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CSS Sprites is a technique by which we can combine multiple images in a single big image and position the various parts of this big image with our elements using pure CSS attributes. The primary objective behind using CSS Sprites is to decrease the number of HTTP requests and thus decreasing the request stress on server. The idea behind CSS Sprites is to consolidate multiple images into one sprite and then selectively display portions of this sprite with positioning. It starts by creating a larger CSS Sprite by grouping more than one images (usually icons) together and aligning them in proper grid style to aid the positioning. Then it is aligning used a proper positioning values on the webpages to show their respective images. This way it decreases the number of HTTP requests and thus increases the overall speed of webpages.

HTML 5 is planned to be the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, HTML. In this version, new features are introduced to help web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. It is an incremental step forward rather than a bold step as compared with XHTML 2.0 that is coming and which is intended to create an architecture that will become the host language to many other W3C technologies. The ideas behind HTML 5 were pioneered in 2004 by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). HTML 5 was adopted as the starting point of the work of the new HTML working group of the W3C in 2007. The HTML working group has published the First Public Working Draft of the specification on 22nd January 2008. HTML 5 should be flexible to handle incorrect syntax in contract to XHTML where the browser must refuse to render the page at all even if there is just one illegal character or missing close tag. HTML 5 is designed such that the old HTML 4 browsers will escape the new HTML 5 tags or constructs.

CSS Best Practices is the topic that I had been planning to write on for months. As CSS is the order of the day as far as web related UI is concerned, more people are moving to it. CSS isn’t always easy to deal with. CSS coding can sometimes become a nightmare, particularly if you’re not sure which selectors are applied to document elements. CSS Best Practices covers some important and easy to remember tricks and tips to better manage, organise and develop your CSS Snippets.

.htaccess stands for hypertext access. It is the default name of Apache directory-level configuration file. .htaccess file provides a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. .htaccess file is placed in a particular directory and the directives in the .htaccess file apply to that directory and all subdirectories thereof.The filename starts with a dot because dot files are by convention hidden files on Unix-like operating systems.

Wordpress, one of the most popular blogging platforms of the world, has a large user base throughout the world. One of the main attractions for its users is the great themes contributed by the thousands of users around the world. Though in general, bloggers use the themes already available and contributed by other users, but sometimes there is a need to customize the theme or create a new theme from the scratch. Without getting to much in the history, let me show you how to create a Wordpress theme with as little expertise as possible. Keep in mind that developing a Wordpress theme doesnot require PHP expertise from your side. Just a little of CSS and working knowledge of XHTML / PHP will work.