Category Archives: Tips & Tools
Firebug web development tool
My favourite Firefox extension is Firebug – an open source web development tool. As a web designer and developer I use Firebug regularly to find elements on a page that I want to style or change. Firebug can help you … Continue reading
How to Add a Favicon
A Favicon, short for Favorites Icon, is the small image you see before a website url in the browser address bar. If you are using a tabbed browser you can see it at the beginning of the tab on the … Continue reading
Color Cop: choosing website colours
When customizing a WordPress theme, most of the design magic happens in the css stylesheet file. To change css colours you need to know a colour’s hex code. A colour picker program makes it easy to find. If you are … Continue reading
Simple Steps to Edit & Size Your Blog images
Blog posts and web pages really look much better when they include a picture or two. Since WordPress 2.9 we’ve had the ability to edit media library images right in the wp-admin but there is one problem with WordPress’s editing option, if an image is too large you can’t upload it to the media library!! Continue reading
Embedding Fonts made easy
The Font Problem: Clients often ask that a web designer use a specific font on their website. The challenge is that unless a website user has that font loaded on their computer a substitute font will be displayed. We are … Continue reading
What I learned today: styling newsletters
The expression, “you learn something new every day” has never been truer than in this information age. I have decided to start a series of short blog posts about “what I learned today”. One thing that I love about what … Continue reading
Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online
Dropbox is a file service which uses cloud computing to enable users to backup and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization. File Backup: Yesterday a data recovery expert told me that you need to … Continue reading
Google Docs & Maps in WordPress
In February when I attended PodCamp Toronto 2010 I noticed how they had used Google Docs embedded in and iframe within a WordPress page for the conference schedule. I thought this was a brilliant idea. This week I was able … Continue reading
Open Source File Management Tools
This week I tried to get my new laptop with Windows 7 setup…. only to discover that my version of WS_FTP won’t work with Windows 7 and I have to pay for an upgrade. So I said forget it and switched over to Filezilla the open source file transfer program. From my twitter friends I then learned about other open source tools that they use. Continue reading
iGoogle – Start here to organize your Tools
I received this by email from a client this week:
“Your new site New Media Marketing is great! Very helpful! I read almost everything there under the New Media 101 topic. Which leads me to a question for you. How can I blog, Facebook, Twitter, read pertinent internet stuff to twitter and blog about with out totally feeling I’ve been sucked into a non-productive hole!? “ Continue reading
Last updated by at .
