Posted: 09:13 am
As part of my daily ritual I visit a lot of sites to see if they would be appropriate for one of my many design galleries. I'm sick and tired of my browser being resized, and it is a sure fire way to make me leave your site without even considering it.
If a website doesn't fit into my current browser I know how to scroll, and even know how to resize my browser, you don't have to do it for me. What makes thing even worse is that most time my browser is large enough to fit the website, but my browser gets messed with anyway.
I know I can use Firefox to stop the Javascript that allows the browser to be resized, but I use that feature myself when testing to see how designs will look at different screen resolutions.
Posted: 08:21 pm
Every once in a while you come across a tool that you can't believe you managed to work without. I was lucky enough to come across two such tools this past week.
xScope is a wonderful little tool, only available for the Mac, which probably explains why I didn't discover it before now. xScope allows you add some essential design tools to your screen: rulers; screens; magnification; guides; frames and cross hairs.
The screen shots on the website will make their function clear, but xScope is a god send for anyone working in web design. At $17 it might sound expensive for a little web tool like this, but it's not really for a one off purchase (heck going to a movie theatre one night will probably cost you more).
Split Browser is a Firefox extension that allows you to split the content area of a browser as you like. This is great for comparing web pages, or when you're copying and pasting from one web app to another, no tabbing between browsers anymore! You can split the content area as often as you'd like, or as many times as your machine can handle. Best of all its free!
