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Smashing Magazine’s 50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools

Rick Tuttle — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:22:40 +0000

I found this list of useful CSS tools on Smashing Magazine where there are lots of resources for web developers and designers.

Tiled Backgrounds for Web Sites

Rick Tuttle — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:31:43 +0000

Anyone remember the early days of the Web when everybody used Netscape Navigator and you have to get this Winsock.dll working? Well, one of the early features that Netscape and later IE added to the browser was the ability to use a tiled image for your background.

Of course, back then you had engineers building web sites instead of designers who were still heavy focused on print media. We ended up really “cool” sites with clouds and water drops for backgrounds.

Thankfully more artistic designers have come up with some more elegant tiled backgrounds (and some artistic but not so elegant). Here are a few resource links that I have used to find tiled backgrounds.

Enjoy and don’t get too dizzy looking at all those patterns.

What Happened to My Web Developer Toolbar?

Rick Tuttle — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:50:11 +0000

One of the addons for FireFox that I depend on every day is the Web Developer Firefox Addon. It allows me to view CSS, image information, highlight renegade objects (usually tables) among lots of other useful functions.

Over the past few weeks my toolbar had disappeared. I could still get to the developer tools from the Tools menu but the “one-click” love of the toolbar was gone.

I tried Googling and found nothing so I did what any experienced developer does…guess.Â I went to the Firefox toolbar customize tab and reset the customizations to the default settings and, voila! my toolbar appeared again.

Turns out it was there all along it just was not displaying icons or text…doh!

Anyway, if anyone experiences the same thing I did and tries to Google “firefox web developer toolbar missing” maybe you’ll hit this page and find the answer.