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Category Uncategorized

Testing a plugin

Category Uncategorized

When you post a link to twitter, it automatically shortens the URL using bit.ly. But if the link you’re posting sends the tweet over the 140 character limit it won’t let you submit. Why can’t it just check to see if the tweet contains a link, and calculate if it will be still over 140 characters if the link is shortened.

Yes, I know tweet deck etc. take care of all that for you, but I like using the web interface. Sometimes I think twitter relies too much on people using 3rd party apps to interact with it’s service.

Category Internets

My first post for a month, but a useful one nonetheless. It always paints a bad impression when you visit a website and the footer copyright says 2003. Basically the last time the web designer was involved with the client.

This handy snippet of code will make sure your site doesn’t look so obviously stale.
<script type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
var currentTime = new Date()

var year = currentTime.getFullYear()
document.write(year)
//–>
</script>

Simpy insert it in the HTML where you would have had the year, and it will always pull the current year.

Tags: html, web design
Category Clients, Web development

Here is a quick list of my top Firefox extensions

Web Devloper toolbar

Essential for anyone who works on websites. My favourite features are

• View Style Information
  Very handy for editing CSS templates. You can pick the element you want to alter, and the extension will show you it’s properties and where to find it in the CSS files.
• View Form Information
  Shows the details of a form, hidden fields, submit url etc.
• Clear Domain Cookies
  Very handy for testing sites that ask you to log in. You can easily kill all related cookies and appear like an anonymous user.

ColorZilla

See a colour on a website you like, colorzilla gives you a handy picker that will give you the Hex code for it.

MeasureIt

A useful tool for measuring the size of elements on a page

ScreenGrab!

Take screenshots of web pages, with options for the entire page, visible portion, or a selection.

Dust-Me Selectors

Parses a sites CSS to identify unused styles. Allowing you to cut down bloated stylesheets.

Fire FTP

Does what it says on the tin. An in-browser FTP client for Firefox.

Tags: firefox, web design
Category Web development