I’m a big fan of Smashing Magazine and appreciate the time and effort that goes into researching and writing their often exhaustive posts on web design tools, resources and techniques.
Tools & Resources
Online Image Editors Compared
A not uncommon request my web team receives is to do some sort of simple image editing for a staff member. I also sometimes hear that someone is getting Photoshop installed so that they can edit images and add them to their intranet site themselves.
Read MoreSave Ink by Cleaning Up Web Pages Before Printing Them
Isn’t it a pain that when you print a web page you often have to include a lot of stuff — like advertising — that you don’t want?
Read MoreEasy Way to Display Well-Formatted Code on a Web Page
A while back I posted about a useful tool for presenting nicely formatted code in blog posts. Well, Quick Highlighter is a similar online service that includes color highlighting based on the language you are displaying.
Read MoreDownload Free Fonts from Urban Fonts
The following is a paid review. Please note: my time is being paid for but my opinions are my own.
Urban Fonts is a fairly new free font download site that aims to make finding free fonts (and dingbats) a little less painful.
Is Your Site More Popular with Men or Women?
Have you ever wondered whether more men than women visit your site or what age ranges your site is most popular with? If so, then Microsoft adCenter Labs have the tool for you.
Read MoreCreate ‘Mini-Web Sites’ to Embed into Your Site
In case you didn’t know, 2007 is the year of the widget. In that vein, I recently discovered Leafletter — a service that enables you to create Flash-based ‘mini-web sites’ and embed them into your site, blog or (here’s where the money is) MySpace page. Read More
Enterprise Search for Free?
IBM and Yahoo! have launched “IBM Omnifind Yahoo! Edition”:http://omnifind.ibm.yahoo.net/ — a free enterprise search product to compete with Google’s “Enterprise Search Appliance”:http://www.google.com/enterprise/.
Add Thumbnail Previews to Your Links for Free
Search engine Snap sets itself apart by providing a large preview image of its search results.
It has now launched Snap Preview Anywhere — a free service that enables you to add this technology to your own site so that every link on your site generates a pop-up preview image. Read More