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Wordless Wednesday - Reader's Favorite Designs: Alcoholics Anonymous of Midland, Michigan originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 00:00:19.

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Tell Us About Your Web Design Blog originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 05:23:34.

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Meeplace is a business review script and content management system that you can install to turn your site into a professional review site, similar to sites like Yelp.

Last week I posted about some of the many ways that Web designers and Web developers can get on each others nerves. I then received a couple comments saying that that was what Project Managers were for - to make sure that the team members communicate. Well, I'm not arguing that point, but it made me start thinking about project managers - and if there's one thing that will make feuding designers and developers band together, it's in their hatred of Project Managers. :-) I have worked on many projects that wouldn't have been completed without the PM, but I have also been on many projects that were desperately hindered by the PM. And even good PMs have annoying tendencies. You might even argue that that's what makes them a good PM.

Share Your Annoyances

• What Web Designers and Web Developers Hate About Project Managers
• What do you hate about Project Managers?
• What Web Designers Hate About Web Developers
• What Web Developers Hate About Web Designers

Project Managers Can Be Useful, But They Can Also Be Annoying originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 05:42:16.

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When you create a font stack, you are creating a fallback system for your customers. If they don't have the first font, the page will display with the second, and so on. But most designers don't test their pages looking at the alternate fonts, and this can cause problems with some designs. The challenge is that it can be tedious to view and remove all your fonts one at a time to do testing on them. And there aren't a lot of alternatives to doing that. But this script can help. The Font-Stack-Tester scans your CSS and puts an overlay on the page to allow you to remove the fonts manually. It's still in beta stages, and eventually it will be a bookmarklet, but right now it's pretty neat if you want to put the JS scripts into your pages for testing.

• Font Stacks: Font-Stack-Tester
• Font Stacks - How to Choose a Workable CSS Font Stack
• Share Your Font Stacks
• Web Typography Mistakes
• See all the Software Picks
• Suggest Software for the Pick of the Week

Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Font-Stack-Tester originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, March 7th, 2010 at 05:05:39.

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This week I found some sites that teach how to do some nifty things with CSS. So the next time someone tells you that CSS creates boring designs, you can point to one of these sites and correct their perception.

• Pure CSS speech bubbles
• 4 Ways to Get Rounded Corners Using CSS
• Speed Up with CSS3 Gradients
• Create a smiley face using only xHTML and CSS
• A Fancy Photo Gallery - view the source to see how it was done
• Text Shadow Box
• CSS Tabs Without JavaScript
• CSS3 Menu Without JavaScript
• Creating an Image Map using CSS only
• Custom radio and checkbox inputs using CSS

Link Love: CSS Tricks originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Saturday, March 6th, 2010 at 14:55:01.

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