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WHAT IS TWITTER AND WHY DOES IT KEEP FOLLOWING ME AROUND?

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Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that allows you answer the question, "What are you doing?" by sending short text messages 140 characters in length, called "tweets", to your friends, or "followers." Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that allows you answer the question, "What are you doing?" by sending short text messages 140 characters in length, called "tweets", to your friends, or "followers." WHY TWITTER IS USEFUL Twitter has many uses for both personal and business use. It's a great way to keep in touch with your friends and quickly broadcast information about where you are and what you're up to. For example, "I'm downtown and aching for some sushi. Anyone like to join me?" For business, Twitter can be used to broadcast your company's latest news and blog posts, interact with your customers, or to enable easy internal collaboration and group communica...

Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes

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Without a doubt, a logical and structured layout is the best way to go. Not only because your layout varies between browsers, but also because CSS has a lot of ways to position every element you have. Today we wanted to share with you some quick tips on how to avoid easy pitfalls when creating your CSS layout. This is a series as there are SO MANY good tricks out there and if you see an easier or better methods, then post a comment below or email me. I will do my best to include it in our next post in this series. This is the first part in this series as there are SO MANY good tricks out there and if you see an easier or better methods, then post a comment below or email me. I will do my best to include it in our next post in this series.

Designing for WordPress: Complete Series & Downloads

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http://css-tricks.com/designing-for-wordpress-complete-series-downloads/ a video screencast series on Designing for WordPress. It is a three-part series which covers downloading and installing WordPress on a server all the way to a completed theme. a video screencast series on Designing for WordPress. It is a three-part series which covers downloading and installing WordPress on a server all the way to a completed theme. Part One: Download, Install, “Reset” Theme Video Page Direct Video Download (.mov) Article & Discussion Part Two: Structure Video Page Direct Video Download (.mov) Article & Discussion Part 3: Finishing Touches, Extra Stuff Video Page Direct Video Download (.mov) Article & Discussion

New Screencast: Adding RSS Content with SimplePie

The “Really Simple” part of RSS is sometimes misleading. What if you want to pull in content from an RSS feed and display it on your site? Doing that from scratch would be no-so-easy, but thankfully we have wonderful SimplePie to do the heavy lifting for us. In this screencast we build a really simple site that grabs content from multiple RSS feeds, smushes them together, and displays them using our own custom markup. And here is the rest of it. http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/55-adding-rss-content-with-simplepie/