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Form layout styling with CSS

You can style forms using CSS and definition lists instead of tables. This has only been tested in IE6 and Firefox. As a basis I define the form in HTML as follows: <fieldset class="form"> <legend>Add Contact</legend> <dl> <dt>Forename: </dt> <dd><input type="text" name="forename" id="forename" /></dd> <dt>Surname: </dt> <dd><input type="text" name="surname" id="surname" /></dd> <dt>Email: </dt> <dd><input type="text" name="email" id="email" /></dd> <dt></dt> <dd><input type="submit" value="Add" /></dd> </dl> </fieldset> And the CSS: fieldset.form { width: 95%; border: 1px dotted #ccc; padding: 12px; } fieldset.form legend { font-weight: bold; background: #fff; } fieldset.form dl { flo...
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Portable GIMP + Extras (Help and Animation Package)

It is possible to run The GIMP (an open source alternative to Photoshop) off an external USB drive. There are instruction on how to do it from Cemetech | View topic - Making The GIMP Portable and a Zip file (XGimp_2.2.10_all_lang.zip) from WinPenPack's Grafica section (Italian site, found via tech poetic » Blog Archive » portable GIMP by winpenpack.com ). The problem with these solutions is that they do not include the extras, and (in the case of the WinPenPack site) depend on a third party to update them when new versions of the software come out. Here is another way to do it manually, and should apply to future updates. First of all download The GIMP for Windows, GTK + Runtime Environment, GIMP Help 2 and GIMP Animation Package from http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html . You will require approximately 90MB free disk space on your external drive, 100MB if you want to be on the safe side. After you have downloaded the files and confirmed that you have enough space...
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