Wordpress is a funny beast, really it is. Usually, building a Wordpress site involves something like digging through a hundred pages of templates until you find one that’s merely passable. Once you do, you grab it and start hacking away at everything to make it your own - CSS, HTML, everything. And it’s fine. Really, it is - the internet’s built on sharing ideas. The problem appears once you start inheriting other people’s problems. In this case, I had to hit the refresh key just to get my divs to float correctly.
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Need a color scheme, but suck at that whole hexadecimal - where - the - hell - is - the - next - shade - of - blue thing? No biggie, I’ve got you covered. From eyedroppers, to scheme generators, to color blindness tools, below you’ll find my latest list of color tools that make my “Web Developer Must Have” list. While you’re playing with these, please do me a favor and keep in mind that the level of contrast you come up with is directly proportional to how much I’ll probably hate your site. No excuses, really now, if you want me to go into an epileptic shock (which you very well may), you’ll ignore my warning.
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Doctype - that mysterious tag at the top of everyone’s code that not a lot of us really understand. Sure, it’s supposed to be there, but just what the hell is it, and why?

Perhaps a good place to start is with the misconception that a lot of new web developers and designers have - that code is code and really, if it’s in ‘HTML’ then it should look fine anywhere, right? Not quite. First, we have a plethora of different browsers - Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Lynx, the mobile versions of these, and a ton of secondary browsers (okay, if you’re still using Lynx, you’re a bit SOL). Following this whole browser variable, there are different languages you can code in, and I’m not referring to scripting. HTML isn’t the same as XHTML, and there are different modes for both. So how does the browser decide how to render each differently? By using doctypes!
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