Category Archives: Quick

Internet Explorer 7: Public Beta 2 Released

By Bish | Published: 31/01/2006 – 21:54 | Posted in News, Quick, Software, Web Design | Comments (1)

After last weeks IE beta leak onto the Internet, Microsoft has officially relelased Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview. Available to download here it will be interesting to see Microsoft’s view of the future for web browsing and how the browser copes with modern web design such as CSS2 and CSS3. There is a newsgroup available to post your bugs and suggestions. "And so begins the second great browser war……"
 

Firefox Extension: Web Developer Toolbar

By Bish | Published: 31/01/2006 – 20:08 | Posted in Quick, Software, Web Design | Comments (0)

Web Developer screensThe Web Developer 1.0.1, by Chris Pederick, is not a new toolbar but it has got to be one of my most valued Firefox extensions. Also available for Flock and Mozilla, the current release was made available on the 23rd January and is compatible with any platform that the browser supports. For those who haven’t come across this extension it adds powerful web development tools right into the browser window turning your browser into a quality testing tool. Highlights include the handy CSS editor that allows you to view, modify and save the CSS file of the site you are viewing. Further the toolbar includes the ability to turn off java script, view structural elements of the page, and validate css & html all at the touch of a button. The feature I used the most would have to be the ability quickly resize the browser to other ‘resolutions’. This toolbar should be in any web developer’s toolkit!

More Yahoo and Digg Rumours……

By Bish | Published: 26/01/2006 – 20:16 | Posted in News, Quick, Technology, Web2.0 | Comments (1)

DiggMore and more rumours are circulating about Digg being snapped up by the Web 2.0 harvester that is Yahoo. $30m is the figure circulating and my point of view is there is no smoke without fire. Both the Search Engine Journal and Techcrunch have posted on this along with countless others recently and I, for one, am keen to see this happen. I posted more on this subject over two weeks ago and have touched on the benefits in another post. According to Kevin Burton’s blog, it’s not a matter of if but when and the announcement could be as soon as next week!

Site Improvements with WordPress

By Bish | Published: 24/01/2006 – 23:06 | Posted in Quick, Wordpress | Comments (0)

I’ve realised what a pain in the arse it is to find my old posts even with the excellent ‘ajax’ search availible in K2. So I have added the obvious solution, an ‘Archive’ page. If you havent already done this, it is very easy to implement; go to your dashboards and click on ‘Write’ and then ‘Write Page’. Add a title for the page, in this case ‘Archive’ is the obvious one and change the template (found further down the page) to ‘Archives’ . Lastly add a page order number to indicate where on the menu you’d like it to appear e.g if you have 6 pages and you want it to appear second from the right give a page order of 5.

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Clockr – Stylish Time

By Bish | Published: 18/01/2006 – 23:33 | Posted in Design, Personal, Quick, Web Design | Comments (1)

Clockr has really caught my attention recently (I think I am getting a design bug). Its a 24 hour clock that is made in Flash and composed from some bright, bold images found on Flickr. I think its the simplicity of the idea that has really got my interest – download the screensaver if you like it.