Cascading Style Sheets are the foundation on which many of the best websites are built. Using CSS allows developers to describe the common style for the website, in terms of colours, fonts and layouts. In this tutorial, Trenton Moss of Webcredible shares some of his top tips to help you get the most from your CSS.

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Recently Google Maps has made it possible to drag the “blue line” to change your route. This is excellent news for all of us sending friends and family a nice little link that explains how to find our house/cottage/work etc.

Follow this Google Map link to see what I mean, and change the route to (drag the blue line) anywhere. Not only can you change the directions (avoid toll roads, known traffic jams, road work etc.) between two points you can also move the start and end point to the exact location (as Google Maps doesn’t always know where your house number is…) from where you want people to start and end their drive/walk/ride.

Probably the best map tool available on-line today. Very impressive!

I’m currently working on a brand new theme for WordPress, based on the popular Sandbox theme from plaintext.org. It’s still in the early stages but I’m hoping to provide a fast and useful 2-column theme for those that find my other theme a bit “wide”.

The theme will (when done) also serve as the design for my forthcoming development/project site. Here you will find (in the not so distant future) work samples and design/programming tips/tutorial.

Please have a look and let me know what you think. I would also greatly appreciate it if you would provide me with input on what you like to see (functions, widgets, plugins, design etc.).

Details on the next release from Opera has just been released. Opera Software will in the next few weeks release the first builds of Opera 9.5 currently named Kestrel. This major update features new functionality, improved functionality , bug fixes and improved support for web standards.

So what has changed?

A blog post from the companies “desktop-team” further enlightens the curious mind about the improvements in the Opera rendering engine. More than one year of development will provide enhanced support for CSS 3 and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and also a brand new JavaScript-engine with better support for ECMAScript 4.

These days, anyone can be a published film critic, but who should you listen to when you can find both negative and positive movie reviews for anything out there?

Which Movie Reviews Should You Believe?

Now, the answer is simple! This quick tool will compare your personal movie reviews with the movie reviews of some of the most prolific movie critics. The result is that you’ll know who your movie critic match is, and where to go for the movie reviews that will help you find the movies you’ll love.

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P.S. According to this test tool rottentomatoes.com (82% compatibility) is the place for me…