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A redesign of CNN.com that has been in the works over the past few months is now live! The most noticeable change is that it now sports a fresher, cleaner, more accessible look that floats beautifully at the center of the screen instead of being flushed all the way to the left as in the old site. Though it still uses tables here and there, the entire site is laid out in CSS. Another interesting feature is the “Most Popular” widget that ranks stories and videos by “Most Viewed”, “Most Emailed”, “Top Searches”. Click here for a bigger list of new features.

Old CNN.com design:

New CNN.com design:

Illacrimo is a clean, nice looking theme created by Design Disease released for Life Spy. Download it here. View a live demo here.

Head over to Chris Pearson’s blog for a nice technique that describes how to protect your CSS design from sudden changes in theme framework. Especially useful for Wordpress themers. Link

CSS Vista is a freeware that lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. Even with a cheesy name like CSS Vista, it’s free, so we’re not complaining. Works only in Windows though. Head over to http://sitevista.com/cssvista/ for more information.

At last, we had a blog. Hurray!