sewmyheadon - Web Design Tips

Don’t know about you, but I love me some geek reading. Unfortunately, there are only so many books I can read in my ’spare time.’ So recently, I picked up the Practical Web Design Magazine, which is a great monthly UK publication dedicated to “Helping you build better websites.”

Each issue is packed with news, reviews, how-to articles, and clever tips. And if that’s not enough, they include a CD filled with cool stuff including audio of the Practical Web Design Podcast as well as free software, video lessons, and tutorial files.

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A friend turned me on to the boagworld.com blog and weekly podcast recently and I’ve been hooked ever since.

Every week, Paul Boag and Marcus Lillington laugh their way through a wonderful podcast that’s both entertaining and informative. Their mission:

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Looking for cool, free icons to spice up your site? MaxPower.com has compiled a list of completely free icon sets listing the author and license terms with a completely cool little previewer.

Free! Icons for your website or application at MaxPower

Most sets are licensed under GPL, LGPL, or CC.

Making sure your pages validate is a snap with the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar Extension.

Many web development applications bundle in ways to check your page markup. Both Dreamweaver 8 and TopStyle Pro (tools I use daily) have this functionality built-in, or you can also use nifty online tools, like those at W3C:

• Validate HTML
• Validate CSS

If your web development tools don’t have built-in validators, or you’d like a second opinion, the Web Developer Toolbar offers an easy way to validate HTML and CSS (among many other things) from any page on the web.

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Use the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar to see how your site looks and behaves without styles, images, and javascript.

There are three features in the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar Extension for Firefox that can help you quickly test the usability and construction of your website.

Each of these is very easy to use and can give you some quick information to let you know what users would see if they have certian browser functions disabled.

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