Spice Up Your Theme—Break Out Of Your Layout’s Lines

Design Tips | How To | February 15th, 2010

Have you ever been frustrated with your site’s inability to break free of the line? By the very nature of HTML, most themes are prone to being reduced to a series of horizontal and vertical lines with no overlap. It’s nice and orderly but boring—nothing ever stands out. Many rely on large images to break the monotony but it’s simple to do it with small PNG images and a bit of CSS using positioning!

Learn how to do this in two minutes following my near-light speed tutorial. (more…)

Definitive HTML Entities Reference List

Reference List | February 6th, 2010

W3Schools has a great reference for HTML entities… my only complaint is their organization. It is spread over multiple pages making it difficult to find what you already know you want. Without further ado, here is the full HTML Entities Reference List, including both the ASCII character-set as well as the rest of ISO-8859-1.
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