CSS (cascading style sheets) is the ultimate tool to create lean, fast, functional, SEO friendly and, though, sexy layouts. Storing style attributes in one file provides several advantages as faster loading times, the source code takes a radical diet, if all the attributes do not appear on the pages itself.
You are web designer and have to work full contact with the customer? Then you will know this situation, the customer wants that headline bold and purple – no, make it green or is blue a better choice? This goes back and forth, which would make you go crazy if you had to do the changes on thousands of subpages. Using CSS you do changes faster than the customer decides between green and yellow.
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The discussion whether the one is killing the other is getting hotter and the opinions are raging high.
First of all these two “opponents” are hard to compare as friendfeed being a information aggregation tool and twitter a hybrid between instant messenger and micro blogging device.
Both serve certainly completely different needs, twitter mainly focuses on spreading rather personal opinons/feelings/emotional states/gossip, only randomly establishing a real conversation.
Friendfeed resembles a honey pot of information gathered by its user acting as honey bees collected from various flowers, like Digg, GoogleReader, del.icio.us, stumbleupon and many more.
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The guys at hongkiat.com offer a really neat list of diverse plugins, widgets and tricks helping you letting your blog to stand out of the crowd with stunning features one won’t find on the average blog.
Even advanced wordpress users might find a new feature, so check it out:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/40-most-wanted-wordpress-tricks-and-hacks
