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Fun in the sun:

I'm heading to Wilmington, NC tomorrow to take a few much needed days off at the beach with my lovely girlfriend, and some buddies from back home in NJ. However, before fun in the sun - I wanted to make sure I finished Jon Duckett's book on HTML & CSS. I have just completed that book (5 minutes ago) and I'm excited to start on his JS & JQ book next! Here's some screen grabs from some of the example sites I learned to build:




I was really impressed with how much you could do with just a style sheet and some straight forward HTML. Granted, a lot of the looks will rely on your access to quality assets. If you were given Legos made out of dog doo, and asked to build a house, you may still be able to build a house - but it will smell like shit.

See ya next week!

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