How many sites do you visit every day? Maybe once a week? News, blogs, LiveJournal, pictures? I personally used to have a link in the browser’s bookmarks: EVERY DAY with the bookmarks of the sites I should visit daily.

So once the RSS came around I got rid of that folder. RSS gives you the ability to have access to all of the updates as it comes and then you can actually read it later when you are not connected to Internet.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Adding another site to your RSS reader you get constant updates from those sites.

Why is this useful?

1. It is faster – you will only see the updates without old news, navigation challenges, annoying ads, etc.
2. You will see ALL updates from all of the sites you follow.
3. All news are organized in the same fashion so all the navigation challenges are gone.
4. Saves your time traffic.
5. In order to subscribe you don’t need to give any of your personal information away.

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Till this day we find new websites sliced by the rules of the end of the previous century. Table slicing, picture-backgrounds placed using IMG tag, using FONT tag, fixed font size and so on.

Hey web design gurus, you really need to drop this kind of archaisms….

The material I placed here is written in a really easy format so even a non-professional will understand this.

DIV style document structure

Once upon a time it was really easy to use tables for slicing HTML documents – block style just did not allow using some mocks. But once the CSS came to life table slicing became a symbol of retrogress.

Major disadvantages of table slicing:

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Any information (but especially numeric) is going to be absorbed by a user much better and faster if it is presented with a graph or diagram. Don’t even consider putting statics data on your page without a graph!

I will list here a few free tools that allow building dynamic graphs in your projects. All of the tools are very easy to tweak.

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For those who don’t know snippets a small and handy pieces of code that is always helpful to have by your side instead of rewriting or search in Internet or in your brain… The second one is especially hard.

Alright, let’s go:

1. Smooth color change

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