Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes it isn’t. There are a couple of tools that are fun to play with and may have practical applications as well. May. First have a look at a couple of screenshots from Touchgraph and Quintura.

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Floats can be incredibly frustrating when they don’t work as you expect and they often don’t. The normal way allows for you to create drop caps, meaning the floated element sticks out beyond the borders of the containing box. Usually, though, you don’t want that when building web layouts and there are better ways to fix it than by adding an element with clear:both; Here’s one good method and a comprehensive list of links on the subject.

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Some stuff is worth paying for. Some stuff isn’t. But some stuff is worth paying for and it’s free anyway! Here’s my favorite free applications.

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