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Google Chrome Extensions to Boost your Productivity

Stacey Rawling — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:00:13 +0000

I find Google Chrome alot faster than Firefox but still choose to use Firefox because of my beloved Add-ons. I would be lost without Firebug, Del.ici.ous Bookmarks & the Web Developers Toolbar. But here are 5 Extensions for Google Chrome that may change you mind -

Resolution Test
Resolution Test changes the size of the browser window for developers to preview their websites in different screen resolutions. It includes a list of commonly used resolutions as well as a custom option for you to input your own.

Firebug Lite
Firebug Lite is a tool for web developers, that allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

Spilt Test
Prompts the user for two URL addresses and then displays both in one window! Not only can it reduce the number of tabs that you have open, it also enables you to effortlessly compare and contrast several web pages at the same time.

MeasureIt!
Draw out a ruler that will help you get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

Pendule
Pendule extends the already built-in developer tools of Chrome.

What Google Chrome extensions do you use? If I have missed any useful extensions, share it with us in the comments.

Supporting All Modern Browsers Only

Stacey Rawling — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:46:43 +0000

Internet Explorer refuses to play nice, debugging IE is the bain of every web designers life. A useful tool I discovered today is IE NetRender and IE6 Blocker

30 Tips for Beginners in Web Development

Stacey Rawling — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:39:45 +0000

Heres a useful article from Netnuts, 30 HTML Best Practices for Beginners. Wish i had something like this when i was designing my first website, luckily i work with a great team of web designers

Maybe javascript isnt so bad!

Stacey Rawling — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:28:31 +0000

Today i started my javascript tasks, which i was given for my objectives. At first i was scared but now im thinking javaScript isn’t so bad, its pretty cool. At the moment I have only managed 2 tasks out of the 7 tho I’ll keep you updated on my progress!

Debugging using Firefox on a mac

Stacey Rawling — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:13:22 +0000

Its just a big pain in the bum, when you prefer to debug using Firefox in dreamweaver but all you get is a “Page Load Error” message. After doing some research on the web, the reason why it does this is because of the way Dreamweaver creates the url on a mac. The solution is to change the url, however its only easily fixed if you remember this, otherwise just copy the url from safari in to firefox

From this
file:///G/Design
to
file:///Volumes/dc-thehutgroup/Design