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CSS NEWS - A quick catchup
By frog on January 5th, 2009 at 12:32 UTC | 1 Comment »

Some CSS news from the web design industry. I have cherry-picked these articles and tools, aimed specifically at CSS and web design. Enjoy!

My Top 10 Most Used CSS Class Names

Many developers are puzzled when it comes to assigning class names to elements and often end up using wrong ones. Class names should not describe how the element looks like or where is it placed. A good class name should describe what a certain element represents. Here are my top 10 class names with explanations. Hopefully it will give you a clearer image of what kind of class names you should use. Read more…

9 CSS frameworks for faster templates building

Frameworks are already widely used for Javascript or PHP development, and it is getting popular for CSS templating. It improves your workflow and lets you set up templates quickly with cross-browser compatibility in mind. Here is nine frameworks to make templating faster. Read more…

The Woork Handbook

The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design… directly from Woork! Read more…

Useful resources to improve the look and features of HTML Forms

Are you looking for some useful tips to improve the look and features of your standard HTML FORM elements? In this post I suggest you some interesting resources about this topics. Read more…

Useful guidelines to improve CSS coding and maintainability

Developing CSS code for websites with a complex layout structure can be an hard work for a web designer. But in this situation, an harder work is writing code in order to simplify the continuous maintainability process. Read more…

CSS coding: semantic approach in naming convention

Naming convention in CSS coding is an “hot” discussion topic. In this post I want to illustrate some suggests and guidelines to use a semantic approach instead of a structural approach in naming CSS classes, analyzing the essential elements of a popular 3 column layout. Read more…

Creating easy and useful CSS Sprites

CSS sprites are a way to combine images to improve our page loading time, reducing the number of requests our server does. In this article I will teach you how to make them. Read more…

CSS SuperScrub

This tool can significantly reduce the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names. Read more…

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Want a powerful font management application that works on both Mac and PC? An app that allows you to manage, store, shop and discover new fonts? A font management app that’s FREE? Then Linotype FontExplorer® X is for you! The PC version has been available for a few years now but the MAC version has just been released this year. I have tested it over several months now on MAC OS X and I’m more than happy to recommend it.

Linotype FontExplorer® X

Official Introduction from Linotype

FontExplorer® X sets a new standard for font management software. Linotype is pleased to announce the missing link to your font collection. With the new FontExplorer™ X, font management, font sorting, font shopping and font discovery are simple and fun! FontExplorer X gives computer users all the functionality they ever dreamed – easy to use with an elegant style. Supported languages are currently English and German.

Linotype FontExplorer® X download link

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Yahoo! Site Explorer - a quick guide for beginners
By frog on December 26th, 2008 at 10:30 UTC | 1 Comment »

Yahoo! launched this FREE website tool a little over 3 years ago in September 2005, enabling webmasters to explore their own website with data they may have never had access to before. Yahoo! Site Explorer provides information about a site’s visibility in the Yahoo! search engine, what pages have been indexed and which websites are linking to yours.

A quick tour

Yahoo! Site Explorer

If you’re not yet familiar with Yahoo! Site Explorer, then I would recommend using it on your web site. It’s a good resource for web site owners to gain insight into their site’s presence in Yahoo!. The tool shows which of the site’s pages are indexed and which pages are linking to the site (inbound links). If you go through the process of verifying that you are the site owner (authentication), then additional information is available, including what subdomains of the site are indexed by Yahoo!, when the Yahoo! web crawler last visited the site, and additional site metadata such as language. Detailed information about Site Explorer can be found in the Yahoo! help area. Note that Yahoo! also recently announced that normal queries on their search engine using ’site:’, ‘link:’, ‘linkdomain:’ will be redirected to the Site Explorer results page.

Yahoo! Site explorer results page

Moral

Website managers should take every opportunity they can to ensure their site content is well represented in the major search engines. Site Explorer is a useful tool that provides insight into a website’s visibility in Yahoo!. Considering the fact that use of Site Explorer is free, it’s well worth the time spent to authenticate your web site with Yahoo! and put this valuable tool to use.

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