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An updated explanation with reference to a great tool that makes CSS Sprites super easy - SpriteMe http://spriteme.org/

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Great tool for testing new themes without disrupting your site!

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Great debugging tool!

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This has excellent, simple, to the point explanations about all kinds of useful code snippets. Plus, it's the simplest explanation of "the loop" I've seen, making it all suddenly more clear. A good starting point with the basics for creating and editing themes and templates in WordPress.

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This is a fantastic resource!

www.noupe.com/...erful-cms-using-wordpress.html - Preview

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I also have used this one: http://colorfilter.wickline.org/

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Fantastic rant about an anti-technology "study" - which was sorely lacking in sense. Clay is one of my favorite bloggers, about education and politics and life in general, and this is one of his best rants - his other blog is all about fighting "schooly-ness" in education, and he continues that theme here. READ THIS if you want to use technology in the classroom!

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two examples showing how blind the UCLA research was to today's possibilities, how behind the times.... It's easy, efficient, and turbo-effective literacy, research, and information management. It's unique to the Berners-Lee Age. Gutenberg would have loved it. Some high-profile "researchers" apparently know little of it.

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online tool for help planning layout and cabinets

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Help with picturing paint colors on your walls

www.sherwin.com/visualizer - Preview

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Simple good advice - and actually easy to do

www.locusmag.com/...octorow-writing-in-age-of.html - Preview

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There are some cool ones on here I'd like to try!

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Chris Coyier's nice little Lorem Ipsum page - pre-formatted with html tags to easily copy and paste on your web pages.

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Friends of Ed book PHP Solutions and several others website with tutorials, tools, books, blog - great resource!

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Great blog with 23 "things" that help in online education

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Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is.

www.collegeathome.com/...ools-for-every-kind-of-learner - Preview

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Neat tool for seeing how those color swatches actually look as a background. Fun to play with, too!

www.pascal.com/disco.html - Preview

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