Linux Users: Bluefish – the Web Design IDE with FTP Project Management

After a fair amount of frustration, and many forum inquiries unsatisfied, i finally stumbled upon a realization which has greatly boosted my web design / web development productivity while working in Fedora Core 5. As a fairly recent Windows XPatriot, i had yet to find my favorite setup for web development– but now that I … Read more

How does the other half live?

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I’m not one who typically cares anything about whether Macromedia Flash is or is not used in a web site. As someone who desires a comprehensive know-how, and wherewithal in terms of internet and web design and development technology, i’m not proud to say that I don’t know the details about what’s coming out of … Read more

Install Internet Explorer on Linux: real iE run under WINE emulator

It’s no secret that IE is the worlds most popular browser– to argue it would be to argue that the sky is more of an off-bluish-green… it’s just not blue, and that’s just foolish! the point is– some people need to use MSIE, and oftentimes a specific version of Internet Explorer, such as ie5.5– still … Read more

Attn: Web Designers! Have you tried Opera Lately?

I have as much of an affinity as the next guy for Firefox and the numerous, excellent extensions available for the Mozilla Gecko based browser. I’ve been using the Web Developer toolbar, among the other Web Design enhancing Firefox addons since i’ve been coding for accessibility, and validating my code at the W3C. The two … Read more

PHP Eclipse – How to install the Ulitimate IDE for Linux

This particular Note is much in the spirit of my original (formerly known as) Web Developers’ Pocket Reference. Fortunately for Linux users, Adam Stokes, of http://astokes.org wrote a very nice step by step tutorial for how-to install PHPEclipse on Fedora Core 5 (a Linux distribution). Mr stokes has titled his article, Web development on Fedora … Read more

Fedora Core RPM Repos: Dependency Resolution Solution

below is an excerpt from a widely referenced, highly regarded website, stanton-finley.net which explains that the RPMforge collection should not be used at the same time as the Livna RPM’s are being accessed. As a new Linux user who’s had a pretty smooth go of it so far, i highly recommend that you research this … Read more

The true test of a service: when it is relied upon

See Also: Browser Sidebar Panels : Web Developer Tools When it comes to web accessibility and web-standards references, such as the W3C Recommendations for example, i have to be among the most neurotic pack rats. Any time i find a web site which could be a design or development reference to lead me in the … Read more

DreamWeaver 8 or is it Dreamweaver MX 2005 ?

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Having recently used it to in the completion of a project, I’d like to share some thoughts on the latest sequel in the legacy of this ever-popular IDE, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 (aka. Adobe Studio 8, Dreamweaver 8– the web development tool of the newest Adobe Studio). Why provide commentary about the ol’ Weaver anyway? it’s … Read more

WHENU and Save! – Paying for some ‘FREE’ Software

I wrote this article about six months ago. I saved it as a draft because I didn’t want to make remark upon the incident while i was influenced so heavily by emotion. I wanted put some space between my otherwise rational judgment, and the feelings of anger, disappointment, and shame which i felt so strongly … Read more