Roughly 3-4% of our readers view this site via a mobile device and that percentage is growing week-to-week. They aren’t very high percentages but it was certainly high enough to prompt me into action – I started considering a mobile version of this site.

Let me start by saying that I didn’t want it look like an entirely stripped down version of the full site. I did want to keep the overall layout of the hompage (thumbnails and excerpt), I wanted the internal post images to be re-sized per screen rather than cropped, and most importantly, I wanted the essence of the site, albeit in smaller mode, to reflect on the mobile version.
I experimented with a few Wordpress plugins, for some sites these plugins may be powerful enough, but not for me, I wanted more functionality. I also tried a few web services, I wasn’t too happy with them either.

Eventually I chanced upon the solution while browsing WebDesigner Depot on my HTC Hero (much better than the iPhone!), and there mobile site just looked amazing. It has the appearance of a mobile app while still maintaining the integrity and functionality of the full site. I went digging and found out that they were using Mobify, a web service were you can design a mobile layout for your website exactly how you want.

I since discovered that a lot of design blogs were also using Mobify (Smashing Magazine and Abduzeedo to name a couple), so I jumped in and tried it. You can see from the screenshot below what I have built, and it actually wasn’t that hard nor did it test the patience. Speckyboy-Lite looks not too bad:

Mobify Overview

In case you were wondering what Mobify is all about, have a look at this short video below.

Abduzeedo

Smashing Magazine

SitePoint

Veerle's blog 2.0

Webdesigner Depot

Yanko Design

A List Apart

TheDieline

I love Typography

Jeffrey Way

Six Revisions

Avatar NY

DesignM.ag

WebmasterRadio.FM

kristarella.com

CSS-Tricks

Just Creative Design

Amy Stoddard

MyInkBlog

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There are two ways you can go when designing a 404 page for your website – you could go the sensible route and make it usable and try to help the reader find exactly what they were looking for or, you could design a 404 page that not only defines the character of the web site or the designer, but also makes it a pleasure and surprise. Its amazing the effect a sprinkle of humor and some creativity can have on someone and it will certainly make your site that little bit more memorable.

Below, we have a collection of sites with original, creative and generally humorous 404 pages. You may notice that some do not meet even the most basic usability guidelines, but who cares, they make us smile! Hope you enjoy them.

This article has been written by Richie Thimmaiah.

50 Creative 404 Pages

South Park Studios

Dilbert Website

Blizzard Entertainment

Future of Web Design London

Popscreen

GDZLLA SMASH PAGE (NOT FOUND)

Carsonified 404

Chris Jennings 404

Twurn

Houston, we have a problem! Abduzeedo

Henrik Hedegaard – WOOPSIE DAISY! Something went wrong!!!

Wufoo Page Not Found

Jamie Huskisson 404

Tele2 404

TattooSales.com – Page Not Found

What the Dickens…?

Suspended Animations

Oops! You bwoke it

YouCastr – Woops!

Acro Media Inc – Dude, we can't find that page!

< scythe.net 404 Error >

Content Not Found : The New Yorker

Frye/Wiles 404 – Whoops

Pattern Tap 404

Limp Fish – file not found

TinSanity 404

LILEKS – uh oh

Page Not Found – d20srd.org

dawdle.com

Blue Daniel 404 File Not Found

CSS Tricks – Nothing found for Thispagedoesntexist

arbitraryconstant – 404 (missing)

Shelfworthy

Laughing Squid – Page not found

VintFalken.com

Springload: Error 404

Error Finding Page

Expansion Broadcast – Page not found

Bits of Magic – PAGE FAULT ERROR #404

Error – GeekSquad

moock.org >> operation failure >> code 404

Open Adventure – 404!

Site Sketch 101

Bi Bakar mısınız? Sayfayı Bulunamadı!

404 – Casino Lemonade

404 › rbardini.com

404: Lost in the aether

ZEITWENDE

webtressdesign.com – OOPS Wrong Turn

The Web Motel – ERROR!

404 Best Practice Resources

404 Best Practices from CSS-Tricks
Tips for Creating an Informative 404 Error Page
Pimp Your 404: Presentation and Functionality from Perishable Press
How To Customise Your 404 Page from Sitepoint
Turning 404 not found random visitors to blog readers from Tech Snacks
404 Page Management Your Grandma Can Use
404s and WordPress Server Load from alexking.org
The Perfect 404 from A List Apart
5 Tips to Make Your 404 Page More Usable from UX Booth
Why You Should Keep an Eye on Your 404 Stats
How to Find and Fix 404 Errors
A Better 404 – Redux from urbanmainframe.com

About the Author

This post has been written by Richie Thimmaiah. You can visit his personal design blog RichWorks, which is brimming with Photoshop tutorials, daily inspirations and all round great resources. You can also follow him on Twitter here: @richbugger

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Once in a while a new design resource arrives that looks so good you simply have to shout about it from the rooftops and make sure everybody knows about it. And today such a resource has launched, it is called Media Loot – a lowly priced subscription-based online toolbox of premium design resources. It is your one-stop resource for the coolest icons, the highest quality Photoshop brushes, the perfect textures, the best vectors, professional print templates, and much much more.

And the coolest thing of all? We have 5 free one-year licenses up for grabs (valued at $168 each!).
All you have to do to win a subscription is leave a comment below and tell us what resources you would like to see on MediaLoot.

About MediaLoot

Media Loot has been founded with one basic idea — to somehow provide better design resources for a lot less money. The best way to do that, they have found out, was to offer a subscription membership where designers could band together in a larger community. They can then buy tons of awesome designs together, distribute the cost, and everyone gets more for less. Now, how cool an idea is that?

The goal of the site has been to eliminate the need for pay-per-use sites by offering a subscription-based service and offer royalty-free resources designers that you could use on your own or commercial projects.

What cool resources does Media Loot offer?

Have a look a below at some of the cool resources that MediaLoot offer, and remember this is only the tip of the iceberg, and more much will be available soon.

You can browse more resources here: MediaLoot Resources.

How to win this competition

To win one of the 5 free one-year licenses all you have to do is leave a comment below telling us what you kind of resources you would like to see on MediaLoot.
The competition will end on the 9th of April 2010, so get your comments in as quickly as you can. Good luck!
Even if you don’t win this competition, you can join MediaLoot for only $14 per month (Join Medialoot), it would be money well spent.

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.

Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy, and you’ll be kept up to date with loads of design news and resources.

As always, if you have any cool links that you would like to share, do not hesitate to share them here: Submit News. Thanks to everyone that has been emailing.

Good Reading: Web Design Criticism: A How-To from Smashing Magazine

Good Reading: Designers: How to Search For, Hire, and Work With a Web-Developer from Noupe.com

Good Reading: How Much Do Standards And Trends Dictate Your Web Design? from Pelfusion

Inspirational Showcase: 70+ Fresh and Inspirational Single Page Website Designs from Instantshift

Inspirational Showcase: 55 Inspirational Original White and Light Web Designs from readactor.com

Tutorial: Quick Tip: Highlight Author Comments in WordPress – The Right Way from AEXT.com

Tutorial: Speed Up with CSS3 Gradients from CSS Tricks

Tutorial: Rotated Background with Slide Up Menu using JQuery and CSS from thatagency.com

Tutorial: Capture the Perfect Panning Shot Every Time from photo.tutsplus.com

Tutorial: Create a Stunning Retro Futuristic Typography from RichWorks

Tutorial: Burnt Wood Text Effect – Photoshop Tutorial from Visual Swirl

New Free Web App: Picmeleo Online Photo Editor

Freebie Download: Free Star Wars TrueType Font from Airopia

Freebie Download: Update: Social Media Icons from WebdesignerWall

Freebie Download: Google Nexus One, Android GUI PSD Packs For Designers from Cheth Studios

Freebie Download: Free Web UI Wireframe Kit from Fuel Your Interface

Freebie Download: Gesturecons – Multi-Touch Icons

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The gap between the desktop/laptop and the mobile device is becoming smaller and smaller, it has never been a better time for mobile app development – The market is huge, very lucrative and highly profitable. Our ever growing appetite for more powerful and better mobile devices has pushed the demand even higher for ever more powerful and better applications to accompany them.

The expectation on the apps UI design is just as demanding. The design has to not only be consistent with whichever mobile OS you are developing for, it also has to be distinctive enough to be unique. And yes, we do love a well designed app.

In this post we are sharing 14 free mobile application development icon sets. For the most part the icons below can be mainly used for the iPhone or Android, there are even some Symbian icon sets, but for the life of me I could not find a single free icon set for BlackBerry development. Anyone know of any?

Android Icons

This Android developer icon set includes 30 .png menu icons plus the additional source files (.eps) for further customization.
All of the icons are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. Feel free to use them in any form in you projects or even remix them.

130 Glyphish iPhone Icons

The Glyphish icon set have designed and carefully optimized specifically for use on toolbars and tab bars in iPhone apps, but would also be perfect for Android Development.
The 130 icons are 24-bit .png images are about 30×30 pixels for tab bar icons and about 20×20 pixels for toolbar and navigation icons.
These icons have been shared under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

160 iphone Toolbar Icons (The Working Group)

There are 160 clean and simple toolbar icons in this set designed specifically for the iPhone, with a source .psd file for futher customisation.
These icons have been released inder a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. You may use the icons for both commercial and non-profit purposes, as well as modify them until your hearts content.

iPhone Toolbar Icon Set (app-bits)

This set of 64 icons for the iPhone toolbar that contain beautiful shaded portions to give added depth and to highlight the icon features.
These iconshave been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. So, don't edit the icons in any way without permission but you can freely use the icons for commercial or non-commercial work.

Android Developer Common Icon Set

The design and style of these icons have been based on some of the icons that are contained within the Android SDK. In total there are 24 .png Glyphs with the option of the following sizes: 16×16, 24×24, 32×32 and 48×48 pixels.
Despite the restrictive appearance of the screenshot, these icons are completely free.

Android Developer Common Icon Set II

This icon set contains icons designed for use in the Menu, Lists, Tabs (selected and unselected) or Dialogs, with the correct sizing sorted into appropriately labelled folders.
In total there are 15 glyphs all in .png format.

Gesturecons – Multi-Touch Icons

These vector based icons have been created to help in the design, development, implementation and promotion of multi-touch interfaces. You can use Gesturecons inside of your applications in order to demonstrate to users how to complete actions or prompt them to interact with an application when they approach it. You can scale them to any size and alter them in any way you wish.
Within the download package there are 52 high resolution vector icons entirely scalable and alterable (.pdf, .ai, .eps file types.).
This work is free to use and is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Free iPhone Toolbar Icons (PixelPressIcons)

These icons have been developed specifically for iPhone developers, completely free for anyone to use commercially under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada license. You may use or modify these icons in any way as long as you credit www.pixelpressicons.com.

108 Mono Icons (Minimal Icons)

There are 108 simple icons included in this set. The icons are avaliable in 32×32 px .png (transparent background) format.
This icon pack comes with 108 gray icons, but you can easily customize the color. In Photoshop, use layer styles and apply Color Overlay to customize. In Fireworks, simply apply Filters → Adjust Color → Color Fill and choose your color!

30 Free Vector Icons (Dezinerfolio)

In this icon set there are 30 free vector icons with an apple touch and feel about them and perfect for mobile app development. The download contains the .psd source file.

TOKEN Icon Set

The TOKEN iconset includes 128 unique icon designs, available in both dark and light variants. The download package contains both .ico (256×256, 32×32 and 16×16) and .png (128×128) formats. There is also a .psd file including the layer styles for each reolution.

Web UI & Button Set

This set has not been specifically designed for mobile developement, but could be easily used. The set contains the following elements in three distinct styles: glossy, satin/light gradient, and single-color. The satin/light gradient set is available in 7 different colors (which you’ll find all of in the psd file).

Mobile Icon Set

This mobile Icon Set includes Phone Call, Photos, Messages, Calculator, Wireless, Calendar, Settings, Contacts, Notes and Map all with the sizes: 128, 64, 48 and 32px.
You are free to use these icons for Personal and Commercial Projects.

478 Free SVG Vector Icons – The “Seven” Icon Pack

All you Symbian theme developers out there you will love this resource. In this original “Seven” style icon package you will find essential Nokia Carbide files, as well as 478(!!!) original fully vectorized icons for theme development.
On the web site they say you will need a password to the .zip file is (which is zomggimmeyoicons), but when I downloaded them I never needed one.

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This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let us know what you think.
Send us your recommendation for next weeks Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration (for our review), by clicking here: Submit News.

TheFWA

André Gonçalves

Gateway College

Crush + Lovely

Fuzzco

Put This On

Colorcubic

Hughes

MUH·TAY·ZIK

Tenth Time.com

Launchpad

Lise Marie & Tobias

Attic App

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There are thousands and thousands of social networking and media apps for the iPhone and for Android, we all know that. But what about all the apps for Windows Mobile? Certainly, Win Mob is no where near as popular within the mainstream of mobile users as the other two, but does have a fairly comprehensive library of apps that are freely available.
So, if you’re a Windows Mobile user and you are in need of some social media and networking apps, look no further. Below you will find The Top 20 Free Social Media and Networking Apps for Windows Mobile.

YouTube for Mobile »

YouTube for Mobile is a simple, fairly fast, and well-designed application for a variety of Windows Mobile phones that support landscape and portrait views. You'll search for videos through the search bar at the top of the screen, or through Top Rated, Most Viewed, or Most Recent categories. The results are displayed in a horizontal ticker, where you'll view a thumbnail image from each video and read the blurb and ratings below.
YouTube for Mobile »

Bebo for Windows Mobile »

With the Bebo app for Win Mob you can post status updates anytime, anywhere, view the latest updates from your Friends list, send messages and even call anyone from your Friends list. Take pictures on your phone and you can upload them straight to Bebo.
Bebo for Windows Mobile »

Facebook for Win Mobile »

The Facebook app allows you to keep up with the latest news and posts from your Facebook account. You can show your friends what you’re up to institently while you’re out and about by updating your status, send messages, upload photos and videos.
This app is available for English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, and Greek language versions of the Windows operating systems.
Facebook for Win Mobile »

MySpace for Windows Mobile »

MySpace for Win Mob is a free application that lets users stay connected with their friends–anytime, anyplace. MySpace Mobile lets iPhone users send and receive MySpace messages; browse their network of friends to check current statuses; upload and share photos; post comments on friends' profiles and photos; search for new friends, and stay up-to-date with MySpace bulletins.
MySpace for Windows Mobile »

del.icio.us plugin for Windows Mobile »

If you use your Win Mobile to browse the net often the this Delicious plugin could prove very useful. Just like if you were browsing on your desktop or laptop and you want to share or save a bookmark to Delicious you simply click the Delicious button on your mobile and your done. The idea is to have a popup window that gets prefilled with the URL and name of the page you are looking at in your browser, lets you add a few tags, then submit it to del.icio.us when you hit ‘Save’.
del.icio.us plugin for Windows Mobile »

Tiny Twitter – Mobile Twitter App »

Tiny Twitter is just customizable enough to make using a Twitter client on your mobile phone comfortable without being overwhelmed with unnecessary settings and options.
You can adjust how frequently Tiny Twitter will check for new tweets, toggle sound and popup alerts, and adjust the size of the client's tweet buffer.
When actually reading and sending messages you can retweet, direct reply, and perform any of the standard functions like following and unfollowing.
Tiny Twitter – Mobile Twitter App »

ceTwit »

ceTwit will pull all of the latest updates you've received from friends and display them within the client. You can set the program to 'Auto Refresh' to make sure you're always up-to-date with what everyone is doing. ceTwit has a full range of options for dealing with incoming tweets, available by choosing the 'Action' option while a message is highlighted. From here you can reply, send a direct message, open a link, favorite, follow/unfollow the poster, and much more.
ceTwit »

Twitter for Windows Mobile »

Twitter for Windows Mobile is a today screen widget for posting, written in C++ to keep posting to Twitter very quick and lightweight. So, if you don't want a full blown app with lots of features and only something to take your message and post it to Twitter, then this is for you.
Twitter for Windows Mobile »

Quakk – Free Open Source Windows Mobile Twitter Application »

Quakk is an open source Twitter client for Windows Mobile, allowing you to view your feeds and post tweets from your Win mobile. The program is easy enough to use. Once signed in, you'll see a list of all the latest posts from the people you're following, in the form of a timeline. You can quickly change the view of the timeline to display either all tweets, only replies, or only direct messages.
Click on a tweet in Quakk and you'll be presented with three options: Send Reply, Send Direct Message, or Open Link, which are all pretty self explanatory. To send a tweet of your own your just need to select 'Tweet' from the Menu.
Quakk – Free Open Source Windows Mobile Twitter Application »

FriendFeed for WinMo »

FriendFeed for WinMo »

Nimbuzz Mobile »

Nimbuzz is the complete All-In-One for Windows Mobile: Free calls, instant messaging, and file-sharing and status updates. From a single contact list, chat and call any of your contacts via: Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, Facebook, MySpace, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger (MSN), ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, Jabber, studiVZ and Hyves (supports 3G, Wifi, EDGE and GPRS network connections). You can chat, update and send pictures, or videos with social network friends that are on Facebook, MySpace, studiVZ, Hyves and Gadu-Gadu.
Nimbuzz Mobile »

Kinoma Play »

Kinoma Play is is awesome but sadly, not free ($30), but you can at least try it free for 30 days. Kinoma Play's cross-social sharing lets you share "everything with everybody": Share YouTube videos on Facebook, share Facebook photos on Twitter, share tunes via SMS, and much much more. It integrates not only with your social networks but also with all of the media content already on your phone and allows you to share them with ease.
Kinoma Play »

Vaayoo SocialBox Lite »

Vaayoo SocialBox is an application that combines social networking, media syncing, multimedia messaging and private communities in an easy to use mobile application. Click and instantly Share photos, videos and audibles from your mobile with your friends on multiple destinations: private Web Communities on www.vaayoo.com, Facebook wall or specific Facebook album, Twitter, Flickr sets, YouTube, emails and phones. You can also receive photo and video updates from them instantly.
Vaayoo SocialBox Lite »

Glympse »

Glympse is the easy way to safely share your location in real-time with others. Just send a Glympse to anyone via email or SMS. and you only share your location for the time period you choose, and then Glympse will automatically shuts off.
Glympse »

Plurk Lite »

This Lite applications for the Plurk community that lets you use a lot of the Plurk features, such as: View All Plurks, did not read Plurks, private Plurks, responded to the Plurks, issue a new response to puff puff . There is support for these three languages: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and English.
Plurk Lite »

CellSpin »

To use CellSpin, you must visit www.cellspin.net » and create a free account.
It is an easy-to-use mobile blogging application that lets you blog photos, audio, video, and text from your phone to popular sites like MySpace, Facebook, Google Blogger, Flickr, Picasa, Live Journal, Live Spaces, Typepad, Twitter and eBay.
CellSpin »

Critter »

Critter is just a fun Windows Mobile Twitter application for you and your pets. It allows you to see everything you need to stay updated and in touch with your favorite tweeps. Share and discover what''s happening right now, anywhere in the world. Send and read messages known as "growls" (or tweets) "Regrowl" or retweet your favorite messages.
Critter »

Viigo – Mobile RSS Reader »

In one free, simple and fully customizable mobile application, Viigo gives you access to things like: updates from your favorite websites, weather, flight search/status, sports scores, stock prices and portfolio tracking, showtimes for upcoming movies and audio podcasts. You will start you off with some popular default channels, but you can quickly begin customizing the app as soon as you launch.
Viigo – Mobile RSS Reader »

YomoMedia – Feed Your Phone »

YomoMedia is a free rich media RSS reader application for Windows Mobile devices. It automatically retrieves any RSS feed, audio or video podcast and stores the content on the device enabling offline viewing and listening. Use this app to discover new feeds and view and manage your subscriptions. You can also create Bundles of feeds to share with others.
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Speeed Reader – Google Reader Client for Windows Phones »

Speeed Reader is a Google Reader client for Windows Phones. It connects users to their Google Reader accounts, allowing them to view and share articles on their Windows Phones.
Speeed Reader – Google Reader Client for Windows Phones »

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About the Author

The author of this post has been Saijo George, he runs BestWindowsMobileApps, a site that reviews and tests the best and most interesting Windows Mobile Apps and Games so that there readers can make an informed choice before purchasing or downloading these apps. You can also follow him on Twitter or on Facebook.

For this months book giveaway we have jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide, written by Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg.
To give yourself a chance of winning this book all you have to do is leave a comment below, and tell us how jQuery has helped you improve your web development projects, or you could quite easily comment about how much you would love this book.

About the Book “jQuery 1.3 with PHP”

To make optimal use of jQuery, it’s good to keep in mind the breadth of capabilities it provides. So, if you are looking for a comprehensive reference guide to this popular JavaScript library, this book is for you.

The book has been revised and updated for version 1.4 of jQuery, and it offers an organized menu of every jQuery method, function, and selector. Each method and function is introduced with a summary of its syntax and a list of its parameters and return value, followed by a discussion, with examples where applicable, to assist in getting the most out of jQuery and avoiding the pitfalls commonly associated with JavaScript and other client-side languages.

In this book you will be provided information about the latest features of jQuery that include Sizzle Selector, Native event delegation, Event triggering, DOM manipulation, and many more. You won’t be confined to built-in functionality, you’ll be able to examine jQuery’s plug-in architecture and they discuss both how to use plug-ins and how to write your own.

What you can learn from this book

• * Explore the impressive jQuery JavaScript library and its capabilities with a real-world example.
• * Investigate jQuery’s plug-in architecture, using a variety of approaches to extend the library’s capabilities.
• * Pull information from the server without refreshing a page using the AJAX capabilities of jQuery.
• * Build a small script that dynamically extracts the headings from an HTML document and assembles them into a table of contents for the page.
• * Discover the Form plug-in for combining AJAX techniques with HTML forms.
• * Explore the Dimensions plug-in for getting the size and position of any element on the page—even the document and browser window.
• * Determine whether an element is visible by testing its current width and height using a :visible selector.
• * Inspect the browser environment and individual jQuery objects using the properties of jQuery.
• * Create an extremely powerful jQuery toolset using a combined set of a selector expression and a corresponding DOM traversal method.
• * Get complete and functional jQuery-powered scripts in this example-packed book.

Even if you don’t win the book, it is a book you should consider: jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide.

How to win this book

To give yourself a chance of winning this book all you have to do is leave a comment below, and tell us how jQuery has helped you improve your web development projects, or you could comment about how much you would love this book. The winner will be chosen at random.

Good luck to everyone!

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At some time or another we have all seen it – neighbourhood walls with old and deprecated graffiti or, just as common, you may have seen some flyers or posters that have been stuck for so long on these walls that they start to peel and hang on by their edges. It is this effect that is recreated in this tutorial. Rather than use typical grafitti or a common poster this tutorial opted to combine the two, and have old and peeling posterized letters graffiti slowly peeling and falling from the wall.
This Photoshop tutorial has been written by Aaron Vergisi from TutzMaze.
So, without much delay let’s get on with the tutorial…

Falling Off the Wall Text Effect Preview and Source Files

Source Files

You can download the .psd file for this tutorial here:

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The Author

Aaron Vergisi from has been the author of todays tutorial, he is a young graphic designer from Baltimore, USA.
You can follow him on Twitter or on Facebook and you can visit his website, TutMaze a new graphic design magazine.

Do you have a tutorial you would like to share?

If you do have a tutorial or would like to write a tutorial for us don’t hesitate to get in touch with us here: Contact.
We are open to most ideas…look forward to hearing from you.

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There are a lot of useful tools for web designers and developers, they do tend to come and go and it usually depends on personal preference whether or not any tool is used. There is only one tool that has lasted the test of time and is not only universally used but also loved, and that is the Firefox extension Firebug – it is by far and away the best tool within web design.

To say that Firebug is just a web developing tool would do it injustice, it is much more than that. It houses a powerful suite of tools for debugging and optimizing CSS, JavaScript, HTML and thoroughly speeds up your web development.
A great thing about Firebug is it gives you the option to add extra extensions and make it that even more indispensable, you can tailor it and mold it to your needs.
I have listed fifteen of my favorites in this article.

XRefresh for Browser Refresh Automation

XRefresh is a browser plugin which will refresh current web page due to file change in selected folders. This makes it possible to do live page editing with your favorite HTML/CSS editor.
Typical usage scenario is for local web development on a machine with two monitors, the first monitor is for source code editing and the second one is fully dedicated to previewing the web page in Firefox.

Xrefresh Overview Video

YSlow for Firebug

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages.
It grades web page based on one of three predefined ruleset or a user-defined ruleset. It offers suggestions for improving the page's performance, summarizes the page's components, displays statistics about the page, and provides tools for performance analysis

Introduction to Front End Performance Tuning with Yslow

Firefinder

Firefinder offers the functionality to, in a quick way, find HTML elements matching chosen CSS selector(s) or XPath expression. It allows you to instantly test your CSS selectors in the page while seeing the content at the same time, and matching elements will be highlighted.

FirePHP for AJAX Development

FirePHP enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call. All data is sent via response headers and will not interfere with the content on your page.
It is ideally suited for AJAX development where clean JSON and XML responses are required.

FireQuery for jQuery Development

With FireQuery, jQuery expressions are intelligently presented in the Firebug Console and the DOM inspector with the elements in the jQuery collections highlighted on hover. With jQuerify you can inject jQuery into any web page.

Drupal For Firebug

Drupal for Firebug extends the Firebug module to provide Drupal specific debugging and status messages. It allows users to see the processing of the node, form, and user objects and works with the Devel module to display SQL queries and execute PHP from the Firebug window.

FireAtlas – Asp.net Debugging

FireAtlas is an extension dedicated to ASP.NET AJAX debugging. This extension will provide you with these useful services when developing ASP.NET AJAX web sites: PageRequestManager events tracing; WebService calls tracing and inspection; Partial Update inspection within Firebug Net Panel; Application components listing.

CSS Usage

CSS Usage is an extension which allows you to scan multiple pages of your site to see which CSS rules are actually used.
Each time you press "Scan", the CSS files that are included in the current page are shown with the number of times the rules has been found applied on your page before it.

Firesymfony

FireSymfony is a port of the Symfony Web Debug Toolbar as a Firebug extension. Besides the normal functionality of the Symfony Toolbar, it adds new features, like Database Query, One Click copy to clipboard, or Mouse Over Partial and Component Cache Highlighting.

Firepicker – Color Picker

Firepicker adds a small color picker dialog when editing CSS rules in Firebug. The addon scans for values that can be parsed as CSS colors (#abc, rgb(1,2,3), blue, red etc.) and displays them in a drop-down list right below the firebug's CSS editor box. Clicking on the color value in the drop-down brings up a color picker dialog.

Firepath – Edit, Inspect and Generate XPath Expressions

FireXPath is a Firebug extension that adds a development tool to edit, inspect and generate XPath expressions. With this extension you can edit with auto-completion (using TAB or up and down arrows), you can also evaluate the expression on HTML or any XML documents and display the resulting evaluations in a Firebug-like DOM tree.

Inline Code Finder

Inline Code Finder is a tool to traverse through all of the elements in a web page, and when it finds an HTML element with any of these, it will highlight them: Inline JavaScript events, Inline style and javascript: links.

SenSEO

SenSEO analyzes web pages and tells you how good they fulfill on-page Search Engine optimization criteria. SenSEO gives you an overview of SEO-important web page components, indepth analysis of on-page SEO criterias and offers the correct usage of Document-Title, Meta-Description and Meta-Keywords.

CodeBurner – Reference Tool for Web Developers

CodeBurner is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug, to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS.

Pixel Perfect

Pixel Perfect is a useful extension that allows web developers and designers to easily overlay a web composition over the top of the developed HTML.
By toggling the composition on and off, the developer can visually see how many pixels they are off in development.
Pixel Perfect also has an opacity option so that you can view the HTML below the composition. By being able to see both the composition and the HTML you can now simultaneously use Firebug while Pixel Perfect is still in action.

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