Web Standards Plugin For Adobe Dreamweaver
If you don’t know who Jeffrey Zeldman is, he’s the web genius behind sites like A List Apart and Happy Cog. He’s also written several books and is pretty much just an overall web genius with a strong background in web usability.
About a month ago he released a plugin for Dreamweaver that makes writing standards compliant code much easier. He says that it is for pretty much anybody who codes, from n00b to l33t web haxor and even said he found some errors on his site with it. I haven’t had the chance to play with it yet simply because I don’t mind spending the extra time to check my work and validate it…oh, and I don’t want to spend $50 on it yet.
YUI Compressor Gets An Awesome Online GUI
I use YUI Compressor to compress all my JavaScript files and up until now, they only way to do it was via the command line. While this is fairly easy for me, I think the majority of people don’t compress their JS files because they’re not sure how (or this practice hasn’t permeated the masses of average web developers).
Rodolphe Stoclin has come up with an incredibly useful online tool that takes the YUI Compressor and adds a web GUI to it, making it dead simple to use. It looks like he’s using jQuery to do everything on the fly with no page reload and it even tells you the compression ratio.
I tested the tool with an uncompressed version of MooTools and it works exactly as you would expect. If you’re not compressing your JavaScript files, now’s the time. It’s not going to get any easier than this.
