Pendule - Neat Chrome Plugin For A Web Developer
I do quite a bit of Web development, and Google Chrome is my main browser these days. Chrome is pretty developer-friendly as it is, and you can also set up Firebug on Chrome. But today I wanted to show you a different Chrome extension called Pendule. Pendule supplements Chrome’s built-in Inspect Element feature with some interesting extras.
10 Handy Alternatives If You Are Tired Of The Usual Lorem Ipsum Filler Texts
Web designers probably have a kitty of Lorem Ipsum tools saved close by that’s useful for their web development work. Lorem Ipsum generators come in various forms; some of them allow customizing the dummy text generation with variable font widths, font faces, and other design elements. But there’s just so much you can take of the mock content.
3 Color Picker Add-Ons For Web Designers & Graphic Artists [Firefox]
Eyedroppers and color pickers can work outside a mammoth graphic tool like Photoshop and CorelDraw. Most of these tools are small and portable. But today, we will diverge from desktop color picking tools and look at five browser based ones. After all, a graphic artist can take his inspiration from anywhere…and if it’s anywhere online, a few very useful Firefox add-ons could come real handy.
How to Create a Simple Personal Landing Page Using Adobe Muse
There's two main stages involved in the website design process. The first is designing the look of the pages and the second is translating the design into the the webpages. The first stage requires design skill while the second stage needs coding expertise. For those who have better eyes for design (and no interest in coding), there's Muse from Adobe.
3 Ways To Temporarily Change A Website's Font If The Original Font Is Not Good Enough
How many times has someone sent you a link to a website infested with incredibly hard-to-read fonts? It's happened to all of us, and there's not much we can do about it - or is there? There are a few folks on the Internet who have experienced the same problem as you, and fortunately, they decided to do something about it.
Quickly & Easily Manipulate HTML5's Canvas Element With jCanvas
The web as we know it is evolving faster than ever before. As of late, HTML5 is coming into the scene, providing the capability of developing highly interactive web apps without the need for the proprietary Flash. Instead, all a user needs is a supported, modern web browser, and they'll be able to enjoy the best of what the web has to offer.
5 Tools to Compare Typefaces and Choose the Right Font for Your Work
Fonts and typefaces are all around us. If you are a web designer you have to carefully select them. When we attempt to select a font, we do quite a lot of comparing between the different fonts available to us. Here are seven tools which might help you to pick the right font for your work.
BlueGriffon: A Multi-Platform WYSIWYG HTML Editor
There are several reasons why people hardly use desktop web builders - there are only a few of them available, the good ones are too expensive, and the process of web building itself is not a walk in the park. But there is a new web editing application called BlueGriffon, a free multi-platform WYSIWYG web editor which is easy enough for beginners but also powerful enough for more advanced users.
5 Baby Steps to Learning CSS and Becoming a Kick-Ass CSS Sorcerer
CSS is the single most important change webpages have seen in the last decade, and it paved the way for the separation of style and content. In the modern way, XHTML defines the semantic structure - the meaning and content of the webpage, while CSS concerns itself with the presentation. While most of us are comfortable writing a little HTML, we seem to think that CSS is some kind of black magic.
Easily Build & Customize Facebook Pages With Static HTML WYSIWYG Editor
Facebook Pages is a great promotion tool. You can use it to promote your blog, your product, or even yourself. If you are a code novice and want to build and edit your Facebook Pages without touching any codes, you could easily do it using Static HTML - a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web editor, built specifically for Facebook Pages.
Easily Create an Informative Website Tour in Minutes With Amberjack
Wouldn't it be cool if you could go to a brand new website that you've never visited before, and just click a button to get a brief tour of the site? Well, now you can offer that service to your own website visitors. A very cool, free service called Amberjack lets you create a quick and easy tour that will highlight all of the best areas and features of your website.
10 Cool & Interesting Web Applications On Fonts & Typography
I have always been intrigued by how thick and thin lines, angles and shapes can come together and form beautiful fonts. Just a shift of pressure on a stroke and you can get something entirely new. That’s the magic of typography. Typography is art in its truest sense, and the web has certainly made it more mainstream. Choosing the right fonts and a theme to go with it are joined at the hip when it comes to web design. The right combination gives us a web design that spells ‘wow’.