WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) on the Web today, but doing Research and Development (R&D) on the platform can be problematic at best. The reason being is any R&D that you do on a Live WordPress platform has a potential risk of bringing your website down. So, what do you do if you want to create a new theme or test a new plugin to see if it meets your needs?

Well, you can install WordPress locally on your Mac so that you can play around with the platform to your heart’s content. Luckily, there is a solution where you don’t need to install and configure the Apache, PHP and MySQL packages on your Mac.

Setting up WordPress locally on your Mac tutorial

CSS skills are hard to master these days for numerous reasons. One, there are about half a dozen different ways to achieve the same result that you want, so you are constantly doubting yourself on whether you are using the right one, and two, due to Internet Explorer being ‘non-compliant’, you’ve got mess up your perfect written code to make it render correctly.

Well, I came across this book The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks that basically tells you how to accomplish the effect that you desire by using the correct method, the tried and tested method. I found the book extremely helpful and insightful, so I thought that I would give it a mention on my blog.

So, if you need to brush up your skills in CSS, or you need to know how to do a certain ‘trick’ like round-corner boxes, then this is the book for you. The book is in full colour, 400pgs and the for the code itself, you can download from the supported website. If you don’t believe me, check out other people’s reviews on Amazon (link above).

If you yourself have this book, please leave a comment :o)