best of the monthStart from August 2009, every month we take a look at new tutorials, tips, articles and techniques presented in Web-Development-related blogs and magazines and collect them for you. Below an overview of the best tools and articles, which have become popular or were published in September 2009.

CSS and HTML

  • Create CSS Bar Graphs and Star Rater - To describe a process operation, or indicated the level achieved, is a very interesting. It can be used in the video, animated images to the viewer can monitor and evaluation; for Web content I can use CSS to create them.
  • Create a web 2.0 Badges, Stripe, Loading, with online services - Web Script Lab’s Ajax Loading GIF Generator options for it’s loading icon are background and foreground color and three predefined speed which are normal, fast and slow.
    Badges are one of the characteristics of Web 2.0. I have a collection of some online services allow you to create them without using any adding other software.

Creating a website for mobile devices

  • Convert your website to the mobile version - By converting your blog or website to a mobile version, you can be sure of getting more visitors and be available for your readers even when they do not have access to a computer.
  • The issues need to resolve when creating a website for mobile devices - using third-party services are more limited, customization capabilities depending on the vendor even if you have to pay to get better service. By building a website ready for mobile version delivers more benefits than the cost of maintenance and system upgrade.

The Essential Extension/Add-ons/Plugins for web developers/designers

  • The Essential extension/add-ons/plugins for web developers on Internet Explorer - In general, Firefox and Safari are favorite browsers of designer, however Internet Explorer and Opera are many people use for their design work, because it is integrated into the operating system or simply just because they like to use it.
  • The Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers - Firefox browser has a fully customizable, it allows users to add features needed by the add-ons which can create by third parties developer. As a web developer this functionality is extremely useful to us.By downloading the best add-ons that are available, you can transform Firefox into a tool that dramatically increases your productivity and saves you a countless amount of time.
    I have picked-up some add-ons covering everything from DOM inspection to screenshots, making designing and developing with Firefox a breeze.
  • The Essential Safari Plugins for Web Developers - Web development using Safari may still seems a bit troublesome compare to Mozilla Firefox. Previously, the addition of new features for Safari by developers 3rd almost impossible because your browser does not support plugins. Now it has come true.

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Blogging

  • Build full multilanguage website with Wordpress - Good CMS (not all) let you create and manage contents in multiple languages. It’s not trivial. Many things need to change when a site runs in multiple languages. The system needs to handle all sorts of strange cases and make it all seem like a piece of cake.
  • Common Misspelling/Grammar Mistakes in English - Misspelling/Grammar Mistakes is a very stupid error in a presentation, thesis. The reason you should review this list is because a spell checker won’t correct these for you.There are some grammar mistakes that are very common, that you’ll see over and over. Fortunately, these mistakes are easy to fix, once you become aware of them.
  • The best time of the days to publish your post - I often have wondered and have tried to test a bit when the best time to post a blog article was to increase your likelihood of getting into the social bookmarking sites and hitting some kind of tipping point. Our readership is all over the world, but the most readers are on the east and west coast of the United States.

Softwares, Tools

  • Best feed reader softwares/services - I love to use RSS reader software, it supports my collection of favorite news sources, track and store every day, it is one of the indispensable software for me.
    I know some software / service features are attractive, meet the requirements of most users, however, depending on preferences that people find it preferable to another.