July 11, 2008
If you’re into programming then you’ll know how much easier it is to use a text editor that has syntax highlighting so that you can see if you left a bracket open, curly bracket open or mistyped something. In this article I will review 3 lightweight free text editors for programmers on Windows. If you’re [...]
June 25, 2008
A what? Yes, it’s a valid question! Well, on the internet, Sprouts are advanced Flash based banners that come in all sizes, containing all sorts of media, can be 100% custom designed or based on a template and, like a paper leaflet, they can contain several independent pages. Basically, a Sprout can be anything from [...]
May 21, 2008
In my first days of web development it used to be “modify a file – upload using ftp client – refresh browser – repeat from start”. Then I changed this because I used Notepad++ and other tools to skip the ftp part, or at least build it into saving. Nowadays though there are more powerful [...]
May 15, 2008
So far I have been using one of the simpler tools for writing code, Notepad++. Due to some recent FTP problems however, I set out on a search for an alternative tool. I eventually came up with Aptana, a free code editing tool which is so bustling with features, it’s amazing. When I first fired [...]
April 10, 2008
So you’re an aspiring graphic designer but you don’t have the resources, or willingness, to spend hundreds of dollars on your needed software. Well, below is a list of five great alternatives to commercial software for graphic design. (1) Image Manipulation GIMP ““ Alternative for Adobe Photoshop and Corel Paint Shop Pro GIMP, short for [...]
January 2, 2008
Whenever I have had to write HTML for a webpage I’m working on, I have always used this online real-time HTML editor. But therein lies the problem – it’s online and if your internet connection blinks out for a while, you are obviously unable to use it. So I wanted an offline standalone application that [...]
December 26, 2007
I have just recently discovered a useful all-in-one tool for testing your website, blog or webpage (or someone else’s) for just about anything you can imagine! Test Everything ‘Test Everything’ incorporates over 100 (128 to be exact) of the useful website checkers and validators, throughout 8 different categories, all in one spot! You will find [...]
October 5, 2007
Ask any competent web designer or blogger and they’ll tell you that one of the most important aspects of getting a webpage right is the color. Getting the colors right can make all the difference between a hugely successful website and one that goes down the toilet on day one. You need a site that [...]
September 29, 2007
I am currently in the process of learning CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) based web design since it is now the standard foundation of layout for almost all web sites. I have read several books now and I still believe that I am slightly lost when it comes time to applying what I know from scratch. [...]
