Archive for June, 2008

Web Design resources: The Firefox extensions

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

This part of the Web Design resources series is all about Firefox extensions. Now obviously Firefox isn’t the only browser out there but it’s pretty much the only browsers with a decent array of Web Developer tools to use.

IE has the IE Developer Toolbar which is similar to the Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox and Opera are currently releasing their beta version of their browser with Dragonfly, their version of Firebug. These aside, there just isn’t the same wealth of add-ons for other browsers as their is for Firefox so I’m going to share some of my most used add-ons in the hope that you will discover some new ones.

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Web Design resources: The books

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

There must be literally hundreds of web design books on sale right now but I’m pretty sure that a lot of them aren’t always as good as they’re cracked up to be!

In light of this I’ve compiled a list of books, most of which I’ve been able to use, to hopefully help people make the right choice when choosing a decent book.

The majority of these books are great for people who are new to the industry or who want to learn about the principals of standards based design incorporating better usability and accessibility along the way.

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