Here’s a nifty page good ideas about organizing your CSS. Here’s a recap but you should hit the link to get the details.

• Comment your code
• Decide how you want to divide your stylesheets
• Remove default styles
• Have classes for floating and clearing
• Set the document up
• Handling typography
• Create sections
• Default XHTML

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Ever wonder how your pay compares with that of people doing the same job across the street, or even across the country?

That information, previously available only through word-of-mouth or expensive surveys of human resources managers supplied to your employer, is now readily available at your fingertips.

(Via CNET News.com.)

Adobe has posted an excellent 41 page PDF booklet that is a super helpful quick reference guide to have around while learning the program. It’s filled with some appealing photography and there’s an index at the end that makes it very easy to find specific Lightroom help. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)

(Via The Photoshop Blog.)

If you would like to know more about typography, the meaning of terms used with regards to type (such as tracking, kerning, leading, x-height and more) and a little type history lesson thrown in for good measure, then check out Thinking With Type.

For more in-depth discussion about type and some general “rules-of-thumb” you can check out Learn Typography and Page Layout. They have a great page that discusses some dos and don’ts of setting type.

(Via Creative Guy.)

35 designers. 5 questions. 5 precise answers. Result: 175 professional suggestions, tips and ideas from some of the best web-developers all around the world. In March we’ve selected over 35 prominent designers and design companies, contacted them and asked to answer five design-related questions, sharing their knowledge and experience with fellows developers. Here on Smashing Magazine.

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Here is a quick Photoshop retouching tip that came up this month with a Seattle design studio. While working on a piece for a local non-profit, one digital photo was suffering from color problems in the skin tone highlights.

This particular image turned out to be a great example of a common photo retouching technique. Simply create a new layer and cover up the problem area with a patch of your desired skin tone. Then set that new layer to a blending mode of “Color” and volia, the skin tone is corrected.

(Via CreativeIQ.)

I just stumbled onto this nice post over at makeuseof.com with some nice Firefox tips and tricks. Did you know a better alternative to ‘Command+F’ shortcut that’s used for within page search is the / (that’s the slash key, btw). Cool part about it is that you don’t have to close it, it disappears on its own.

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Our pals over at Smashing Magazine have compiled a list of DreamWeaver tutorial sites. I haven’t looked at many of them yet because the dang list is so long. If you find one you really like let me know by posting a comment.

With the growing popularity of CMS, Wikis and Weblogs, WYSIWIG-editors lose their users. However, many of those editors offer many advantages, such as Integration of SVN, FTP Clients, Developer’s extensions and programming environments. Using them, you can save your time and increase your efficiency. Not every code has to be written in Notepad, not every problem has to be solved manually. Therefore some good starting points for improving your WYSIWYG-skills can be useful.

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In the game your only job is to put your mouse cursor inside the circle before your computer opponent does. As the game progresses the circle appears much faster and your opponent gets much more difficult to beat. The game is extremely simple in concept but also extremely difficult in practice and highly addictive. Give it a try.

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OMG! This is HUGE! It’s Cheddar Vision and I cannot believe how incredibly cool this is! I love cheese and there’s nothing better than watching it age. I’m like, OMG, OMG, OMG!

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