cssOrigins.com » Firefox http://www.cssOrigins.com Css Origins, Design Blog and Wordpress Publishing Platform Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:35:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Valid XHTML http://www.cssOrigins.com/2009/valid-xhtml/ http://www.cssOrigins.com/2009/valid-xhtml/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:27:23 +0000 Hunter Brelsford http://www.cssOrigins.com/?p=364 Making websites has always been about the content, the delivery and the style. I mean hey what else do you need?
Well some people want function. Over the last few days I have had my nose in articles saying this is that about XHTML compliant websites, and being w3c compliant is the way to go. Though after about 6-10 hours reading and working on my own site I still don’t believe in their opinions any more, but to be fair I did learn much more then I thought I would. Just in my endeavor to get my site cssOrigins to be w3c compliant.

As some of you know I’ve moved to Taiwan since my last post, and while spending time out here I have learned that being w3c compliant is a MUST. Validation help ensure your website can be seen by web browsers of any type, including mobile users (it may not be pretty but it wont be broken).

The Firefox add-on “Developers Tool Bar ” can help you be

  1. standards compliant
  2. css error free
  3. javascript error free

But if you really want to be proud of your work, you need to go that extra mile, spend that extra time to ensure that your site is w3c compliant. If your looking for the validation? Shoot on over to their website and test your pages for yourself.

If your valid you can stick one of those stickers onto your site letting people know.

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First SEO Quake found at seoquake.com

Seo quake is both for Firefox and IE, and its primary function in is to help quantitatively define the information presented on a website or page being viewed. The main feature I would point you guys too is the keyword density ability, basically it can read through your pages and find out how many times a word or group of words appears on your site. VERY HANDY if your going for SEO optimizations this is a must, try and get your good key words between 5-20 density for maximum effect on your home page.

Next we have the all powerful Developers toolbar from Chris Derick

The toolbar can be downloaded from addons.mozilla.org

Developers tool bar is a multifunction toolbar allowing users to view style information, edit css, outline styles, edit their browsers width and height and so much more. Just with those key features makes the developers toolbar the #1 Firefox extension any kind of web personnel should have. Being able to specifically target a browsers width and height is something I think we all have had to do at a specific time, and with 2 clicks boom you can view the site in that exact resolution.

Being able to edit css on the fly even on another website and save it off also a helpful or potentially a time saving feature. and of course most praised feature in my opinion is the ability to highlight hovered objects, and see their css roots. See what div, what class and what id they came from, makes editing your styles that must faster.

Umm lets see, Colorzilla downloadable over there colorzilla.com !!

Colorzilla is simple, it places an icon down in the lower left hand corner status bar and  you just select it to get an eye dropper in Firefox, thus allowing you to retrieve any color on the firefox screen. Oh its sOo handy.

Finally we have Firebug available addons.mozilla.org

Firebug has some similarities with the developers toolbar but its a lot more complex. In other words it can be used to help diagnose css related issues and help you dig deep to find what id or class your having trouble with, but where this thing has shined for me in the past is with the development of dynamic sites, the ability to track what files are specifically slowing down the loading or display of my site.

My list of Firefox plug-in’s again are

Do you  have your own plug-in you think should be included in this, feel free to comment and let everyone know about it.

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