Posts Tagged ‘tools’


Clever Development With Coda

7/15/2008 | {18}

If you follow design related blogs, it seems you can’t click a mouse anymore without Coda’s icon making an appearance. I heard about this software long before buying my Mac, but because it’s exclusive to that platform, I was never able to give it a test run. Now eight months after making the switch, [...]


Essential Admin Plugins for Wordpress

6/11/2007 | {12}

I love Wordpress, but it’s not without its’ drawbacks – one of which is the lack of administrative features in the default control panel. Fortunately, thanks to clever developers and witty users in general, some admin plugins have emerged which can make filling in the functionality gaps virtually painless.
Wordpress Database Backup
This is imperative if you [...]


Quick and Easy Tools For Optimizing Your CSS

5/18/2007 | {2}

If you read my article on tips for optimizing your stylesheets, you may already be putting some of those things into practice. Here then, are a few nifty (and free) web tools to help you out a bit more.

CSS Tweak – lets you check parameters for how much optimizing you want done. It has an [...]


Color Your World – Tools for Color Lovers

5/01/2007 | {4}

Selecting a color scheme could arguably be one of the most important tasks in planning and designing a website, but it’s not always the easiest. Listed here are some great tools for discovering, creating, sharing, selecting and experimenting with color and color palettes.
kuler
With tools like this, working more color into a design can be as [...]


Set Up An Agile Design Environment

3/29/2007 | {1}

Let me start by saying this is not a tutorial on tweaking your Dreamweaver preferences, or setting up an optimal workspace in Photoshop. Nope, in this case I’m talking about your browser. I’ve put together a list of things I find most useful in developing websites once I’ve moved out of the Photoshop stage, and [...]