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Restore a Wood Entry Door - Fine Homebuilding
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By Sean Clarke Issue 225
I’ll show you how to prep a wood door properly whether it has been painted or varnished, how to make minor repairs, how to apply an epoxy sealer, and finally, how to build up a varnish finish that yields a durable, clear shine.

Watch Craig Chee Perform “Beautiful Dreamer” and Learn to Play Our Arrangement

In order to play the arrangement smoothly and make the chords sing, you’ll need to move between grips efficiently, maintaining common fingers between different shapes where possible.

a11y.css

This CSS file intends to warn developers about possible risks and mistakes that exist in HTML code. It can also be used to roughly evaluate a site's quality by simply including it as an external stylesheet.

https://heydesigner.com/a11y-css-reset/

Modern CSS grid solutions to common layout problems
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Dynamic centered layout

We all know margin: 0 auto to center a layout. Ideal for article pages, right? But what if you want elements like images to exceed the maximum width of the article?

The Designer's Guide to Letter-Spacing | Webdesigner Depot
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There are a lot of different typefaces and a single rule doesn’t apply to all of them. Experiment with letter-spacing and do what seems right to you. There are some simple guidelines that will lead you in the right direction, especially when working with body text:

Letter-Spacing Headlines
If you are using well designed fonts, you can be sure that they are calibrated well, and you won’t need to make any major adjustments to them. However, the problem with headlines is that at larger scales the space between letters looks unbalanced. It can be fixed by increasing or decreasing the letter-spacing value.

There are no strict rules for letter-spacing — there are a lot of typefaces and all of them require an individual approach — but if you look at how big companies like Google and Apple treat their typefaces, you can find a lot of valuable information there.