Have you ever noticed how online accounts are incredibly easy to sign up for, but can be stupidly difficult to close? Sometimes the Close Account option is right where you'd think it would be, but other times you have to hunt it down, clicking through menu after menu until you finally find out that you can't close it online, you actually have to call.

Last spring, CNN announced a text-only version of its site, linking to text-only articles, so people with spotty internet connections (such as the people then in Hurricane Irma's path) could access the news. Lite.cnn.io is ugly, but it's fast and functional. And it isn't the only pared-down news site.

If you're learning CSS, or you want a friendly introduction to some of its terms and concepts, try 30 Seconds of CSS. Each entry on this site shows a different bit of code, demonstrates the result, and explains how each part of the code works.

You have millions of colours to choose from for your website, which makes choosing a colour scheme an overwhelming decision. Smashing Magazine's guide to choosing colours will help you find the perfect colours.

When you come up with a sweet new name for a site (or just yourself online), it sucks when you find out that it's been taken on some sites. NameCheckr searches dozens of sites at once to see if your name is free.

Who needs student loans, when you can get a complete web education for far less? With the Learn to Web Design 2017 training bundle, you can access over 75 hours of training in HTML, CSS, Photoshop, and more -- at a price you pick.

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As the adage goes, it's never too late to start over. If you feel like a career change and like the idea of building websites for a living, this infographic from finance site Varooma contains everything a beginner needs to know about web development - with an emphasis on getting paid.

When it comes to designing a website, or even a single page, there are a few basic rules: Keep it fast, clean and simple. OK, that's all good and well, but once you get beyond the low-hanging fruit and into the nitty-gritty, what should you be paying attention to? You might be surprised what works and what doesn't, as Help Scout explains.

There is a website I used to visit on a daily basis that has recently adopted pop-up ads and when they're displayed on the mobile phone, it cripples my ability to view the main content. How I hate pop-up ads. Google seems to understand my consternation because it has just announced that websites with intrusive pop-up advertising will be demoted in its search engine rankings. Here's what you need to know.

Being a business owner comes with a lot of assumed knowledge; about their company, about their offerings and about their industry. But just because something is obvious to you doesn't mean it is for customers. To understand and to connect with customers better, every now and then a business owner needs to think like a customer. The best place to start doing this is through their official website. Here's how.

These days, CSS can do much more than style fonts and add borders around elements. For example, you can apply colour, brightness and other tweaks to images, live, without having to resort to a photo editor.

Need to generate some placeholder text? Sure, you could use the standard Latin gibberish, but a more soothing and entertaining alternative is this generator using quotes from painter Bob Ross.

The folks over at The Next Web have a graphic design bundle going, and it's one of those "pay what you want" systems in which paying more than the average gets you a few extra goodies. And for the amount of goodies there are, the average is currently very low.

Dear Lifehacker, In my previous job I developed some Intellectual Property in the form of an online fitness challenge. I'm pretty proud of the work and wanted to get access to the files again. However I'm worried that I might be violating the code of conduct by trying to regain access to the material.

Keeping up with the latest CSS features can be daunting -- just when you've got your head around key frames and animations, you find out you can do scaling and translation using 3D acceleration. One such gem available in CSS3 is the "calc" function, which can be used to perform maths operations on various numbers and percentages, without the use of JavaScript.

If you're a regular user of Photoshop, Illustrator or do general web development, you probably find yourself drowning in a flood of keyboard shortcuts. Cheetyr helps make sense of them with a searchable database of keyboard shortcuts for several common apps and services.

A 404 page is a familiar way to indicate that someone is trying to access a non-existent page, but if you want to keep people on your site, there's a lot you can do to make your 404 page more useful.

Whether you're new to web design or well past the beginner stage, these tips from David Kadavy can help you simplify your slides, web page or whatever it is you're making. The Design for Hackers author's nine tips cover everything from choosing fonts and colours to keeping an eye on white space.