth anniversary promoting music discovery of emerging bands with a new business model. Now bands who sign on for one of Daytrotter’s unique daily live sessions have an opportunity to sell high-quality digital recordings for a revenue split using a new in-house payment system that additionally gives artists real-time access to [...]

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comScore Search Share For February: Bing Grows (Yet Slows) And Yahoo Declines Again

The financial analysts were busy yesterday pushing out the comScore search market share data for February, which officially comes out later today. What the data show is: Google regaining some share “lost” in January and continued gains by Bing, albeit at a somewhat slowing pace.
Yahoo lost some share again and so did Ask, while AOL [...]

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My SXSW

It’s that time again. Spring and pheromones are in the air, and 11,000 web geeks are about to descend on beauteous Austin, TX for our industry’s version of the TED Conference plus Spring Break, SXSW Interactive.
Along with nearly all of Happy Cog, I’ll be there. Join us, won’t you?
Friday, March 12, at 3:30 PM, come [...]

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Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action

This is my favorite book on the ASP.NET MVC Framework so far. The authors thoroughly cover each topic and it is obvious they have a deep knowledge of web development and the MVC framework. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to bend ASP.NET MVC to their will.. [...]
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43 Essential Controls for Web Applications

Familiarize yourself with Rich Internet Application technologies and the best UI controls for creating your application. Rich Internet Application technology has empowered us to create really amazing user experiences. The best RIAs on the web today rely on a discreet set of UI controls to provide a lively and timely experience.. [...]
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Google Maps Now Includes Intelligent Bike Routes

Google Maps Now Includes Intelligent Bike Routes

Bikers rejoice, Google has just added intelligent biking directions for more than 12,000 U.S. bike trails as a new option inside Google Maps.The company writes that the new biking features will “include as much bike trail data as possible, provide efficient routes, allow riders to customize their trip, make use of bike lanes, calculate rider-friendly [...]

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