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Now you can change customize your driving directions on Google Maps by simply dragging & dropping the default directions to your preferred roads or highways, route around traffic, or add multiple stops on your way.

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Search Engine Land has a comprehensive guide to PageRank designed for searchers and site owners alike.”

This is a very interesting for all of you who have not understood what Google PageRank is and how it works, as well as for those of you who have never heard of Google’s Page Rank and want to know how to get more, how not to lose it, and why PageRank ( o-10) might be the most important number in the online world.

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This tutorial will teach you how to create pretty looking textual buttons (with alternate pressed state) using CSS. Dynamic buttons save you heaps of time otherwise spent creating graphics and will basically make you a happier person at the end of the day.

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Markup is the technical foundation of front-end code. In one way or another, it influences or is influenced by design, content, accessibility, CSS, DOM scripting, and more. The quality of your markup will affect the quality of related code, and even the cost of implementing or maintaining that code. Your markup might be good now, but following…

The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a free piece of software available for Windows, Mac and Linux Operating systems for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. If you don’t want to pay for Photoshop, it is a viable alternative. To help you get to grips with it, Tutorialblog has dugg out the best Tutorials for you …

• 11 CSS navigation menus : at Exploding Boy
• 12 more CSS Navigation Menus. : at Exploding Boy
• 14 Free Vertical CSS Menus : at Exploding Boy
• 2-level horizontal navigation : demo at Duoh
• Absolute Lists: Alternatives to Divs : An approach of using lists instead of divs at evolt
• Accessible Image-Tab Rollovers : demo at Simplebits
• ADxMenu : multiple menu examples at aPlus
• A drop-down theme : at CSS Play
• Bookend Lists: Using CSS to Float a Masthead : at WebSiteOptimization
• Bulletproof Slants : demo at Simplebits
• Centered Tabs with CSS : at 24ways
• Clickable Link Backgrounds : A bulletproof unordered list of links, each with a unique (purely decorative) left-aligned icon that is referenced with CSS ; but that is also clickable.x

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Fonts and Typography are one of the most important aspects of any design, online or off, so to help you get to grips with it we are going to round up the best online resources …

Navigation menus have to be intuitive, precise and easy-to-use. One simple, basic principle, which is common for all kinds of nav bars you would ever want to use for your projects. In fact, navigation menu is probably the most important element in web design: after all, it is being used more often than any other element on a given page. Therefore it’s important to make sure that your visitors will find they way around the site structure – however complex the latter might be.

In this Smashing Magazine article you’ll find 53 beautiful and user-friendly Navigation Menus and solutions web-designers came up with using basic CSS styling.

In our never-ending quest to bring you the best free design tools from around the net we give you the best free stock photo sites we could digg out..

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