All the objects in this world are bound by certain rules and regulations. To implement the tasks effectively and efficiently, you need to adhere to these rules and regulations. There must be also law-makers and law-enforcers that have total authority over these rules. The Web 2.0 applications are no exceptions. These applications are now widely accepted by large number of enterprises. But these applications are also exposed to a number of security threats which must be addressed immediately.
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You will be astonished to discover square brackets in style sheets recently. But it is true. Square brackets are immensely there. But, CSS authors will find them more at ease with curly braces, since they cannot write any valuable CSS without them.

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CSS selectors make your task very selective. It is a component of CSS style definition. It specifies the elements upon which a particular style will be applied. In its most basic form, it is the real name of the element. Take an example into consideration. Suppose you want to change the color of all first level headings into blue. You can use the following H1 selector:
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In web designing, the term ‘whitespace’ is more often used. The beginners of web design must be eager to know more about this term. There are a lot of empty spaces around various elements of a web page. These empty spaces are known as whitespace. It is used to separate dissimilar elements and group all similar elements together. So it helps in nice visual arrangement of elements. Before the introduction of CSS, there were few methods that deal with the whitespace in a web page. But in CSS, the tools for controlling these empty spaces are aplenty. These CSS properties are discussed below elaborately.
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According to a poll I conducted, just over 1 out of 10 people don’t think SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is mandatory as a designer; and what really surprised me is about 24% don’t even know what SEO is! If you’re among the quarter of people who don’t know what SEO is or understand how it can help you, you should really read this article. This is an SEO guide for designers who want to learn about making it easier for websites or blogs to be found by search engines. I’ll explain the common mistakes made by designers and developers. Then I’ll provide some basic tips that you should be practicing to optimize your site for search engines. (more…)

Here you can find best video tutorials related to CSS and web design:

CSS Tutorial // Div Layers, Classes
This is a CSS Tutorial that will help you position an image using a div layer

Basic HTML and CSS Tutorial. Howto make website from scratch

Div Overlay TutorialWebsite: www.macklunn.comCSS Div Image Tutorial
This tutorial covers the basic functions of div layers
Learn CSS
CSS Rollover Buttons
CSS Basics 2
Creating a Landing Page with CSS
Cascading Style Sheets in Dreamweaver
Introduction To CSS Web Design For Beginners # 1
www.fdvisions.comWhy you should use CSS

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