Tag Archives: Development

Disable Styles and Javascript in Safari with Keyboard Shortcuts – How To

Posted on June 2, 2008

Now Safari’s just as cool as Firefox

ArrayIf you’re a web developer on the Mac, you may be sick of everyone talking about Firefox Addons that do everything but wipe your ass. True, Firefox is a great browser that is very expandable, but I love Safari, and I want to do as much web development on Safari as possible.

The feature that I missed the most in Safari was Disable Styles and Disable Javascript, both of which are super-easily done in Firefox via the Web Developer Plugin. With the advent of Safari 3, disabling CSS and Javascript is as simple as a keystroke combination of your choice!  Read more…

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Warning: Create your website at your own risk!

Posted on March 17, 2008

Diving too deep can result in a waste of energy, time, and resources.

We know better now.

My wife and I have just bought our first house. It has been updated, it looks great, and we’re slowly making it our own. When we bought it, we planned on installing our own laminate flooring. We bought a circular saw, read a few how-to articles, and felt generally pretty confident. It can’t be that hard!

Each day after work, my wife and I would come to our new house to work on the floors. We started in the small room to get a handle on the process. To make a long (and painful) story short, 8 hours in, we had only completed about 30 square feet. It was a disaster.

By doing flooring ourselves, we managed to:

  • Turn our new house into a source of frustration
  • Spend valuable energy
  • Waste three nights of our lives
  • Burn ourselves out

In the end, we hired a professional. Now the project is done, and it looks great.  Read more…

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How to Define Your Website Audience – includes a PDF sample!

Posted on March 11, 2008

Lucia Hernandez - A fictional website audience profile

This two-page PDF file is an example of how to define your website audience. When you create a website, it’s important to have in mind for whom you’re designing.

When designing landing pages, it is especially important to focus on an audience and craft every piece of content to fit that profile.

Feel free to use the audience profile PDF as an outline for your projects.

  Defining Your Website Audience (250.6 KiB, 2,561 hits)

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Content is king…when can I get it?

Posted on March 7, 2008

King content and his pawns

As a web designer / developer, my job is pretty straight forward: I design a website, code it, and add the content. But that’s not all. I’ve also got to be a pest, hounding clients for content.

At the beginning of each project, it’s always a good idea to get a firm grasp on exactly what content is going to be on the website. Defining a site map is vital to developing a website. A simple list helps you figure out what is needed. Below is a sample:

  • About us
    • Employees
      • Bio paragraphs
      • Head shots
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