General Job Sites

Monster.com
Yahoo Careers
CareerBuilder.com
FlipDog.com
CraigsList.org – look under “Jobs” for your city
BackPage.com – look under “jobs” for your city
CyberCoders.com
CareerJet.com
GadBall.com
RegionalHelpWanted.com
Jobvertise.com/search
RealMatch.com
24SevenTalent.com
OnDayOneJob.com – Entry-level jobs
MyFirstPayCheck.com – job listing for teens
SnagAJob.com – hourly employment
USAJobs.gov – USA government jobs
TopUSAJobs.com

Web and Tech Related Job Sites

Dice.com
DevBistro.com
ComputerJobs.com
MediaBistro.com
Coroflot.com
AuthenticJobs.com
AIGADesignJobs.org
Krop.com
DesignRelated.com/jobs
SmashingMagazine.com
FreshWebJobs.com
37Signals.com
CreativeHotList.com
jobs.slashdot.org
jobs.xemion.com

Job Search Engines

Indeed.com
oodle.com/job
SimplyHired.com
JobSter.com
JobPile
InSourced.com
Job-Search-Engine.com
AllJobSearch.com

Job Staffing Agencies

ManPower.com
Robert Half Technologies
Aquent
Volt Information Sciences
CreativeGroup.com
AdeccoUSA.com
Act-1.com
Hudson.com
Yoh.com
TechniSource.com
Spherion.com
Accolo.com
FrogDesign.com/jobs

Resume Related Sites

VisualCV.com – online resume with video
ResumeCourier.ca – resume distribution
Employment911.com

Other Noteworthy Sites

LinkedIn.com – career networking
GlassDoor.com
JobFox.com
RiseSmart.com

If you are a business owner that require the services of a freelancer or whether you are a consultant who needs some expertise in some technical area, these resources can also be a great place to find freelancers.

Freelance Marketplace Sites

• eLance.com
• Guru.com
• GetAFreelancer.com
• FreelanceStore.com
• ScriptLance.com
• FreelancersOutpost.com
• OutSourceHeaven.com
• Freelancer.co.uk
• LimeExchange.com
• Werkadoo.com
• NetAFreelancer.com
• Freelancer.Internet.com
• iFreelance.com
• vWorker.com
• SourceFreelance.com
• FreelanceSOS.com
• mytino.com
• Project4Hire.com
• SyPad.com
• FreelanceMarketplace.co.uk
• ProjectSpring.com
• ContractedWork.com

If this is not enough, also take a look at AllFreelance’s hugh list of freelance job boards.

Job Postings for Freelancers

• GoFreelance.com
• oDesk.com
• ProgrammerMeetDesigner.com
• FreshWebJobs.com
• Gig Board on 37Signals.com
• AuthenticJobs.com – click the freelance tab
• CraigsList.org – Look under “Gigs” for your city
• BackPage.com – look under “jobs” for your city
• Job board on FreelanceSwitch.com
• AllFreelanceWork.com
• MediaBistro.com – look for “Duration = freelance”
• Behance.net/Job_List
• FreelanceBBS.com – click “available projects”

Job Listing on Forums

• Sitepoint Marketplace
• Pixel2Life.com
• TalkFreelance.com
• Estetica-Design-Forum Employment
• WebDigity.com
• Ozzu.com
• Webmaster-talk.com
• FreelanceGossip.com

Freelance Work in Application Specific Expertise

• JoomlaHacks.com – Joomla
• Actionscript.org – actionscript / flash
• WordPressFreelance.com
• Drupalancers.com
• Paid Drupal Services
• Joomlancers.com
• Gallery2 work

vertical menu

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Step 1: Setup a new HTML file with a tan background color as shown.

vertical menu step 1

Step 2: Create a HTML unordered-list structure with list elements that will become our menu.

vertical menu step 2

And this is what we have…

vertical menu output after step2

Step 3: Because we want our menu buttons to be clickable, we make them anchor links.

vertical menu step 3

vertical menu after step3

Step 4: To remove the bullets from our unordered list, we give our unordered list a class name called sidemenu and stylize it with list-style: none as shown…

vertical menu step-4

Step 5: We want our list text to be of san-serif font (such as Verdana or Arial) for a cleaner uncluttered look. We add the font-family property as shown below. And we make the font-size 80% of normal.

vertical menu step 5

Now we have …

vertical menu output after step 5

Step 6: Add borders to our individual list elements with the following rule. This rule says to give a one pixel wide solid border of color #6F3E04 to <li> elements found within the <ul> element of class sidemenu.

vertical menu step-6

Note that we specify a top, left, and right borders; but we do not specify a bottom border. That is because we don’t want both a top and bottom border for the <li> elements. Otherwise adjacent elements will have double borders.

vertical menu output after step 6

Step 7: To close the menu, we add a bottom border to the <ul> element. Also we need to fix the width of the <ul> element to be 100px and give our menu a lighter background color of #EEEEDC. All this is done by the addition of the following properties.

vertical menu step-7

Now our menu is starting to look like a menu.

After step 7 in Internet Explorer

as seen in Internet Explorer 6.0.

At least in Internet Explorer that is. Take a look at it in Firefox, and this is what you see…

After step 7 in Firefox

That is because different browsers have different default paddings and margins on elements.

Step 8: Hence, we will explicitly zero out the padding and margin on our <ul> element…

vertical menu step8

and this makes it look correct on both browsers…

vertical-menu after step8

Step 9: The underlining of the links is adding clutter. Get rid of the underline from the links by setting the text-decoration of the <a> element to the value none as shown here…

vertical-menu step-9

The underline is gone. But they are still links as evidence by the hand icon when you hover your mouse over the text. The problem is that if you hover over the non-text portion of the menu, the hand icon disappears — making the non-text portion of the menu non-clickable.

step9 vertical-menu

Step 10: We fix this by setting the <a> element to display: block.

step10 code

This works in Firefox but not in Internet Explorer.

step10 output

Step 11: It turns out that Internet Explorer likes to have a width in order for display: block to take effect. For the time being, we set this width to be 100px — the same as the width that we had set for the <ul> element.

vertical-menu step-11

Step 12: Next step is to stylize the links to get rid of that default blue color. And apply some padding as shown in the below rule.

step12 vertical-menu

And here is the result…

step12 output

Step 13: If you take a look at the menu in both Firefox and Internet Explorer 6.0, you will notice that after we have added the padding, the width of the menu in Explorer is no longer correct. It has become too width.

vertical-menu step-13

Step 14: To fix this, we have to set the width of the <a> links to be 78px. Why 78px? We have to remember that the definition of width is the content width of an element — that is the width excluding the margin, padding, and borders. Our <ul> is 100px. Inside the <ul> is our <li> which has an one pixel left border and a one pixel right border. So the content width of our <li> is 98px. The <a> that is inside our <li> has a left padding of 10px and a right padding of 10px. Excluding the padding, the content width of the <a> element is 78px.

vertical-menu step14

Step 15: And now it looks perfect in both Internet Explorer and Firefox.

vertical-menu step-15

Step 16: Next we add a hover effect to the menu by adding the following rule. As the mouse hovers over the menu, the text color changes to #EEEEDC and the background color changes to #B9BB79.

vertical-menu step-16

Step 17: Test this in Firefox and Internet Explorer and see that it works as expected.

vertical menu step-17

The menu is complete, you can get the full code by viewing the live code and doing a view-source in your browser.