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    The Best HTML Editors

    Now that you know what you need in an HTML editor, here’s a list of the best ones available. 1) Brackets.io Brackets is an open-source HTML editor. It’s free and well-supported by Adobe and an open-source community. It works well with HTML, CSS, LESS, SCSS, and JavaScript, which makes it...
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    What are the skills required to become a web developer?

    What does it take to become a web developer? Essentially, just three things: HTML, CSS and JavaScript—the three pillars of the web, which we’ll be learning about over the next few days. Together, these three pillars make every website work, defining the content to be displayed (HTML), telling a...
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    [PART 3] Useful JavaScript Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

    21 – Truncate an array using length Like the previous example of emptying an array, we truncate it using the length property. As a bonus, if you set the array length to a higher value, the length will be changed and new items will be added with undefined as a value. The array length is not a...
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    [PART 2] Useful JavaScript Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

    11 – Generate a random set of alphanumeric characters 12 – Shuffle an array of numbers A better option could be to implement a random sort order by code (e.g. : Fisher-Yates shuffle), than using the native sort JavaScript function. For more details take a look to this discussion. 13 – A...
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    [PART 1] Useful JavaScript Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

    6 – Be careful when using typeof, instanceof and constructor. typeof : a JavaScript unary operator used to return a string that represents the primitive type of a variable, don’t forget that typeof null will return “object”, and for the majority of object types (Array, Date, and others) will...
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    [TIPS] Explore the power of conical gradients

    CSS Gradients are a powerful way to visualize more than one color on the screen. It creates a smooth transition between colors that gives a unique design to the element and eventually to your website. With linear gradients and radial gradients in place for some time, you will find only these two...
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    [TIPS] Curving text along image boundary

    Different design approaches focus on space management on the web page. I often see one such requirement is placing an image with text around it. This gives a similar effect as shown in newspaper content. It is also used to give an attractive feel to the web page while not focusing much on the...
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    [TIPS] Make use of variables

    Variables, best defined as CSS variables, reduce the same value across the website on different occasions. You can use it in cases opposite to using the !important keyword. For example, we use !important when only a couple of properties need to be changed. At the same time, we use variables...
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    [TIPS] Force CSS through !important

    Sometimes you may encounter a need to implement one or two properties differently to a couple of sections on the web page. However, since these new sections contain most of the properties consistent with other sections (that have all the properties), copying the CSS with just a couple of changes...
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    [TIPS] position: absolute CSS

    CSS position property comes of great use while positioning the elements on the web page. It comes with static, CSS sticky, absolute, relative, and fixed options. These values serve different purposes in defining the location of an element. Among them, position value absolute is something whose...
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    [TIPS] ::before and ::after content

    Many of the elements on your website will be redundant. For example, you might have a standard font size for the H2 element throughout the page or even the website. To avoid repetitive code, we utilize CSS and apply the style in a single place. However, developers are hardly pleased with a...
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    [TIPS] Use percentages instead of absolute numbers

    As a beginner, one of your first concerns will be positioning your elements on the web page. Since most websites start by defining the width of elements in pixel numbers, it is often inevitable to begin placing these numbers in your code. <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head>...
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    [TIPS] Club elements with the same styles

    We’ll start with one of the primary and most used CSS tricks while developing web code. Many times your elements may have the same stylings in the CSS. For example, shown below is the snapshot of the Pizza Hut website. It has two elements in the center – Delivery and Takeaway. These are two...
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    [PART 1] Useful JavaScript Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

    Note that the code snippets in this article have been tested in the latest Google Chrome version 30, which uses the V8 JavaScript Engine (V8 3.20.17.15). 1 – Don’t forget var keyword when assigning a variable’s value for the first time. Assignment to an undeclared variable automatically results...
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    Contact Form Help PLEASE

    Hi, I think you forgot to attach the file. Also, have you set up the SMTP server correctly? Are you using CMS?
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