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Valid HTML 4.01 in Dreamweaver 4

You’ve got deadlines piling up and no time to lovingly handcode every page of the monster site that had to be ready yesterday, Dreamweaver is the answer for many developers and teams and it speeds up development time (particularly in a team environment) hugely. But you aspire to valid html, the W3C html validator is in your bookmarks and the top visitor in your referer logs. Can rapid development in Dreamweaver ever result in code that validates?

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Boring CSS?

The article that follows was written in 2001, it remains here as I feel it is of interest to see how far things have come in such a short space of time.

Your CSS Bores Me writes Chris Casciano at ChunkySoup.net, pondering why CSS designs all look the same.

Its an accusation I hear frequently, along with ‘people only use CSS positioning for personal sites’.

I’d like to propose a few reasons why this might be so. Read the rest of ‘Boring CSS?’