Sex or gender has nothing to do with creativity or talent. Being exceptionally talented is not connected to being male or female. I have been really curious about the number of ladies in the web design industry, since the day a friend of mine termed the web design industry as a male dominated area. With this contention in mind, I have carried out a little research on the number of women in web design. The upshot of this research was the discovery of a lot of incredibly talented female designers with a lot of fresh and unique stuff in their portfolios.

Here, I am presenting you with a random list of more than 50 beautiful lady geeks, who I have bookmarked during my searches. I know there is a lot more female talent out there with exceptional flair. Feel free to bring up their names in the comments

I have a special gift for all iPhone lovers this week. Here is a wonderful collection of some incredibly beautiful and colorful iPhone wallpapers handpicked especially for you. All the images are linked to its original source, check these out now.
Do lemme know your favorite one in the comments – I’d like to know your design taste

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To be able to effectively handle the alpha transparency or opacity of a particular element purely using CSS/HTML was the dream of any web designer. Because, with alpha transparency or opacity they can make visually more beautiful and easily maintainable websites with less effort. Now with CSS3 we can achieve these using properties such as RGBa and Opacity.

What is RGBa?

In addition to RGB (Red Blue Green) CSS3 has introduced a new feature to color setting, which is called RGBA. RGBA stands for Red Blue Green Alpha. Here “A” in this property name stands for “Alpha”. This additional feature can be used to specify an opacity value for any color. The alpha channel is usually used as an opacity channel. If a pixel has 0% value in its alpha channel, it’s fully transparent (and, thus, invisible), whereas a value of 100% in the alpha channel gives a fully opaque pixel. We can use this for anything that can take the CSS color property.


Sample CSS Code:

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P { background-color: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5); }

We can use RGBA now on all new-generation browsers including Firefox 3, Chrome, Safari, and Opera 10, but we won’t see the effect in Internet Explorer.

Live Preview (Screenshot for older browsers)

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