Three Firefox Extensions

Three FireFox extensions that are very useful for all the wordpress theme designers.

Whenever I start using a new machine, these are the three extensions I install as soon as I install FireFox.

They are as follows.

1. ColorZilla
2. HTML Validator
3. Web Developer Extensions

Be sure to check them out !

Create your own Link Buttons

Do you want to create your own buttons, just like this ?

Go to Brilliant Button Maker

Enjoy !

Some Links for the Designers

Here are some links for the designers.

1. http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/

   This is a grand collection of small icons, that we can use it for free.
   Mark James, the guy who created this, must be generous.

2. http://e-lusion.com/design/menu/

   This is for those of you who want to provide a neat vertical navigational menu.
   Designed by Ian Main, the guy who created the green marinee theme for WordPress.

CSS Inspirations !

Since I have other personal weblogs, I would like to use this site to do something that I always wanted to do, but I couldn’t.

Every now and then, I would like to post about CSS based websites that has inspired me. I am sure it will also be useful to you.

here is my list for this weekend ! Go check them out !

• i-marco’s choice - Premium weblog design
• Petz by Becca
• CSS Zen Sentiero – I think it is Italian website, but it is similar to CSS Zen Garden, try clicking on the link on the left hand side, just before ‘di’
• CSS Play by Stu Nicholls – A wonderful website with a lot of CSS demos.
• Piepmatzel.de/ Collecting best practice web standards design examples

Ok…I guess that will keep you busy for sometime.

I will come back with more. Have Fun and a great Weekend ! 

Generate a FavIcon for your site !

Use your own image and create a FavIcon for your website.

Use the FavIcon generator available at this website.

Very useful tools they got there !

Webdesign Checklist !

http://legion.gibbering.net/el/pivot/entry.php?id=11

is the link to the process of doing a web design…

everyone who has done a web design will definitely correlate to that.

CSS 101

This is a really neat article to learn CSS.

It starts with a plain text resume, and tries to add style to that, and on its way, explains the beauty of CSS.

Check it out http://www.digital-web.com/articles/css_101/

ok…am I standards compliant ?

Your website is complying to ‘Valid XHTML’ and ‘Valid CSS’ rules…ok is that what you need to be a standards compliant website ?

Apparently not.

The checklist from MaxDesign asks for

• Quality of Code
• Degree of Seperation between content and presentation
• Accessiblity for users
• Accessibility for devices and a lot more

Check out the complete list at http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/checklist.cfm

List-a-matic !

MaxDesign has a set of very good tutorials on his site. This one tells how to use an un ordered list and style it to as you like.

check it out at http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/

and also see an online tool for doing that right here at http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/list-o-matic/list-o-matic.asp

Layout-o-matic !!!

Layout Automatic !!!

Here is a website that will give you a sample HTML and a CSS file, for building a pure CSS based layout.

Try it out !

http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/layoutomatic.php