Live editing of website code and styles is a breeze with the Firebug plugin for Firefox. Right click any element on the page that you wish to inspect/edit and select the Inspect Element option. The Firebug panel opens with the HTML displayed, and the element you selected highlighted. In the right panel are the CSS
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Firefox web developer plugins
Returning to work after the Christmas holidays I was confronted with a brand new, clean install version of Firefox 3.0. Very strange, because I already had said browser/version installed, along with all bookmarks, cookies, plugins and history. But every cloud has a silver lining. A chance to rid myself of no longer needed cruft, and
Convert pixels to ems – with ease
I came across a very neat, and immensely useful tool online today that converts fixed pixel sizes to their relative em size equivalents. The Em Calculator bases conversions on a specified base pixel conversion ratio, and provides you with immediate calculations for nested child and sibling nodes of the DOM tree. Big thanks to Piotr
Adobe CS2 + Macromedia Studio 8 = Me Happy
A number of months ago I entered a competition on the Builder AU website to win an Adobe Web Bundle. After a protracted delay in taking delivery of the prize I am now the very excited owner of the absolute latest versions of Adobe CS2 Premium and Macromedia Studio 8. This is a big step
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FireBug for Firefox
Joe Hewitt has just released the latest version of FireBug, a holistic debugging tool for Firefox. FireBug reports on errors and warnings in CSS, JavaScript, AJAX and the DOM, and allows you to inspect and debug each in a handy console. Another very useful tool in the web developers box, and one that I’m already