Category: Cool Tools


Javascript libraries – YUI

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December 8, 2008

I’m not a Javascript person – I know the bare essentials but I don’t program.

That said, today I downloaded the Yahoo User Interface library (YUI) and started working on tabsets for a client for whom I’m doing an interface design. I’ve never, ever done anything like this before, but I actually got pretty far. I have three tabsets on my page, I’m about 2/3 of the way done skinning them. I just need to find out if I can apply a background image to the content area because I wanted to have a gradient there. Otherwise, it’s all good so far.

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Simpleviewer

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November 26, 2008

What a great little application!

My client wanted a very simple, very sleekand Flash-like gallery for her portfolio. I installed Simpleviewer a few hours ago and just finished my first gallery (with an hour break for an Asiago cheese pretzel at Barnes & Noble) and I’m very pleased with how easy it is to use. I don’t even have to have Flash, which is convenient since my version of Flash is 5.

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Excluding pages the easy way

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June 21, 2008

I’ve built a few recent sites using WordPress as a CMS. For the most part this has worked out really well – the main thing that’s been problematic is when a user adds a new page that is not supposed to show up in the menu.

In the past I’ve had to go find that page number and add a bit of code to remove it from the list. But yesterday I came across this great plugin by Simon Wheatley to exclude pages. Works like a charm; this will give me greater incentive to keep creating WordPress/CMS sites and encourage my clients to go this route.

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Color palettes from images

Filed Under: Cool Tools, Graphics by Debbie — Leave a comment
May 2, 2008

Found a nice color tool this morning – it extracts multiple color palettes from any image you upload or from a random image it pulls from Flickr.

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Crackberry!

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May 1, 2008

I finally got my first Blackberry – a Curve 8320 Titanium. It came in the mail today and I left it in the box because I knew once I got it out that would be the end of work for the day.

I got it for one reason – so I can catch emails while out at meetings. Some days, like last Thursday, I spend 4-5 hours away at client or networking meetings, and being able to quickly respond to an important email is critical sometimes. I figure if it gets me just one additional hour of work per month, it’s earned its keep.

I’m excited to see what it can do…

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Hosting market share

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March 28, 2008

I found this cool tool today  on IPwalk.com. If you’re a hosting reseller like I am, you can enter the name of your company and it will tell you your market share in the U.S. and the world.

I am currently a major player in the United States with 0.0002% of the total hosting market under my control.

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