Link Switch - The Cosmetic Web Developer
This week’s linkswitch focuses on the cosmetics of web development. Many readers of FSw are web developers (or web developers at heart), so hopefully this switch will satisfy your weekly craving for all things web dev.
Using technologies like CSS, javascript and some custom scripting, just about anything can be accomplished to spice up a web page. Here’s a few ways to really add some sizzle and pop to your pages, as seen recently around the Internets.
If you have a self-hosted Wordpress blog, have you ever wondered how to add custom values to your RSS Feed? David Walsh explains it all at Script & Style!
While you’re there, why not check out their tutorial on generating a photo gallery from a directory of images?
Sure sIFR is cool, but there are other alternatives! Stefan at divitodesign walks us through the process of using FLIR (facelift image replacement), which doesn’t use Flash at all!
Ok, if you have no idea what an XML sitemap is, it’s about time you find out! And while you’re at it, why not learn how to write a dynamic XML sitemap using PHP?
Don’t we all love it when all the CSS techniques in the world won’t solve a problem or do exactly what we want? In all browser? Look no further, Noupe has a list of 12 javascript solutions to fix common browser headaches.
Komodo Media has a very nice tutorial on creating a jQuery feed menu (with many examples). I’m sure many bloggers are gonna love this one! 
There are tons of ways you can create charts and using CSS and Jacob at SixRevisions made a list of 8 popular techniques. This one is definitely worth checking out!
Chris at CSS-Tricks asked 15 designers and developers (including our very own Collis Ta’eed) what they wish CSS could do. Now we have to ask you guys what you think, anything you would like to add to this CSS wish-list?
Mootools rocks, no doubts there! Sam at ConsiderOpen has written over 25 Mootools tutorials in this ‘30 days of Mootools 1.2 tutorials‘ series.
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