Web developers, have you looked into and downloaded Firebug yet? I just came across a mention of it on Matt’s weblog and it certainly looks worth a good look or three. Integrating live website editing — CSS, HTML, Javascript — fight into Firefox! Watch Jesse Newland’s screencast and I think you’ll be as interested [...]
Mike McBride asks for some experiential information from Mac users:
My wife was doing a little on-line shopping today on her Mac and ran into a couple of sites that wouldn’t accept her credit card information. The transactions failed in both Firefox and Safari.
I’ve never had a problem with a shopping site taking my credit [...]
I mentioned I’d been off the net today; the funny thing is that I was productively working on a website. E, at TPI, has been good to me in these few months, contracting me to build their new site and finding other gigs to work on for her. This week they’ve got a contract for [...]
Ethan J. A. Schoonover, creator of the Kinkless GTD system, has, I think, one of the best customized 404 messages I’ve seen in a long time.
Kudos.
Two more items for webheads: Russ Weakley’s Web standards checklist and the excellent Beginner’s guide from a seasoned CSS designer by Cameron Moll.
Sam’s pointing to several interesting tools this week, including Mootools’
Transcorners and DateBlocks. Web developers, check ‘em out.
For a few weeks now, I’ve been working on a website project for Tomorrow Pictures, Inc. Their old site, while functional, hadn’t been updated in several years and they weren’t happy with it. They had some ideas, including the color scheme and some basic elements, and we worked together to come up with a design [...]
Last week Brendon Schwartz posted How to select Personal View or Shared View in SharePoint 2007, a tip for those of use who are participating in the beta. Brendon and fellow DevCow Dude Matt Ranlett, have done a bunch of good work promoting and teaching about SharePoint in the Atlanta area. Good job, guys.
I’ve been [...]
I downloaded and installed Internet Explorer version 7 (IE7), beta 3 (replacing beta 2); the install appeared to go without hitch and most websites I visit are displaying correctly.
I just went to Google Maps though, and something odd’s happening there. I’d copied an address from another window, and every time I try to paste into [...]
John Porcaro’s weblog looks fine tonight, nothing odd. The state of his feed is a completely different matter though.
Behind his back, someone’s done a dasterdly deed – replacing John’s xml (normally provided in a proper fashion by the folks at FeedBurner) with their own. A file full of vile stuff – adverts for phenobarbital, [...]
Back in January I was asked to help build a new site/blog and was happy to do so (they insisted on the colors, don’t shoot me if you don’t like ‘em). Frederick also is a video producer, with his vidcasts on the iTunes Music Store, and wanted an easy way to them on the weblog [...]
The wacky folks at Google have brought out another fun web application, GoogleMars. Fun, and possibly useful for students who may be studying Mars and the various explorations that have been done so far.
Then again, I wonder if today’s science classes even mention Mars?
Firefox, the excellent browser from the Mozilla project, has been upgraded to version 1.0.7. If you’re using IE or an IE-based browser, it’s long since time to have switched.
This release is billed as a security and stability release, that’s normally a good reason to upgrade your system if you’re already a Firefox user. Bueried in [...]
Stopdesign:
“Developing for IE initially, then trying to retrofit for other browsers will increase time and cost in the long run. But there’s a better way to approach development that’s faster and less costly.”
As Phil put it, “Web standards, man. They produce results.”
Josh L. at Microsoft has been doing some investigation into online forums – what makes them successful or not – and has collected the results so far into an excellent post entitled MVP Summit Views and Issues with Threaded Discussions. His findings include a couple of items, including one that I’d guess would surprise most.
Volume [...]
Scott’s using Windows XP Professional and wants to know if he can have an FTP service running. Sure he can, and so can you. Microsoft included an FTP service with Windows XP, it just doesn’t get installed and enabled by default. Adding it to your system will let others, using an FTP client, connect to [...]
For refererence, as we keep needing to do this and forgetting how… here’s the “HTML” for a client-side page redirect (change all the square brackets to angle brackets, of course): [meta http-equiv="refresh" content="seconds;url=url"] in the [head] section. Sample:
[DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"]
[html]
[head]
[title]Jumping to new page[/title]
[meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://my.new.home/somewhere.html"]
[/head]
[body]
…
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