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Last week’s rant about professionalism in Web design was supposed to be a short intro to this post. Basically my point was going to be that the profession of Web design and development has leveled up many times over the last decade, and it looks like some great industry standard practices are starting to settle […]
According to Venkatesh Rao in Forbes Magazine: Software Developers are the new precious metals. Venkatesh has a pretty bleak (realistic?) outlook on the global economy, and he is suggesting that everyone who is able should invest in a quality software developer.
Nearly every profession has their industry-standard software package. Â For designers and Web developers, it is Adobe Creative Suite. For music producers, it is ProTools. For theology geeks, it is Logos. (It gets really expensive when you are a musician, designer, and theology nerd!) Logos 4 for Mac has been in public alpha for quite awhile […]
Well, co-wrote. That’s a different animal. I’m pretty excited about Foundation Fireworks CS4 by Grant Hinkson, Craig Erskine, Chuck Mallott, Matthew Keefe, Hugh Griffith, and Myself. I have been using Fireworks my entire career as a Web designer. It is by far my design tool of choice. I’ve followed it from it’s earliest versions through […]
Found this gem. A news report from 1981 describing an early “Internet”. Funny to think that this is now mainstream in a way they didn’t even imagine yet. (Via Noel.)
Rogie King tweeted this awesome resource earlier today. I am a huge Coda fan. HTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP IDE, Terminal, FTP, Site Management, and resources in one great package. One of the cooler features is it’s one-click code clips. I’ve always wanted more, but never bother to create them. Enter Coda Clips. Find and install (with a click!) […]
Good looking set of 200 free icons. Gives fam fam fam a bit of a run for it’s money! Pinvoke: Icons and Pixel fonts
CSS Sprite Generator automatically created a single source image file from your css files. niiiiice
I saw CSS Sculptor last night on a tweet from Molly. Zeldman’s post made me take a second look. This could be really useful in quickly generating CSS layouts efficiently, though my pride is preventing me from wanting to purchase a wizard to do this. How quickly will this become obsolete?
Handy handy: Iconfinder – icon search engine.
Yahoo developers have put out a really handy add-on for firebug called “YSlow”. Based on the Thirteen Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Site, this little widget will help you determine what you can do to your Web site to increase it’s performance. It has interesting suggestions. Looks very useful. (hat tip: @lisamac)
Can you tell I’m starting to do a little research? Themes for flex and apollo.