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Adobe brings you e-Seminar sessions on Design, Web and Technical Writers

// September 19th, 2009 // No Comments » // Action Script, Flash, Web Development, e-Seminers

Adobe brings your e Seminar session Adobe brings you e Seminar sessions on Design, Web and Technical Writers


Adobe brings your e-Seminar sessions packed with the hottest and most-requested features.
Learn the very latest tips, tricks and advanced techniques that will give you the required skills to stand out in a competitive market and take your ideas and creativity to a whole new level.

All sessions are for one hour – 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Design sessions

Photoshop killer tips – WED, 7th October
In -design Killer Tips – Wed, 11th November
Illustrator Killer tips – Web, 18th November

Web Sessions

Flash Killer Tips – Web, 23rd September
Dreamweaver Killer Tips – Wed, 14th October
Flash Action Scripting – Web, 4th November

Technical Writers’ Sessions

Easily Author and publish using Framermaker9 – Web, 28th October
Beyond Screen Capture Adobe Captivate – Friday, 30th October


What do you need to Participate?

Online live seminars are scheduled events simulcast over the web via Adobe Acrobat connect Pro.
You’ll need a computer with a browser, Abode Flash Player and internet connection. Audio is available via telephone (Local telephone numbers would be provided or dial in to the conference). Access details will be provided once you register.

Register

This session is conducting by – Channel Technologies (P) Ltd.

Save or Convert webpage into PDF

// August 7th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Add-ons, Browsers, FireFox, Web Development

save or convert webpage into pdf Save or Convert webpage into PDF

This is an amazing and free utility which can be very useful if you want to create a PDF file of any webpage easily and view it in HTML within your web-browser.

PDF Download lets you convert web pages into high-quality PDF filesFree from any web browser, including Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera.

Use the PDF Download Add-Onfor Firefox, Flock and Internet Explorer which lets you harness the full power of PDF Download. It includes tools to stop your browser crashing, speed up the display of PDF content, and convert any (unsecured) Web page into ahigh-quality PDF.

PDF Download has advanced support for HTML, XHTML and CSS enables you to preserve the page layout, text, fonts, images and hyperlinks — creating highly accurate PDF copies of any web pages you want to archive, print or share.

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More About 960 Grid System

// August 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // CSS, HTML, Web Development


more about 960 grid system More About 960 Grid System
After seeing some CSS frameworks pop up over the past couple years, I thought it fitting to address the increasingly popular trend. In my opinion, I see CSS frameworks as a way to learn how other designers and developers work with layout, markup, and style to produce websites rapidly, semantically, and with great flexibility.

Without further ado, the official Wikipedia definition of a CSS framework:

Description from Nathan Smith: The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.

Why we need to use the 960 Grid System.

The premise of the system is ideally suited to rapid prototyping, but it would work equally well when integrated into a production environment. There are printable sketch sheets, design layouts, and a CSS file that have identical measurements.

>> Know more about 960 Grid System
>> Download Templates

10 most useful Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers

// August 6th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Add-ons, Browsers, CSS, FireBug, HTML, JavaScript, Web Designing, Web Development, XHTML


Addons for FireFox 10 most useful Firefox Add ons for Web Developers
Most of web developers they will choose first browser as a Firefox, because Firefox is best browser compare with all browsers.

Since Firefox become crazy because of add-ons of Firefox, I promise you that without add-ons no developer will work.

How Ever I have came up with some useful Firefox plugins, which will help you stay focused, simplify your daily work flow, and give a boost to your efficiency.

let’s check it out and let me know your suggestions or comments.

firebug 10 most useful Firefox Add ons for Web Developers

Firebug

It is one of the most commonly used and essential Firefox plugins for every web designer. It allows you to examine and analyze that your HTML, CSS, Script, DOM and Net are working properly or not. It also helps in editing, debugging, and monitoring CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

ColorZilla 10 most useful Firefox Add ons for Web Developers

Colorzilla

This plugin is similar to color dropper used in Fireworks and Photoshop. Using Colorzilla, you can use any color you want, adjust it and paste it into any other program. It saves time and is useful for checking hex values, investigating DOM elements and a built in color palette. You can also zoom the size of the page to measure distance of two different points on the page.

 10 most useful Firefox Add ons for Web Developers

Fireshot

This extension of Firefox helps you take screen shots of web pages. You have an option to choose the entire web page or a specific part to capture. It can be modified by adding text or graphics and can be uploaded to the server or saved to disk (PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP), printed, copied to clipboard, e-mailed and sent to the client or used as a portfolio.

greasemonkey 10 most useful Firefox Add ons for Web Developers

Greasemonkey

It is considered to be the most essential Firefox extensions and allows you to add scripts that alter the web pages you browse through. It lets you apply custom Javascripts to pages within your browser; you can check out the directory of Greasemonkey scripts at Userscripts.org.

 10 most useful Firefox Add ons for Web Developers

MeasureIt

Using this plugin you can measure various portions of a page with an in line, adjustable ruler. It allows you to verify width, height and alignment of different elements on the page.

JSview 10 most useful Firefox Add ons for Web Developers

JS View

Generally, all the browsers provide “View source” option for internal files but to view the external files you need to view the page source and then copy the file path. Now using JS view, you can easily open a file with just a click of a mouse. You can get this from the context menu, from the toolbar, from the view menu, or from the status bar.

imagebot 10 most useful Firefox Add ons for Web Developers

ImageBot

You can upload your images to a free image hosting service (ImageShack or Photobucket). It allows you to classify, filter and make image galleries etc.

greasemonkey

Font Finder

It is helpful in checking the font properties of the selected text. It can show details regarding the selected text color, font, spacing and other creative additions.

windowresizer 10 most useful Firefox Add ons for Web Developers

Window Resizer

This plugin is useful for testing different screen sizes of web pages. It helps you see how your page looks like in standard resolution sizes. It supports the 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1600×1200resolutions.

fireftp 10 most useful Firefox Add ons for Web Developers

Fire FTP

It provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. Along with uploading your files quickly, you can also try its advanced features such as: directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SFTP, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing, and much more.

Now next time you browse through Firefox, don’t forget to install these easy to use plug-ins, which are really helpful in making your job much easier than before.

Opera 9.5 – the next generation of web standards

// August 4th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // New Releases, Web Development

Opera 9 5 Opera 9.5   the next generation of web standards

Introduction

Another exciting time dawns upon us for the advancement of web standards, with the release of the final version of Opera 9.5—download Opera 9.5 here. If you’ve been checking out the beta releases, you’ll already have a taste of some of the great new features our new browser brings to the table, such as Opera Quick Find and Opera Link integration, and the final release builds on this. Sure, it’s a great user experience, but what does Opera 9.5 mean for developers? The answer is that Opera is rallying around the web standards flag more than ever before:

>> Download Opera 9.5 beta

  • The browser features better standards support than Opera has ever shipped in previous releases—not only does it have very thorough support for current standards like (X)HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS 2.1, SVG 1.1 and JavaScript, but it also includes support for many aspects of nascent standards such as HTML 5 and CSS 3. Testament to this is Opera passing the Acid 1 and 2 tests, and scoring 83% on the Acid 3 test—check the Acid tests out for yourself here.
  • As well as providing you with killer standards support, Opera has also created a great new set of developer tools to help you debug your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—the debugging application is called Opera Dragonfly, and there is also a brand new developer menu available. Check out our Opera Dragonfly page for more information on these.
  • Last but not least, Opera will soon be releasing the first part of an education program to help propagate best practices and increase web standards usage on the web. The Opera Web Standards Curriculum will provide a thorough grounding in all the skills you need to be a proficient front end developer, including web background theory, in-depth HTML and CSS, design principles and introductory DOM/JavaScript. Watch this space!

In this article I will look at all of these in more detail, but with a bias towards the standards support in Opera 9.5—for much more on the Opera developer tools and the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, follow the links above. The structure of the article is as follows:

Thanks a lot to everyone who wrote the examples featured below.

Opera 9.5 web standards support

In this section, I will review Opera 9.5’s standards support, going through some of the highlights, and taking you through some examples to show you how the Web of tomorrow is shaping up! It’s going to be a brighter day when tomorrow eventually comes.

For a reference list of the web standards support in Opera 9.5, have a look at our specs support page. The article you are currently reading focuses more on specific practical examples.

(X)HTML, CSS 2.1 and JavaScript

As we all know, (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript are the three mainstays that we do most of our web site building in; it also won’t be a surprise to many of you that Opera has a reputation for being one of the most standards-compliant browsers. This reputation starts with current web standards, and is gradually building forwards to some of the more nascent ones, which we’ll discuss later. Suffice to say, Opera 9.5 supports the majority of the HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1 specifications; Opera 9.5 also supports nearly the whole CSS 2.1 Specification; finally, Opera 9.5 has very thorough support for both ECMAScript/JavaScript and the DOM. We support a decent amount of DOM 3, and the majority of DOM 2.

Summary

So that’s a wrap—the end of my summary of Opera 9.5’s standards support, and Opera’s overall commitment to the web standards movement. Let us know what you think of the new browser, our new wave of developer tools and our educational material.