How and when the media industry started to collapse

I have worked for a local newspaper firm for some years now and when I took my first creative roll it was during high times, things were great, it was a job for life and I thought I had landed on my feet. However, over the last 13 years the industry has become complacent and along with the current financial crisis some doubt over the future of news media has started to creep in, not just with newspapers but with their counterparts as well.
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CSS sprites – What they are, and how to use them?

This is short article to briefly explain what sprites are and how you can implement them into you CSS designs.

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Is it too late to save the web from over-the-top advertising!

Adverts are an integral part of the web, without web advertising most sites wouldn’t be able to bring us all that wonderful content for free so it is a shame that this medium of advertising has become a problem.  Users now have to cope with the ever increasing on-slaught of banners, pop-ups, pop-unders impact ads and well the list goes on, surely webmasters have started to realise that their users will inevitably go else where?

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Are torrents really killing the music business?

The recent court verdict regarding Pirate Bay makes me wonder if it will make any difference to the download world, this also begs a new question, whether illegal file downloads are actually damaging to the music industry like the major labels would have you believe.

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Simple navigation list with CSS

Navigation can be presented in many different ways, but the most effective way is the CSS list which offers the best and most simple solution.  In this post I will demonstrate the CSS menu in its most stripped back form.

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