I am an avid reader. I get lots of books on Web design and other topics - whatever interests me, in fact. One of the biggest boons for me with the advent of eReaders like on the iPad is that I can get more books without filling up my house (which is already quite full) with more books. But I suspect I am an outlier on a poll like this. Some of the books I have on my desk (waiting to be reviewed) include Advanced Web Metrics by Brian Clifton, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 How-Tos by David Karlins (just in time for CS5!), Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours by Jesse Feiler, and Head First Web Design by Ethan Watrall & Jeff Siarto. What Web development books do you have on your desk? And how many do you buy a year?

Poll: How many Web development books do you buy a year? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, July 1st, 2010 at 06:06:29.

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Learn how to use jQuery to create and then implement animations in your ASP.NET Web pages with Visual Studio.

I saw this post today about an epic battle against plagiarism. it's not only hilarious, but also captures many of the emotions I feel when I find copyright violations of my content. Do you stay calm? Or do you don battle gear?

Plagiarism can be funny originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 at 18:56:27.

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Many people find using CSS, and especially CSS 3 somewhat daunting. But this step-by-step tutorial will take you through creating a CSS tabbed menu in short, easy stages.

More CSS Tabbed Navigation

• How to Create Tabbed Navigation with CSS and No Images
• Sample CSS 3 Tabbed Navigation
• Tabbed Navigation Using CSS 2
• Sample Tabbed Navigation CSS 2

Tabbed Navigation Can Be Dressed Up with CSS 3 originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 at 17:43:13.

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Wordless Wednesday - Web Design Blogs - WebDevelopmentBits originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 at 07:55:40.

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Writing CSS code can be a bear for Web developers. These ten CSS tools and frameworks can make the development process much easier.

If your site is paid through advertising or page views, it can be agonizing to use external links because it feels like if you link off your site your readers will never come back. In this article, I'll explain why linking to other sites than just your own can have extended benefits to your site, your readers, and your bottom line.

Creating Better Links

• Why and How to Use External Links
• How Do You Feel About External Links?
• Linking Strategies - Plan How You Will Link to Other Sites (and Your Own)
• Links: Creating Links, Using Links, Styling Links, Anchors, Hyperlinks and Hrefs
• How to Add Links to Web Pages

External Links are a Good Idea originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, June 28th, 2010 at 17:21:47.

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With all the discussion of ems for font sizes this week, I thought it appropriate if I told you about a neat tool that will help you set the default font size so that you can use ems and still have a good idea of how big the font will display on the screen. Ems don't have an absolute size, but are rather based on the value of the font size in the browser or parent elment. So determining how big an em is can be difficult. But the Em Calculator will help you choose ems that are based on a default size that you set. You put in the size in pixels you want, and the em calculator will tell you how many ems that is (based on a standard text size of 16px).

• Set Your Font Sizes: Em Calculator
• How Big is an Em?
• What Font Size Measure to Use
• CSS Sizes
• Size Units in CSS
• See all the Software Picks
• Suggest Software for the Pick of the Week

Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Em Calculator originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, June 27th, 2010 at 14:08:50.

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