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Useful Source Code Editors

Gotta love those folks over at Smashing Magazine. I've been pretty happy with and loyal to Dreamweaver throughout my career. Lately, though, I've been doing more telecommuting, and Dreamweaver CS5.5 seems to have real problems with managing sites over a laggy network. Every time I'd try and make a change to the code or save a file, and application would come to a screeching hault for anywhere from 5 seconds to a full minute. Absolute death to productivity and morale. Read more about Useful Source Code Editors

Disable Backspace Key as ‘Back Button’ shortcut in Firefox

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For any of you using a Windows laptop, you've probably experienced the heartburn of filling out a complex web form, only to hit the backspace key expecting to delete a charcer—but instead! BAM! Your browser acts as if you've hit the back button, going back to the previous web page in your histroy... and losing ALL of your web form content in the process. Read more about Disable Backspace Key as ‘Back Button’ shortcut in Firefox

Some Useful Responsive Email Development Links

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Today I was asked what I knew about "responsive email". After my initial reaction of "ugh", I set about to educate myself quickly. I know the concept in principal, and with the rise of responsive Website design and more people using their phones to check email, we've been kicking the idea around of trying something like this for awhile. So, here are a few hopefully helpful articles I found out in the wild web. Read more about Some Useful Responsive Email Development Links

Intro to Views Slideshow and Dynamic Display Blocks

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I thought I'd look into using the Drupal Views Slideshow module for some upcoming slideshows / rotators / billboards on Drupal projects. In the past, my standby for achieving a billboard / rotator / slideshow was to use my favorite jQuery plugin of all time, Malsup's jQuery Cycle plugin, to convert a standard views list into a slideshow with whatever options I wanted. Read more about Intro to Views Slideshow and Dynamic Display Blocks

Web Design: Blue Planet DC

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I’ve just started working on another great pro bono project. This time, I’m redesigning the Web site of Blue Planet DC, a local dive shop with a focus on conservation and helping individuals connect with life in the ocean.

I’ve recently begun working on the home page. My first comp is to the right here.

The goals of the site redesign are: Read more about Web Design: Blue Planet DC

Twitter Over-Capacity

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Apparently, Twitter is literally getting too big for its britches. Users have been recently confronted with either a “twitter is over capacity, please check back later” splash page featuring some birds attempting to carry a whale (at least they have a sense of humor about it), or, when they try to tweet, a message saying “something is technically wrong” (actually, something is literally wrong *LMAO*). I think the best thing about this whole debacle is that just being overcapacity is causing all these mindless tweeters to issue MORE tweets about the service being overcapacity. Read more about Twitter Over-Capacity

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