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CSS - Smashing Magazine Today Smashing Magazine turns eight years old. Eight years is a long time on the web, yet for us it really doesn't feel like a long journey at all. Things have changed, evolved and moved on, and we gratefully take on new challenges one at a time. To mark this special little day, we’d love to share a few things that we’ve learned over the last year about the performance challenges of this very website and about the work we’ve done recently. If you want to craft a fast responsive website, you might find a few interesting nuggets worth considering. – Ed.

Women footballers bring new life to the beautiful game and score with Twitter After years of feeling underrated and overlooked by mainstream football pundits and press, women's football is coming into its own this season thanks to social media. New research shows that the women's version of the game is now the third biggest team sport in the UK in terms of participation, behind only men's football and cricket. Its previous lack of recognition is being overcome by fans turning to social networking to follow the sport. The second ever season of the Football Association's Women's Super League (WSL) kicks off on Sunday, and eight of England's top female footballers, one from each of the top clubs, will take the unprecedented step of wearing their success on their sleeve by displaying their Twitter account names on their kit. The Fifa women's world cup was the most tweeted-about event in the world in July 2011 with 7,196 tweets per second at its peak.

100 Websites You Should Know and Use Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword. Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike. How to add your Pinterest profile to your email signature Are you currently a Pinterest user? Want to share you pinterest boards and pinterest pins with all of your friends? With WiseStamp you can link your Pinterest profile to your email signature and share your pins through every email you send.

CSS Buttons: Tutorials and examples Creating buttons with CSS is one of the most experimented-with web design techniques around. Examples and tutorials abound. The biggest recent trend in CSS button design seems to be eliminating images, especially background images, from buttons. But there are plenty of other things designers are doing with buttons, some that do include images. Below we’ve collected more than twenty tutorials, examples, and tools for creating CSS buttons, most of which use CSS3. Included are buttons to suit virtually every design style.

Teachers report widespread cyberbullying by pupils and parents The social network of choice for most pupils levelling abuse at their teachers was Facebook (77%), while 21% used RateMyTeachers.com, 6% used Twitter and 1% used MySpace. Photograph: Alamy Teachers have been issued with death threats, accused of serious crimes including paedophilia and rape, and subjected to sexist and racist abuse, according to a poll revealing widespread cyberbullying by pupils – including some still at primary school – as well as parents. CSS Layout Generator This is really just a step in the right direction, you still have a lot to do before your site is ready to go live. If you are just starting out, learning to do it yourself, by hand, in a simple text editor can be very rewarding, although it won't be easy. Below is some information that will help you on your journey, good luck. Layout Hints

Boxee Rolls Out Big Updates to its Spotify App We’re big fans of Boxee here at The Next Web, and we’ve previously noted it’s one of the easiest ways to bring movies, TV shows, photos and music from the Web to your TV. Boxee has since announced a slick new iPad app, and integrations with Grooveshark as well as Spotify. And today, Boxee has announced that it’s rolling out an update to its existing Spotify app. Spotify’s Premium subscription lets you stream your music directly to your Boxee Box. And from today, it has integrated a new search feature so you can find and play any track, artist or album, even if it’s not on one of your playlists. CSS Links - CSS tutorial CSS has several options for redefining the style of links. As mentioned in the above table, there are four different selectors with respect to links. You can specify whatever style you'd like to each of these selectors, just like you'd do with normal text.

This Week’s Best New Social Media Tools It’s been almost a month since we last served up our (usually) weekly wrap up of the newest social media tools and web apps that have been generating buzz around the web. To make up for the radio silence, we’re going to unveil some of the best places on the web to find the tools that will make you the social media ‘go-to guy’ of your business. 1. WebAppStorm.net - The most thorough web app review site on the web.

CSS Template Tutorial Slicing + Coding Header CSS Template Tutorial – Slicing + Coding Header Welcome to the slicing and coding tutorial for the header. In this part you will slice each image used for the header and logo and code it using CSS and XHTML. The first thing you are going to have to do is to slice the image. Slicing the image The first image needed is the background for the header.