Practical Web Design Magazine
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I was recently flicking through a couple of web design magazines, namely Practical Web Design and [dot]NET. Yesterday afternoon I suddenly had the urge to have a read and ended up travelling across Huddersfield with some heavy shopping just to pay WHSmiths a visit. Now I have read these magazines in the past, the last time being some 6 months ago. As a professional web developer you'd think these mags would contain nothing but the basics for more the beginner types - perhaps how to make a heading in HTML or echo a string onto the screen with PHP. How wrong I was - and how wrong you are if you thought the same! One particular article in Practical Web Design caught my eye. Named 'Design Secrets Revealed!' it did exactly what it said on the tin - containing '50 essential tips from the UK's hottest web developers'. There were many good bits and pieces, a few of which I've listed below. There's only one problem - unless my mind is loosing the plot I could only find 35 tips... hmm.
You can test sites on multiple versions of Internet Explorer concurrently, without installing the full program on your machine. A quick search for 'multiple versions of Internet Explorer' will return a host of links telling you what to do.
Both SQL Server and MySQL now provide Stored Procedures. These are reusable queries or snippets of code that you can name and save using the Create Procedure or Create Function commands.
Firefox has a cool extension called ColorZilla (www.iosart.com/firefox.colorzilla/). It puts a little dropper on the screen so you can select any colour on the page. Perfect when you need the hex code for a colour and cant remember it without going into the source code.
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