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Some great free Web Design podcasts

Monday, June 15th, 2009

This week, I have been listening to some great free web design mp3s, courtesy of Webstock.

I really enjoyed Doug Bowman’s talk on common structure and design patterns for web front ends. It will be interesting to see what come of this in the near and medium term future. Imagine building a site using common HTML structure and being able to plug in a 3rd part css file, much like CSS zen garden.

I hadn’t come across Uber Geek, Bruce Sterling before and I found his talk, web2.0 and beyond, amusing and entertaining.

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Cross Browser Testing – IEstester and Super Preview.

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

As most people know you have to test your code in a range of browsers. At least Firefox and IE6 and IE7.

Testing IE6, can be a real pain if you have ie7 installed as you have to remove ie 7. Microsoft’s solution has been to install a virtual machine and run ie6 on that. Having been through the process I can assure you it’s a real pain in the arse….

My own solution was to use IEtester, a free browser, that allows you to run windows of IE8 RC1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP.

At time I have found it to be a little bit buggy, but I have made really good use of it and highly recommend it!

Today the options may have change though as Microsoft release Super Preview.

I am currently installing it and will update you when I have something to share.

The 250 mb download is a lot larger, than IETester’s 24 Mb, but we’ll have to see whether it’s worth it or not :)

James

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