B2 Solutions » Develop http://b2solutions.com Keeping an eye on helpful technologies for web people Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:46:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 15 Google Chrome Extensions for People Who Build Websites http://b2solutions.com/blog/2010/04/25/15-google-chrome-extensions-for-people-who-build-websites/ http://b2solutions.com/blog/2010/04/25/15-google-chrome-extensions-for-people-who-build-websites/#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:47:05 +0000 brian http://b2solutions.com/?p=235 15 Google Chrome Extensions for People Who Build Websites.

A promising set of extensions for google chrome focused on we’d development. Love the jQuery console. The more I work with jQuery the more I appreciate having access to a console. I’ve been using the console in Firebug, but I like the idea of a dedicated console for jQuery.

]]> http://b2solutions.com/blog/2010/04/25/15-google-chrome-extensions-for-people-who-build-websites/feed/ 0 Raphaël—JavaScript Library http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/10/07/raphael%e2%80%94javascript-library/ http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/10/07/raphael%e2%80%94javascript-library/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:23:49 +0000 brian http://b2solutions.com/2008/10/raphael%e2%80%94javascript-library/ I’m a huge fan of JQuery, but I try to keep track of some of the other javascript libraries out there, especially any of those around visual display of informtion. Flash provided a lot of great online graphing capabilities, but there’s always the problem of corporate restrictions on what can show up in the browser.

I’ve played around with this library and it delivers on the promise of easy to use graphing and drawing with javascript. Take a look and also check out some of the demos on the site.

Raphaël—JavaScript Library

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Any of you that know me know I’m a big fan of the WordPress blogging platform. The platform is so flexible and so widely adopted that labeling it as a blogging only platoform is no longer valid.

For many people, extending wordpress is a daunting task. The idea of writing a plugin or knowing how to code their own theme is a bit too much for them, even though that’s exactly what they would like to do. Well the group over at http://themetation.com have written a comphrehensive article on how to design you own theme. Take a look, it will walk you step by step through what’s required and how to do it.

 

How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch Part 1 » Themetation

]]> http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/09/29/how-to-create-wordpress-themes-from-scratch-part-1-%c2%bb-themetation/feed/ 0 Home – Pencil Project http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/07/25/home-pencil-project/ http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/07/25/home-pencil-project/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:56:57 +0000 brian http://b2solutions.com/2008/07/home-pencil-project/

Hey, all you firefox users check this out. When putting together your wireframes or GUI designs try using the new tool from “Pencil Project”. It uses the Mozilla engine, it’s lightweight, and loads quickly.

Instead of firing up illustrator, visio, or photoshop give this a try.

 

 

Home – Pencil Project

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Great list of tools to help in designing web pages. I use Firebug a lot and love it. Yslow is great as well. I’ll have to find some time to give these others a try.

15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages – Six Revisions

]]> http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/06/12/15-tools-to-help-you-develop-faster-web-pages-six-revisions/feed/ 0 Firebug – Web Development Evolved » Blog Archive » Firebug 1.2b1 http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/06/03/firebug-web-development-evolved-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-firebug-12b1/ http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/06/03/firebug-web-development-evolved-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-firebug-12b1/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:24:57 +0000 brian http://b2solutions.com/2008/06/firebug-web-development-evolved-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-firebug-12b1/

Yeah, the firebug addon for firefox3 is almost available. I’ve found that I’ve become very dependent on this little tool and it’s not being available in firefox3 is one of the things that has stopped me from upgrading. It looks like the guys at http://getfirebug.com have almost got this working. Nice work guys.

Firebug – Web Development Evolved » Blog Archive » Firebug 1.2b1

]]> http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/06/03/firebug-web-development-evolved-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-firebug-12b1/feed/ 0 JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit (JIT) http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/05/12/javascript-information-visualization-toolkit-jit/ http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/05/12/javascript-information-visualization-toolkit-jit/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 19:13:00 +0000 brian http://b2solutions.com/2008/05/javascript-information-visualization-toolkit-jit/

Wow!! I’m really excited about this one. Nicolas Belmonte has created an awesome javascript library that focuses on visualizations. This uses JQuery as the base engine and so far I’m pretty impressed. Nicolas apparently wrote most of this library from scratch, and so far I’m very impressed and having a lot of fun with this. I had done something similar to this using flash, but I never got close to doing anything like this in javascript only.

Great Job!!! Check it out if you get the chance or have a need.

Nicolas Garcia Belmonte
JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit (JIT) at noumena

]]> http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/05/12/javascript-information-visualization-toolkit-jit/feed/ 2 How to extend WordPress with a little creative tweeking http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/04/21/how-to-extend-wordpress-with-a-little-creative-tweeking/ http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/04/21/how-to-extend-wordpress-with-a-little-creative-tweeking/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:36:04 +0000 brian http://b2solutions.com/?p=11 For all of you WordPress cowboys and girls out there you’ll want to check out this article. It’s meant for all of you who have come to depend on WordPress but would like to bend it to your needs a little more. The article isn’t designed for programmers, but a little understanding of how WordPress works doesn’t hurt.

WordPress Theme Hacks

]]> http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/04/21/how-to-extend-wordpress-with-a-little-creative-tweeking/feed/ 0 W3Counter – Hosted Realtime Website Analytics Solution by WebAppers http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/04/21/w3counter-hosted-realtime-website-analytics-solution-by-webappers/ http://b2solutions.com/blog/2008/04/21/w3counter-hosted-realtime-website-analytics-solution-by-webappers/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:29:34 +0000 brian http://b2solutions.com/?p=8 Wow, as cool as Google Analytics is there is some competition out there. Check out W3Counter. I’m going to add it to one of my current sites to see how it stacks up against Google’s package. Here’s a good article from WebAppears.com:

W3Counter – Hosted Realtime Website Analytics Solution by WebAppers

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