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CSS Mania and Twitter

Friday, 18 April 2008 · 09:18 H

We have received some e-mails where people are telling us to integrate our posts to Twitter. We understand people all over the internet complaining about posting to twitter from an .xml feed should be considered as SPAM, but, it is...Read more »

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Think twice before you submit

Wednesday, 12 March 2008 · 15:42 H

Well, well, well. We have received tons of e-mails asking us to add and showcase sites that have been ripped from others. We have decided to add a "copy ribbon" to the screenshots we know for sure are copying. No...Read more »

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The little heart

Tuesday, 26 February 2008 · 12:37 H

We are on our way of adding new things to CSS Mania. There will be a complete redesign in the coming months with more features and new ideas. In the meantime we are adding small improvements. As you have seen...Read more »

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Reviewing your product

Saturday, 03 November 2007 · 21:44 H

As a trial due, we will run some product reviews in CSS Mania's blog as another option of advertising with us. Apart from the review, you will get also a permanent link in CSS Mania's main index header during a...Read more »

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Information for our advertisers

Tuesday, 25 September 2007 · 12:21 H

Yes, here i am again, writing something i shouldn´t write in here. But it will make things easier for me and i will not loose nearly an hour a day answering the same type of e-mails for the people interested...Read more »

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Should CSS Mania become an NGO ?

Tuesday, 21 August 2007 · 12:33 H

One of the main discussions/chats we have internally around CSS Mania is the way we spend the money we make through our advertisers. Let me first explain what we do on a daily basis in here: CSS Mania daily issues...Read more »

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CPM campaigns

Tuesday, 10 April 2007 · 10:14 H

The interest in advertising with CSS Mania has become higher in the past 6 months, and we have received e-mails asking about CPM campaigs. From our side we consider CPM campaigns useless. Not because we do not want, it is...Read more »

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Keep on trying

Monday, 12 March 2007 · 14:57 H

Seems it is somehow public all over the internet now, but that was one of the reasons of this post (this most likely will answer all the questions we had through our contact form since two weeks ago). We are...Read more »

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CSS Mania belongs to us

Wednesday, 07 March 2007 · 19:45 H

As we know it will become a hot issue the next days, we wanted to clarify some issues in here. WE ARE NOT selling CSS Mania to anyone. CSS Mania belongs to us, and it is not for sale. No...Read more »

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No updates until next week

Thursday, 22 February 2007 · 09:29 H

Some family issues will have CSSmania crew outside Spain until next Monday 26th. We apologize but there will not be any update until then. Thanks for your understanding. For those asking, right now, 2 hours before flying, there are 18...Read more »

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Screenshots delayed

Monday, 19 February 2007 · 08:31 H

CSSmania crew have been 17670 Km far from their beloved Spain and now we are back from our antipodes. Sorry for the lack of updates during the weekend, but there was no internet connection up there. All your submissions are...Read more »

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Ddos Attacks // Hotlinking crazyness

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 · 14:09 H

We know, tons of 500 server errors. We are suffering since 2 days ago brutal ddos attacks from 200 different IPs. We are trying to fix the problems. We are aware of this and working while you read this (if...Read more »

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Info for autosubmit webpages

Thursday, 01 February 2007 · 12:23 H

We are aware of a couple of services that are submitting the same screenshots to all the showcases out there, including CSSmania. What you read below doesn´t have anything against them and if you are the owner of one of...Read more »

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Oooops we did it again

Wednesday, 31 January 2007 · 13:07 H

2 months and 14 days after screenshot 5000 we did it up to 6000. Screenshot belongs to the beautiful website from the crew at Taktak....Read more »

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Thanks to everyone

Tuesday, 30 January 2007 · 13:27 H

Well, we never expected the response we got from our audience regarding the last announcement we did. We knew we were giving $5000 to people that need it more than us.... but, did you?. Seems you also knew it. We...Read more »

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Server problems

Thursday, 25 January 2007 · 00:34 H

We are suffering the well known Slashdot effect. We are trying to work on our cache size while you read this. Do not panic if you see things a little bit slow or even "broken"....Read more »

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Here is where fresh designers are

Wednesday, 24 January 2007 · 03:02 H

The Web 2.0 recruiting space is still as hot as ever with new niche job boards launching every month. Employers are actively looking to increase their rosters with top quality talent and job seekers are looking for an easy way...Read more »

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Colour Scheme Feature

Tuesday, 23 January 2007 · 02:24 H

From now on, all individual entries should contain a new Colour Scheme Feature showing the Top 5 Colours used in the design. It should be completely automatic and any screenshot update should update the scheme also. Below the idea. We...Read more »

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Bye bye 2006 Hello 2007

Monday, 01 January 2007 · 08:48 H

From our lovely Spain we wish all our visitors a peaceful 2007. We already said goodbye to 2006 and we welcome 2007 with the same or even more updating updating updating feeling. Lot of surprises for this 2007 will come...Read more »

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Merry ChriStmaS

Sunday, 24 December 2006 · 19:57 H

Enjoy this special night. Keep alive the Christmas spirit tonight. Let the ones that were not here with us yesterday be with you tonight. From CSS Mania we wish you all the best....Read more »

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No problem with bandwith

Tuesday, 05 December 2006 · 21:17 H

Ok, we know! You all wanted to have more screenshots in the main index. You wanted more than 14 screenshots. Ok, you know! We didn't want to. We do have 1.4521 Tb/month with 14 screenshots. But we really pay attention...Read more »

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5 0 0 0 - Five TripleZero

Monday, 13 November 2006 · 12:48 H

We knew it would happen. We knew it. Oh, no! We are not talking about all some of the Showcases that are popping up like mushrooms within the last months. We respect them. Well, we respect those mentioning the sources...Read more »

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Breaking barriers

Friday, 29 September 2006 · 14:31 H

CSS Mania is breaking barriers again with more than 400 screenshots this month of September. We are totally addicted to CSS sites at this moment. We have done this cause we know that we will not be updating next...Read more »

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We don´t need Viagra

Monday, 11 September 2006 · 12:05 H

Readers, visitors, submitters , we are having a huge SPAM attack through our Submit form, and we are working on it. It should be already fixed and the SPAM should be rejected as it has to. Basically the spammers are...Read more »

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No updates for the next week

Friday, 25 August 2006 · 10:57 H

Don't expect too many updates for the next week. More info and details can be found around here. CSS Mania crew is flying due to business to Damascus for some days. We will be back the 1st of September...Read more »

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4000 screenshots and counting

Friday, 18 August 2006 · 11:32 H

Same as we did 3 months ago exactly, we do now. We are happy enough to announce that today we have reached 4000 screenshots in our archives. 1000 screenshots (72% of them have been submissions, wow, 720 submissions accepted to...Read more »

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Back to Business and Awards

Tuesday, 08 August 2006 · 11:52 H

CSS Mania crew is back from holidays. Some of the reasons why we went to Ibiza. You will probably recognize our faces if you browse through the archive. Regarding the awards we are waiting for the sponsors to reply to...Read more »

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Holiday Time

Sunday, 23 July 2006 · 08:59 H

The summer is back and the people behind CSS Mania need a rest. We are leaving within some hours to our lovely island Ibiza. Don´t expect screenshot updates for the next week. Party will be over next Saturday that we'll...Read more »

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Submissions problems

Friday, 02 June 2006 · 22:49 H

We are experiencing some problems with the submission form since a couple or three hours ago [19:51PM (GMT+1)]. Server seems to send the data and e-mail check is done correctly but we are not receiving the submissions. We are working...Read more »

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Alea Jacta Est

Thursday, 01 June 2006 · 00:35 H

We have just received our last screenshot submission at 23:58PM (GMT+1) 31st May 2006 that will be included in the nominees for our awards. From Hungary to the US, from north to south of the globe, from east of the...Read more »

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CSS World Awards Announced

Tuesday, 30 May 2006 · 12:44 H

Why CSS World Awards?. To recognize the work done by developers that build websites using CSS. And basically, to heighten the awareness of the companies using Web Standards. Contest Rules, judges... CSS World Awards....Read more »

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3000 screenshots and counting

Thursday, 18 May 2006 · 10:06 H

We are happy enough to announce that today we have reached 3000 screenshots in our archives. We are not that happy to announce that the one and only Web Standards Awards has completed its mission. One of the biggest is...Read more »

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CSS Reboot finished for us

Thursday, 04 May 2006 · 09:33 H

As we mentioned in our previous entry in the blog, we have been overloaded updating screenshots coming from the cssreboot. Right now, at 09:34AM (GMT+1) we are done. If you rebooted and you have the website already in our archives,...Read more »

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Submissions explanations

Saturday, 08 April 2006 · 11:19 H

Long time no posting, and we guess it is time to explain the big issue we are facing right now with all our visitors. Screenshots submit form. We are receiving an average of 60 new submissions for our galleries daily....Read more »

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48 hours compendium

Monday, 13 February 2006 · 12:37 H

The launch of our website and the traffic generated has been amazing during the past 48hours. We didn't expect the site to be in the top Del.icio.us popular links, and we didn't have time during our first 48hours to get...Read more »

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Thanks but slow down

Saturday, 11 February 2006 · 00:29 H

Guys, we are quite happy with the launch, but we can't fight against being so popular. Our server is under heavy pressure right now. We will be moving in a while if the traffic is as heavy as it is...Read more »

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Welcome / Bienvenidos

Friday, 03 February 2006 · 10:39 H

Updated Friday, 10 Feb 2006: CSS Mania is LAUNCHED. More than a year ago, we realized that other CSS Showcases sites, except ours, weren't updating very regularly. " We know that updates are what make a difference to you "...Read more »

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