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An Introduction to CSS

I gave the following presentation at my day job, and I thought others might benefit. That, and I think that SlideShare is a cool app! | View | Upload your own (read more...)

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Engaging the Entire Development Team

Before I left college the only experience I had in software development was as a one-man team. I did all the design and back-end development. There wasn’t a conflict of interest between designer and programmer, because they were both one person! As I left college and got into the “real world” I found that it was impossible to do large-scale software development by oneself. All of the sudden there were information architects, program managers, user interface experts, database administrators, technical writers, and on and on. I came to realize the value of specializing in one field. (read more...)

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Tools For Web Designers

Everyone, especially computer people, love lists of resources. I do as well, and I decided it’s time to share many of the resources that have helped me in my career. All of these resources (except for the print books) are either freeware, open source, or the application offers a free version.Firefox Firebug  - Essential tool for CSS/JavaScript debugging. YSlow - Firebug add-on to help determine performance bottlenecks. Web Developer Toolbar - Provides tools to compliment Firebug. Fireftp - The best FTP client and in a browser no less! Dust-Me Selectors - Scans the page against your current style sheet to determine extraneous styles. Server (read more...)

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