Have you ever wanted to make fancey buttons that do stuff when you put your mouse over it, but don’t want to mess too much with javascript, and you just can’t afford flash?  Well, there’s an easier way to do it and it’s called CSS.  You may have noticed other articles pertaining to CSS here at FunkyTower, and if you’ve read them, you’ve realized how easy it is to use CSS.  All it takes is a little push into getting started.  So if you want to make fancy buttons for a navigation bar, well here’s the tutorial:

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CSS is such a useful tool in designing your website and adding some functionality to it.  One of the things that turns most “beginner web designers” on to CSS is the ability to customize the color of links.  This is great to avoid having unwanted underlines and the ugly blue default link color.  Well did you know you can create a very versitile navigation bar using CSS?  It’s really quite easy: instead of applying effects to a piece of text - apply effects to a table cell!  In this tutorial you will learn effects regaurding: hovering cell background effects, text effects, button effects, and more!

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Welcome to part 2 of this article!

So now that we’ve covered templating in our last tutorial, here are some other tips for making your webpage move faster.

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Do you have a website, blog, or message board online?  Designing it yourself?  Awesome!  That’s really wonderful to hear!  What’s that?  You say your website moves slowly compared to other websites with just as much, if not more content?  Well here are some tips to get your website running smoothely and quickly!

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