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Developer: HTML, CSS, jQuery and PHP

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So its 2012, what now?

First of all, Happy New Year!!

So, 2011 has come to an end. We are now in the year of ‘The End of the World’, well, according to the Mayan people anyway.

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Make your website look right on the iPhone

Ever looked at your site on the iPhone or the iPod Touch and just thought… “that looks shocking!”?

Well my friends, I did once. But luckily, there are a few handy little things you can add to the header of your site and into your CSS. Let’s get cracking.

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Google Chrome For PC Now Supports Extensions

Firefox has been using extensions/addons (whatever you want to call them), for a long, long time now.

Developers like us have loved it, but… Firefox sometimes is just too resource intensive, it takes over the machine and runs slow.

Luckily, the giants that are Google, have come to the rescue.

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Sign the “No More Internet Explorer 6″ government petition

Sign it, and send to everyone you know. It’s time to move on!

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ie6upgrade/

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Top 5 Firefox Plugins for Developers

As developers, we are always looking for ways to make our life easier. Everything we do is to make things shorter and more efficient. To help you be more efficient, get these Top 5 Firefox Plugins now!

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I have been published on Nettuts+

Hurray!

Check me out, I have had an article published on Nettuts+. The article is “20 Email Design Best Practices and Resources for Beginners”.

To check out my article, follow the link below over.

20 Email Design Best Practices and Resources for Beginners

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PNG fix for Internet Explorer 6

For 10 years we have suffered without having the use of high quality transparency images. We have had to deal with rough edged gifs, causing us to limit our creatiions. We shall no more, with this little trick.

So without further or do lets get that pesky IE6 to work as it should do, with the PNG Fix!

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Run multiple Internet Explorers on PC

If your developing a website/blog/email, then you need this software!

It allows you to install Internet Explorer 3, 4, 5, 6 next to your current Internet Explorer 7 installation.

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Display file extension icon using only CSS – Extended

Just to expand on yesterdays post, you can add icons for external links (http://) and mail links (mailto:) too.

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Display file extension icon using only CSS

Ever wanted to display a logo depending on what link you are using? For instance, if you was linking to a .pdf, you could display the Adobe PDF logo. I know what you are thinking… genius!

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