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27 Jul
Massive Compilation of Designer Tools
Add Ons, Plugins, Web Designers
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Web designers have a wealth of tools available to them, for doing everything from organizing their thoughts about a particular design to debugging the final design.
But with so many tools out there, how do you ever determine which ones are really useful and which ones are just going to waste your time?
We’ve compiled a massive list of some of the best and most useful tools out there for web designers.
Purposely left off the list are common tools most designers are likely already using (like Dreamweaver or Panic’s Coda, Photoshop or GIMP, and similar common software programs that pretty much every designer already has in their toolkit).
These are tools that will save you time, make you a more effective designer, simplify or speed up your design process, or otherwise make your life easier.
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26 Mar
Intro to Git for Web Designers
Add Ons, Software
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Unless you’re a one person web shop with no team to collaborate with, you’ve experienced the frustration that goes along with file sharing. No matter how hard you try, when multiple people are working on a single project without a version control system in place things get chaotic.
If you work with developers on the buildout and implementation of websites, the merge between front-end templates and back-end functionality can be a scary black hole.
Issues like overwrites, lost files, and the all-too-common “working off a previous version” phenomenon crop up constantly. And once back-end functionality has been put into your templates, you become terrified to touch them for fear of breaking something a developer spent a great deal of time getting to work.
In addition, even if you have a common repository that everyone is pulling from odds are at least one member of your team forgot to grab the latest files and is about to blow things up with their latest additions.
In this article, I’ll give you a quick review of Git, an excellent version control system.
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19 Nov
6 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Designers
Add Ons, Extensions, Firefox
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As a webdesigner (and technologically savvy user of the Internet), there is no excuse for you not to be using Firefox as your primary web browser. If you aren’t using Firefox yet, you need to go and download it right now. Not only does Firefox provide a top of the line Internet browsing experience, but it also provides an endless amount of functionality that you simply won’t find in any other Internet browser.
Because third parties can develop add-ons for Firefox, by downloading the best add-ons that are available, you can transform Firefox into a tool that dramatically increases your productivity and saves you a countless amount of time.   Since there are so many different add-ons available to download, it can be a little overwhelming to pick out which ones you should be using.
Therefore, I decided to do all of the legwork for you and compile a list of the six best Firefox add-ons for web designers. Read more
15 Nov
10 Essential WordPress Plugins to Start Your Blog (and Why)
Add Ons, Extensions, Plugins, WordPress
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Ready to start your own blog or online portfolio? Interested in downloading and incorporating WordPress into it? Or maybe you need to spruce up your current site? Well here are 10 essential WordPress plugins to get your blog started today.
Maintaining a blog requires some work, but with WordPress plugin capabilities it has become a lot more convenient and less time consuming.
Literally take these plugins and dump them into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory, turn them on in your Dashboard and Voila! A fully functional blog with all your vital needs. Read more