Two posts in a month? WTF!?
Sometimes, in freelance, “when it rains, it pours.” Last few weeks, I’ve been hammered with work (yay!), but I’m coming up for air in order to breathe a little bit of life back into this site (so many mixed metaphors, so little time…).
Anyway, a little while back, I added del.icio.us links to the sidebar. I’ll try to keep them HTML/CSS/freelance related so that they’re useful to readers here. And, I wanted to point out a few of the ones that you might have missed but are worth checking out:
Freelance Switch: An awesome site, with great, relevant articles for web/graphic freelancers. In its own words: “a Community & Resource for freelancers of all varieties – designers, writers, programmers, illustrators, photographers …”
Linux Font Equivalents to Popular Web Typefaces: An excellent article on Linux fonts. I don’t think about Linux much when building sites, but I should. This is a good place to start.
SWFObject: I’ve been working with a designer who likes to create Flash headers, and this is his method of inserting them while leaving the layer of HTML below accessible to the search engines.
BlogMate: Blogging in TextMate. Brilliant! In its own words: “BlogMate is a free, graphical plug-in (+ a bundle too) for the popular TextMate editor that enables creating and editing blog posts for MetaWeblog-enabled blogs, Twitter, and Jaiku accounts from a floating palette within TextMate.”
(Aside: Is the Mac app world more lively and innovative than the Windows world right now, or are Mac apps just getting more press?)
Slightly less flashy than BlogMate, I’ve been using a combination of e Text Editor and the It’s All Text add-on for Firefox to create blog posts . It works, when I remember to use it.
*tap* *tap* Is this thing on?
Ok, another one of those “fell-off-the-planet” months. No reviews, no telephone calls, not even a single, heart-rending, electronic billet-doux. But I’ve thought of you often, I promise.
Anyway, big news (?) today in the HTML editor world (at least for Mac users): Panic released Coda today, described as “one-window web development.” Looks snazzy. I’m hoping to get my grubby little hands on a review copy as soon as possible.
Also today: CSSEdit 2.5 was released, featuring brand new X-ray Inspector, new selector builder, document tabs, and more.
Do you think Adobe will send me a copy of the new Dreamweaver for review? Anyone interested in me reviewing it?
In Windows news, e Text Editor has become my go to editor recently, especially with all the work I’ve been doing in ExpressionEngine. It seems a new version is released every week with some minor/major improvements — most recently, support for auto-pairing of characters like quotes and brackets. Definitely worth a look if you’re on Windows and have TextMate envy.