Although I know a lot of people have got it by now, a new version of the Web Developer's Toolbar for Firefox has been released. It allows you to view the CSS or HTML of any website you come accross, and even live-edit them. Obviously it doesn't save onto the website you're viewing, but you can save it to your hard drive and upload it later if it's your own site you're working on.
Next up is a couple of browser viewer add-ons for Firefox. I find the IE View for FF very useful (not sure what version of IE it is) when doing cross-browser testing, and there's also an Opera View add-on kicking about as well.
For my blogging I use Performancing that allows you to just stick in your username and password and start uploading to Blogger (or any other blogging program near enough) with in minutes. It gets a little iffy when you copy and paste stuff from Word into it, but that's because it's the Devil. Other than that it's cracking. It got it's own built in spell checker too so you'll be alright to use it to type up your blog straight away.
Another nice add-on that goes woefully underused is the search engines that you can add to your FF. There really is a lot, so go check them out.
Although it's neither productive or helpful, if you've heard murmurs around the class about StumbleUpon, it can be found on the FF add-on site.
If you don't have FF, shame on you. Download now. It really is immensely faster than IE, and so much more customisable. Some people have had issues with Firefox 2, but so far mine has been fine.
Another useful website to check out is Portable Apps, as they've got a lot of little applications that are very useful and tiny in size to stick on your erm... stick. The Suite is especially useful.
One last thing, the home page for the Firefox Add-ons can be found by clicking any part of this text (I tried desperately not to use the "click here" and failed miserably).
Next up is a couple of browser viewer add-ons for Firefox. I find the IE View for FF very useful (not sure what version of IE it is) when doing cross-browser testing, and there's also an Opera View add-on kicking about as well.
For my blogging I use Performancing that allows you to just stick in your username and password and start uploading to Blogger (or any other blogging program near enough) with in minutes. It gets a little iffy when you copy and paste stuff from Word into it, but that's because it's the Devil. Other than that it's cracking. It got it's own built in spell checker too so you'll be alright to use it to type up your blog straight away.
Another nice add-on that goes woefully underused is the search engines that you can add to your FF. There really is a lot, so go check them out.
Although it's neither productive or helpful, if you've heard murmurs around the class about StumbleUpon, it can be found on the FF add-on site.
If you don't have FF, shame on you. Download now. It really is immensely faster than IE, and so much more customisable. Some people have had issues with Firefox 2, but so far mine has been fine.
Another useful website to check out is Portable Apps, as they've got a lot of little applications that are very useful and tiny in size to stick on your erm... stick. The Suite is especially useful.
One last thing, the home page for the Firefox Add-ons can be found by clicking any part of this text (I tried desperately not to use the "click here" and failed miserably).
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The Web Developer toolbar for Firefox is probably one of the best tools you can get for web design. It lets you do lots of tweeking straight in the browser.
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