Category Archives: webdesign

Google site search webinar

robinna/ June 8, 2008/ Design, meetups/conferences, webdesign, web 2.0+, training / tutorials, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

New! Google Site Search Designed for Webmasters Register Today Attend the webinar and get: * Entry to win a free Google T-Shirt Attend this webinar and hear: * Overview of Google Site Search* Setup and technical details* Customer case studies* Live Q&A session answering all your questions “Google Site Search: Designed for Webmasters” Google has recently launched Google Site Search,

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Posting to multiple blogs using Live Writer (How to)

robinna/ March 13, 2008/ software, publishing, webdesign, tools/tips/ 0 comments

Live Writer is a desktop application from Microsoft that allows the user to easily post to Microsoft Live Spaces, Blogger, wordpress, and other blog software (either hosted or on your own server). The WYSIWYG tool is amazingly easy to setup and use and posting to multiple blogs is a snap. Learn more about Livewriter here (and download it, too!) So,

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textpattern, wordpress, & redesign

robinna/ January 3, 2008/ software, publishing, Design, CMS, my projects, webdesign, XHTML/XML/CSS/ 0 comments

I’m re-doing one of my domains with textpattern or wordpress. I considered drupal, but to be honest, I want something with a little stronger 3rd party support. There are several features & functionalities missing in drupal which I need. For a site from scratch or one with content generated from within drupal, all is well. For those working with 3rd

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Various web bits – Firefox3.0, image editing online, and make your own comix

robinna/ December 5, 2007/ social media, webdesign, tools/tips, my art, Search engines/browsers/ 0 comments

Good overview of Firefox3.0 in terms of web editing is located here I uploaded a rather large (and upside down) photo to pixenate, a free online web editing tool that even works with facebook.Pixenate tools include zoom, crop, resize, rotate, red eye, whiten, saturation, a few other features. Pretty nifty and easy to use. When you’ve finished, you can import

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Speed up your website!

robinna/ October 6, 2007/ webdesign, tools/tips, web 2.0+, yahoo/ 0 comments

For those of you who create websites, here is an interesting article about speeding up websites (and a free little tool, too!): ySlow a firebug/firefox plug-in: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/Most of the rules revolve around making sure the browser doesn’t haveto work too hard to load and display your Web pages, particularly bymaking maximum use of the browser cache. That’s where your browserstores

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