davekilljoy AKA David B Stubbs. JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES WEB DEVELOPMENT WEB DESIGN 3D MODELING COMPUTER NERD

Hello all, I’m trying this new weekly Blend tip thing. These will be little tips and tricks that will hopefully alleviate some of the nuances and annoyances of Blend.

This week – Reset!

A lot of the time, Blend will set margins and odd settings automatically when you are doing edits on properties (width, height) or when you are dragging objects around the Artboard. A quick and easy way to see what’s going on is by looking at the little square that is next to every property.

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Continuing from where we left off, lets take a look at some of the awesome things CSS can really do.

The Basics

Let’s start with the most common and basic CSS attributes, width and height. Once you assign a class to an element you are free to style it any way you want. We will be using this code snipet and styling it as examples.

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<div class="test">
  <p>Hello</p>
</div>

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Hi! First off, welcome to my website, its a brand new design and overall an excuse to try out my newly founded PHP/MySQL chops.

So here’s the deal, I’ve been learning web development for a while now, picking up tidbits from all over the web, books and friends helping me out. Then I started thinking, the web has been so great for helping me, I feel like I should do the same, which is why I am writing the first of a long series or how to articles, tutorials and information. I’ll be covering everything sequentially, so first part will be something along the lines of intro to the web in general, HTML and CSS. The subsequent parts will cover things like advanced CSS, WordPress integration, PHP/MySQL, Javascript and more. Enough of this, lets get to it, after the jump!
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