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50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers

Being a web designer is not easy. Not only do we need to have a good understanding about visual design, typography, information architecture, psychology and a plethora of other disciplines; in our work, we need to take care of so many details, so that our job becomes more and more time-consuming, requiring dozens of tools, attention span and an effective workflow for beautiful, timely and functional results. And this is where small time-savers become handy. Be it a handy checklist, batch inst...

How to add bookmark javascript in IE and Firefox

Adding the "bookmark this page" javascript below will help to encourage return visits. Your visitor simply clicks on the link and a popup prompt will appear so they can add your site to their favorites list.

Border-radius: create rounded corners with CSS!

W3C has offered some new options for borders in CSS3, of which one is border-radius. Both Mozila/Firefox and Safari 3 have implemented this function, which allows you to create round corners on box-items. This is an example: Rounded corner example. The code for example above is simple:

Using Page Speed to improve web performance

Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them. By using Page Speed, you can: Make your site faster. Keep Internet users engaged with your site. Reduce your bandwidth and hosting costs. Improve the web! http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/ YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the best practices for...