December 2006 Archives

For the new site I am working on, I have been working with a new CMS (Content Management System) and as a result of learning about that tool I have learned some new things that I think other web designers will find useful.

I have previously mentioned the Web Developer Tool for Firefox. I recently discovered the Edit CSS feature of this which should be very useful for users who do not edit files on the console like I do. (Do you rebuild the CSS through MT? ARG!)

The feature allows you to easily edit a local copy of a CSS file and see the changes with a quick refresh. When you are satisfied, then you can copy and paste and rebuild.

and if that wasn't cool enough

Kathy Sierra at Creating Passionate Users has asked the 21st century metaphysical question:

If my Cingular cell phone sends me a MySpace alert and I'm not there to get it, do I exist? But email, IMs, social networking, and blogs are nothing compared to the thing that may finally cause time as we know it to cease. I'm talking, of course, about Twitter.

I agree with her assessment: With all this information input in life today, the time between interruptions is rapidly approaching zero.

Although I confess a single visit some years ago to MySpace, and a single hour (well, OK, ninety minutes) of my life I will never get back at YouTube I'm going to call her advice on this good, and skip Twitter for as long as I can avoid it.

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