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Photoshop beta goes public
Adobe released today a public beta program for the next version of their photo editing suite, dubbed Photoshop CS3. Read more »
Mozilla 1.0 unleashed
More than four years after its inception, the open-source browser is ready for the public. And its impact could go beyond browsing Read more »
Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 available to developers
Firefox 3.1 alpha 2, code-named Shiretoko, adds functionality for Web developers with very little eye candy for users. Read more »
Microsoft discloses some IE 7 plans
Microsoft finally told Web developers what they've wanted to hear for years, promising support for graphics and style sheet standards. Read more »
Adobe to take wraps off Creative Suite 3
Adobe Systems has launched Creative Suite 3, a showcase for the company's merger with rival Macromedia that is designed to smoothly combine Web design with content creation. Read more »
Office 2007: FrontPage is out, blogging is in
Don't go looking for FrontPage in the just-released Beta 2 edition of Office 2007. Microsoft has axed its 10-year-old Web site authoring software. Read more »
Reversal: Next IE update divorced from Windows
Reversing a longstanding Microsoft policy, Bill Gates said on Tuesday that the company will ship an update to its browser separately from the next version of Windows. Read more »
AJAX sets off tools race
The growing popularity of interactive Web sites has set off a race among software companies, each pitching their own development toolkit. Read more »
Language barriers may stifle Web future
The lack of backwards compatibility between the Web scripting language XHTML 2.0 and its HTML predecessors could make billions of Web pages obsolete, experts fear. Read more »
Simplify your life with PEAR classes
Most PHP Web developers have heard of PEAR, the PHP Extension and Application Repository, but very few of them actually use it on a regular basis. Here are 10 reasons to get started today. Read more »
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Lay out forms with CSS2 instead of tables
Building forms with HTML and tables creates a lot of extra code and isn't very elegant. CSS2 is a good alternative, and this quick tutorial will help you get started. Read more »
Abandon tables, simplify design with CSS
HTML developers often use tables to create page layouts. But Cascading Style Sheets offer a more nimble alternative. This quick tutorial shows you the way. Read more »
Is CSS ready for prime time?
The focus on designing Web sites using CSS rather than tables for layout is increasing. This trend could be a sign that CSS has finally been accepted by mainstream Web developers. Read more »
Designing 3D buttons with pure CSS
CSS buttons are much more efficient than image-based buttons because they're entirely text-based. Here are two techniques for creating a bevelled-edge by styling the borders of a CSS button. Read more »
Review: Dreamweaver MX 2004 improves CSS support
Dreamweaver MX 2004 claims to support pure CSS layouts. No more funky tables or weird bump gifs. Does this latest version keep Dreamweaver at the top of the WYSIWYG HTML editing heap? Read more »
Creating a pure CSS horizontal navigation bar
Now that tables are no longer recommended for positioning any nontabular page content, many Web authors are looking for ways to create navigation bars using structural XHTML markup and CSS formatting. Read more »
Prevent the flash of unstyled content
Have you ever seen a brief glimpse of unstyled text appear as a CSS-styled Web page loads in the browser window? Our usability expert Michael Meadhra shows you how to avoid this little quirk. Read more »
Design your Web site using CSS content boxes
In this tutorial we show you how to use CSS content boxes to design your Web site. Read more »
The spider's Web of CSS
Finishing up our Web Directions South build up, we talk to Andy Clarke, Web designer, presenter and invited expert to the W3C's CSS working group. Andy gave us the low down on standards, the new way of designing Web sites and the problem with Web 2.0. Read more »
Different types of Dreamweaver CS3 layouts
At this year's WebDU conference, Stephanie Sullivan, founder and principal of W3Conversions and Adobe community expert gave a thorough presentation named "CSS Layouts & Dreamweaver CS3". Read more »
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What's new in Dreamweaver CS4?
-- Let's look at some of the new features we can expect to see in Dreamweaver CS4. Read more »
Spry Game
-- At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Read more »
Firefox 3 add-ons to make you a better Web developer
-- Firefox might be a fast browser but it's extensions can transform it into a powerful development tool for Web developers and designers. Here are 10 of the best to get you started. Read more »
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