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Assuming you don’t want to spend the hours and lines of code necessary to push ahead with span and a whole lot of dynamic CSS rewriting, the obvious solution is to invent a new element and drop that into place. If you’re doing kerning, then a kern element makes a lot of sense, right? Right. And you can certainly do that in browsers today, as well as years back.

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The Basics Typography for the Web has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee flipped the switch in 1991. Back in the days of IE 1.0, good web typography was something of an oxymoron. Today things are different. Not only do we have browsers that support images (gasp!) http://ilovetypography.com/2008/02/28/a-guide-to-web-typography/

A Guide to Web Typography. The Basics: contrast, size, hierarchy, space | I love typography, the typography and fonts blog

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This is a different take on Responsive Web design. This article discusses how we can better embrace what the Web is about by ignoring the big elephant in the room; that is, how we can rely on media queries and breakpoints without any concern for devices. 2 Let’s start our journey by looking at the online tools such as Responsive Design Testing , Responsive.is , Responsinator and BriCSS . These pages let people check websites through a set of pre-built views based on various device sizes or orientations.

BambooInvoice: Simple, Beautiful, Open Source, Online Invoicing

Bamboo Invoice is free Open Source invoicing software intended for small businesses and independent contractors. Our number one priorities are ease of use, user-interface, and beautiful code. Bamboo Invoice was built by designer and programmer Derek Allard , who uses it everyday, not by a large firm who can't remember the names of its customers. It is meant to be sexy, both on top of, and under the hood. Go ahead, kick the tires. http://bambooinvoice.org/
This step by step guide on how to install MySQL on Windows 7 is in continuation to the Apache and PHP installations on the same operating system. Before we begin, I like you to determine the system type - whether your computer is 32 bit or 64 bit. This is important as I had a horrendous time in troubleshooting PHP-MySQL connection problem, details of which can be found at MySQL on a 64 bit Windows 7 . You can know the system type from " Control Panel " -> " System and Security " -> " System ". Instructions to install MySQL on Windows 7 The instructions with the screenshots have been presented in a slideshow below; please refer these when in doubt.

How to install MySQL on Windows 7

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Free layouts and templates for Adobe Illustrator - Vectorportal

http://www.vectorportal.com/Templates/ Welcome to Vectorportal, your home for Free Vectors , Royalty Free Vector Images and Adobe Illustrator templates . Vectorportal is huge database of free vectors which users can freely use for their commercial and personal projects. During 7 years of existence we have been repeatedly voted as Top 10 free vector resource by various graphic design sites. Our vector images have been used by BAT, Banca Intesa, Radioschack, CBS News Online, WBRU, WMSN Fox 47, Foreign Affairs, Wired, Slate, Forbes Blog, ZDNet, Mother Jones, The Browser, Network Solutions, PC Magazine, Advanced Photoshop Magazine, The Tech Herald, First Post, Info Barrel, Wired, Photoshop Creative, Up Magazine, GigaOM, Polit.ru, LAist.com, Tucson Citizen, Rue 89, All Over Albany, World Harvest Church,Christ Chic Magazine, Escape Sydney and by numerous designers from around the world.