I’ve been a pretty die-hard Firefox fan since its birth, and really even before that. Firefox spawned from Mozilla, which arose out of the cinders of Netscape, which was the next progression of Mosaic, the first real browser – and I used them all. Each incarnation has been my primary browser since every other competitor has paled in comparison....
I’ll admit it, I’m a Pandora addict. My own personal DJ is, in my opinion, pretty awesome. I listen to it almost all day too: on the train (iPhone App), at work, at home. So I’ve been looking for a way to play Pandora on my OS X desktop but haven’t found anything I really like. Then recently I read about Safari’s Web Clips and a...
Yesterday Google released their Firefox add-on, Page Speed. Until now, this compliment to Firebug was closed source and only used internally by Google. Now it’s free and open source - and it’s pretty cool. What’s it do? Page Speed adds new tabs to the Firebug panel letting you “record” a page load, saving metrics on everything the browser...
As designers, we constantly deal with requests that would never fly in retail or service industries. Here’s a funny, and all too true look at the relationship between clients and vendors. The Vendor Client relationship - in real world situations “Sir… we’re not the Taco Stand.” “I had beef. Same thing as I had here.” “You had the...
I’ve written another article for Webdesigner Depot on CSS best practices. Here’s an excerpt: It’s really easy to find yourself wondering how your CSS got to be such a mess. Sometimes it’s the result of sloppy coding from the start, sometimes it’s because of multiple hacks and changes over time. Whatever the cause, it doesn’t have to be...
A recent comment on my post 10 Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers got me thinking about all of the Lorem Ipsum generators I’ve come across, and which ones I use regularly. LoreM9: I think that “dummy lipsum” add-on has to be the 11th add-on for web-designers! What is lorem ipsum? It is “a common piece of text used as mock-content when...
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