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Optimizing your CSS Online

by Admin on 9th June, 2007 in Resources

Another useful link, this time for Optimizing & Formatting CSS files.

The CSS Formatter / Optimizer is an online form, that can format your CSS in a variety of ways. Just copy & paste, select your options, and the form will chuck your formatted CSS back at you. Why use it? Well, I’m still using Dreamweaver 8, and although it’s very competent at things like XML and HTML formatting, it’s no good at doing CSS. I like to use this website towards the end of my projects, and it makes your stuff so much neater (and more efficent, if need be) Read More…

WordPress design competition…

by Admin on 7th June, 2007 in General chit-chat

The Sandbox Designs Competition for WordPress

Apparently, there hasn’t been one like it since 2004, but now Scott of plaintxt.org is holding a “Sandbox design competition” (Sandbox being the name of the WordPress theme that it’ll all be based around)

Sandbox is, as you’ll see if you read the about section, a highly semantic theme for wordpress, dynamically generating a wealth of useful variations and classes, and effectively puts an unprecidented level of visual control into the CSS. Unprecidented vs. your normal WordPress theme, that is. 24,000 possible class selectors, apparently. Not that you’d use that many, I hope.

The competition runs until July 29th, with judgements made on the 6th August (when all of the entries will be released)

I’m gonna do my best to enter this one, and even if I don’t, the theme sounds like a promising new base for a redesign…

BittBox!

by Admin on 6th June, 2007 in Resources

BittBox exploded onto the scene in January* and has quickly established itself. It always looks stunning, has high quality content, covering topics related to Graphics and Web design, and often with a smattering of nice freebies and tutorials. It’s quite inspirational, and I like to watch the RSS. So, umm… check it out.

Website screenshots made easy.

by Admin on 5th June, 2007 in External links

Really easy, in fact. www.websitescreenshots.com has a downloadable program by Nathan Moinvaziri which is simply awesome. It ties into Internet Explorer, and uses it to capture a full or part screenshot of any website. It has all the native features your own Internet Explorer has, so Flash and Javascript and the like, all the features you need (cropping, resizing, resampling) and even full-page view. It’s also free. (but without command line abilities) I found it while searching for some sort of wordpress plugin to replace my reliance on the Snapshots rollovers. Oh, I know such a plugin could exist, but it doesn’t. Even so, getting screenshots on the web is now as easy as Open WebShot > Enter URL > Capture > Upload > Send to Editor > Publish.