How to create your own Google Sites website
Posted on November 25, 2008 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 5 Comments
Google Sites allows you have your own content available on the web. Unlike blogs, Google Sites work like MS Sharepoint wherein you can control who can and cannot edit the contents of your site.
With this website creation tool you don’t have to install anything to write your own page – you can do them online anywhere as long as you are online. Small offices who want to have their own Web space will also benefit since this is a good way to have a website with the least cost of ownership.
How to use TagCrowds on your website
Posted on August 30, 2008 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 1 Comment
TagCrowd is a very nice visualized rendering of the frequency of the words you used in your website or document. To give you an idea, below is a sample TagCrowd output:
Web apps on your desktop
Posted on July 22, 2008 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 1 Comment
Just when everyone was expecting that all our software and services would move completely into the browser and off the desktop, a movement begins to bring services out of the browser and back onto the desktop.
Over the last year or two we have seen a number of technologies and developments aimed at achieving this with varying levels of success.
Google Gears
Quite promising, Google released Gears just over a year ago with the concept of allowing web services to tap into the power of desktop software somewhat.
7 Adobe AIR applications you should try
Posted on July 7, 2008 - Filed Under Software Reviews, Web Site Tips | 4 Comments
Why should you care about Adobe AIR?
Well AIR applications are more then just fancy widgets, and more even then just web services outside of the browser. Instead they give developers the opportunity to provide the traditional power and flexibility of desktop applications to web services.
The advantages are attractive, cross-browser applications which have low system resources requirements and are quick to develop. The biggest issue seems to be the ease in which developers can push out low quality and unfinished products, however here are some of the best ones I have found:
Convert Photoshop designs to CSS website
Posted on April 26, 2008 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 11 Comments
Are you a kickass Photoshop person? Can you create amazing looking designs using your Photoshop skills? If so, you might find yourself creating web site mockups in Photoshop for clients and then passing on the design to web site coders to get the final product in HTML.
If you’re one of the many people who create web sites in Photoshop, you might be interested in a free online service that will let you convert your Photoshop design into a strict XHTML compliant CSS web site!
Install multiple versions of IE on your computer for testing
Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under Web Site Tips | 1 Comment
Are you a web designer looking for a way to test your web site in different versions of IE? Firefox and Safari are easy to test in because they can all be installed on the same computer at the same time, however, IE only allows one version of itself to be running at any one time. This is can be very annoying for web developers because they either have to have multiple boxes or test using online services.
