The Printliminator
The Printliminator is a bookmarklet with some simple tools you can use to makes websites print better. One click to activate, and then click to remove elements from the page, remove graphics, and apply better print styling. Here is the bookmarklet:
Visit http://css-tricks.com/examples/ThePrintliminator/ for live demo
vi Editor (visual display editor)
Unlike most word processors you may be used to, vi does not use modifier keys in command sequences. Typically on a PC, you would use some combination of function keys, alt, shift and ctrl. Vi was written to run on a text based system, and so almost entirely uses no modifier keys for commands.
Vi has two operational modes: COMMAND mode and INPUT mode.
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Setting up a development server for testing purposes
Setting up a development server for testing purposes.
Most web developers will use a web hosting company to host their websites. It makes perfect sense to outsource the most critical aspect of your web presence to professionals. Web hosting is one area where you can not make do with good, it has to be great.
With that said it can sometimes be very beneficial to have a test bed where you can develop your site locally without having to actually upload your work to your web host. If your site is simply a static site written in html then there really is no need to use anything more than a web browser and place your files in a folder on your computer. But what if you want to be able to test new code and scripts before they are sent to the server. You could simply create a new directory on your web host and use that for development, but then you need to spend time uploading, testing, editing then uploading again, it can be a very time consuming process. Continue reading
Useful firefox addons for web developers
1. Web Developer
2. FireBug
3. FirePHP
4. ShowIP
5. YSlow
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