Archive for December 2009
What Web Editor Do You Use?
About.com:Web Design/HTML is conducting a poll on What Web editor do you use? As I write this, 46% use Dreamweaver/Creative Suite. You can see the current results here.
Recommended Dreamweaver Extensions
I’ll try to remember to mention free Dreamweaver extensions that I find useful. Here are two:
Lorem and More…When building new websites, most designers use a piece of filler text that’s been known to printers since the 16th century — Lorem ipsum — or perhaps some random corporate mumbo-jumbo. Lorem and more offers you the choice of traditional Lorem ipsum, a bit of genuine Cicero, random corporate nonsense, and for romantics — Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare. It also offers a choice of format — paragraphs, continuous text, ordered and unordered lists, and in the case of Shakespeare, formally laid out as a sonnnet.
There is more information here.
Smart LinkSmart Link converts an existing link so that the target page opens in a new browser window. It works in a similar way to the Dreamweaver Open Browser Window behavior, or using target="_blank", but gives you far more control over its look and position. Although it uses JavaScript, it is smart enough to work even if JavaScript is disabled (by opening the page in the same window) — keeping your site accessible to everyone, and far more user-friendly than a link that doesn’t work at all. It also has the advantage of keeping your pages valid, unlike target="_blank" which has been deprecated by the W3C.
There is more information here.