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Border around empty table cells

It happens often, when working with tables, to “forget” empty cells, i.e. cells without any content at all within, not with even as much as a shy & nbsp ;. That makes them look awkward in the browser (awkward = borderless) and,most of all, to look like coding errors, which coulod become unpleasant. For those lacking the patience to fiddle again the whole html code, there’s a solution: to define the following property in the CSS code:

{ empty-cells: show }

This will force all the empty cells to SHOW the border, even if empty. (the other possible values for this property are: hide and inherit)

Versiunea in Romana a acestui articol aici.

Fire in Photoshop – seamless animated loop

I needed, at some point, a “fire animation” that would be:
1. looping seamlessly
2. horizontally tile-able

I googled and I googled, in vain – I couldn’t find anything but a small tutorial about blending modes. So I took on doing it myself and with some Photoshop scribbling, I got what I wanted – something like this:

How can you too do something like this? Perty simple, just follow the steps in my tutorial:

(Romanian version here)

Note: I just launched a new design-related site, with a dedicated blog (I also copied and translated in English all my tutorials there). The site is called Templatix.org and is dedicated to providing all sorts of free resources, the most important being the free templates, ofcourse. Templatix is all about free templateswebsite templates, css templates, you name it. But that’s not all. I give you an intelligent search tool and a collection of well described templates, enabling you to search and find exactly what you need, quicly and without having to browse through thousands of pages. You’ll also find a great, easy to use online banner maker, a comprehensive collection of the best online free fonts out there – well categorized, previewable in any text you like and ready for download.Color is important too. A template’s color space says a lot, and you’ll find an exclussive online tool to preview how a template would look in different colors. In the end, if you feel the need for help, I’m here for you, ready to answer your questions, to directly help you re-design, re-code or to completely transform a template, alongside useful tutorials on our blog. I’m permamently thinking of new ways of making your web-designer life easier, designing new tools and utilities for you. So I invite you to visit Templatix every once in a while and check for news and updates. Enjoy your search!

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