Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier
If you are a web designer or a web developer then you must know just how important it is to ensure that the final product is devoid of any bugs/errors.
The following five websites help developers and designers to validate websites and check the website code for any sort of error.
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Graphics designers spend long lengths of time working on their designs. But the work is finalized only after the client’s feedback has been gathered and taken into account, often numerous times. Getting this feedback is quite easy if you can meet with the client. But in case he and you are not in the same location, the internet is your best shot.
Normally designers email their work-in-progress to the clients. But imagine emailing multiple pictures for a project and receiving feedback on different portions of different pictures. With only the words in the email to guide you, referencing the feedback with the pictures can quickly become very difficult.
Here to offer you a better and more convenient way of sharing your designs and gathering feedback for them is a web service called Cage.
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Let’s imagine the scenario: you are a designer, well versed in Photoshop and you wanted to convert that great design of yours into a concrete web site. How can you do this in the easiest possible way?
You have two solutions: Learn HTML (you probably need to know PHP as well) and code it up yourself, or pay a coder to do it for you. With Basekit, there is now a third solution – import in your .psd file and get it to convert your design to a standard compliant template.
BaseKit is developed by a UK based company and it allows you to create website quickly and easily. Think of it like an online Dreamweaver, but easier to handle and more powerful. There is little or no HTML knowledge required to code up your website. All it needs is a bit of your creativity. [Read more...]
Perhaps you want to dabble in web design. Perhaps you want a place to sell your crafts online. Perhaps the lady in the house next door really wants to post pictures of her cat. There are a lot of reasons to want a website, but not everyone is willing or able to design something nice from scratch. For those of us without the time or inclination to build our own, there are templates. Lots of them. Often, they’re even free. Today we’ll check out 8 of the best places to get free HTML/CSS (and sometimes Flash) templates.
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There are many applications out there that provide project-based web development tools and very feature-rich interfaces, but sometimes all you really need is a good text editor. For those times, there are few editors that can stand up to the KDE powerhouse called Kate.
Kate is a multi-document interface (MDI) text editor, available for both KDE 3 and 4. It runs on multiple Linux and Unix-like platforms, Mac OS X, and Windows. It also includes a component called KatePart, which runs inside numerous other KDE applications, including Quanta+ (on KDE 3 only), KWrite, Konqueror, and Kdevelop. Kate provides syntax highlighting for over 120 text formats, making it perfect for whatever programming language you choose.
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