Microsoft Web-related News

There were a couple of big announcements from Microsoft this week, both of interest to web developers and/or users of the MS web stack. Without further ado…

WebsiteSpark (info PDF)

If you’re a small firm (less than 10 folks) focused on  Web dev and design, you may qualify for a boatload of “free” MS licenses. In return,

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Web Developer Extensions

For Firefox I keep both the Firebug and Web Developer extensions ever handy. Both have their strong points and complement each other nicely (in my mind).

For IE(7) I’m partial to the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. It is a pretty solid “mix” of the two Firefox offerings. Really not all that bad and worth having if

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Facelift and Tools

It has been several years since my “main” site and two blogs all had a common look & feel. Far too long, but I’m sure you all know how priorities can vary from year to year. That partially explains why posts have been scarce here the past week. I’m finally working on a redesign.

At the

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Playing with Zoho Creator

In yesterday’s post, I mentioned that I was experimenting with Zoho Creator a bit. I spent a couple hours with it last night and several more today and thought I’d take a moment to share.

First off, let me preface all this with: Zoho Creator is not the answer I’m looking for — at least not

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A List Apart’s Web Design Survey

The folks at A List Apart are running a web design survey.

Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we? Where do we live? What are

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