Table is a very basic thing in HTML and website building. Many times, when I encounter a table in my project, I usually need to find out a way to style the table to make it nice and be suitable with the website. Fortunately, a lot of techniques and designs of table are already available on the web together with tutorials teaching people to build a very neat and nice table. In this article, I would like to introduce those techniques and designs so that you can refer to when you need to apply one of them into your project.

Let’s start from neat & simple designs from http://fluidmind.org

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This design is a very simple design. However, it manages to change all the default border of a table and add in 1px border to make the table nice and neat to view.

This design improves from the first one by adding in the background color and make the table easy to see vertically.

This design improves the horizontal readability and enhances the view by making the header color outstanding from the rest of the table.

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Last time I have introduced to you some very artistic black and white photos. For this time, colorful pictures with funny, lively cartoon characters will be sure to make you feel relaxed. Enjoy!

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Olympic Beijing 2008 is over. I miss it and I think you are too. I am sure that you have at least one time saw the real Nest Bird Stadium via Internet and television. It looks so beautiful and magnificent, is it?

Well, this post is devoted for the topic of recent Olympic Beijing event. You will have the opportunity to visit some very famous places such as Nest Bird Stadium, Swimming Cube (Swimming Complex), the Sports Village …not the real but by Lego model.

By using 300,000 bricks, around 4,500 people figures and with the spending estimation time of 100 hours, The Hong Kong Lego User Group has created ever lively, colorful and meticulous to details miniature city depicting all the Olympic 2008’s activities and landscapes. Great job.

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I am a big Fan of Ubuntu Linux and I really like the idea of Ubuntu as well as Ubuntu Logo. Usually, I change the wallpaper a lot as I always get bored to the wall paper after a while looking into it. In this article, I would like to share the nicest Ubuntu Wallpapers that I managed to collect on the internet. Each of the wallpaper here has a very cool and different styled Ubuntu icon! Enjoy =)

Full Screen Wallpaper

  
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3D street painting (other names as 3D pavement art, 3D chalk art, 3D street painting or 3D Sidewalk art) have been invented by Kurt Wenner. So far until now, I have known the two most famous Pavement artists. They are Kurt Wenner (of course) and Julian Beever – a man who has over 10 year experience in this kind of art.

For us, drawing a beautiful picture is really a problem. I just wonder how they could make so realistic 3D painting by just drawing on a 2D surface. Lighting and composition may help, but can not deny that they are really genuine.

Julian Beever

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Miniature model is the scale-down model of the real things. It’s often used to see the overview of real things in relatively cheap and efficient way.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Even some filmmakers are using miniature to shoot the background of their movies.

Jadi Lotus Elise

Some automobile companies also borrow the miniature model to test their final design, whether it fulfills the standard or not.

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Using with keyword to shorten your code

“with” keyword becomes extremely handy when you need to use many attributes of an object without keep calling the object

var house = {
     paint: "blue",
     size: "big",
     hasYard: true,
     numberOfLivingRooms: 2,
     numberOfStoreRooms: 1,
     numberOfBedRooms: 4,
     numberOfKitchen: 3,
     masterArea: {
           hasBedRooms: true,
           masterAreaBedRooms: 3
    }
};

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These days are the days of designers I could say. Let’s take example from the most usual things around us, the clock. Designers can tweak the design in such an ingenioous way that they still keep the clock functioning but in a different point of design view.

Let’s see what strange, creative designs that have been done by those designers.

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I believe most of you have heard about using XML to store data. However, using JSON object to store data in Javascript is the most convenient way as JSON object is native in Javascript programming. An example of JSON object is as following

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Previously when we want to capture website screenshot, Paint is our first choice. By pressing Prt Scr tab, images displayed in your screen frame will be captured. However, we are not satisfied with its resolution. Moreover, things that don’t be displayed on the screen cannot be captured. As this reason, if you are an expert in image processing, some of the capture tools introduced below make your life easier.

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