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<h3>Featured Themes</h3>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/chocotheme" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/chocotheme"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fchocotheme%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fchocotheme%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/chocotheme"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/chocotheme/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/chocotheme">ChocoTheme</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/chocotheme.0.09.zip">Download</a></span> Stylish WordPress theme with two columns, right-sidebar. 3 color  schemes availible. Theme options panel for background and navigation  configuration.</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/lightword" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/lightword"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Flightword%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Flightword%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/lightword"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/lightword/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/lightword">LightWord</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/lightword.1.9.9.3.zip">Download</a></span> Simply clever theme with two or three columns, adsense support,  fixed-width, widget-ready and threaded comments. Compatible with  Wordpress 2.8+ (including 2.9.x), valid XHTML &amp; CSS. Cufon text  replacement is back!</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/arjuna-x" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/arjuna-x"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Farjuna-x%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Farjuna-x%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/arjuna-x"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/arjuna-x/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/arjuna-x">Arjuna X</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/arjuna-x.1.3.8.zip">Download</a></span> Arjuna stands for elegance, accessibility, and attention to detail. We  have put a great deal in optimizing its ins and outs. Translation  ready, SEO focused, IE6-8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera  compatibility, support for threaded comments, four widget bars, flexible  sidebar, and more. It can be customized via the admin panel. Changelog:  http://bit.ly/aLicfb</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/multi-color" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/multi-color"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fmulti-color%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fmulti-color%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/multi-color"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/multi-color/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/multi-color">Multi-Color</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/multi-color.1.7.zip">Download</a></span> Multi-colored theme with 3 gorgeous color schemes. Different two or  three column layouts. Footer Widgets. Custom Header Image. Options to  customize the theme. Fixed-width, paged Navigation and threaded  comments. Built-in bookmarking feature. Spanish Translation ready.  Compatible with wordpress 2.7 and higher upto 2.9.x. Valid XHTML and  CSS. Compatible with IE 7+, Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome. Demo with  all options enabled:  http://nischalmaniar.info/wpthemes/?themedemo=multi-color</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/zbench" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/zbench"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fzbench%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fzbench%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/zbench"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/zbench/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/zbench">zBench</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/zbench.1.0.4.zip">Download</a></span> Simply, little images, designed and created by zwwooooo. It is a  simply WordPress theme without any plugins needed (support plugin  WP-PageNavi, WP Page Numbers, WP-PostViews, wp-utf8-excerpt, Related  Posts of Simple Tags, WP-RecentComments), widgets, threaded-comments,  Valid CSS3 &amp; HTML.</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/under-the-influence" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/under-the-influence"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Funder-the-influence%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Funder-the-influence%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/under-the-influence"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/under-the-influence/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/under-the-influence">Under  the Influence</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/under-the-influence.1.03.zip">Download</a></span> Minimalist theme with admin panel for custom colors, two- or  three-column-layout and various other options. Comes with optional  German translation.</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/titan" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/titan"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Ftitan%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Ftitan%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/titan"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/titan/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/titan">Titan</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/titan.1.24.zip">Download</a></span> A refined, balanced, and exceptionally handsome WordPress theme.  Features a robust theme options menu allowing you to integrate your  Flickr photos, Twitter updates, and Feedburner email updates. Use the  custom code box to include photos, video, or whatever else your heart  desires.</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/constructor" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/constructor"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fconstructor%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fconstructor%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/constructor"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/constructor/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/constructor">Constructor</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/constructor.0.9.7.zip">Download</a></span> Wordpress Constructor Theme, it&#8217;s many-in-one theme (six layouts,  configured colors, fonts and slideshow, widget ready). Build your own  theme on settings page. For Wordpress version 2.8+ (include 3.0)</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/jq" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/jq"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fjq%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fjq%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/jq"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/jq/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/jq">jQ</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/jq.3.4.zip">Download</a></span> jQ comprises a whole stack of jQuery functions as well as a practical  theme options page. The design is clean and solid, valid CSS and XHTML.  Features: threaded comments, drop-down navigation, different styles and  more.</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/dark-wood" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/dark-wood"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fdark-wood%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fdark-wood%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/dark-wood"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/dark-wood/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/dark-wood">Dark Wood</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/dark-wood.1.9.zip">Download</a></span> Completely revamped high quality WordPress theme. Wood, Brown, Dark.  Two or Three Column , Threaded comments. Automatic Thumbnail on front  page. Compatible with WordPress 2.9.x. Valid CSS &amp; HTML, Compatible  with IE 7, Mozilla, Safari. Demo available at  http://nischalmaniar.info/wpthemes/?themedemo=dark-wood</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/mystique" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/mystique"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fmystique%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fmystique%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/mystique"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/mystique/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/mystique">Mystique</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/mystique.2.2.3.zip">Download</a></span> Feature-packed theme with a solid design, built-in widgets and a  intuitive theme settings interface&#8230; Designed by digitalnature.</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/comment-central" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/comment-central"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fcomment-central%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fcomment-central%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/comment-central"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/comment-central/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/comment-central">Comment  Central</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/comment-central.1.2.5.zip">Download</a></span> High quality Wordpress theme. Colorful, grunge,and stylish theme. two  columns, left sidebar dropdown menu and widget-ready.</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/piano-black" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/piano-black"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fpiano-black%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fpiano-black%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/piano-black"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/piano-black/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/piano-black">Piano  Black</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/piano-black.1.5.zip">Download</a></span> This theme supports widget, threaded-comments, theme-options,and  translation is ready. Also including page-navigation and multi level  dropdown menu.You can see live demo including more information here  http://www.mono-lab.net/demo3/</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/holistic-teahouse" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/holistic-teahouse"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fholistic-teahouse%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fholistic-teahouse%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/holistic-teahouse"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/holistic-teahouse/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/holistic-teahouse">Holistic  Teahouse</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/holistic-teahouse.1.3.zip">Download</a></span> High Quality WordPress Theme. Dark Colors. Two Column, No plugins  required, Sidebar and Widget Ready. Compatible with WordPress 2.9. W3C  Validated CSS &amp; HTML, Compatible with IE and Firefox.</div>
<div style="clear: both;"><!-- 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/motion" mce_href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/motion"><img align="left" style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fmotion%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" mce_src="http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fwp-themes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fmotion%2Fscreenshot.png?w=160" alt="" /></a> &#8211;> 		<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/motion"><img style="padding: 3px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://wp-themes.com/wp-content/themes/motion/screenshot.png" alt="" align="left" /></a></p>
<h4><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/motion">Motion</a></h4>
<p><span><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/download/motion.1.0.4.zip">Download</a></span> Dark and colorful theme with sweet transparency characteristics.  Drop-down categories menu, 2-column layout and widget-ready footer and  sidebar.</div>
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		<title>CSS: Design Out Of The Box</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media143 IT Solutions</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you tired of your typical columned and boxed layout? It is time to learn how to break out of the box and do something creative. In this post, I’ve collected some of the best examples that are designed out of the box. I’ve also provided some quick CSS tips with demo files on how [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you tired of your typical columned and boxed layout? It is time to learn how to break out of the box and do something creative. In this post, I’ve collected some of the best examples that are designed out of the box. I’ve also provided some quick CSS tips with demo files on how to break out of the box by creatively using background images and the CSS position property.</p>
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<h3><em>Example 1:</em> Huge Inc</h3>
<p>What really captured my attention on the Huge site is the header design. Notice how the design elements are extended out of the box.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-230" title="hugeinc" src="http://www.media143.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/hugeinc.jpg" alt="hugeinc" width="470" height="296" /></p>
<h3><em>Example 2:</em> Jason Santa Maria</h3>
<p>With the amount of  effort and details that Jason input on his site, no doubt it is one of the best designer sites around. Click through the posts, you will find that almost each post is unique and has a different stylesheet. Some visual images are within the grid, some are out of the box.</p>
<p><img title="jasonsantamaria" src="../wp-content/uploads/2009/10/jasonsantamaria.jpg" alt="jasonsantamaria" width="470" height="296" /></p>
<h3><em>Example 3:</em> A Brief Message</h3>
<p>Similar to Jason Santa Maria’s website, each post on ABriefMessage.com features a different image and CSS stylesheet. Unlike the other typical blog sites, the text on the site is perfectly layouted, so it runs around the image (it is like reading a print design).</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-232" title="abriefmessage" src="http://www.media143.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/abriefmessage.jpg" alt="abriefmessage" width="470" height="296" /></p>
<h3><em>Example 4:</em> Trent Walton</h3>
<p>TrentWalton.com puts the focus on the header, where each post  displays a different background image and typesetting.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-233" title="trentwalton" src="http://www.media143.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/trentwalton.jpg" alt="trentwalton" width="470" height="296" /></p>
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<h3><em>Example 5:</em> Wonderbra Ultimate Strapless</h3>
<p>Although there are some accessibility issues with the Wonderbra site (eg. the font is not scalable), but it is a lovely design. The content and images are nicely put together. At the first glance, I thought it was a Flash site. Then, I checked the source code and found it is done by CSS and a Javascript text replacement, cufon.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-234" title="ultimatestrapless" src="http://www.media143.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ultimatestrapless.jpg" alt="ultimatestrapless" width="470" height="296" /></p>
<h3><em>Example 6:</em> Fox</h3>
<p>Fox &#8211; Fringe web site broke the boring boxed layout by using spectacular background images that blend from top to bottom. Also, the slant cuts in between the boxes make it look more interesting. Don’t forget to check the other Fox TV show sites.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-235" title="fox" src="http://www.media143.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/fox.jpg" alt="fox" width="470" height="296" /></p>
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		<title>Single-Page Portfolio Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you looking for ideas to design a portfolio site? Maybe all you need is a single-page site? Single-page design works if you don’t have much content, but just want to showcase your work. It can save time and cost because you don’t need to build the CMS and templates. In other words, it’s perfect [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you looking for ideas to design a portfolio site? Maybe all you need is a single-page site? Single-page design works if you don’t have much content, but just want to showcase your work. It can save time and cost because you don’t need to build the CMS and templates. In other words, it’s perfect for the non-coders. Here are 30+ single-page portfolio sites with exceptional design and implementation. Hopefully, they can give you some inspiration.<br />
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<h3>We Bleed Design</h3>
<p>Click on any of the menu buttons at the top and have fun with the scrolling animation.<br />
<a title="web css template" href="http://www.webleeddesign.com/" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-224" title="webleeddesign" src="http://www.media143.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/webleeddesign.jpg" alt="webleeddesign" width="470" height="160" /></a></p>
<h3>TapTapTap</h3>
<p>A creative way to layout and display the iPhone app information — all on one page.</p>
<p><a title="website css design" href="http://www.taptaptap.com/" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-225" title="taptaptap" src="http://www.media143.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/taptaptap.jpg" alt="taptaptap" width="470" height="160" /></a></p>
<h3>Luke Larsen</h3>
<p>Aquarium themed portfolio of Luke Larsen.</p>
<p><a title="dubai css template" href="http://lukelarsen.com/" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-226" title="lukelarsen" src="http://www.media143.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lukelarsen.jpg" alt="lukelarsen" width="470" height="160" /></a></p>
<h3>Dean Oakley</h3>
<p>Horizontal scrolling portfolio of Dean Oakley.</p>
<p><a title="dubbai website design company blog" href="http://deanoakley.com/" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-227" title="deanoakley" src="http://www.media143.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/deanoakley.jpg" alt="deanoakley" width="470" height="160" /></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Building Social Web Applications &#8211; Establishing Community at the Heart of Your Site (2009)
O&#8217;Reilly Media, Inc. &#124; 2009 &#124; ISBN: 0596518757 &#124; 434 pages &#124; PDF &#124; 10,4 MB
Building a web application that attracts and retains regular visitors is tricky enough, but creating a social application that encourages visitors to interact with one another requires [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Building Social Web Applications &#8211; Establishing Community at the Heart of Your Site (2009)<br />
O&#8217;Reilly Media, Inc. | 2009 | ISBN: 0596518757 | 434 pages | PDF | 10,4 MB</strong></p>
<p><span id="more-199"></span>Building a web application that attracts and retains regular visitors is tricky enough, but creating a social application that encourages visitors to interact with one another requires careful planning. This book provides practical solutions to the tough questions you&#8217;ll face when building an effective community site &#8212; one that makes visitors feel like they&#8217;ve found a new home on the Web.</p>
<p>If your company is ready to take part in the social web, this book will help you get started. Whether you&#8217;re creating a new site from scratch or reworking an existing site, Building Social Web Applications helps you choose the tools appropriate for your audience so you can build an infrastructure that will promote interaction and help the community coalesce. You&#8217;ll also learn about business models for various social web applications, with examples of member-driven, customer-service-driven, and contributor-driven sites.</p>
<p>Determine who will be drawn to your site, why they&#8217;ll stay, and who they&#8217;ll interact with<br />
Create visual design that clearly communicates how your site works<br />
Build the software you need versus plugging in one-size-fits-all, off-the-shelf apps<br />
Manage the identities of your visitors and determine how to support their interaction<br />
Monitor demand from the community to guide your choice of new functions<br />
Plan the launch of your site and get the message out</p>
<p><a title="web applications" href="http://hotfile.com/dl/13546993/e2102e4/buildsoclwebapp.rar.html" target="_blank"><strong>Free download link</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Things I Love and Hate in Web Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post will be composed of all the positive and negative things in web design that I think are worth mentioning. You may agree or not with the list and please complete it with your own Love-Hate things. So here are my 2 lists with the things I find rewarding and the things I detest [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-180" title="love" src="http://www.media143.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/love.png" alt="love" width="128" height="128" />This post will be composed of all the positive and negative things in web design that I think are worth mentioning. You may agree or not with the list and please complete it with your own Love-Hate things. So here are my 2 lists with the things I find rewarding and the things I detest in Web Design.</p>
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<h3>Things I Love in Web Design:</h3>
<p><strong>1. Web Design Community Sites</strong><br />
With sites like A List Apart, Smashing Magazine, Digital Web or Envato Tuts network it is pretty hard not to love web design.</p>
<p><strong>2. Content Management Systems</strong><br />
CMS have been the engine of web design in the last 2 years helping the Internet to evolve rapidly. There are so many that you will for sure find one that is suitable for you.</p>
<p><strong>3. Google Analytics</strong><br />
This is the third most visited site for me after my mail account and my website. I just love the pie-charts and timeline based information.</p>
<p><strong>4. CSS Galleries</strong><br />
Although there are a ton of CSS galleries out there, you can always find good inspiration resources in these sites, especially now when there are many niche ones.</p>
<p><strong>5. Good Freebies</strong><br />
I really enjoy from time to time a good freebie: a Wordpress theme, an icon pack, a CSS template etc. Also from time to time I enjoy creating one and see the feedback.</p>
<p><strong>6. Typography</strong> – I love this thing because there are very few designers in the entire world that are extraordinary with web typography.</p>
<p><strong>7. Optimizing for Performance</strong><br />
I really love this area of Web Design because it makes you think of different ways to improve your site speed.</p>
<p><strong>8. Wordpress</strong><br />
Although you may say that Wordpress can be a part of the second love argument I disagree. Wordpress is something apart, beyond the concept of a CMS. Wordpress is pure awesomeness.</p>
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		<title>6+ Image and Icon Search Engines Designers Should Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s face it, most of us don’t create every single image and icon when we do web design. It is not because we can’t but merely because we’ve got better options. Kudos to many designers and their generosity, there are in fact a lot of really nice creative common images and icons on the Internet [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let’s face it, most of us don’t create every single image and icon when we do web design. It is not because we can’t but merely because we’ve got better options. Kudos to many designers and their generosity, there are in fact a lot of really nice creative common images and icons on the Internet we can take advantage. All we need to know is – <em>where to find them</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-103 aligncenter" title="image-icon-search-engines" src="http://www.media143.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image-icon-search-engines.jpg" alt="image-icon-search-engines" width="500" height="296" /></p>
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<h3>Image Search Engines</h3>
<h4><a href="http://www.everystockphoto.com/">EveryStockPhoto</a></h4>
<p>A search engine for free photos come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo’s license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos.</p>
<h4><a href="http://xcavator.net/">Xcavator</a></h4>
<p>Xcavator.net is a stock photo search portal for the creative community. You can quickly browse the way you think – visually – through millions of stock images.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.ginipic.com/">Ginipic</a></h4>
<p>Ginipic takes image search to a whole new level. Now you can search image search engines, photo sharing websites or your own local picture collections simultaneously.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.gazopa.com/sign_in">GazoPa</a></h4>
<p>GazoPa is a next generation similar image search engine in private beta. Users can search images from the web based on user’s own photo, drawings, images found on the web and keywords.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp">FreeFoto</a></h4>
<p>FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet. FreeFoto.com features exclusive images found nowhere else on the web with new pictures being added every week.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.turbophoto.com/Free-Stock-Images/">TurboPhoto – Free Stock Images</a></h4>
<p>Browse and download 2,000 (3.4 GB) free stock images from 10 categories (view all thumbnails below). Stock images are in the public domain.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.feelimage.net/photo/">Feelimage</a></h4>
<p>Feelimage is not only key words search. It is also equipped phrase search, that is images search engine   				‘FeelPhrase®‘.<br />
It’s corresponding 127 colors, and has a technology that quantifies colors like ‘red’ ‘ blue’ in images.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.oskope.com/">oSkope</a></h4>
<p>oSkope is a visual search assistant that lets you browse and organize items from Amazon, Ebay, Flickr, Fotolia, Yahoo!Image Search and YouTube in an intuitive way.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.incogna.com/">Incogna</a></h4>
<p>Incogna process the shape in every image and use this to build a large scale searchable visual index.</p>
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		<title>5 Adobe AIR Applications To View, Download And Share Photos On Flickr</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flickr is the largest online photo sharing and you can find a lot of useful images or stock photos for your project. Adobe AIR is a technology that let developers to build rich internet applications that run across different Operation Systems.
With the powerful features of Adobe AIR and Flickr’s API, there are a lot of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flickr is the largest online photo sharing and you can find a lot of useful images or stock photos for your project. Adobe AIR is a technology that let developers to build rich internet applications that run across different Operation Systems.</p>
<p>With the powerful features of Adobe AIR and Flickr’s API, there are a lot of great applications that built upon them. Today, we are going to see 10 awesome Adobe AIR applications that will help you in viewing, downloading and sharing photos on Flickr.<br />
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<h3>1. <a title="Flair" href="http://www.thegreenscreensproject.com/flair/" target="_blank">Flair</a></h3>
<p>Flair stands for Flickr search for AIR. It will search Flickr database for matched photo tags. The return results will be displayed in thumbnail format. Once you click the thumbnail, you can view the large image, together with the uploader’s user information. Clicking the uploader’s avatar will bring you to his/her photostream.</p>
<h3>2. <a title="Flickroom" href="http://www.flickroom.org/" target="_blank">Flickroom</a></h3>
<p>Flickroom is an Adobe AIR based application that provides the rich browsing experience Flickr users have long deserved. The dark theme ensures that your photographs look better than ever before.</p>
<h3>3. <a title="zFlick" href="http://www.zflick.net/" target="_blank">zFlick</a></h3>
<p>zFlick enables users to search anything on ‘Flickr. Saving an image is as easy as dragging and drop the image on the desktop. It has a nice design and the transitions are very smooth.</p>
<h3>4. <a title="Snoto Photo" href="http://snook.ca/snoto/" target="_blank">Snoto Photo</a></h3>
<p>Snoto Photo is a desktop application for browsing your recent photos as well as the recent photos of others. You can also do a slideshow of the photos.</p>
<h3>5. <a title="colrful desktop" href="http://flexgeek.wordpress.com/colrful/" target="_blank">colrful desktop</a></h3>
<p>colrful desktop allows you to search flickr images based on color or based on another image in the internet. colrful desktop also lets you search for images based on Adobe kuler themes.</p>
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		<title>10+ Useful Portable Apps For Web Designers and Developers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We like portable apps because those applications are lightweight and require no installation to run. As a web designer/developer, i used to work with different PCs. Rather than carrying my laptop everywhere, i prefer saving frequently used applications into my USB drive.
I had collect a lot of useful portable applications and i would like to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We like portable apps because those applications are lightweight and require no installation to run. As a web designer/developer, i used to work with different PCs. Rather than carrying my laptop everywhere, i prefer saving frequently used applications into my USB drive.</p>
<p>I had collect a lot of useful portable applications and i would like to share those applications with my readers. Let’s look into these applications now:<br />
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<h2>Browsers</h2>
<h3>1. <a title="Firefox Portable Edition" href="http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable" target="_blank">Firefox Portable Edition</a></h3>
<p>Firefox is a popular web browsers and portableapps.com had created the portable version of this application. Install this application on your USB drive and you can bring your bookmarks along with you. I have this application in my USB drive together with some useful plugins.</p>
<h3>2. <a title="Google Chrome Portable" href="http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/2008/09/03/portable-chrome-021510/" target="_blank">Google Chrome Portable</a></h3>
<p>Google Chrome is quite popular browser and it has advantages over other browsers. For example, Chrome will run different tabs as separate processes, which will prevents different windows to interfering each other. So, grab the portable version of Google Chrome and start chroming.</p>
<h3>3. <a title="OperaUSB" href="http://www.opera-usb.com/operausben.htm" target="_blank">OperaUSB</a></h3>
<p>Probably you want to try out your design in different browsers. We have Firefox portable, Chrome portable and IE installed by default. So, it is better for us to have OperaUSB installed on our USB drive so that we can try out our design in these popular web browsers no matter where we are.</p>
<h2>Text Editors</h2>
<h3>4. <a title="Notepad++" href="http://portableapps.com/apps/development/notepadpp_portable" target="_blank">Notepad++</a></h3>
<p>Notepad++ is one of the most popular notepad replacement for Windows. You can download the portable version of this application from the portableapps.com website.</p>
<h3>5. <a title="Web Design Toy" href="http://acme-web-design.info/free-web-design-toy.php" target="_blank">Web Design Toy</a></h3>
<p>Web Design Toy is a simple application that will splits into two views where you can instantly preview the output when you type he HTML code. Download the application and double click the exe file to launch. No installation required.</p>
<h3>6. <a title="Oiko Visual CSS editor" href="http://css-editor.info/" target="_blank">Oiko Visual CSS editor</a></h3>
<p>Oiko is a visual editor for CSS. It lets user design the CSS easily and use tree-node method to display the structure of the HTML and CSS. Choose the portable version when you download this application.</p>
<h3>7. <a title="KompoZer Portable" href="http://portableapps.com/apps/development/nvu_portable" target="_blank">KompoZer Portable</a></h3>
<p>Although we have Notepad++ and visual CSS editor, but an easy-to-use web editor will save us a lot of works. Kompozer uses the same Gecko engine that powered Firefox and Thunderbird.</p>
<h2>Image Editors</h2>
<h3>8. <a title="GIMP Portable" href="http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable" target="_blank">GIMP Portable</a></h3>
<p>Perhaps every web designers know this application. GIMP is the best alternative for Adobe Photoshop. With this portable edition, you can edit your image easily no matter where you are (as long as you can access a PC).</p>
<h3>9. <a title="Inkscape Portable" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape-usb/" target="_blank">Inkscape Portable</a></h3>
<p>Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor, which is also alternative for commercial product such as Adobe Illustrator. It should be included in your portable applications collection if you are web/graphic designer.</p>
<h3>0. <a title="Fotografix" href="http://lmadhavan.com/software/fotografix/" target="_blank">Fotografix</a></h3>
<p>Fotografix has a tiny footprint – it is only 760KB after extract. It supports layer, scripts, filters and has features like Magic Wand, Eye Dropper, Clone, and etc. This application may be another alternative for you when you just want to do simple image editing and don’t want to open huge application like GIMP.</p>
<h3>11. <a title="Artweaver" href="http://www.artweaver.de/" target="_blank">Artweaver</a></h3>
<p>Artweaver is yet another alternative for Photoshop. It has bigger size than Fotografix and users can download the plugin pack which has filter such as Super Nova filter, Remove Red Eyes filter, and etc.</p>
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		<title>15 Great And Free Photoshop Alternatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adobe Photoshop is definitely the most powerful image editing software. It had a lot of great features and can be used by professional such as web designers and graphics designers. Its filters, plugins, actions, brushes and easy-to-use are the main reasons why most designers prefer Photoshop than other tools.
However, Photoshop is very expansive and not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Adobe Photoshop is definitely the most powerful <strong>image editing software</strong>. It had a lot of great features and can be used by professional such as web designers and graphics designers. Its filters, plugins, actions, brushes and easy-to-use are the main reasons why most designers prefer Photoshop than other tools.</p>
<p>However, Photoshop is very expansive and not all designers afford to buy the original license of it. So, some designers try to look for <strong>free alternatives</strong> to Photoshop. If you are one of them, you consider yourself lucky as we are going to look into <strong>15 Great And Free Photoshop Alternatives</strong> today.<span id="more-61"></span></p>
<h3>1. <a title="GIMP" href="http://www.gimp.org/" target="_blank">GIMP</a></h3>
<p>GIMP is probably the most popular Photoshop Alternative. It works across different platform – supports Windows, Mac and Linux. It probably doesn’t have every single features in Photoshop, but it is more than enough for a designer’s daily use.</p>
<h3>2. <a title="Paint.NET" href="http://www.getpaint.net/index.html" target="_blank">Paint.NET</a></h3>
<p>For Windows users, you may try Paint.NET. It is so powerful and has a very active community. If you look into the forum, you will found a lot of useful plugins and tutorials shared by Paint.NET users.</p>
<h3>3. <a title="Seashore" href="http://seashore.sourceforge.net/index.php" target="_blank">Seashore</a></h3>
<p>Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X’s Cocoa framework. It is based around the GIMP’s technology and uses the same native file format. However, Seashore only aims for basic image editing purposes, and never meant to replace professionals image editing tools.</p>
<h3>4. <a title="Artweaver" href="http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version" target="_blank">Artweaver</a></h3>
<p>Artweaver is a simple graphic tool that offers all artistic effects which you need for your work. It has all the necessary features of a image editing tool, supports various common file formats and languages.</p>
<h3>5. <a title="PhotoPlus SE" href="http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/photoplus/photoplus-9.asp" target="_blank">PhotoPlus SE</a></h3>
<p>PhotoPlus is an award winning digital photo editing software. PhotoPlus itself is not free, but you can download PhotoPlus SE, which is a freeware. With PhotoPlus SE, you can perform features such as warps and transformations, filters, adjustments and perfectly optimized images.</p>
<h3>6. <a title="Photoscape" href="http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php" target="_blank">Photoscape</a></h3>
<p>Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. Some of the key features are batch editor, animated gif, splitter, color picker and raw converter. Besides using it as image editing tool, Photoscape can be used as a powerful image viewer too.</p>
<h3>7. <a title="Inkscape" href="http://www.inkscape.org/index.php?lang=en" target="_blank">Inkscape</a></h3>
<p>Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X. Is uses the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.</p>
<h3>8. <a title="Krita" href="http://www.koffice.org/krita/" target="_blank">Krita</a></h3>
<p>Krita is open source bitmap editing and drawing application for KOffice. It includes a lot of filters for either serious use or just to play around with.</p>
<h3>9. <a title="Pixen" href="http://opensword.org/Pixen/" target="_blank">Pixen</a></h3>
<p>Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for Apple Mac. It is a simple yet powerful application and comes with tons of features. Some of the examples are layers, able to create animations, powerful palette, beautiful interface, support different file types and so on.</p>
<h3>10. <a title="PhotoFiltre" href="http://photofiltre.free.fr/download_en.htm" target="_blank">PhotoFiltre</a></h3>
<p>PhotoFiltre is relatively small compare to other image editing application like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. However, it manage to launch faster and has all the basic features of an image editing application. It can also be used to as an image viewer and batch image converter.</p>
<h3>11. <a title="PaintStar" href="http://wang.zhenzhou.googlepages.com/" target="_blank">PaintStar</a></h3>
<p>PaintStar is a versatile digital image processing application which suitable for tasks such as etouching of photographs, composing and authoring images and image morphing. Some of the tools included in this application are transformation tools, gradient fill tools and selection tool.</p>
<h3>12. <a title="Pixia" href="http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mighty/knight/index.html" target="_blank">Pixia</a></h3>
<p>Pixia was originally designed for anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art. It is available in various languages. There are a lot of English tutorials available for you to get start with it.</p>
<h3>13. <a title="Active Pixels" href="http://idea-systems.net/" target="_blank">Active Pixels</a></h3>
<p>This photo editor resembles Photoshop in many aspects, from the way menus and windows are laid out on its interface to the keyboard shortcuts used for many actions. Active Pixels also includes some extra embedded apps, such as a red-eye fixer, a picture browser and a screen capture tool.</p>
<h3>14. <a title="ChocoFlop" href="http://www.chocoflop.com/" target="_blank">ChocoFlop</a></h3>
<p>ChoceFlop is an image editing application designed exclusively for Apple Mac users. It only weight a few megabytes and launches in 2 seconds on a cheap Mac.</p>
<h3>15. <a title="Photo Pos Lite" href="http://www.photopos.com/PhotoPosLiteInfo.asp" target="_blank">Photo Pos Lite</a></h3>
<p>Photo Pos Lite is a free lite version of the award-wining photo editor Photo Pos Pro. With Photo Pos Lite, you can edit, enhance and manipulate your pictures easily.</p>
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		<title>10 Promising CSS Framework That Worth A Look</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of web designers should heard about “CSS Framework”, and I believe some of you had tried them before.
Just like other programming and scripting language, CSS do have some repeat code that can be packed together to ease our daily job.
When use properly, CSS Framework may cut down your development time. On the other hand, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of web designers should heard about “CSS Framework”, and I believe some of you had tried them before.</p>
<p>Just like other programming and scripting language, CSS do have some repeat code that can be packed together to ease our daily job.</p>
<p>When use properly, CSS Framework may cut down your development time. On the other hand, it may cause extra works and time if you choose the wrong framework for your project.</p>
<p>There are a lot of open source CSS Framework, and you can easily reach them by using Google. Today, I am going to show you 10 promising CSS Framework that worth a look.<span id="more-58"></span></p>
<h3><a title="Blueprint" href="http://www.blueprintcss.org/" target="_blank">Blueprint: A CSS Framework</a></h3>
<h3><a title="960 Grid System" href="http://960.gs/" target="_blank">960 Grid System</a></h3>
<h3><a title="Tripoli Framework" href="http://devkick.com/lab/tripoli/" target="_blank">Tripoli Framework</a></h3>
<h3><a title="YAML" href="http://www.yaml.de/en/" target="_blank">YAML – Yet Another Multicolumn Layout</a></h3>
<h3><a title="YUI Grid CSS" href="https://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/" target="_blank">YUI Grid CSS</a></h3>
<h3><a title="BlueTrip" href="http://bluetrip.org/" target="_blank">BlueTrip</a></h3>
<h3><a title="Content with style" href="http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/a-css-framework" target="_blank">Content With Style</a></h3>
<h3><a title="Elastic CSS Framework" href="http://elasticss.com/" target="_blank">Elastic CSS Framework</a></h3>
<h3><a title="Molio" href="http://www.mollio.org/" target="_blank">Molio CSS/HTML Templates</a></h3>
<h3><a title="SenCSS" href="http://sencss.kilianvalkhof.com/" target="_blank">SenCSS</a></h3>
<h2>Some other CSS Framework that you may consider too</h2>
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<li><a title="WYMstyle" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wymstyle/" target="_blank">WYMstyle</a></li>
<li><a title="CSS-boilerplate" href="http://code.google.com/p/css-boilerplate/" target="_blank">CSS-boilerplate</a></li>
<li><a title="Typogridphy" href="http://csswizardry.com/typogridphy/" target="_blank">Typogridphy</a></li>
<li><a title="CleverCSS" href="http://sandbox.pocoo.org/clevercss/" target="_blank">CleverCSS</a></li>
<li><a title="Logicss" href="http://code.google.com/p/logicss/" target="_blank">Logicss</a></li>
</ol>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>Choosing a right CSS Framework is the most important step. I used both Blueprint and 960 framework regularly and now i start to combine the advantages of both framework and try to come out with a framework that suit me. So how about you, my dearest readers?</p>
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