by Stephen on March 26, 2009
I have to admit to being quite a messy coder, especially when it comes to CSS files. I can understand exactly what is going on in my stylesheets, but I would be quite embarrassed to show them to anybody else.
Now there is an online solution which will clean up messy code and present it back [...]
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CSS,
Web Design,
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by Stephen on February 10, 2009
When designing a new website or developing a theme for a blog, it is very important to test how it looks in multiple browsers. This is especially so for older versions of Internet Explorer, which are known to cause coders a multitude of problems.
There are a few major players in the browser market – Internet [...]
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chrome,
compatibility,
CSS,
display,
Firefox,
flock,
Internet browsers,
internet explorer,
opera,
safari,
testing,
Web Design,
Web Tools
by Stephen on December 19, 2008
There is absolutely no question about it, if you are running, developing or writing for a website or blog, the only browser you should be using is Firefox.
The reason for this is very simple – there is a massive community of programmers and developers writing addons which make it much more than a browser. It [...]
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Firefox,
Firefox Browser,
Internet browsers,
timesaver,
Tools,
Web Tools
by Stephen on December 16, 2008
Tnerd has just put me onto the AutoPager Firefox plugin which downloads the next page of a website inline with the previous page. This means you can just keep scrolling down the page without having to click on the “next” button to get to the next page of the website.
So far I have tried it [...]
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browser add ons,
Firefox,
firefox plugins,
timesaver,
Web Tools
by Stephen on December 16, 2008
The CrunchBase Widget is a handy little tool to use on web pages containing articles or information about companies, people, financial organisations or products. The widgets can be used in singular fashion as in the examples below.
CrunchBase Company Widget
CrunchBase Information
Google
Information provided by CrunchBase
CrunchBase Person Widget
CrunchBase Information
Matt Mullenweg
Information provided by CrunchBase
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facts,
information,
Web Tools,
widgets
by Stephen on October 22, 2008
Following on from a previous post about focusing on a specific task, I would like to mention an automated system provided by Google which I find almost as useful as RSS feeds. It’s called Google Alerts.
You will need to have a Google account to use the Alerts system. Once you have that you can login [...]
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Google,
Google Alerts,
Search,
Tools,
Web Tools
by Stephen on October 9, 2008
SiteUptime offer a service which tracks the availability of a website and sends an email when a website is down, which will happen to you from time to time, no matter how much uptime your web host boasts about.
There are three levels of service available, the base package is free and allows you to monitor [...]
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downtime,
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webmaster,
website uptime
by Stephen on September 25, 2008
Down Them All! is a Firefox plugin that enables the user to quickly download images, links and other embedded content from any web page viewed in Firefox.
The currentl stable version of the Down Them All! plugin is 1.0.3 and it is available for Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. It is currently available in 31 [...]
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firefox plugin
Blog Comment Demon software review – first thoughts
by Stephen on September 18, 2009
I have just bought the Blog Comment Demon software. It cost $47. Setting it up was simple.
I did some research before I bought it; I read about 20 blog posts and watched a couple of videos on YouTube. Most of the posts had good things to say and the posts that did not have good [...]
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