Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language, which enables web designers and web developers to change the way their websites look. The power of CSS lies in its capability to separate the content of a web site from its presentation, and it also allows webmasters to make changes to numerous web pages that use the same CSS file. CSS offers accessibility, flexibility, easy page formatting, and side-wide consistency, and is applicable to pages, written in HTML and XTML, as well as XML, SVG and XUL.

Digital cameras are amongst the most sought after gadgets. Right now, there are hundreds of digital camera manufacturers, offering thousands of models and with the vast array of digital cameras, it is often difficult for the consumer to pick the best model that he or she can afford. Most of us need cameras, which are easy to use, take excellent quality photos, shoot decent movies, and are small enough to fit in a shirt pocket. Of course, there are photographers, who take shooting pictures far more seriously and are after high-end models that offer better performance and have more features than the average point-and-shoot camera. Before buying a digital camera, you need to determine your own needs and decide if you are going to use the camera only on your next vacation, if you are more likely to take indoor pictures, or if you need a top of the range camera, which you can use with different lenses to take pictures in different shooting conditions. Once you have decided on the camera type, your budget, and your own needs, it is time to take a closer look at the different models’ specifications and pick the right one.

I am old enough I remember when the Sony Walkman was the must have gadget. We have come a long way with portable music, just look at what we are using today as opposed to just 15 or 20 years ago. It makes me wonder, how did we survive without or iPhones and other gadgets of convenience?

Let’s play around a bit by creating a stunning optic fiber inspired light rays background (or pattern, texture, or brush, whichever way you think of it). Just a bit of Photoshop know-how and you’ll be able to do this tutorial in a matter of minutes.

Installing and using WordPress is quite straightforward and you do not need any programming knowledge in order to do so, but even the most experienced webmasters and web developers have had WordPress related questions at one time or another. Read on to find you what the top 10 best sites to get WordPress help are.

Even though many people frown upon cold calling, it is still an effective way to get business, as long as it is executed properly. Do not call indiscriminately, but rather limit the number of local businesses that you are trying to contact, learn a few details about their operation, pick up the phone, and explain how you can help them grow and profit from your services.

After Google Buzz and Wave, which never really took off, Google is launching its most powerful social networking project to date, Google+. At the time of this writing, you can join Google+ by invite only, but the interest is so great that many believe that Google finally got it right and Facebook has its first real rival. While the features, which Google+ offers are nothing revolutionary, the project seems to have taken the best from the other social networking sites, making it extremely easy for people to stay in touch with friends and family. It is still very early to judge if Google+ will make a dent in the Facebook’s business and take away some of their 700-million strong user base, but it is clear that the two social networks have quite a few features in common, but also differ in many aspects.

Another Friday another great list of links for web designers and developers.

When you spend countless hours working and worrying about your day-to-day tasks, it is always good to take a few minutes break, watch a funny …

You’ve seen them—painted posters of models and actresses pinned up on the walls of military barracks to give the boys something to fight for. With this tutorial, you can turn a normal photograph of a woman into one of those vintage pin-up girl posters.

Working online or in a young and dynamic IT company as a web designer or web developer has great many advantages and can be quite rewarding and satisfying, but if you have to choose your career path right now, you need to weigh carefully the pros and cons of each option. In addition, if you are about to start working for yourself, you need to evaluate your own capabilities and take a closer look at the earning potentials of each profession. Quite often, the line between web designers and web developers is blurred as most designers are likely to be able to code at least basic web sites and some developers might dabble in web design as well. A web designer is a person, who is capable of designing logos, banners, or other graphical elements, as well as whole web pages, while the web developer is the person, who is more involved on the technical side of the web building and adds functionality to the web sites.