By Woody | December 31, 2008
This is an epically helpful tool for webdesigners, I have seen a fair few versions of it requiring sign ups but this one is the slickest and is free!
To see an example : http://browsershots.org/http://woodylabs.com/
Or stick your own url in : http://browsershots.org
I originally found this gem on Gath Adams blog so props to him!
Blogosphere posts on [...]
By Woody | December 27, 2008
Using non common font’s in html is achievable in lots of ways - but often messing about with cross browser compatabilities pushes people into creating solid graphics, using flash or video for simplicity. A lot of fots are on most peoples boxes…actually:
Common Fonts - with percentages
Blogosphere posts on Websafe Custom fonts in HTML
Web-safe fonts?
Creating a [...]
By Woody | October 29, 2008
Often running your HTML through the HTML Purifier is a good idea, for those seeking out of the box html purification in a nice easy to work with download.
Its a brewing AJAX requirement in modern web dev - Moveable, dockable, widgetised web pages. Google may not love it but the idea is good for the end user. Page Flakes is the ultimate example of this widgetised page segmented idea.
When you want to find out the basic colour scheme or base a colour scheme on a photograph colr.org is handy - I have a self-written similar script which psychologically helps pages pretty factor considerably.
By Woody | September 13, 2008
Checking out your latest web development browser compatibility is an important thing to do, the following will help you check all the important browsers out on your own box (vmware will help you achieve all as you need macosx for multiple safari.)
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone
http://browser.netscape.com/
http://michelf.com/projects/multi-safari/
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/
http://www.apple.com/safari/
http://www.google.com/chrome
http://www.oldapps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=213
http://www.thesitewizard.com/webdesign/multiplebrowsers.shtml
By Woody | September 6, 2008
I think fixing the web is a solid idea and more people should take securing their important stuff seriously, school boy errors affect more than school boys.
By Woody | August 18, 2008
As users catch up with browser versions this wont be an issue but with everyone so javascript paranoid its nice to have a fallback noscript Pure CSS menu in the wings. This is an excellent example.
Thought I had already posted the fantastic Open Source Flash Charts but apparently not! - Also FusionCharts are good but only if you want to spend a few hundred pounds.
By Woody | August 17, 2008
Its always the most obvious and useful ones I forget..
PSPad (Supreme text editor for everything from hex to html to js to asp to everything else)
FileZilla (you need nothing else for anything ftp)
XAMPP (Apache web server in a tiny exe - includes filezilla ftp server - very useful)