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Absynthe: A Free WordPress ThemeYesterday

Six Revisions is happy to release its first ever free WordPress theme called Absynthe.

Designed by talented Front-End Designer Chris Wallace, Absynthe is a beautiful, dark, and mysterious free professional WordPress theme released under the GNU General Public License.

Some features

Integration with the Last.Fm Records plugin in the footer to showcase the music you’re currently listening to (don’t worry, if you don’t want to use the plugin, it won’t break your site).

Integration with Twitter in the sidebar.

Version 2.6 compatible

Completely widgetized sidebar

Download the theme!

Comment and Win $100 in ThemeForest Credit: Winners AnnouncedNovember 19

Last week Six Revisions hosted a contest giving away a total of $1,000 dollars in ThemeForest credit which you can use on the ThemeForest marketplace to purchase website templates such as premium WordPress, Drupal, Joomla! templates, and more.

There were a total of 260 participants all vying for a chance to win $100 dollars in credit by mentioning their favorite in-browser web development tool. Ten contest participants were selected at random, and without further ado…

The winners are:

Frank

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Jerad Hill

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CSS Tip #1: Resetting Your Styles with CSS ResetNovember 18

This is the first part of a series of articles that will discuss a particular CSS best practice or tip. I’ll be covering a mixture of topics that deals with CSS best practices, performance optimization, and tips and tricks to improve your workflow.

Today we’ll be covering the topic of resetting your styles.

Resetting your styles, commonly referred to as CSS Reset or Reset CSS is the process of resetting (or more accurately - setting) the styles of all elements to a baseline value so that you avoid cross-browser differences due to their built-in default style settings. By resetting your styles, you avoid defaulting to the browser’s built-in styles, which differs from browser to browser.

CSS Reset avoids browser inconsistencies

For example, say you use an anchor tag <a> in your HTML document. Usually, browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox will render it as blue and underlined.

But five years from now, someone decides to release a new browser (let’s call it UltraBrowser) and they decide that they don’t like blue, underlined links – so instead they set the default style of <a> tags to red and boldfaced. If you always set a baseline value for your <a> elements, then you’re guaranteed that it will always

30 Beautiful Examples of Grunge in Web DesignNovember 15

Grunge is a stylish design trend that gives web designs a less uniform, less structured, and more organic look-and-feel. It’s characterized by textured/gritty backgrounds, uneven/torn edges, worn, faded and aged graphic elements inspired by urban and industrial architecture and scenery. It gives a way for designers to venture away from the glossy, flashy, and rigid design elements that characterize the "Web 2.0"style – a style that still dominates mainstream web design.

In this collection, you’ll find 30 excellent examples of grunge in web design for your inspiration. From portfolios and fashion websites to online stores and church sites – you’ll find a variety of websites that choose to "dirty up" their web design.

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TROZO GALLERY

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12 Excellent Free Text Editors for CodersNovember 13

You can make writing code as complicated as you want, but at the end of the day, all you really need is your favorite, trusty text editor. You can use a simple one like Microsoft’s Notepad, but oftentimes it’s helpful to have a text editor that has syntax highlighting/coloring, support for multiple languages, a robust find and replace feature, and other features and options that make writing code just a tad bit easier.

If you’re in search of a good, free text editor – you’ve come to the right place. Below you’ll find 12 first-class free text editors that are designed with coders’ needs in mind. Whether you use a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine – you’ll find a few options here that will satisfy your code-authoring needs.

NOTEPAD++

(Windows)

NOTEPAD++ is the premier replacement for Microsoft’s Notepad. It has an auto-completion feature (for most supported languages) that guesses what you’re trying to write, a tabbed interface which is great for working with multiple files without cluttering your task bar, a pow