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22i DESiGN » Design Blog » Design Blog: February 2006

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Joomla! 1.0.8

Joomla! 1.0.8For those of you using the Joomla! Content Management System, the latest upgrade to Joomla! 1.0.8 (Sunshade) is now available for download.

If you're still running Joomla! 1.0.7 or below then it is highly recommended that you upgrade to 1.0.8 now.

The latest stable release includes
  • 37 security patches
  • over 70 bug fixes
  • numerous performance enhancements
1.0.8 is available as the full package and as various patch packages (if you still have to update from 1.0.4 to 1.0.8 for instance)

posted by 22i design at 1:56 AM 0 comments links to this post

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Brit Design Quest

On the subject of design, the Great British Design Quest is on, looking for the Top 10 British design icons. Now, this has been going on for some time, so items such as the Raleigh Chopper, Dr. Martens boot, mini skirt, the Dyson Vacuum Cleaner and the E-Type Jag have been eliminated, leaving the last 10 items which are;
  1. The catseye
  2. Concorde
  3. Grand Theft Auto video game
  4. The old red telephone box
  5. The Austin Morris/Leyland Mini
  6. The old London Routemaster bus
  7. The Supermarine Spitfire
  8. Tomb Raider video game
  9. The London Underground map
  10. And, of course, Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web
Now, being geeky aswell as a designer, I voted for the WWW but every selection has its own merits. Whether it saves lives, saved the country or has the best designed frontage of the 20th century, be sure to make your vote count :)

posted by 22i design at 1:35 PM 0 comments links to this post

Monday, February 13, 2006

FireFox Dev Toolbar

I've been using Chris Pederick's FireFox Developer's Toolbar for a couple of years now and there are so many times when it has come in extremely handy.

It basically runs through the browser window and can be used to disable images, get their dimensions & paths, edit live CSS, outline tables & cells, show hidden elements, validate CSS and HTML etc. I really can't praise this toolbar enough, it is packed with useful features, so if you're a web designer or developer then the developer toolbar will be such a handy tool in your armoury.

Go get it and have a play around :)

posted by 22i design at 1:15 PM 2 comments links to this post

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Sim Spider

Looking at a new site on green issues, I wondered why Google had only one page indexed. So I remembered about spider simulators and thought I'd test out the site to see if all the links were working correctly. I tapped in sim spider into the search engine and yep... it looks as if the spiders should be picking up the links just fine.

Check out the Sim Spider, very handy :)

posted by 22i design at 2:30 AM 0 comments links to this post

Friday, February 10, 2006

SearchStatus toolbar

For FireFox and Mozilla.

Somebody recently pointed out the handy little SearchStatus toolbar from Quirk. Currently I've got it in the status bar of FireFox (also available for Mozilla too) where it doesn't intrude upon too much screen real estate, but it's what SearchStatus does that's really handy.

SearchStatus toolbarThe toolbar shows Alexa details such as traffic details, incoming links, related links, contact info... that is if you're into Alexa rankings.

It also shows Google PR with Google cache, inbound links, related sites...

But the best bit is the on the Quirk button where the options listed include showing the robots.txt file of a page, a keyword highlighter, checking a page's keyword density, digging out nofollow attributes of links, plus it will show Indexed pages & Backlinks in Google, Yahoo and MSN. If you hit the ALL option you get 3 new tabs open, one each for Google, Yahoo & MSN. It also allows you to anonymously query the search engines if you select that option.

A very handy little toolbar for quickly checking pages on the web. Go download Search Status for FireFox or Mozilla.

posted by 22i design at 10:07 AM 0 comments links to this post

Monday, February 06, 2006

Easy Favicons

Favicons are favourite icons - Not just pretty pictures in the tabs of your browser, but important icons to help you identify sites easily.

Here's and example of favicons at work in a Firefox tabbed browser.

Icons

How do make favicons the easy way?

Well, visit FavIcons from Pics, use their online tool to upload the image you want to use, they will convert it into a FavIcon, zip it up and you can download it.

Unzip the .ico file to the local folder of the website where you intend to use the icon.
Upload the icon to your live site.
In the <head> tags of your page place the following code...

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/img/favicon.ico">

The path in this example code is to the /img folder of your server.
You can rename the favicon to something more useful if you wish, like design.ico or star.ico

posted by 22i design at 7:01 AM 0 comments links to this post