Asked by Shaheel.S working in design from India

Of all the vast resources available in learning the XHTML and CSS, which one is easier for beginners to learn from.

There are a lot of web design resources for beginners, But lets focus on just 3 kinds.

Paid
If you can afford them Lynda.com offers some great online tutorials that beginners can take at their own pace. These are interactive video tutorials and require a monthly subscription of approx $25/month.

Free
A free alternative is the popular W3Schools Online tutorials and reference website.

Paper
There is a wealth of well-written and easy to follow HTML and CSS Books, I recommended buying this one after you finish the online tutorials.Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm. This books takes examples of websites that are not coded well and then shows you how to make it better.

Other beginners and semi-professionals, where did you look to start learning HTML and CSS ?

What is the best way to isolate a person/item in Photoshop?

Asked by Brian Purkiss a Freelance Designer from San Antonio, Texas

I currently use paths, the pen tool, and then add a layer mask.
Is there a better way, or is that it?

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Firefox has become the defacto standard for web developers across the globe. Through easily available extensions it is a indisposable tool for professional web workers.I didnt realise how much of my productivity was tied into firefox until my Mac went bust and I had to re-install firefox. Like all developers, over time I had accumulated quite a few nifty time-saving Firefox Extensions and bookmarklets like The Web Developer Toolbar, ColorZilla color picker, Firebug debug console and the Tiny HTML validator.

My Fresh Install of firefox was lacking all these extensions and i spent quite a bit of time finding and installing them again and syncing my bookmarks [ which existed across Foxmarks and Delicious ] only to find that I had neglected to manually backup my saved passwords, Having being born with the attention span of a goldfish i struggle to manage passwords and ids across multiple websites, so the loss of my auto-filled passwords had made life hell.

Hoping to avoid this scramble next time around I decided to investigate the various options available for backing up firefox profiles.

Firefox Backup Options

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