8 Less Common CSS Properties You May Find Interesting

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We're all familiar with the most common CSS properties that we use daily, such as width, height, margin and border. And for most projects, the ones we use all the time are just fine. Of course, there are also those ones that you discover through your IDE's autocomplete feature, which can have some pretty interesting results. Some are immediately obvious to what they do, and some are not.

Website Security For Beginners

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Security is a crucial subject that all web developers should know. After all, what good is a website if an attacker can cause it to go down in seconds? Unfortunately, it can be daunting to beginners when you start thinking of security simply as hoops you must jump through to have a safe site

Five Alternatives to WordPress

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WordPress obviously stands as the most popular blogging platform in use today. And it is, for the most part, an excellent piece of software. However it is always a good idea to explore the alternatives, and you might even find one that you like! So here I present to you five excellent alternatives to WordPress for your blog.

Remember To Add Links

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I don't know about you, but as I'm writing a blog post, I often find myself remembering a link I read earlier that is related to the subject as I'm typing. So, I usually type out the text of the link, and try to remember to add the link in later. Unfortunately, we all forget things like this too often.

Understanding the CSS z-index Property

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When we think of CSS and web design, we generally think in two dimensions. After all, the screens we use to view websites display the page as a two-dimensional image. Two of the most common CSS properties, width and height, match that.