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HTML emails add a professional look to website correspondence and help to continue the brand experience during communications with your clients. If only they weren’t such a pain to build!
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Resources for building HTML emails
28.06.2011 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Technical, Tools Comments: none
New tool: regular expressions generator
08.04.2010 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Technical, Tools Comments: none
Regular expressions are brilliantly powerful but tend to cause a dull pain between the ears. We can’t offer you a free head massage, so here’s the next best thing: a really handy tool for generating regular expressions, in a load of different languages. Check it out:
Resources for optimising page load speed
01.04.2010 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Technical, Tools Comments: none
As the Yahoo! performance team have been saying for some time, when looking to improve loading times on your website, you should “optimize front-end performance first, that’s where 80% or more of the end-user response time is spent”. Poor hosting and slow back-end content management systems aside, the front-end is where you can make some quick wins and see real improvements in the user experience.
CSS editor to auto-tab values
30.11.2009 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Tools Comments: none
I’ve finally found an editor that produces CSS in the following style:
New tool: Dynatrace (AJAX Edition)
27.11.2009 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Tools Comments: none
A quick post to promote Dynatrace AJAX Edition as a new tool for debugging Javascript. I’ll continue to rely heavily on Firebug for day-to-day Javascript tasks, but the detailed information and clear interface make Dynatrace stand out.
New tool: Smush.it
29.10.2009 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Tools Comments: none
Reducing image file sizes on your website can bring tangible performance gains and I’ve always been uncomfortable entrusting image optimisation to Photoshop and Fireworks, without knowing how capable either program really is at the job.
