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Announcement: Winners of MailerLite Subscriptions

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:45:19 +0000

We recently held a giveaway for 1-year subscriptions to MailerLite to be awarded to 10 awesome Six Revisions participants. In this post, you’ll see the lucky individuals that won themselves an annual subscription to this excellent, simple, and user-friendly email marketing/campaign tool.

The Winners

Without further ado, here are the 10 winners of MailerLite subscriptions:

Join me in congratulating the winners by leaving a comment below! The winners should have already received an email from me with information on how to claim their prize.

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About MailerLite

MailerLite is a simple email marketing tool for small businesses. Forget complex settings and unnecessary features: MailerLite is so easy to use, it lets you create and send beautiful email newsletters, manage subscribers and track results with no design or HTML knowledge required.

Try MailerLite for free (signing up will only take a brief moment, no credit card required).

Learn more about MailerLite by viewing their product video and reading their list of features.

About the Author

Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. He’s also a web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and also a book author. If you’d like to connect with him, head on over to the contact page and follow him on Twitter: @sixrevisions.

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Announcement: Winners of Depositphotos Subscriptions

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:05:24 +0000

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Recently, we announced a giveaway for 3 Depositphotos subscriptions. In this post, you’ll find a list of the winners of this excellent giveaway!

The Winners

The winners of Depositphotos subscriptions are:

Congratulations to the winners! The winners should have already received an email from me regarding their prize.

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About Depositphotos

Depositphotos.com is one of the fastest-growing stock photo houses on the Web, with over three million royalty-free photographs and vector images.

Thousands of images are added every day, and they are closely scrutinized for quality and originality.

There’s a free trial subscription for a no-risk evaluation of their services. Go to their website and sign up in seconds!

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Announcement: Winner of Omnistar Affiliate Software

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:30:49 +0000

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We held a giveaway last month for a 2-month Professional subscription to Omnistar Affiliate software, an easy-to-use web-based app for your affiliate marketing needs. This post announces the winner of this wonderful prize!

The Winner

Without further ado, I would like to let you know that the winner of the 2-month Professional subscription to Omnistar Affiliate software is:

Jason

Please join me in congratulating our winner by leaving a comment below! The winner should have already received an email regarding his prize.

About Omnistar Affiliate Software

The Omnistar Affiliate software was developed because of the basic need the creators saw in the industry for a user-friendly application that can be used to manage multiple affiliate programs from one interface. Most people managing affiliate programs are not technical people, and they need an intuitive and user-friendly solution that includes plenty of documentation. With this in mind, Omnistar Affiliate was created with the goal of making sure customers are successful with their affiliate programs by providing an intuitive and robust web-based application.

Try Omnistar free for 15 days, take the product tour and check out the live demo.

Exclusive Discount for Six Revisions Readers

Receive a 10% discount when you sign up for Omnistar Affiliate by using the following promo code:

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Announcement: Winners of TN3 Gallery Licenses

Facebook-Web-Design — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:05:52 +0000

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We recently held a giveaway for the excellent jQuery image gallery, TN3 Gallery. In this post, we announce the 5 lucky Six Revisions readers that won a Pro license to TN3 Gallery (value of $37).

The Winners

Here’s the list of winners of TN3 Gallery Pro licenses.

Congratulations to all the winners! You should’ve already received an email from me with information pertaining to your prize.

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About TN3 Gallery

TN3 Gallery is a powerful and customizable jQuery image gallery and slideshow.

TN3 Gallery comes with a Lite version. The Lite version has a pretty robust feature set. Use TN3 Gallery for free by downloading the Lite version.

Follow TN3 Gallery on Twitter @tn3gallery and join them on Facebook.

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Announcement: Winners of DropIn Giveaway

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:12:12 +0000

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We recently published a weeklong giveaway for 5 DropIn apps to be given to Six Revisions readers. Read on to see the list of winners of this excellent giveaway!

The Winners

Congratulations to the winners! You should have already gotten an email from me containing information about your prize.

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About DropIn

DropIn keeps your busy Dropbox account clean and clear by filtering and notifying you of important updates. Follow DropIn on Twitter @DropInApp.

DropIn is available at the Mac App store for a launch price of $1.99.

DropIn is developed by Something Interesting, formed in 2001 predominantly as a web design and development agency. Over the last 2 years, they’ve extended their services to include the creation of applications for the Mac and iOS platforms. Follow Something Interesting on Twitter @something_int.

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Announcement: Winners of WPZOOM Premium WordPress Themes

Facebook-Web-Design — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:10:47 +0000

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WPZOOM and Six Revisions partnered up to give away 10 of their top-quality premium WordPress themes in a recent giveaway. Plenty of Six Revisions readers participated, and in this post, we announce the 10 winners.

The Winners

The winners of WPZOOM Premium WordPress themes are:

Congratulations to all the winners! You should all have received an email containing information regarding your prize.

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About WPZOOM

WPZOOM provides top quality premium WordPress themes at amazing prices. Lifetime support is included in the themes you purchase from them. All their themes are painstakingly handcrafted by a team of professional designers and developers.

Check out all the WordPress themes at WPZOOM, along with live demos. You can also see WPZOOM themes in action by visiting their showcase.

Follow them on Twitter and join them on Facebook.

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Announcement: Winners of WPZOOM Premium WordPress Themes

Facebook-Web-Design — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:10:09 +0000

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The Winners

The winners of WPZOOM Premium WordPress themes are:

Congratulations to all the winners! You should all have received an email containing information regarding your prize.

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About WPZOOM

Check out all the WordPress themes at WPZOOM, along with live demos. You can also see WPZOOM themes in action by visiting their showcase.

Follow them on Twitter and join them on Facebook.

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Announcement: Winners of Zyma Web Hosting

Facebook-Web-Design — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:07:51 +0000

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We recently held a giveaway for 2 years free web hosting on Zyma. 20 Six Revisions readers who participated were randomly selected to win this awesome prize, and in this post, you’ll see the list of winners.

The Winners

The winners of Zyma web hosting for 2 years are:

On behalf of the Six Revisions community, I’d like to congratulate our 20 winners! The winners should already have received an email with information about their prize.

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About Zyma Web Hosting

Zyma.com launched in 2010 and is rapidly gaining high regard for their excellent service and value. They are currently one of the fastest growing hosting companies in the UK, and are constantly praised for their high level of customer support and satisfaction. Their industry-leading web hosting package offers the most attractive and comprehensive features for one the best prices on the internet.

Based in Basingstoke, UK, they currently have customers in over seven different countries covering four different continents.

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Announcement: Winners of InDesign CS5 Books from Focal Press

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 08 May 2011 14:05:15 +0000

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In a recent giveaway, Focal Press teamed up with Six Revisions to give away 10 copies of Interactive InDesign CS5, an excellent book for learning about Adobe’s popular desktop publishing software in a simple and concise way. In this post, you’ll get to discover who the 10 giveaway winners are.

The Winners

The winners of Interactive InDesign CS5 book are:

Congratulations to the winners! You should’ve already gotten an email with information about your book.

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About Focal Press

Focal Press has been publishing content for creative people for over 70 years. They’re a top publisher in the media technology space, in areas such as Photography, Animation, Gaming, Filmmaking, Postproduction, Visual Effects and Motion Graphics.

They have now extended Focal Press to include Web Design by creating content for web designers that help them understand the tools of the craft in a way that focuses on the design elements.

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Free Download (3 Days Only): WinX DVD Copy Pro

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 03 May 2011 07:53:46 +0000

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From May 1 to May 3, 2011, you can get a copy of WinX DVD Copy Pro, normally $35.95, for free. During the three-day giveaway period, you can install the full version of the software at no cost!

About WinX DVD Copy Pro

WinX DVD Copy Pro allows you to make backups of your DVDs in various forms. You can create a backup copy of a DVD, save it as an ISO file, or save it as a playable MPEG.

The software is respectful of your computer resources, averaging only 1% of your CPU resources, which means you can have it doing its work on the background while doing other things.

The interface is user-friendly and the average computer user can get up and running with it in no time at all!

Installing WinX DVD Copy Pro

Go to the WinX DVD Copy Pro page where you will find a section on the page to download the software.

After downloading the software package, there should be a text file in the archive. Read it for instructions on how to activate the full version. It should provide you with a license code. You must activate the full version within 3 days, before this limited-time free offer is finished in order to avail of the full version of the software.

Enjoy!

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Announcement: Winner of Letterhead/Envelopes from UPrinting

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 03 May 2011 07:53:12 +0000

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We recently hosted a giveaway for letterheads and envelopes from UPrinting, a popular and highly regarded online printing company. In this post, you’ll find out who won this excellent giveaway.

The Winner

The winner of 500 letterheads and envelopes from UPrinting is:

Congratulations, Tom! You should have already received an email from me with instructions on how to claim your prize.

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About UPrinting

UPrinting online printing company has been working with graphic designers, photographers and business owners with their printing needs for more than 25 years. Their offices are based out of West Los Angeles and Van Nuys, California.

UPrinting is famous for their easy-to-use website, easy design tool, free file review, proofing service and their extended phone and chat support.

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Announcement: Winners of 1 TB Bandwidth from MaxCDN

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 03 May 2011 07:52:28 +0000

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Recently, we held a giveaway for five accounts on MaxCDN (an excellent content delivery network service provider) loaded with 1 TB of bandwidth, ready to go. In this post, we announce the five lucky Six Revisions participants who won the giveaway.

The Winners

Here are the winners of 1 TB bandwidth from MaxCDN:

Congratulations to the winners! You should’ve already gotten an email with information regarding your prize.

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Exclusive Offer: 25% off MaxCDN!

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About MaxCDN

MaxCDN is part of NetDNA, LLC, which is a company based in Los Angeles, CA. They’re industry innovators, being one of the first services to bring CDN capabilities to people and companies, big and small.

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Announcement: Winners of iTunes Gift Cards from Digiarty

Facebook-Web-Design — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:00:12 +0000

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We recently partnered up with our friends at Digiarty Software to give out 10 iTunes gift cards for use in the U.S. iTunes store in celebration of the release of PetsWar, an awesome iPhone game app, and their new MacX iPhone Mounter.

In this post, we announce the winners of the iTunes gift cards.

The Winners

Here are the 10 winners of the iTunes gift cards.

Congratulations to the all the winners! You should have already received an email from me with instructions on how to claim your prize.

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About Digiarty

Digiarty Software, Inc. is a professional developer and publisher of iPhone games and multimedia software specialized in various types of iPhone games development and DVD- and video-related solutions. Follow them on Twitter @MacXDVD and join them on Facebook.

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Announcement: Winners of iTunes Gift Cards from Digiarty

Facebook-Web-Design — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:57:58 +0000

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In this post, we announce the winners of the iTunes gift cards.

The Winners

Here are the 10 winners of the iTunes gift cards.

Congratulations to the all the winners! You should have already received an email from me with instructions on how to claim your prize.

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Announcement: Winners of PhotoEQ Image Editing Software

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:56:02 +0000

Recently, we hosted a giveaway for 10 licenses of PhotoEQ, a user-friendly and powerful image editing application for your Windows PC. In this post, you’ll find a list of the 10 Six Revisions readers who’ve won this excellent giveaway.

The Winners

The following people have won a license to PhotoEQ.

Congratulations to the all the winners! You should have already received an email from me with instructions on how to claim your prize.

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About PhotoEQ

PhotoEQ makes digital image improvement simpler on your Windows PC. It’s guess-free software to get your daily image editing tasks done. PhotoEQ gives you the tools for advanced color correction, image editing and color management. You can process a single image file or use PhotoEQ’s todo queue to batch-process multiple image files and folders.

Check out this demo video of PhotoEQ in action:

PhotoEQ is produced by SoftColor Oy, an independent software company which develops color correction, image processing and color management software. They believe that good image processing software should be automatic, easy to use and tweakable. SoftColor Oy was founded in 2005 and the company is located in Joensuu, Finland.

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Design All-Stars – 46 Design Blogs You Should Follow. Period

Facebook-Web-Design — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:12:23 +0000

I have been asked just about a million times about what design blogs I follow and I always answered there are so many I couldn’t possibly name them all. And that would be probably true because it would be impossible not to forget one of them. That is why I will only point out the design blogs I follow the most. These are, in my opinion, the websites you can learn the most as a designer and are places you can find really quality resources that will make your design life easier. To put it simply, these are the best of the best.

Smashing Magazine

This website, I believe, doesn’t need any introduction or description. To put in Tina Turner’s words : “It’s simply the best“. It’s a must go location if you are a digital artist. You’ll always find fresh, quality, and innovative content published by their great editorial team or by the awesome regular contributors, many of them the main authors of some of the blogs listed below.

PSD Tuts+

Another landmark website for the design field, especially regarding Photoshop, on PSD Tuts you will find amazing Photoshop tutorials, resources and round-ups. If you are into Photoshop, no matter at what level, you will have something to learn from here.

Six Revisions

I have to be honest, Six Revisions in one of our favorite websites and the best example that content is king. With a simple, but efficient theme, this blog focuses on providing great content at an incredible rate of 1 article / day. Six Revisions is the baby of Jacob Gube and is an integrated part of the Smashing Network.

Noupe

Noupe … what can be said about Noupe, except that if you never heard of it, you’re not in design. Noupe was created in 2007 by Noura Yehia and quickly became one of the most influential blogs in the industry. It was purchased by Smashing Magazine and it’s now part of their network.

Bittbox

Bittbox is another of our favorite websites. It’s the ultimate design blog if you are searching for design resources, especially vectors and textures.

CSS Globe

CSS Globe is one of the best resources for CSS you can find on the web. It’s maintained by Alen Grakalic kept fresh with member contributed news and exclusive articles.

Web Designer Depot

Web Designer Depot quickly established itself as one of the best design blogs. Their content is fresh and frequent and their looks are awesome.

Web Design Ledger

In our opinion, Web Design Ledger is one of the coolest design blogs today. The content they offer covers a lot of ground and they have a great Premium section where for just 7$ / month you have access to a bundle of resources.

SpoonGraphics Blog

The creation of Chris Spooner, Spoon Graphics is one of the lookers of the design world. Great design and great content is what characterizes this design blogging landmark. Chris also offers a premium membership on Spoon Graphics, also for 7$ / month.

Fudgegraphics

Fudgegraphics is another one of CrazyLeaf Design‘s friends and a blog for design lovers as they characterize themselves.

Design Boom

Design Boom is a blog that addresses a wider audience of designers and architects. Their field of view extends beyond web and graphic design and includes also architecture and general design.

Abduzeedo

Abduzeedo, or the inspiration blog as we like to call it, is your best stop if you are looking for an inspiration fix. It is maintained by Fabio Sasso.

Web Designer Wall

One of the best looking and best design blogs you can find. It’s maintained by known designer Nick La.

A List Apart

A List Apart is as they put it, one of the best resources “for people who make websites”.

Vandelay Design Blog

Whenever I hear about Vandelay, I think about Seinfeld. Unlike Seinfeld, Vandelay Design Blog isn’t about nothing, it’s about a lot, actually, a lot of great content.

Fubiz

Fubiz is one of the oldest design blogs on the web and one of the most popular with over 90.000 RSS subscribers. It follows all aspects of design, not only web and graphic design.

David Airey

David Airey‘s blog is one of the oldest, and most known design blogs available. What I love most about this blog is the lack of list articles such as this one (yeah we can also do self-criticism) which are fun and great but a bit “everybody is doing this”.

Inspired Magazine

I remember when I first saw Inspired Magazine in their beginnings. It didn’t say much to me back then, but since then they came a long way and became one of our favorite blogs and one of the most popular.

Design Reviver

Computerlove

NewWebPick

Reform & Revolution

The Cool Hunter – Design

1stwebdesigner

InstantShift

NaldzGraphics

10Steps.SG

Fuel Your Creativity

Hongkiat

MyInkBlog

Onextrapixel

Speckyboy

PSDFAN

You The Designer

Web Resources Depot

Colorburned

Just Creative Design

PSD Vault

Build Internet

GoMediaZine

SpyreStudios

DesignM.ag

Productive Dreams

From up North

9rules Design Community

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Did we miss any ?

Ah, right, we missed CrazyLeaf Design Blog, but considering you are reading this, it really would have been pointless to include it in the list.

Don’t be shy, now. It’s impossible to include all the good design blogs in an article, but if you know a great one that didn’t make the list, share it with everybody.

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Announcement: Winners of SnackTools VIP Memberships

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:46:15 +0000

We recently published a giveaway of 10 SnackTools VIP memberships for one year (valued at $288 each). In this post, you’ll learn who the winners are.

The Winners

I’m thrilled to announce this list of winners to you:

Congratulations to all the winners. You should have already gotten an email from me with instructions on how to claim your prize.

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About SnackTools

SnackTools is an ever-growing suite of web applications designed to quickly and masterfully allow you to make beautiful site components like slideshows, interactive quizzes, music/audio, web banners and more. You can start using web applications included in SnackTools free of charge. Here’s a list of SnackTools apps:

BannerSnack: Make web banners
PodSnack: Create audio/MP3 players
TubeSnack: Make video players
PhotoSnack: Create captivating slideshows
QuizSnack: Create embeddable online surveys, polls, and quizzes

Follow SnackTools on Twitter (@SnackTools) and join them on Facebook.

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Announcement: Winners of Postcards from Next Day Flyers

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:43:26 +0000

Recently, we hosted a giveaway for postcards from the wonderful folks at Next Day Flyers. In this post, we share with you the list of three winners of 100 postcards (with free shipping within the continental U.S.).

The Winners

Without further ado, here are the winners of the postcards from Next Day Flyers.

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About Next Day Flyers

Next Day Flyers is an online printing company that specializes in printing promotional products that are great for both small and large print projects, offering some of the fastest turnaround times in the industry.

Products offered include, postcards, online brochure printing, menus, greeting cards, bookmarks, business cards, cheap door hangers, promotional printing and more.

Be sure to check out their blog and follow them on Twitter @NextDayFlyers for great marketing ideas and tips.

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Announcement: Winners of Avactis E-commerce Software

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:35:12 +0000

We partnered up with the wonderful folks at Avactis to hook up five lucky Six Revisions readers with e-commerce software licenses in a recent giveaway. This post announces the winners of the giveaway. Drum roll please!

The Winners

Here are the five winners of the Avactis e-commerce software (owned).

Congratulations to all the winners. You should already have an email explaining how to receive your prize.

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About Avactis

The primary goal of Avactis is to provide easy-to-use e-commerce solutions to businesses, big and small. They aim to streamline and lower costs of deploying an e-store. For example, apart from hosting services, out-of-the-box e-commerce software requires designers to create a site template and programmers who can implement it. This cost adds up. By empowering store owners, costs of e-store deployments can be reduced.

With the Avactis 2.0 release, a variety of special offers for customers is planned, including bonuses for custom development, promotional discounts, and others. More information can be found on the Avactis website when these special offers start.

To experience how Avactis works, check out their online demo.

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Announcement: Winners of Amazon Kindle 3G from DesignContest

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:01:09 +0000

DesignContest.com teamed up with Six Revisions to provide five participating Six Revisions readers Amazon Kindle 3Gs in a recent giveaway. Over 300 of you participated, and in this post, you’ll see the five who won.

The Winners

Here are the winners of Amazon Kindle 3Gs shipped from Amazon.com.

Join me in congratulating your fellow Six Revisions readers! The winners should have already received an email regarding their prize.

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Didn’t win? Make sure to subscribe to our RSS feed to get timely updates on future Six Revisions giveaways.

About DesignContest

DesignContest.com is a community shaped by the joint efforts of talented, skilled designers and clients in need of quality design. DesignContest.com has hosted hundreds of graphic design contests and currently has a membership of nearly 23,000 designers from around the globe.

DesignContest.com boasts an extensive forum discussing the latest design news and tips. It’s a great venue for learning about design, as well as connecting with fellow designers from all over the world.

It only takes a moment to register for a DesignContest account, giving you exclusive content and site features that become available to you as a registered user.

Join DesignContest on Facebook and follow them on Twitter @designcontests for the latest news and updates.

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Announcement: Winners of Stockfresh Photo Credits

Facebook-Web-Design — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:00:12 +0000

Recently, we teamed up with Stockfresh, a provider of excellent stock photos, on a giveaway that offered five winners 100 credits to use any way they wish on the Stockfresh site. Read on to find out who the five lucky Six Revisions readers are.

The Winners

The following are the five winners:

Congratulations to the winners! You should’ve already received an email with instructions on how to claim your prize.

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About Stockfresh

Stockfresh is a new stock photo agency by the founders of the popular stock.xchng and Stockxpert sites. Stockfresh has some of the best photographers on board so you will definitely find awesome images and graphics to purchase there.

Currently, they have over 500,000 images online and the collection is growing rapidly. See some of their offerings through the most popular images page or the newest images page.

Connect with them on Twitter and Facebook.

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Announcement: Winners of 1-Year Subscriptions to AceProject

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:42:17 +0000

In a recent giveaway, AceProject, a collaboration-oriented project management web application, offered up five subscriptions to their Standard package for one year (worth $240 each). This post announces the five lucky winners.

The Winners

The winners are:

Congratulations to all the winners! You all should have already received an email with information about your 1-year subscription to AceProject.

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About AceProject

AceProject is a web-based application that will help you manage and organize your projects and tasks, as well as keep them on track and help you manage your time.

Sign up now for a free account, which gives you an account with 5 users, up to 5 projects, 0.25 GB of storage space, and more.

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Announcement: Winners of Hosting Plans from Zyma.com

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:18:22 +0000

Zyma, an excellent web hosting company, offered up 15 free 2-year hosting plans in a recent Six Revisions giveaway. The giveaway, with over 430+ participants, was one of the most successful giveaways we’ve had! Read on to see the winners of this wonderful giveaway.

The Winners

The 15 winners of Zyma hosting plans for 2 years are:

Congratulations to all the winners! You all should have already received an email with information about your hosting plan.

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About Zyma

Based in Basingstoke, UK, they currently have customers in over seven different countries covering four different continents.

Their industry-leading web hosting package offers the most attractive and comprehensive features for one the best prices on the internet. Each web hosting account comes with unlimited web space, unlimited traffic, unlimited email accounts, 99.9% uptime guarantee and unlimited add-on domains!

Announcement: Winners of Hosting Plans from Zyma.com

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:18:20 +0000

The Winners

The 15 winners of Zyma hosting plans for 2 years are:

Congratulations to all the winners! You all should have already received an email with information about your hosting plan.

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About Zyma

Based in Basingstoke, UK, they currently have customers in over seven different countries covering four different continents.

Announcement: Winners of Hosting Plans from Zyma.com

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:17:59 +0000

The Winners

The 15 winners of Zyma hosting plans for 2 years are:

Congratulations to all the winners! You all should have already received an email with information about your hosting plan.

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About Zyma

Based in Basingstoke, UK, they currently have customers in over seven different countries covering four different continents.

Announcement: Winners of IconDemon 1-Year Memberships

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:49:54 +0000

IconDemon, a websites that provides members access to a huge collection of icons, offered up five 1-year subscriptions to their wonderful icon collection. Read on to see the Six Revisions readers who won the giveaway.

The Winners

Here are the winners of the IconDemon unlimited package:

Here are the winners of the IconDemon limited package:

Congratulations to the winners! The winners should have already received an email regarding their prize.

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About IconDemon

IconDemon provides high quality, exclusive icons for revitalizing your website and enhancing the visual quality of your designs. Web icons on IconDemon are categorized into 20 popular topics and 10 styles, which makes it easier to discover the icons for your specific needs.

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Announcement: OSTraining.com Joomla Training Classes Winners

Facebook-Web-Design — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:27:45 +0000

OSTraining, a provider of excellent online training for open source projects such as Joomla, Drupal and WordPress, offered to give five lucky Six Revisions readers 6 months access to their Joomla training classes and support. Read on to learn who the winners are.

The Winners

Congratulations to the winners! You should have already been contacted via email regarding your prize.

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About OSTraining

OSTraining (short for Open Source Training) are trainers who help people learn Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. They have over 25 teachers who have taught 100s of live classes all over North America and the UK. Check out their blog where they often provide tutorials on WordPress, Drupal and Joomla as well as follow them on Twitter @ostraining.

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Announcement: JoomlArt Magento Theme Club Membership Winners

Facebook-Web-Design — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:12:42 +0000

JoomlArt, a theme club that provides its members with Joomla, Drupal, and Magento themes, offered up 5 Personal Memberships to the JoomlArt Magento Theme Club (JMTC) on a recent Six Revisions giveaway. Over 130 Six Revisions readers participated, and in this post, we reveal the winners.

The Winners

Congratulations to the winners! The winners will soon be receiving an email regarding their prize.

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About JoomlArt

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The History of CSS Resets

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When artists begin a new painting, they don’t immediately reach for the cadmium red and the phthalo blue. They first prime the canvas. Why? To ensure that the canvas is smooth and has a uniform white hue.

Many web designers prefer to use a CSS "reset" to "prime" the browser canvas and ensure that their design displays as uniformly as possible across the various browsers and systems their site visitors may use.

This is a three-part series of articles on the topic of CSS resets.

Part 1: The History of CSS Reset
Part 2: A Guide to CSS Resets (coming soon)
Part 3: Should You Use CSS Reset? (coming soon)

What Is CSS Reset?

When you use a CSS "reset," you’re actually overriding the basic stylesheet each individual browser uses to style a web page. If you present a website with no CSS whatsoever, the site will still be styled, to a very limited extent, by the browser’s default stylesheet.

The problem is that every browser’s stylesheet has subtle but fundamental differences. By using a CSS reset, you’re setting the styles of the fundamental CSS elements to a baseline value, thusly rendering the browsers’ varying style defaults moot.

Some of the most common elements that are styled differently among different browsers are hyperlinks (), images (), headings (

through
), and the margins and padding given to various elements.

So which browser is right, Firefox or IE? It doesn’t matter. What does matter is that the spacing in between your paragraphs and other elements will look dissimilar if you don’t set a style for a paragraph’s margin and padding. — Jacob Gube, Founder of Six Revisions

It might be useful to peruse this chart showing the various browser defaults. Unfortunately, it doesn’t go back to IE6 (which causes so much havoc among stylesheets).

Who Uses Resets?

According to a 2008 poll by Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks, a solid majority of web designers use one variation or another of a reset. (Coyier’s parameters were fairly broad, possibly accounting for the heavy support of resets in his poll results.)

The poll, which did not purport to be particularly scientific or comprehensive, gave the following results:

27% use some version of Eric Meyer’s reset

26% indicated they didn’t know what a reset was

15% use a "hard reset," or some iteration of a reset using the universal selector

14% use a reset as part of a larger CSS framework

13% use their own custom reset

4% "purposefully do not use one"

Coyier was not surprised with Meyer’s reset coming in first in the polling, calling it "popular, thoughtful, and effective." Somewhat whimsically perhaps, Meyer replied in the comments: "Huh. I actually didn’t expect that at all; I figured the framework resets would win by a country mile. Now the pressure’s totally on! Arrrrgh!"

Early Days of CSS Reset

As far as I can tell, the first mentions of anything we would later consider to be a "reset" came in late 2004, with two very different approaches.

undohtml.css

The first was legendary developer Tantek Çelik’s UndoHTML.css stylesheet, which "strips the browser varnish" from a number of elements.

/* undohtml.css */
/* (CC) 2004 Tantek Celik. Some Rights Reserved.             */
/*   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0                   */
/* This style sheet is licensed under a Creative Commons License. */

/* Purpose: undo some of the default styling of common (X)HTML browsers */

/* link underlines tend to make hypertext less readable,
   because underlines obscure the shapes of the lower halves of words */
:link,:visited { text-decoration:none }

/* no list-markers by default, since lists are used more often for semantics */
ul,ol { list-style:none }

/* avoid browser default inconsistent heading font-sizes */
/* and pre/code too */
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,code { font-size:1em; }

/* remove the inconsistent (among browsers) default ul,ol padding or margin  */
/* the default spacing on headings does not match nor align with
   normal interline spacing at all, so let's get rid of it. */
/* zero out the spacing around pre, form, body, html, p, blockquote as well */
/* form elements are oddly inconsistent, and not quite CSS emulatable. */
/*  nonetheless strip their margin and padding as well */
ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,form,body,html,p,blockquote,fieldset,input
{ margin:0; padding:0 }

/* whoever thought blue linked image borders were a good idea? */
a img,:link img,:visited img { border:none }

/* de-italicize address */
address { font-style:normal }

/* more varnish stripping as necessary... */

In an October 2010 email to me, Çelik confirmed he was most likely first out of the gate. "I’m pretty sure I invented/proposed/shared the concept of resetting CSS (though not by that name) in my blog post of 2004," Çelik said.

Çelik’s reset removes link underlines, borders from linked images, and sets the font size to 1em for headings, , and paragraphs. In 2009, author and designer Jason Cranford Teague described Çelik’s reset as "part sublime and part madness," for reasons that elude me.


"hard reset"
The second was web designer and developer Andrew Krespanis’s "hard reset" to overcome browser defaults for margins and padding (in a snippet he called "the tiny addition I threw in at the last minute").
* {
    padding:0;
    margin:0;
}
When asked about the hard reset, Krespanis mused: "That single line of CSS kick-started my career in a big way, which in retrospect is amusing verging on absurd." 
"Certainly no one suggested the reset idea to me, it was something I first suggested to CSS beginners on codingforums.com in early 2004 who defended their over-use of superfluous divs by the confusing rendering caused by default margins and padding on paragraphs, blockquotes, lists, fieldsets, etc." Krespanis said. "I also used it whenever providing examples to people, but wasn’t using it for sites until I started suggesting beginners do so. Eric Meyer was talking about a similar concept at the time, only his was more focused on quality sensible defaults to override those set by [browser] makers and he has continued to develop his over the years since."
Really Undoing html.css
Çelik’s reset quickly drew the attention of CSS guru Eric Meyer, who used Çelik’s work as a jumping-off point for his first attempt at a global reset, as well as a follow-up almost immediately thereafter. In the same conversation I had, Çelik said, "About a week and a half later, Eric Meyer went into a lot more detail on his blog and expanded on my work."
The Differences
Perhaps because Krespanis’s method was so simple and so basic (only addressing margins and padding, as opposed to Çelik’s and Meyer’s far more thorough reset), it seemed to attract more attention off the bat. However, this is a simplistic observation. Judging from the comments in both Meyer’s and Krespanis’s blogs, a number of people were considering something along these lines at around the same time; it’s also worth noting that several commenters in Meyer’s blog discussed the margin/padding reset weeks before Krespanis posted about it (Krespanis himself noted the technique on Meyer’s blog before posting on his own).
As the man said, it steamboats when it’s steamboat time. The idea of some sort of CSS reset had become, at least for many designers, a necessary one.
In 2004, Krespanis wrote:

"A big part of dealing with cross-browser differences is accounting for the default property values of elements in each browser; namely padding and margin. I use the following declaration in every new site I design; it has saved me many hours of nitpicking.
* {padding:0; margin:0;}
It doesn’t seem like much at first, but wait till you look at your mildly styled form in 11 browsers to find the positioning identical in all of them; or your button-style lists are perfect the first time, every time.

The difference between Çelik’s and Meyer’s early efforts, and Krespanis’s "afterthought," is, of course, Krespanis’s use of the * (which in CSS, is the universal selector that matches all elements in a web page).
Moving Away from the Universal Selector "hard reset"
Like a drop of antimatter, that single * had widespread effects. As Krespanis went on to note, the use of the universal selector canceled the padding and margin of every element in the page, sometimes to the detriment of the individual design, and it often fouled up forms and lists.
Today, it’s recognized that using the universal selector has repercussions on web page performance because of the resource tax involved in selecting and assigning styles to all elements. Co-creator of the Firefox browser, David Hyatt, advises developers to make sure "a rule doesn’t end up in the universal category," as a best practice for writing efficient CSS.
Russ Weakley, CSS book author and co-chair of the Web Standards Group, outlines a downfall of the "hard reset" method: "Once you have removed all margin and padding, this method relies on you specifically styling the margins and padding of each HTML element that you intend to use."
It didn’t take long for people to start modifying the original "hard reset" to something more specific. Steve Rider, for example, posted what he called a "no assumptions" reset on Meyer’s blog, tweaked to his own preferences:
body {margin: 0px; padding: 8px;}
body, div, ul, li, td, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {font-size: 100%; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
div, span, img, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
background-color: transparent;}
Web developer Seth Thomas Rasmussen tossed his hat in the ring, where he gives some padding and margins back to selected elements:
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, ul, ol, dl, table, form, etc. {margin: 0 0 1em 0}
And it didn’t take long for Krespanis to come up with his own modification:
* {padding:0; margin:0;}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, pre, blockquote, label, ul, ol, dl, fieldset, address { margin:1em 5%; }
li, dd { margin-left:5%; }
fieldset { padding: .5em; }
Between the wide-ranging resets from Çelik and Krespanis, the more "targeted" resets, and the objections to the sometimes-overwhelming changes the resets made, the games were on. Before long, people were trying all kinds of different resets and posting about it.
Lost and Found: Faruk Ateş and initial.css
In July 2005, Web developer Faruk Ateş posted his initial.css on the now-defunct Kurafire.net. In subsequent discussions on Meyer’s and other design blogs, a few commenters recalled Ateş’s efforts. Through the magic of the Wayback Machine, his initial.css reset can be examined. Like others, Ateş revised his reset after discussion and commentary was received.
Ateş said he had been using his reset for a year or so in his client designs, with little or no ill effect. I believe that his was the first truly "global reset" to become publicly available, though he said in a 2010 email to me that he wasn’t at all sure that was the case. In that same exchange, Ateş wrote: "It was also deliberately kept pretty small, because I didn’t like the idea of a huge ton of CSS to reset everything in the browser, when most every site I was building at the time didn’t actually use 50-60% of the less-common elements that were being reset. … [W]here Eric did the more usable-under-any-circumstances version, exhaustive and very complete (for its time), mine was more of the ‘hey, just these handful of styles have made my life as web developer easier’ and I shared them because, well, why wouldn’t I?"
/* =INITIAL
   v2.1, by Faruk Ates - www.kurafire.net
   Addendum by Robert Nyman - www.robertnyman.com */

/* Neutralize styling:
   Elements we want to clean out entirely: */
html, body, form, fieldset {
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        font: 100%/120% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

/* Neutralize styling:
   Elements with a vertical margin: */
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, pre,
blockquote, ul, ol, dl, address {
        margin: 1em 0;
        padding: 0;
}

/* Apply left margin:
   Only to the few elements that need it: */
li, dd, blockquote {
        margin-left: 1em;
}

/* Miscellaneous conveniences: */
form label {
        cursor: pointer;
}
fieldset {
        border: none;
}
input, select, textarea {
        font-size: 100%;
}

His reset included:

Setting the html, body, form, fieldset elements to have zero margins and padding, and their fonts to 100%/120% and a Verdana-based sans-serif font stack
Setting the h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, pre, blockquote, ul, ol, dl, address elements to have a 1em vertical margin, no horizontal margin, and no padding
Giving a 1em left margin to the li, dd, blockquote elements
Setting the form label cursor to pointer
Setting the fieldset border to none
Setting the input, select, textarea font sizes to 100%

As others noted before, and Meyer noted afterward, Ateş eschewed the universal selector because of its detrimental effect on forms (though it was in his first iteration).
For whatever reason, Ateş’s reset received a good bit less attention than some of the others, though it’s clear that many elements in the YUI and Meyer resets that followed appeared first in Ateş’s coding.
In October 2010, Ateş wrote that he never rewrote his reset after the single revision: "Any additions I would have made to it would’ve made it quickly grow in size, at which point people could’ve and should’ve just used Eric’s more comprehensive one. Eventually I stopped using my own initial.css and nowadays I usually copy from YUI or, more recently, the HTML5 Boilerplate, which contains parts from both YUI and Eric Meyer’s latest reset." In 2007, Web designer Christian Montoya provided an updated version of Ateş’s reset that he relies on for his own work.
The Yahoo! User Interface CSS Reset
The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) reset first came on the scene in February 2006, written by Nate Koechley, the YUI senior frontend engineer, along with his colleague Matt Sweeney.
body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,form,fieldset,input,textarea,p,blockquote,th,td {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
}
table {
	border-collapse:collapse;
	border-spacing:0;
}
fieldset,img {
	border:0;
}
address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var {
	font-style:normal;
	font-weight:normal;
}
ol,ul {
	list-style:none;
}
caption,th {
	text-align:left;
}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
	font-size:100%;
	font-weight:normal;
}
q:before,q:after {
	content:'';
}
abbr,acronym {
  border:0;
}
The effects of this reset on any stylesheet were dramatic. While the html element was left untouched, almost every often-used HTML element had its margins and padding zeroed out. Images lost their borders. Lists lost their bullets and numbering. And every single heading was reset to the same size.
The reset was, of course, one part of a much larger framework, called the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI), which is a framework for developing web-based user interfaces.
The first YUI CSS Reset was, I believe, the first truly "global" CSS reset that received widespread public notice. Microsoft Developer Network blogger, Dave Ward said, "YUI’s reset is the first that could truly be considered a CSS reset by current standards."
The idea, as Koechley said in multiple presentations and blog posts, was to provide a "clean and sturdy foundation" for an identically formatted "clean slate" that individual stylesheets can build upon for a nearly-identical look no matter what browser or machine is being used to display the site. The YUI CSS Reset "removes everything" stated by the browser’s default CSS presentation.
In a September 2006 presentation given at Yahoo’s "Hack Day" event, Koechley told the audience: "Sound foundation ensures sane development." The reset "overcome[s] browser.css" and "level[s] the playing field."
In a bit of whimsy, Koechley wrote that the YUI CSS Reset "[h]elps ensure all style is declared intentionally. You choose how you want to phasize something. Allows us to choose elements based on their semantic meaning instead of their ‘default’ presentation. You choose how you want to render 
sts."
In an October 2007 slideshow, Koechley reminded users that the reset is "a good reminder that HTML should be chosen based on content alone." He restated that in a 2010 interview and went on to note that most people still don’t know that the browsers provide a strong layer of presentational functionality. If nothing else, he said, resets serve to bring all browsers down to a "neutralized, normalized … lowest common denominator" state that designers can then build from. Resets, he said, force people to rethink the semantics of HTML elements.
Koechley no longer works for the YUI team, and is instead a freelance web developer. He isn’t sure what, if any, changes will be made in the YUI reset to accommodate HTML5 and CSS3.
Eric Meyer used the YUI reset as a base for his own expansive reset, garnering even more attention than the YUI code.
Eric Meyer’s CSS Reset
Why do this at all? The basic reason is that all browsers have presentation defaults, but no browsers have the same defaults. … We think of our CSS as modifying the default look of a document — but with a ‘reset’ style sheet, we can make that default look more consistent across browsers, and thus spend less time fighting with browser defaults. — Eric Meyer, Author of leading CSS books

To paraphrase the 1983 commercial, when Eric Meyer talks, people in the design and development community listen. He started with a September 2004 post that, as noted above, itself built on work by Tantek Çelik.
Both Meyer and Çelik focused on "undoing" the html.css file that controlled the way Gecko-based browsers like Firefox and SeaMonkey displayed websites on the individual computer. Meyer’s follow-up on the first post focused on (fractionally) rebuilding the html.css file to make sites relatively usable again.
Both Çelik and Meyer envisioned their work as immediately practical and applicable to web design. Çelik told me that his reset "just made sense as a foundation to simplify coding CSS and make it more predictable" — and it didn’t take them, nor anyone else, apparently, very long to begin to comprehend how they could gain new control over the display across almost all browsers. The power, the power!
Meyer had other fish to fry in the ensuing years, including the birth of a daughter, the care and feeding of a radio show featuring big band and jazz music, and a truly intimidating schedule of design projects and conferences. However, he returned to the subject of CSS resets in April 2007. He brought up the topic at the 2007 An Event Apart conference in Boston, where he specifically avoided the idea of using a universal selector to reset the CSS. "Instead," he wrote, "I said the styles should list all the actual elements to be reset and exactly how they should be reset."
Meyer based his "blanket reset" on Yahoo’s YUI reset, making some significant tweaks along the way. Meyer’s reset.css code included the following:
Eric Meyer’s CSS Reset (2007)
html,body,div,span,
applet,object,iframe,
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,p,blockquote,pre,
a,abbr,acronym,address,big,cite,code,
del,dfn,em,font,img,ins,kbd,q,s,samp,
small,strike,strong,sub,sup,tt,var,
dd,dl,dt,li,ol,ul,
fieldset,form,label,legend,
table,caption,tbody,tfoot,thead,tr,th,td {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	border: 0;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-style: normal;
	font-size: 100%;
	line-height: 1;
	font-family: inherit;
	text-align: left;
}
table {
	border-collapse: collapse;
	border-spacing: 0;
}
ol,ul {
	list-style: none;
}
q:before,q:after,
blockquote:before,blockquote:after {
	content: "";
}
Two things to note with regards to the 2007 version:

The biggest selector, which includes more HTML elements such as , also sets other CSS properties such as line-height and text-align
Some elements, such as , , and

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