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The Essential Google Chrome Extensions for Web Designers

July 27, 2017September 14, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

Have you ever read our The Essential Web Browsers Extensions for Web Developers series? And now, you can read about The Essential Chrome Extensions for Web Designers.

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on 2 September 2008, and the public stable release was on 11 December 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or “chrome”, of web browsers. As of August 2010, Chrome was the third most widely used browser, with 7.54% of worldwide usage share of web browsers, according to Net Applications.

We’ve taken some of most useful Chrome Extensions which may help for your works.

Rounding Up the Most Promising Free WYSIWYG and Markup Editor

March 2, 2018June 13, 2010 by NARGA Editorial

WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed during editing appears very similar to the final output, which might be a printed document, web page, slide presentation or even the lighting for a theatrical event.

WYSIWYG implies a user interface that allows the user to view something very similar to the end result while the document is being created. In general WYSIWYG implies the ability to directly manipulate the layout of a document without having to type or remember names of layout commands. The actual meaning depends on the user’s perspective, e.g

Most of the available Content Management System and other publishing platform in the web are using WYSIWYG editor for easy page editing. So I will rounding up to you the most promising Javascript WYSIWYG editor in the web.

Typetester – Compare Fonts for the Screen

June 8, 2014November 12, 2009 by NARGA Editorial

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.
Marko Dugonjić’s typetester gives you instant previews of how a text of your choice would look on-screen set in a certain font and size. It offers full control of the font styling, including the background colour, with the choice of displaying either fonts from your own system or standard system fonts for Windows, Mac or both.

Keyboard shortcut for Photoshop CS3 and CS4 Toolbox

March 2, 2018October 26, 2009 by NARGA Editorial

Keyboard shortcuts are typically an alternate means for invoking one or more commands that would otherwise be accessible only through a menu, a pointing device, different levels of a user interface, or via a command console. Keyboard shortcuts generally expedite common operations by reducing input sequences to a few keystrokes, hence the term “shortcut”.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 is a huge program full of buttons and options that can be used for many different purposes. Keyboard shortcuts can improve your efficiency, and in some cases, they can even invoke commands that might not otherwise be available (e.g., zooming while a dialog box is open, or inserting a Select forward layer command into an action). Knowing keyboard shortcuts help you work more efficient and work faster!

Snipplr – Must have source code repository for programmers

October 10, 2009 by NARGA Editorial

Snipplr is a public source code repository that gives you a place to store and organize all the little pieces of code that you use each day. Best of all, it lets you share your code snippets with other coders and designers.

A sharecount button for Facebook with fbShare

February 4, 2017October 8, 2009 by NARGA Editorial

Are you see the button on the left side? It is very similar to retweet and digg buttons! Currently, almost everyone has a Facebook account, so along other social networks, Facebook can also be source of quality blogs’ visitors.
Unlike Twitter, Facebook doesn’t give a way to see what’s being shared by users outside one’s network. Now, with fbShare service you can showing the number of times the URL of the current page has actually appeared on Facebook (like the TweetMeme or Digg button) and allows visitors to share it themselves.

The Essential Safari Plugins for Web Developers

January 3, 2015October 5, 2009 by NARGA Editorial

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. First released as a public beta on 7 January 2003 on the company’s Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple’s default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 “Panther”. It is the most popular browser in the world that even Mac Windows and Linux users are known. Currently, Safari web browser available on the Mac, Windows, iPhone, or iPod touch environments.

However, 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.

Note: Many plugins work through something called SIMBL (Simple InputManager Bundle Loader), which is basically a little tool that helps developers manage and run their code as plugins for the different applications on OS X. It’s free.

The issues need to resolve when creating a website for mobile devices

October 25, 2016October 2, 2009 by NARGA Editorial

In the previous article, you already know a number of services to help you convert your website to the mobile version which compatible with mobile devices. However, using third-party web development 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.

During construction, there are several unique issues for mobile devices is completely different from the normal computer.

Make and Convert any Website that friendly Portable Devices

March 25, 2018September 30, 2009 by NARGA Editorial

Currently, mobile network infrastructure supports for the connection with the Internet from mobile devices such as smartphones, PDA, mobile phone … Mobile (Smart. PDA) phones have become an inevitable tool for communication and keeping up with information. The availability of WAP and regular browsers on mobile phones, a lot of people consume Internet content while on the go. With statistics from the Internet, I saw traffic in these devices is increasing every day. Future, this ratio certainly not less than desktop and laptop. Actually most of the current website does not support them well, readers will find the layout crash, structural distortions, completely different font on the browser device.

Characteristics of equipment is a small screen, processing capability and memory limitations. So by loading a complete webpage for desktop computers as a positive work overload for the device.
By converting your blog or website to a mobile version, you are sure of getting more visitors and be available for your readers even when they do not have access to a computer.

The best time of the days to publish your post

September 28, 2009 by NARGA Editorial

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 a tipping point. Our readership is all over the world, but the most readers are on the east and west coast of the United States.
Of course, this also depends on the timezone in which the majority of your readers are from; you want to try and publish a post in the morning of when your readers in the most earliest timezone wake up.

The Essential Internet Explorer Extensions for Web Developers

May 3, 2018September 21, 2009 by NARGA Editorial

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 hass integrated into the operating system or simply just because they like to use it.

In a previous article I talk about The Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers, this article continues to mention for the content on the browser of Microsoft Internet Explorer.

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