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How to set a character limit for a Ruby on Rails RSS feeds
Published November 20th, 2007 in Tutorials. 5 CommentsI was making a RSS feed the other day and wanted to limit the number of characters in my description. Here is how I did it.
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Firefox 3 beta released for download
Published November 20th, 2007 in Articles and Web Design. 1 CommentAlthough not ready for the public, firefox 3 is a available for download with more than 30 new features. Firefox 3 Beta 1, based on the Gecko 1.9 platform has been under development for the past 27 months and includes nearly 2 million lines of code changes to remedy more than 11,000 issues.
Free Job Board for Web Designers
Published September 24th, 2007 in Articles and Web Design. 7 Comments
I just found a new job board that is specifically for web designers. From there site, PostaPosition.net: is a Free web & graphic design job board. What I like is the fact that it is free to post job listings, other sites I have seen charge around $100 - $200 for one listing. This seems like a good idea for outsourcing some of your projects or extra workload if you have the need too. Sort of like Craigslist but just for web designers. I think it’s more effective than CL because you can sort the listings by design, development and flash so everyone can cut straight to what you are looking for. Your job listing will be posted for 30 days and will show up immediately after you submit it.
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Flash Switcher Extension for Firefox
Published September 24th, 2007 in Flash and Web Design. 5 Comments
This is a great little extension I couldn’t live my life without. It is located in the bottom right hand corner of your browser window and allows you to switch between Flash player versions. It’s great for testing out if you setup SWFObject correctly and is always handy for for checking your site.
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Top 50 CSS Web Design Award Sites
Published September 18th, 2007 in Articles and Web Design. 18 CommentsHere is a list of the Top 50 CSS Web Design Award Sites. This is a great way for you to promote yourself or your sites. These are in order by Alexa ranking on the day I put this together (it could have changed since then).
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I decided to put together a list of sites that offer free Icons. I know designers are always looking for sets like these and a good list is sometimes hard to come by. Most of these icon sets are under the creative commons license and some sites just don’t care, but make sure you find out the terms of use before you use them.
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This question has an incredibly simple answer; however, people seem to ask us this all the time. Do you need a website? Yes. It’s that simple. If you have a business, a product, even an opinion in some cases, then you need a website.
According to Internet Marketing Research firms, the number of online consumers is expected to grow at a rate of 20 to 50 percent over the next few years. This should be enough to convince you that you need a website. Whether you have a tangible product or you’re selling a service, a website is a key marketing tool.
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Ever wonder what color scheme someone used on a site, well with the ColorZilla extension for Firefox you can find out. It gives you the ability to drag crosshairs around and get the hexadecimal and RGB color code for anything on the screen. If what you are looking at is to small, don’t worry it has a built in zoom feature that goes up to 1,000%.
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Everyone has noticed the huge amount of open source CMS’s available right now. My question is what about Flash? Doesn’t it get an open source CMS? I have been thinking about going to work on one with our team, but want to test the interest users like you would have in something like this. Leave a comment and let us know how you feel about it.
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