Eventually, CSS 3 -- along with HTML5 -- are going to be the future of the web. Explore 10 of the exciting new features in CSS 3.

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Wordless Wednesday: What's In Your Editor - PHBA originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 at 05:48:41.

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The CSS pseudo-class nth-of-type allows you to add images to your content and then float them on alternating sides. With this simple technique you can dress up your content with images and they aren't all in one long line.

Help with Pseudo-Classes

• How to Alternate Floated Images with CSS 3
• CSS Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements
• How to Use :nth-child Pseudo-Class Expressions
• nth-last-of-type

Floating images within your layout can be automated with CSS 3 originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 at 06:03:21.

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Learn how to subclass the Java 6 ResourceBundle to fetch multilingual display text from a relational database.

Younger web designers may be surprised to learn that the convention for typing used to require that you use two spaces after a period to help readers see the end of sentences in the monospaced fonts that typewriters used. In fact, if you learned to type on a typewriter, chances are it was very hard to break yourself of the habit (or perhaps you never did). In fact, most typesetting and desktop publishing manuals will tell you that you should only use one space after periods. And of course, web browsers collapse multiple spaces, so it's hard to get two spaces to show up. But it is possible and some people still insist on it. What do you think?

Using Whitespace

• One Space After a Period
• Do you use two spaces after a period?
• The Importance of Whitespace in Web Designs
• Spacing Out Your HTML - Non-breaking Space - Single Pixel GIFs
• CSS Style Property: white-space

Does anyone still use two spaces after a period? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, July 19th, 2010 at 07:31:27.

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As a web designer you will find that you often build sites and pages the same way every time. Many people make themselves more efficent by creating templates of their base sites, but deploy* goes one step further and creates the files themselves for you. You can change options like what version of HTML to use (XHTML or not - no HTML 5), CSS with or without resets (or no CSS), jQuery library with plugins or not, and some other miscellaneous options. You can even name your deploy* solution and bookmark the results page to deploy the same options again later.

• Deploy a web project: deploy*
• Build a Master Stylesheet - Remove Default Browser Styling with a Master Stylesheet
• zeroing out the margins, paddings, and borders
• CSS Frameworks - CSS Structures for Building Web Projects
• See all the Software Picks
• Suggest Software for the Pick of the Week

Web Design Software Pick of the Week: deploy* originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Sunday, July 18th, 2010 at 01:01:05.

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Use this step-by-step guide to build an ASP.NET help desk application using a database-driven approach that ensures easy maintenance and scalability.

CSS 3 is the latest version of Cascading Style Sheets and it adds a lot of exciting features like opacity, stretching background images, new pseudo-classes, and a lot more. There are a lot of CSS 3 selectors that work right now even in Internet Explorer. Now that I've told you all that, are you going to change your vote? :-) How interested in CSS 3 are you?

Poll: How interested are you in CSS 3? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, July 15th, 2010 at 05:45:19.

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