What can be better than simple, useful and handy tools you can use “on the fly” in the development process? Whether you’d like to test font size, generate online-forms, create rollover-navigation, create a slide-show, format CSS code or optimize your code - you can use dozens of tools to make your life easier.

We’ve collected them. At least most of them, and compiled them in a brief and precise overview. And here what we’ve come out with - most useful CSS-Tools you can use developing tableless web-sites.

List of CSS Tools >>

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 “