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FireFox Toolbars - Best Of Selection

It seems that I am in the mood of discovering more and more browser toolbars this month. Just recently I have recommended 3 browser toolbars, which are available for Firefox and Internet Explorer (IE).




Andy Beard says Google Toolbar Is Not Family Safe (↑) and removed it. Well, that might be true, simply don't let your Kids on your computer. There are many more areas of danger.

Today I have another 2 toolbars that I want to tell you about. Since I am using Firefox, I did not even check, if those or similar ones are available for IE.

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Blog Review in Rapid Paced Mode

Who is doing this “Rapid Paced Blogging Experiment” and the Blog reviews? It's a guy named Fank Carr at his OpTempo.com (↑) Blog.

It's astonishing to watch him post more articles in a day than others write in one or two weeks or even one month. Frank has written on his About Page that his goal is to write at least 10 quality articles each day.

He is posting on a wide range of topics — from celebrity, offbeat-news, commentary on general topics to how-to articles and Internet of course, but he even can write well about philosophical concerns.

His articles and posts about the Internet caught my attention though somewhere. Now I remember, it was on Pat B. Doyle's (↑) Blog. Frank wrote a Blog review for her. That's how I found him.

I liked the review and because Frank is currently offering to write reviews, I contacted him. Not only are his reviews well structured and valuable, he writes them for free right now in order to promote his new Blog.

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Web Development 2.0 - Blog Carnival

Web 2.0 LogoOur post Use Safe Identifiers In Your Web Templates has been featured in the Blog Carnival



Check it out, if you wish to learn more about tips and tricks in Web development. This issue contains titles like,

  • “Make Web Site Development Easy”

  • “Why Are CSS Frameworks Important to AJAX Development”

  • “Forget Webcams and YouTube. How I Created My Own Music Video For Free Online in 1 Day”

  • “Get Brendon Sinclair to Answer Your Question Interview Contest !”

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Bye-Bye Golden Layout

Orange/Blue Colour Scheme
The 'Old' FCON21 homepage. (Click thumbnail to enlarge!)
Do you notice the new color scheme of the Fcon21 sites? Last night we have updated our Web sites www.fcon21.biz (↑) and this E-Biz Booster Blog with a new color scheme. I would not say that it is a brand new layout, because almost everything is in its usual place. Navigation, footer elements, etc … But you might notice one additional function. Google Site Search. We'll eventually cover that in a future post in more detail.

After recommending a site search function for each larger site in John's post, “Site Search Do you have one”, we finally have it implemented for ourselves.

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Use Safe Identifiers In Your Web Templates

Stop guessing about, what would be a valid name for a new CSS class, a JavaScript variable, a PERL function or any other identifier!

Use the common shared set of rules of languages. It cannot be any easier. Print out that page and you have a valid reference for the most important languages on the Web.

Web masters, Web designers, and programmers do not have an easy job, when it comes to update templates, files, and programs for a Web site. In most cases they will have to build on "code" that has been written by somebody else. Furthermore there are many different languages that have rules of their own.
  • HTML, XHTML, XML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript, DOM
  • PHP, PERL
Sometimes the differences are minor, but the interpreter, browser, or validation tool might complain, if the syntax or content is not correct 100%.


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