Archive for the ‘Web Design & Dev’ Category
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Using the absolutely fantastic WordPress plugin WPtouch, your site will not only look great for visitors using an iPhone or iPod Touch, but it will be significantly easier to navigate. Keep reading for a review and screenshots.
Posted in Blogging, Web Design & Dev, iPod/iPhone | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Using ThumbsUp you can easily drag-and-drop batches of images to create thumbnails. It supports any and all image formats supported by Mac OS X and QuickTime (including PDF documents).
Posted in Mac, Web Design & Dev | 2 Comments »
Friday, November 9th, 2007
It's your image editor of choice. You've upgraded to Leopard. And The Gimp no longer works for you. You can try some of the suggestions found here, or you can just download AquaGimp. Note: I can only confirm AquaGimp works on an Intel based Mac.
With any luck The Gimp ...
Posted in Mac, Web Design & Dev | 5 Comments »
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
With the very helpful Firefox addon Source Viewer Tab, you can view a pages source code in a new tab, rather than a new window (which is the annoying default).
Posted in Firefox, Web Design & Dev | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Jamie of Blog2Life has finished the Simple Help redesign (99%). Based on reader feedback a few things have been changed already, and there are one or two more to go. But I couldn't be more happy with the results, and couldn't recommend Jamie enough as a designer/developer.
The entire redesign ...
Posted in Blogging, Web Design & Dev | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 28th, 2007
SmallScreenX is a Cocoa version of the "Small Screen" utility for the old Mac OS. It simulates smaller screen resolutions, which can be particularly helpful for web designers. This overview gives you a run down on its main features.
Posted in Mac, Web Design & Dev | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Why MWSnap doesn't show up on every "top Windows freeware" list, I'll never know. Version 3 has been around since 2002 (!?). Admittedly, it hasn't been updated since 2002 either - it still works perfectly well in XP (I haven't tested it in Vista yet). With the resulting screenshots you ...
Posted in Blogging, Web Design & Dev, Windows | 6 Comments »
Friday, September 21st, 2007
After being appalled at what I saw when I viewed Simple Help in my Smartphone, I decided it was time to figure out a way to make this site more appealing to folks using mobile browsers. It didn't take long for me to find Alex King's WordPress Mobile Edition plugin. ...
Posted in Blogging, Web Design & Dev, Windows Mobile | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 14th, 2007
From their site:
"The Google Analytics widget is an Adobe AIR application that runs on your desktop and displays basic stats for your Google Analytics account."
Posted in Blogging, Web Design & Dev | 3 Comments »
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
At some point yesterday (Nov 12th, 2007) Google Webmaster Tools got a bit of a redesign. And at least one new feature was added - Subscriber stats. Now you can view the number of users who have subscribed to your RSS feed(s) using Google products such as iGoogle, Google ...
Posted in Blogging, Web Design & Dev | No Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2007
This brief tutorial will guide you in using The Gimp to resize pictures/images. It's also a part of the Linux for Parents - A Beginners Guide to Ubuntu series. Though the Gimp is not a Linux specific program, it is included as the default image editing software in Ubuntu.
Posted in Linux, Web Design & Dev | 5 Comments »
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
For the last few days I've been trying to figure out how to best write this post. This is what I've come up with, I hope it's helpful (cause it sure is long, winded).
What I've done
What I think I've done right
SEO
Content
Responsive
Thankful
Research
What ...
Posted in Blogging, Web Design & Dev | 20 Comments »
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
FeedBurner recently announced that their Headline Animator tool can now be used to promote your RSS feed (or site) through other FeedBurner feeds (pubvertising). This brief tutorial will walk you through the steps to do just that.
Posted in Blogging, Web Design & Dev | 2 Comments »
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
This tutorial will guide you step-by-step through installing IE 5, 5.5 and/or 6 in Ubuntu - using the terrific software IEs4Linux. IEs4Linux was developed for web designers that want to move to Linux but still need to test their sites on IE and Linux users who have to open IE-only ...
Posted in Internet Explorer, Linux, Web Design & Dev | 13 Comments »
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
The iWebTool plugin for Firefox is really just a quick way to access the tools located at iwebtool.com, but it's still pretty helpful.
Posted in Firefox, Web Design & Dev | 2 Comments »
