Bookmark on Expression
Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

January 2009 - Posts

Separating the wheat from the chaff: Script & Style helps you find the best web development articles

The Community Server control panel for my blog purports to show me what site a person was on when they clicked a link and came to my blog. Looking at the panel tonight, I noticed many hits coming to my post “ Test your websites in different versions of Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:18 PM by Anna | 0 Comments

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript reference at your fingertips: FireScope add-on for Firefox

SitePoint has released the “first phase” of their JavaScript reference , and they’ve also completely redesigned their Reference Site for improved usability. To coincide with the redesign, they’ve released a handy Firefox add-on called FireScope to integrate Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:27 AM by Anna | 0 Comments

Test your websites in different versions of Internet Explorer

[Update March 18, 2009 - see my new post about a new feature called SuperPreview for testing your website in multiple versions of IE: http://blogs.msdn.com/anna/archive/2009/03/18/test-your-sites-in-different-versions-of-internet-explorer-part-2-introducing-superpreview-beta.aspx Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 3:33 PM by Anna | 5 Comments

Twitter on PHP versus ASP.NET

NETTUTS is a good website for web development and design tutorials: http://nettuts.com/ . Jeffrey Way , the person behind the NETTUTS website also maintains a NETTUTS profile on both Facebook and Twitter where his latest statuses caught my eye. Turns Read More...
Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 1:27 PM by Anna | 3 Comments

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) toolbar for Firefox

Free SEO toolbar for your Firefox web browser. “What would happen if you smooshed together many of the best parts of Rank Checker, SEO for Firefox, the best keyword research tools across the web, a feed reader (pre-populated with many SEO feeds), a ton Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:51 AM by Anna | 1 Comments
Filed under: , ,

Are your websites up?

Having trouble keeping track of all your websites and whether they’re up or down? A new website by Chris Coyier offers a free service that emails you when your website is down: http://www.aremysitesup.com/login Apparently they’ve temporarily disabled Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:46 AM by Anna | 2 Comments

Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?

…depends on who you talk to. If you talk to a visual designer, such as the person who develops web comps in Photoshop but doesn’t know their way around web page markup, the answer is probably YES. If you talk to the client that is hiring the web developer Read More...
Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 4:00 PM by Anna | 3 Comments
Filed under: ,

Easy discount for An Event Apart Web Design Conference

If you plan to attend An Event Apart this year and you are on Facebook , you should join the Designing with Web Standards Facebook group where Jeffrey Zeldman is currently offering members $100 off the An Event Apart registration fee, just for being a Read More...
Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 2:55 PM by Anna | 0 Comments
Filed under: ,

Better error messages “are recommended”

A code error tip in Expression Web: “The World-Wide-Web Consortium now regards the attribute ‘[ html attribute name ]’ as outdated. Newer constructs are recommended.” Newer constructs are recommended? Who talks like that?! With all due respect, some developers Read More...
Posted Friday, January 02, 2009 4:18 PM by Anna | 1 Comments
 
Page view tracker