Front end development

Free FTP Clients

I tried CoffeeCup Free FTP and Smart FTP. I didn’t like either of them pretty much. While the former has a lot of connection issues, the later ends up taking too much resources all of a sudden on my XP Professional besides the cluttered UI which could do with a redesign.

I’m trying out Core FTP now and it seems to work good. I hope it stays that way.

If you want to use a commercial FTP client, I would recommend Cute FTP.

What’s a Favicon and how to Create Your Own Favicon

That little 16×16 image in the address bar left of the URI of some websites is, in case you didn’t, called a Favicon.

Creating favicons is really simple. All you have to do to have your own favicon is create a 16×16 graphic in .gif or .jpg format and change the extension to .ico and place it in the root directory of you web server, the same place where your web site files are stored.

Else you can use favicon.co.uk, a free favicon editor if you’d like to make it a little easier or aren’t familiar with image editors like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro.

A good caching tutorial

A really nice tutorial on caching.

Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters

XHTML markup Tactics

Richard Rutter of Clagnut.com has written a nice post on Mark-up tactics at his blog on how to code semantically in XHTML with CSS.

The HTML Email/ Newsletter Guide

Don’t use Word to create you’re html newsletters. Instead follow this brief HTML Email Guide.

Firefox extension/ plugin- The WebDeveloper toolbar

Use FireFox? Are a front end web developer? Then you should download this extremely handy tool. It’s filled with a bucket load of features for debugging CSS, javascript and features that make a front end developer’s job easy than otherwise is without.

Download the WebDeveloper toolbar