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Welcome to My New Office
My first professional web development was at a small print shop where I sat in a windowless cubical all day. I suffered that boxed in environment for almost five years before I was able to find a remote job where I worked from home. The first...
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An Interview with Eric Meyer
Your early CSS books were instrumental in pushing my love for front end technologies. What was it about CSS that you fell in love with and drove you to write about it? At first blush, it was the simplicity of it as compared to the table-and-spacer...
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HTML5 Placeholder Styling with CSS
Last week I showed you how you could style selected text with CSS. I've searched for more interesting CSS style properties and found another:
INPUTplaceholder styling. Let me show you how to style placeholder text withinINPUTelements with some unique CSS code. The CSS Firefox...![Translate Content with the Google Translate API and JavaScript]()
Translate Content with the Google Translate API and JavaScript
Note: For this tutorial, I'm using version1 of the Google Translate API. A newer REST-based version is available. In an ideal world, all websites would have a feature that allowed the user to translate a website into their native language (or even more ideally, translation would be...




