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Is Photoshop too expsensive for you, and you don’t want to go to jail for obtaining a copy via illegal methods? Here is a list of free, as in beer and as in speech, alternatives.
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Six Tools to Ease the Pains of Designing
As designers, if we are truthful, there are some aspects of the job we dread doing, either because they are repetitive, not challenging, or just because we don’t like doing them. Those things can range from making yet another CSS design with rolled corner element or to such things as tweaking font attributes to get “that look” that we wanted. Here are some sites and tools that will help you be more productive, and take out some of the boring aspects of design.
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Comic Inspired Designs
When creating a new design, it is sometimes hard to think of what you actually want to do. At the same time, our creative ideas can be hindered because we have to create a professional looking site. Well here are some comic inspired tutorials which could translate into some professional designs.
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HTMLPad 2008: The All In One JavaScript, CSS and HTML Buddy
Finding tools that make a designer’s life easier is a constantly progressing part of the software industry. With CSS becoming more recognized as the standard and tools being capable of handling all types of media, it then comes down to usability. How user friendly is the software and how can it reduce development time?
HTMLPad 2008 wins in these areas for various reasons. The convenience of its interface is immediately noticeable. The reading panes can be selected from the view menu such as the property inspector, code explorer and file explorer. Just sifting across the menus reveals a set of powerful features. The HTML and CSS style wizards make it easy for anyone to format their templates. It includes the tool HTML Tidy which is effective for detecting bad markup.
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Using APIs to Enhance Your Site
APIs can be really useful when developing your site. By using APIs, you can increase the features of your site at little to no cost. Not only do you have additional features, but most APIs are easy to use and implement into any site design. There are many sites that offer APIs, sites such as Google, Facebook, TWitter, and Digg all provide APIs. Google has an extensive set of APIs (http://code.google.com/more/#products-products-accounts) which harness the power of their products. Google likes to apply their internal slogan to their products and not be evil in keeping developers on the outside, looking in and wishing they could create their own sites using the same features. Here is a list of common, useful, and/or powerful APIs from Google.
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Basic Tutorials for Web 2.0 Graphics
There is some debate as to what web 2.0 actually is. Most people in the industry despise the saying Web 2.0, since there is very little difference in the actual programming used to display websites. Some people debate that web 2.0 refers to the features which are on the web now, and yet another group says that web 2.0 is just shiny graphics. If you are part of the latter group, here are some Web 2.0 graphic tutorials for you.
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Five Tools To Make SEO Easier
Search engine optimization (SEO) is one aspect of web development which can seem more like a burden than any other aspect. SEO is one of the most important things you can do to improve traffic, and revenue generated from your site. Here are five tools which will allow you to better optimize your site, and save you time.
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Are Your Web Pages Optimized For Search Engines?
This is a very important step and is often missed by web designers. If you own a corporate web site, if you are a vendor selling products or selling services, each page on your site must have optimized markup or you won’t compete fully for traffic.
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Creating Custom HTML Error Page
Linking documents is the concept on which the web was built. The issue that any web designer has experienced is when someone links to the wrong URL on your site. The user will then get the dreaded Error 404 page not found.
It is an error that isn’t uncommon to users on the web and most users will over look it, or try to find the page from your main web site. But how do you get rid of that default error message and use something creative. There are all kinds of creative 404s which will leave a very impressionable impact on your site’s visitors. Believe it or not, creating a custom 404 error is simplier then you would think, just one line in your .htaccess file can solve the entire issue.
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How accessible is your website?
According to recent estimates, there are 650 million people with disabilities across the globe. In the U.K. alone, the combined spending power of the disabled population is estimated to be around £80 billion (US$116 billion), and if online retailers want a cut of this spend, they need to ensure their websites are accessible.
While ramps, parking spaces, Braille signage and designated toilet facilities are all an expected part of shopping at the mall, it seems that making life easier for online shoppers with disabilities isn’t getting quite as much attention. That’s despite over half of disabled Brits having access to the Internet.
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