Goodies for Your Blog

Somehow, all of my clients seem to be on the same psychic wavelength…  They all decide that they want a complete overhaul of their website in the same month!   For a number of reasons, I usually suggest that my clients build the site on Word Press platform because WordPress has a lot of great traffic building features built in AND it is very easy for clients to learn to update themselves

WordPress comes with some very powerful themes.  I have a developer’s licensce for two different themes wtih a lot of "good stuff" under the hood – Semiologic and Thesis.  Semiologic is very easy to use — and very easy to customize — but the skins are kind of plain.  Thesis is easy to use (but not as full-featured as semiologic) — but it is beautiful. 

Some other goodies that I’ve discovered in my month-long blog cutomizing frenzy are:

Cross-Browser preview tools:

This weekend I had a minor disaster, I work on a macbook without parallels.  I usually do my PC stuff on my PC — but the internet connection was down so I had no way of viewing the site in IE (and I did need to view the stie — it looked awful in IE).

To the rescue — http://crossbrowsertesting.com — you can login and use a virtual version of most operating systems in most browers for free.  If you just want screen shots — you can go to http://www.BrowserShots.org

CSS Editing

Going through css code makes my eyes cross. Fortunately, there are some good CSS editors out there to help you.

One that I especially like for the mac is CSS Edit  - Firebug for Firefox is also a robust CSS editor.

For color matching — try the colorzilla firefox add-on.