Archive for the ‘web design links’ Category

Useful CSS convention links

Friday, July 31st, 2009

W3 Schools

A good resource HTML, CSS coding/web building tutorials

http://www.w3schools.com/

A List Apart

A good resource for lists and css happiness

http://www.alistapart.com/

Techniques for cross browser styling

Techniques for cross browsers styling and detection

http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/15-techniques-and-tools-for-cross-browser-css-coding

Browsers and extensions to

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Firefox

Firebug:

Great for web development and browser testing

*https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843*

FireFTP:

FTP access through browser

*https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684*

Developers tool bar:

Allows you to turn off css, images etc. which help with testing usability on non standard platforms.

*https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60*

Fireshot:

Can take screen shots of the full browser

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648

Measure it:

Adds a handy measuring tape to firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/539

IE

Multiple ies:

You can get multiple ie’s set up for testing - ie. have ie6 and ie7.

Note: adding to Windows vista requires a little bit of messing, but its worth it.

http://multipleies.en.softonic.com/

My Favourite Apps

Friday, July 31st, 2009

JR Screen Ruler

measure things on your screen. Not browser dependent.

http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jruler.htm

My DebugBar

Multiple ie Debug (handy for vista)

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

Color Picker

Online color picker

http://colorcop.net/

Win Merge

Useful txt merging app

http://winmerge.org/

Colour Contrast Tool

This online app is good for testing colour contrasts for different colour defecits

http://www.snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html

FT Adviser

Monday, March 24th, 2008

FT AdviserI was lucky enough to work on the FT Adviser as part of the front-end development team.

I joined the FT in August when the initial design was almost complete and I helped build the front end of the site from scratch. It was an excited and successful project, that I am happy to say I was involved with, and working with such as great team made the experience a happy one.

Visit the site at www.FTAdviser.com