Firefox is the Web browser of choice for most web designer’s, because it is fast and it sticks to the Web standards better than say IE6 or IE7.
That said, Firefox has a bunch of other features that makes it attractive to Web professionals. One of the big ones for me, is the ability for anyone to add to Firefox’s core functionality by way of plugins.
I find it very easy to take in information via audio and have found podcast’s an especially useful resource of great web design and business information and the medium is coming of age nicely. Following is my list of my favourite web design podcasts.
Boagworld Podcast
This podcast aims to provide news and advice on website design and management without overwhelming you with techno babble! Hopefully it has something for everybody, whether you design, develop or run websites on a daily basis.
The source site for this is: http://www.inhabitat.com
Ahh, there...I sneaked away for a few minutes to say Merry Christmas! While doing a quick search on Google for a picture of a Christmas Tree, I stumbled upon this one, it's from inhabitat.com.
To celebrate design-bit’s 1 year birthday I have re-designed; adding features, white space and upgraded to Wordpress 2.3, hopefully you’ll like the changes. The designs not quite finished yet, lets call it a beta version, I just had the urge get the design out here and get to the blogging.
New Features
with a re-design comes features:
Gravatar
I have been following Gravatars (globally recognized avatars) progress for quite some time and now that the plugin / technology has been bought up by Automatic I feel more confident that the servers and resources can handle the load. Gravatar simply associates an image you upload to their servers with your registered email address so that every time you post a comment blog with that email address your image appears next to your comment.
From authors Katrin Eismann and Sean Duggen comes a new book dedicated to creative digital imaging titled The Creative Digital Darkroom.
METACOW: A Public-Domain, HighResolution, Fully-Digital, Noise-Free, Metameric, Extended-Dynamic-Range, Spectral Test Target for Imaging System Analysis and Simulation
Geek Alert: the following would really only excite a “color geek”…
As we approach the end of 2007 we wanted to ask some of the leading figures in the Photoshop community which books they had found most inspiring and in the case of authors, which books they had written were they most proud of. We got some interesting and quite varied responses. So if you are still stuck for ideas about what to get a Photoshop geek for Christmas, here are some reading tips from the experts.
The Wordpress text editor comes with a set of buttons that allows you to easily format your post by quickly inserting things like:
If you are searching around for web design coding techniques or want to find a blog on a certain topic Google sometimes seems to miss your search terms completely. Using special characters you can target your terms to return more relevant search results.
Google Basics
If you run a normal search through Google and click “google search” Google will search for every word in your terms: and show pages relevant to your search. If you re-enter some search terms and click “im feeling lucky” Google will pull up the one website that it believes is most relevant to your search terms.
Design Myths: Linkbait Won’t Help Your PerformanceWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Sunday, 23 of December , 2007 at 10:55 am
This is a myth that I would like to dispel once and for all, that linkbait won’t help your search engine performance. I have heard it repeated in a few places. Of course, it depends on the linkbait, but it can have a very beneficial effect for your site’s relevance as long as the article adheres to Design principals.
The truth to the Design myth is that a single linkbait piece will only give you a brief traffic spike and after that things will go back to normal. Where the myth is wrong is that, this spiking has the benefit of getting you brand recognition and with a little luck, some repeat visitors. If you are able to produce linkbait on a semi-regular basis, then your site will make progress.
