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Firebug Guide for Web Designers

Firebug Guide for Web Designers
Firebug — an open source web development tool extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser — is incredibly powerful, with a wide range of super useful and practical features that would benefit any web designer or developer. In fact, this browser extension (also available in other web browsers with limited functionality) is so useful and popular that it has browser extensions of its own. This real-time coding tool reduces the guesswork out of debugging web pages, among many other things such web page layout inspection/testing and web performance profiling, to speed up your workflow. Whether you’re building a web page, adding new CSS for a responsive web design, troubleshooting web layout issues, or inspecting how other websites are built, Firebug is going to be a valuable tool in your arsenal. Let’s take a closer look at how this indispensable browser extension can help web designers. Getting Started with Firebug Then you also need to download and install Firebug. Opening the Firebug Panel

Playing with SVG Design After years of quarantine, the Scalable Vector Graphics is finally raising fame as a feature of HTML5 with full native browser support. Vlog.it, by Marco Rosella, is an experimental site launched last month to explore two aspects of SVG with interesting potential for the design of original interfaces: clipping paths and scalable 2D motion graphics. Marco is going to share a quick tutorial on how it is done. View Demo Wheelayout Download Demo ZIP Overview The interface of vlog.it is composed by three rotating circle created by 48 thumbnails (chosen randomly) that let play over 300 Vimeos and over 1000 YouTube videos from my favorite ones. About the idea behind this work, if it was a commercial project I probably hold the client's hand and whisper: "close your eyes and think about the centrality of The Man, surrounded by The Movement in The Digital Universe Welcome back SVG An SVG interface example: the wheelayout (view demo) we will use it later. <div id="wheel"></div><header> ... Javascript

Fireworks Web Design Tutorial Welcome to our tutorial on Fireworks. In this tutorial you'll learn how to design and visualize the sample web site found on the right using Fireworks. (Click on the image to see a larger view) As professional web designers we find Macromedia Fireworks is the best tool to use for designing and visualizing a web site. In just a moment you will see just how easy it is to design a web site in Fireworks! The first step is to define your canvas size and color. Congratulations! You could add all kind of cool elements to the site, like rollovers, swap images and drop-down menus. Please Like, Tweet, Share or Comment on this page if you found this tutorial/resource useful! No portion of these materials may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever, without the express written consent of Entheos.

HTML5 Design Gallery - Eye Styles There is a lot of interactivity on this site, primarily through mouseovers, using CSS3 features. The HEADER element is used a lot—arguably more than is required. And it is also somewhat overkill when there are HEADER elements surrounding only one H1 element. Have you built an HTML5 site? W3Schools Online Web Tutorials Popcorn de Mozilla : documentaire HTML5 et Web 3D Mozilla annonce le lancement de la version 1.0 de Popcorn, son initiative HTML5 dans le domaine de la vidéo. Popcorn est constitué d'un environnement de création Popcorn Maker et de Popcorn.js, un framework JavaScript pour l'interactivité avec des vidéos HTML5. Cette mouture 1.0 a été annoncée lors du Mozilla Festival à Londres en même temps que le documentaire open source " One Millionth Tower " mis en ligne sur Wired.com. " Popcorn utilise JavaScript pour des liens en temps réel vers des médias sociaux, flux d'actualité, visualisation de données et autres directement dans la vidéo en ligne ", indique Mozilla pour qui le résultat obtenu est une " nouvelle forme de cinéma qui fonctionne comme le Web ". Pour la version la plus interactive et 3D, le documentaire est à consulter avec Firefox ou Google Chrome et une carte graphique capable de prendre en charge la technologie WebGL ( Web 3D ).

Coding a HTML Newsletter Email Email marketing is money. While many companies may be looking at ways to increase their social presence, boost their followers on Twitter and number of 'Likes' on Facebook, they all come back to (or should come back to) email marketing. According to VivaLaEmail, email marketing is a 43-to-1 Return on Investment (ROI) channel. If you've tried to code an HTML email before, you know they’re not easy to create. Before You Begin Before you dive head first into nested tables, old school background color declarations and more fun 1999 code, there are a few keys you should remember about HTML emails. Limited CSS Support – Because we’re designing for dozens of email clients that span multiple web browsers, it’s important to keep things simple when it comes to CSS. Creating the Framework Here's the .PSD design that we’re going to turn into our email. This is a very simple two column design that offers up real estate for a featured story and two secondary stories. Step 2 – Email Wrapper Table

Most impressing HTML5 with WebGL demonstrations Most impressing WebGL demonstrations What is WebGL? This is new modern software library that extends the JavaScript language to allow it to generate real interactive 3D graphics into compatible web browser. WebGL supported by many new web browsers, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox (from v4.0), Safari. Today I prepared new collection of interesting HTML5 examples made with WebGL. 1. Another one 3D head in good quality. 2. Here we see the strolling man, and at the same time themselves can walk along the corridor. 3. Simple and nice little rolling ball game from Daniel Rapp 4. Infinitely crawling snake. 5. This is a visualisation of the hosts.deny report generated for that website (of demo). 6. A pool of water rendered with reflection, refraction, caustics, and ambient occlusion. 7. Running through endless forest. 8. 25 boxes are stacked on each other to form a wall. 9. Very interesting graphic visualization: extended Reaction-Diffusion system. 10. Conclusion

Un tutoriel sur les balises meta et leur impact sur le référencement Nombreux sont ceux qui se demandent si un moteur de recherche comme Google prend réellement en compte les balises meta. Le site WebRankinfo a mis en ligne un petit tutoriel sur ces balises et leur impact sur le référencement. Ce document est d'autant plus intéressant qu'il s'appuie notamment sur des recommandations apportées par John Mueller, ingénieur Google à Zurich. Pour exemple, la balise meta description est surtout prise en compte par Google pour l'affichage des résultats. Si cette balise n'a aucun impact en termes de positionnement, le moteur de recherche la reprend donc souvent dans le descriptif qui apparait dans les résultats. D'où l'intérêt de bien soigner cette partie pour inciter l'internaute à cliquer sur le lien. Quant à la balise meta keywords, celle-ci n'est plus utilisée par Google. Comme le précise l'auteur de l'article, "ceux qui pensent encore que le référencement se joue au niveau de l'optimisation des balises meta ont plusieurs métros de retard...

Location Detection A Quick Guide to Using HTML5 Forms Web forms are everywhere—contact forms, comment forms, sign up forms—these days you’d be hard pressed to find a website without a form. Sadly, HTML wasn’t originally developed with forms in mind and working with forms on the web is more difficult than it should be. Even something as basic as adding a date-picker to a search form requires JavaScript. In HTML5 forms get a shot in the arm with dozens of new tricks, including, yes, a built-in date-picker. If you haven’t had a look at the new HTML5 form elements, Robert Nyman, a Technical Evangelist for Mozilla, has a very thorough post examining all the new input types, attributes and elements for HTML5 forms. Of course, as with all things HTML5-related, the new form tags are not supported in every browser. Like much of HTML5, support for the new form elements is uneven and it might be a bit early to rely solely on HTML5 form tools in production sites, but it’s never too soon to learn the basics. See Also:

Auto Optimize HTML Files By Removing Junk Characters & Tags - HTML Cleaner If you are a web designer, then you might know that one thing people hate to see on a web page is junk items, such as extra spaces, quotation marks, optional end tags etc. Manually editing HTML files can become a tedious task, especially if you are dealing with a lot of web pages. Wouldn’t it be great if an application could automatically optimize your HTML documents by removing all the unwanted characters? Apart from reducing file size, it includes a number of features, such as optimize multiple XHTML and HTML files in one go, optimize web page design projects using customized settings, built-in cleaning and optimization templates, backup and restore HTML and supported file versions, built-in browser to get preview of changes and more. To clean a HTML file, first add it to the application by dragging it over the main interface, and then, select the files you want to convert. This is a sample HTML page that we used during testing. Download HTML Cleaner Advertisement

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