Sometimes being a web-developer is just damn hard. Particularly coding is often responsible for slowing down our workflow, reducing the quality of our work and sleepless nights with pizza and coffee laying around the laptop. Reason: with a number of incompatibility issues and quite creative rendering engines it sometimes takes too much time to find a workaround for some problem without addressing browsers with quirky hacks. And that’s where ready-to-use solutions developed by other designers come in handy.

One year ago we’ve published the post with 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without where we provided references to the most useful CSS-techniques which are often used in almost every project. Over the last year we’ve been observing what’s happening with the CSS-based web-development, and we collected most useful CSS-techniques we’ve stumbled upon — for us and for our readers.

In this post we present 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding. You definitely know some of them, but definitely not all of them. Some technique is missing? Let us know in the comments to this post.

Thanks to all developers who contributed to the CSS-based design over the last year. The community appreciates it.

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IN 1991, Stewart Alsop, the editor of InfoWorld and a thoughtful observer of industry trends, predicted that the last mainframe computer would be unplugged by 1996. Last month, I.B.M. introduced the latest version of its mainframe, the aged yet remarkably resilient warhorse of computing.

Today, mainframe sales are a tiny fraction of the personal computer market. But with the mainframe facing extinction, I.B.M. retooled the technology, cut prices and revamped its strategy. A result is that mainframe technology — hardware, software and services — remains a large and lucrative business for I.B.M., and mainframes are still the back-office engines behind the world’s financial markets and much of global commerce.

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Regular readers of aruntheace.com know about the Link Love Contest.
Here are the bloggers who showed some link love to me.Contest Beat at http://www.contestbeat.com/win-some-hosting-a-domain-and-more/
MyBlogContest at http://myblogcontest.com/link-love-contest/
ContestWhiz at http://contestwhiz.com/2008/01/22/link-love-contest/
Grey at http://indo-moneymaker.blogspot.com/2008/01/arun-ace-link-love-contest.html
Carl at http://www.thatblogsite.com/aruntheacecom-review-win-prizes/
Vijay at http://www.contestradar.com/the-link-love-contest-by-arun/
MR.Gee at http://mrgee.info/2008/01/get-deluxe-hosting-and-free-domain-for.html
Rhyan at http://rhyan.net/2008/02/27/link-love-contest-by-aruntheacecom/
John at http://www.lieblogger.info/here-are-some-blog-contests/

and the winners are

Winner 1: John
Winner 2: Rhyan and
Winner 3: Carl

Easy method to get many entries to your blog contest:
Blog contests are the easy way to get some instant backlinks and also some popularity to your blog. Here is one tip for you if you’re going to run a blog contest.
For any contest, you need more participants. Here is an easy trick to get many participants.
Just goto www.contestblogger.com
Look for old contests related to your blog.
Visit an old contest page and look for the participants. All these participants are interested in contests in your niche (May be..) Contact all the participants personally and let them know about your contest. Do the same with many old contests. With this method you’ll get lots of entries which leads to lots of backlinks and popularity.

I recently came across some blogs with really good content but with no images. I felt something is missing with those blogs though they have some good content. Images are must for blogs as they add some color and visual interest and will draw the attention of the visitors.

Just imagine a blog with lengthy but useful content and no images. You’ll get bored with even the interesting content in some minutes. It is not necessary to images with all blog posts but add images whereever it is necessary.

If you have a difficulty in explaining something, then you can use images.

Where to get images for blog posts?
Here are some sites which I usually use to get images. These images are not completely copyright free but they are licensed under Creative Common license.

www.sxc.hu
I very much like this website. I usually use images from this site for banners and headers when I used to flip sites.

Flickr
This is a community based site which has millions of images.

FotoGenika
StockCache 

You can also search google for “royalty free images,  copyright free images,  free stock images “

There is lots of money to be made with flipping websites. Flipping websites for profits is an easy way to earn money online with no or less work. People usually flip websites with good content. With unique and quality articles, it is easy to sell a website for nice profit. You can easily make around $50 - $200 by flipping any website with just 5 – 10 unique keyword rich articles. People who buy this type of websites will use it for making money with Adsense or to promote affiliates. This is the gap between the people that look for instant profit and people that look for long term profits.

You may feel I’m not talking anything related to this post’s title. Here comes the Vlog part. Vlogs or Video Blogs are blogs which are stuffed only with videos from video whores like Youtube, metacafe etc etc… With Video blog sites you don’t need to create any orginal content. I flipped a Vlog about Casino Guides for $25 at DP forum. My investment with this Vlog is just $3 for the domain name. My profit is $22 which is not bad for NO WORK.

Check this thread where I sold my CasinoGuide Vlog.

How to create a Video Blog?
To start with a Video blog, you need to select a niche for your Vlog. Let’s say you selected Music as your niche. Categorize your blog with different categories, like Pop, Rock, Country etc etc…

Now make the categories with a wordpress blog. I’m not going to tell you how to install wordpress and so… It is pretty simple and self explanatory.
Next select a proper theme which matches to your Vlog. I suggest you to search for free themes at www.freewordpressthemes.com

Once you’re satisfied with your theme, move on to the next part; getting videos from youtube. You’ve to install a simple wordpress plugin called tubepress to get videos from youtube. Try this plugin by your own. It is pretty simple to use. You can Download Tubepress here.

While flipping Vlogs for profit, you must concentrate on your video niche. Select a good niche which people love to see it as a video. Music videos is a popular and best niche because, people like to see music videos for FREE. But this niche is already saturated. So try to search for any other niche. Be creative and the boundaries are endless.
The next important thing to keep in mind is the wordpress template. Select a template which perfectly matches with your niche. Definitely you’ll find one at www.freewordpressthemes.com

Once finished your Vlog, submit it to some Social Bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg etc… Sell it at DigitalPoint forum or any other place for profit. You can sell this type of Vlogs at ebay too.

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