We are a bunch of tech geeks, coders and designers. Rockmelt: Yet Another Web Browser »
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Just when you thought the web browser market was saturated, someone found a spot where another one could be squeezed in.
Make a little room between Google Chrome and Opera and you can shoehorn RockMelt into the mix. Yes, another way for people to view web pages and possibly another set of standards for which web designers have to prepare.
Rockmelt does have some pretty good backing, however. Do you remember the Netscape browser from the 1990s? The founder of that company, Marc Anderson, is a backer of Rockmelt.
Not much is known about Rockmelt at the moment and their website only has a spot where you can provide your email address to be sent more information. So we will have to wait and see.
At any rate, it faces a pretty packed market that already includes the likes of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari and Flock and a few others.
Web Design Articles »
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We have compiled a list of our web design articles and posted them on the corporate web site.
If you are in the market for a web site, you might benefit from the article “Choosing a Professional Web Design Company” or if you are going to try your hand at designing your own site, check out the articles on “Web Design Basics” and “Common Web Design Mistakes“.
I hope they are helpful so let me know what you think. If you have an article that you would like to share or publish on the blog, drop us a line: info@crystalcoasttech.com
Valid Robots.txt File »
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Here is a pretty cool tool which may save you from some robots.txt errors. Now, writing a robots.txt file is not the most difficult thing in the world, but it never hurts to check.
All you have to do it create your robots.txt file, upload it to your web server and then paste the URL (usually, http://yoursite.com/robots.txt) on Motoricerca’s web site and you will be alerted to any potential errors in your file and you will be shown how to fix them.
The Best Free Web Development Software »
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Everyone loves FREE. So, here is a list of some of the best free software we have found with regards to web design and development. We personally use or have used the software listed here and none of these software makers paid us to get listed here. We did it because we are just so darn nice 
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Web Graphics
- Top Pick for Screen Capture Software – Faststone
- Top Pick for Screen recording software – CamStudio
- Top Pick for Graphics Editing – Gimp
Web Development
- Top Pick for FTP – Total commander
- Top Pick for Text Editor – Notepad ++ (Text editor and much more – way better than Microsoft Notepad)
- Top Pick for ActionScript editor – SEPY actionscript editor – Edit or create Actionscript without even opening Flash
Web Browsing
- Top Pick for Web Browsing – Firefox – no explanation needed
- VERY close second – Opera – Web browser that has plenty of benefits
Web Safety
- Top Pick for Anti-virus – AVG anti-virus
- Top Pick for Anti-spyware – AVG anti-spyware
- Top Pick for Anti-spyware (because you can’t have too many options in this department) – Spybot Search and Destroy
This concludes our list of the best free software related to web design. I am sure there will be some differing of opinions, so if you have ones that you are particularly fond of, feel free to speak up. As I mentioned in the introduction, we either use or have used all of the software on this list, so we recommend from experience .
Web Development Quick Reference Guides »
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Cameron Chapman over at Mashable has compiled a flaming-hot list of web development resources.
The very first one on his list is the one that I keyed in on. It is a list of cheat sheets and quick reference guides found over at Tech Cheat Sheets. It should be of particular interest to anyone programming with virtually any language or technology in use today:
- Actionscript
- Ajax
- Apache
- CSS
- MySql
- Perl
- PHP
- Ruby
- you name it
We already made use of many of these lists, but there were several that I had missed in my search. Everything is arranged by tags and the search system is super-easy and really well organized. Now, we have everything referenced in one place, in a neat little package – sweet!
If you are a programmer or a web developer, you have to check out this list. And make sure you check out the rest of Cameron’s list over at Mashable – you are certain to find something that will help you on your next web development project.
