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Other Important Topics

• Short Webstandards Introduction
• Web Development Tools
• HTML and CSS References
• Recommended Reading (for those lonely nights)

• General debugging information
• CSS is Cascading Style Sheets
• Hacks, bugs and conditional comments
• How do I center an element? (Horizontal & Vertical covered)
• The difference between classes and ids, and how to use either/both.
• Text with image replacement.
• navigation bars
• How to make forms.
• File Size Optimizing
• min-height and min-width in IE
• z-index - how to use it?

• Dropdowns?.
• How do I create rounded corners?
• Default stylesheet setup (removing inconsistant margins & padding)
• What does <put CSS/HTML term here> mean?
• hover pseudo-selector in cross-browsers
• Selectors and Specificity
• Equal height columns (height="100%")
• Floating And Clearing
• Print stylesheet
• Integrator (aka front-end developer)