Customize Firefox
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Firefox 1.5 CCK (Client Customization Kit) technorati tags: firefox
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Big Games
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
O’Reilly Radar > Come Out and Play: As a former camp staffer, this sounds like a blast!technorati tags: games, camp
Flex on a Mac
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
As long as I’ve been posting Flex info Here’s information about installing the Flex SDKs on a mac.
No More Pop In Schools
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
This is a couple of days old but the major soda makers have agreed to replace the fully-loaded pop that they sell in schools nation-wide with water, juice and sport drinks. technorati tags: soda
Dreamweaver 8.0.2 Updater
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Adobe has released an update for Dreamweaver 8. The 8.0.2 updater is available for macintosh and windows and improves code generated by Dreamweaver for server behaviors and for active content such as Flash.technorati tags: adobe, dreamweaver
Flex 2 Beta 3
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Beta 3 of Adobe’s Flex version 2 is available on the Adobe Labs site. Flex is a development environment that allows rich internet applications to be built via XML or Adobe’s FlexBuilder application to be delivered via Flash. Steep learning curve, but incredible results. technorati tags: flex
Shave Yourself
Thursday, May 4, 2006
You have got to see Norelco’s new web site advertising their new BodyGroom shaver. It’s hilarious (and made with Adobe Flash!).
Adobe / Macromedia Sites Merged
Monday, May 1, 2006
While Adobe and Macromedia merged around six months ago now, they have continued to maintain separate web sites that served their unique audiences. Until now. At some point in the past day or so, the macromedia.com domain was finally redirected to the new adobe.com website (which looks a whole lot like the old macromedia site). The macromedia name will probably hang around as long as the current versions of macromedia applications are current.
SubEthaEdit on MacZot!
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Have you used SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys? It’s a fantastic text-editing program that allows you to collaborate with others on the same document at the same time. If you need to do real-time collaboration on a document, it’s the best thing I have ever seen. If you don’t, it is still a fantastic editor that recognizes many code languages. Why am I telling you this now? Because for today only, it is the the feature software in BLOGZOT 2.
White House Web Site Redesign
Monday, April 24, 2006
Design View : Andy Rutledge - White House Redux. The jewel here isn’t the design itself but his descripton of the process. It’s an excellent evaluation of audience, message, color and design.
IE 7 Full Screen is Really Full Screen
Monday, April 24, 2006
As a Mac user, I’ve always been a little jealous of Windows users that can run just about anything full screen. I have especially coveted full-screen browsing. Sure, you can maximize a window the full width and height available, but you still have the always-present menu bar sitting there, and the application title bar (even if you choose to hide the status bar, navigation and address bars). My envy just jumped a notch when I saw that the new beta of Internet Explorer 7, when put into full screen mode, hides EVERYTHING that isn’t a part of the page (windows media player-like).
TMI
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Does Asparagus make your urine stink? Ever wonder why? ;-)
New Star Trek Movie
Saturday, April 22, 2006
J. J. Abrams (Creator of Alias and Lost, Director of Mission Impossible III) will be producing a new Star Trek movie. No cast or story has been announced, so it’s not clear which series/timeframe this will be targeting although the fact that he mentions that he wants to return Star Trek to its former glory indicates to me that it would focus on the original series. With that crew now old or dead, a movie based on the original series would almost have to recast the crew.
Flock Now Universal!!
Friday, April 21, 2006
Firefox went universal binary with the 1.5.0.2 release and now Flock, in their continuous updates has started offering universals. I had drifted towards Firefox since it was working so much faster than Flock, but now I can return to what has become my favorite browser! WooHoo.
Wednesday Links
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Here's stuff we looked at during <cfgeek> on Wednesday morning Mandolux (High-res desktop pictures) Color Schemes Color Scheme Generator 2 Steel Dolphin Creative - Color Scheme Generator Return of Design Color Schemes Color Schemer Gallery Colr.org (sample schemes and ability to generate off of provided photo) Web 2.0 Poster GIMP (convert icon files to PNGs) GIMP for Windoze
Firefox 2 Alpha 1 Available
Monday, March 20, 2006
Firefox 2 alpha 1 is available. At the time of this posting, it is not yet on the mozilla site, but TechCrunch has managed to find a link to it.
Squeaky Clean CSS
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Here’s a few tips that will help you keep your CSS in order
Web 2.0 Humor
Monday, February 20, 2006
What is meant by web 2.0? What was web 1.0? Read all about it here…
What should your site be doing?
Saturday, February 18, 2006
This is a list that showed up on digital-web magazine over a year ago listing those things that a modern site should be doing. While it's hard for most casual developers to incorporate these into a homegrown site, it shows that one should really consider some of the great content management systems available when building a site. Most good ones will take care of a majority of these items. In the end, you need to decide what is and isn't important to you and your visitors.
Camino hits 1.0
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
It’s been in beta for nearly five years and yesterday it finally it version 1.0. It’s not my favorite browser but it’s a fantastic browsing alternative on the mac and I’m sure it has a lot of great things on the way.
Cambridge Followup
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
This morning I worked with two students from Cambridge, Nebraska on web development topics. Here are the links and other resources that I mentioned during that time. h3. Downloadable Files "Completed _America_ Project":[www.brianfitz.net/america_f...](http://www.brianfitz.net/america_finished.zip) h3. Web Sites "CSS Zen Garden":[www.csszengarden.com](http://www.csszengarden.com/) This site show what's possible with CSS by inviting CSS designers to contribute stylesheets to style a common html file. "CSS Vault":[www.cssvault.com](http://www.cssvault.com/) A showcase of CSS sites "
First Day at MAX
Monday, October 17, 2005
Some observations and thoughts from the first day at Macromedia’s MAX Conference: Flex is awesome and the price may be right now. I’m frustrated that right now there is no way to develop flex applications on the Macintosh (that I can see). The code is just XML, but you have to have something that can compile the SWF file and that seems to be Windows-only right now. Stephen Elop (Macromedia CEO) took quite a swing at Microsoft and their new flash-like features in Avalon.
MAX Conference Starts One Week From Today
Monday, October 10, 2005
Macromedia’s MAX Conference starts one week from today and I can’t wait. With studio 8 just out and the Adobe acquisition, there should be a lot of exciting things going on there. Five co-workers and myself will be headed down to Anaheim next Sunday to check it all out.
Firefox 1.5 beta 2 available
Thursday, October 6, 2005
“Mozillazine”:www.mozillazine.org has announced the availability of “Firefox 1.5 beta 2”:weblogs.mozillazine.org/qa/archiv…
Web Development Workshop
Thursday, October 6, 2005
I’m in Hastings, Nebraska today to work with 16 victims willing participants on Dreamweaver, CSS, XHTML and other standards-based issue. It’s going to be a great day… “View the Workshop Outline”:www.brianfitz.net
Browser Comparison
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Wikipedia hosts one of the most complete browser comparison charts I have seen. In most cases however, it seems to be comparing the last or latest version of each browser, not breaking the features out by version.
Microsoft Sparkle... What is it?
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Microsoft has been rumored to have a “flash killer” in the works for a long time and it seems that the newly announced “sparkle” program may be it, but is it designed to go up against flash? It really seems when watching the available interview/presentation that it is not meant so much to be a low-bandwidth internet technology as a way to add a ton of vector-based eye candy at desktop applications.
Why software sucks (and what to do about it)
Monday, September 26, 2005
Here’s a good article from scottberkun.com about software design and why people call it sucky. What are they really thinking? What does this make the developer think? How can developers spend time more efficiently to create software that is user-friendly?
Page Structure
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Today I’m nailing down the page structure for a new set of sites that I’m working on and a key part of that is asking “what gets denoted h1, h2, etc.”? I perused several HTML and design forums looking for discussion on the subject, but did not find answers that seemed practical. A model that kept coming up was that your h1 or h2 should mimic your title tag. If your title tag follows the convention of “site name - page name” this is problematic as these are two distinct elements that should be marked separately.
Studio First Thoughts
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
I downloaded the new Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash last night and have had some pretty good opportunities today to use DW and Fireworks. Regarding the previous post about folks bashing Fireworks, I’m not in agreement. They were obviously doing some things with Flex that I’m not doing, but Fireworks suits me very well and I do not feel like the product seems neglected, although there is not much new there.