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Getting Started with Responsive Web Design - A Dummies Guide This guide answers common questions around Responsive Web Design, a technique for building mobile and tablet websites that is also recommended by Google. Google has officially recommended Responsive Web Design as their preferred method for building mobile websites. If you have a website or a blog, it is time that you seriously consider switching to a responsive design instead of maintaining a separate mobile-friendly (or tablet-friendly) website. If you are new to the concept of Responsive Web Design (RWD), here’s a quick guide that should answer most of the common questions that you may have around this technique. Let’s get started.

Smashing Newsletter: Issue #72 This newsletter issue was sent out to 124,431 newsletter subscribers on Wednesday, November 21st 2012. If you are not subscribed yet, feel free to subscribe to our email newsletter anytime. Table of Contents 01. Free Font. font-style - CSS Summary The font-style CSS property allows italic or oblique faces to be selected within a font-family. Initial value normal Applies to all elements Inherited yes Media visual Computed value as specified Animatable no Canonical order the unique non-ambiguous order defined by the formal grammar Syntax Formal syntax: normal | italic | oblique 80 Apps to Learn a New Language You’ve been telling yourself for years that you’ll learn a new language or at least dust off those high school Spanish skills. How about starting when you’re in line at the grocery store or waiting for the bus? Having language lessons on your iPhone means you can learn at your own pace, wherever and whenever you have the time. Below you’ll find 80 apps for learning a number of different languages: everything from Chinese to sign language! A few of the apps come in multiple language variations so if you find one you like in a given language, keep scrolling to see if there are other versions.