kashit - Ehsan Quddusi

With the advent of CSS, the power of presentation in web pages was highly increased. Transition from old style writing of HTML pages to new wave of full life UIs has brought with it many concerns for the web designers. The major concern for web designers nowadays is to create cross browser complaint websites with as little variation across browsers as possible. Internet Explorer 6 being the major problem creator among the lot. Since IE6 still holds 10.2% of the browser market share, according to w3schools browser statistics for January 2010, it needs to be tackled. Most of these problems are mainly caused due to variation in the implementation of specifications by browser vendors.

Google Chrome has been impressive till date with its light weight, quick startup & performance. Since its introduction, the most sought feature has been the availability of an extension system, the feature currently dominated by Firefox. Finally the extension system is there in beta with impressive 1000+ extensions already in the store after its launch in December 2009.

The main attraction of firefox is its customizable environment for the users to meet their tastes and requirements in terms of themes and plugins. As themes were already available with the chrome, the introduction of extension system brings it closer to firefox in terms of customization.

Here I am listing some of the chrome extensions available for web designers & developers.

Wordpress 2.8, named for noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker, represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. Overall 790 bugs have been fixed, according to the offical blog. It also features jQuery 1.3.2 and TinyMCE 3.2.3. In addition there has been improvements to Database & Widget APIs. Support for timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment has been added besides some usability enhancements.

I hope you will have read my previous article on CSS Best Practices. This is another topic on the same subject, just to increase your knowledge of the CSS golden rules, tips & tricks. The inspiration for this article is from my day to day experience with the same.

Drupal is a content management framework written in PHP that can be used to organize & display content, customize appearance and manage routine tasks on a website.

It is an open-source software distributed under the GPL (“GNU General Public License”) and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers.

Drupal was originally written by Dries Buytaert, who still heads the Drupal project. Buytaert transliterated the Dutch word ‘druppel,’ which means ‘droplet’ to create the name ‘Drupal,’ in order to make an indirect reference to the community aspects of the project through the Dutch word ‘dorp,’ meaning ‘village.’ He opened the source code for community work in 2001.