Archive | February, 2010

Essential CSS troubleshooting tools

15 Feb

Troubleshooting cascading style sheets (CSS) can be a tedious & time-consuming task. Working with complex CSS written by another developer makes things even more challenging.  Here are my favorite tools for troubleshooting CSS. The best part about the tools is they’re absolutely free!

Browser tool bars & extensions

Other tools

What are your favorite tools troubleshooting and/or developing HTML and CSS?

Latest Facebook design & ambiguous icons

9 Feb

Facebook's New Ambiguous Icons

The latest Facebook design has one major issue, the ambiguity of the icons for Friend Requests, Mail and Notifications.

Name the first thing you think of when you see each of the icons.

friend-request Friend Requests – Friends, People? What about the requests you get from people who really aren’t your friends?



mail Mail - Chat? Is Facebook saying mail is the new chat? We’ve all had email for at least ten years. Why not use the conventional envelope icon?



notifications Notifications – The world? The World Wide Web? Earth?