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We're big fans of the 960 grid. http://960.gs/ We rolled our own but that's the basic idea. I am also. I tend to use either the Yahoo! CSS framework or one called "Blueprint" - both of which support 960px (in Blueprint it's 950px with a 10px gutter). If you are going to widen your site, I think you ...

I've evaluated every illustration package I can find. In my opinion - for web specific work - Inkscape is second only to the almighty Illustrator. Xara has an amazingly bad interface and Corel draw raster exports are lacking in the pixel precision that web developers require (edges that are intended ...

Thanks Gatis. I completely agree... You need to evaluate the needs of your target market and pursue only those features relevant to expanding your appeal with the members of that market. Sadly, I don't seem to be one of them. Your product is good and has been an excellent learning platform so I will ...

My only experience with xara was not that great. It took me less than 30 minutes to decide I would never use it and remove it from my computer. I just evaluated CorelDraw X4 as an alternative to the Adobe suite... but it didn't make the grade so I'm back to saving for the Adobe Web Premium package ...

I know ya'll are busy working on important bugs and features but I don't want my humble little request to be forgotten... So I thought I would raise this post to the top this one time.

Currently, if I am editing text with the preview window open I cannot press F5 to reload the preview UNLESS I first click somewhere inside the preview pane. It would be wonderful if I could press F5 from anywhere inside WeBuilder to refresh the contents of the preview pane. Why not let the preview ...

It seems to me that the preview pane could be used to contain either text INSTEAD OF the preview for those occasions when we want to view two sets of code side-by-side. Just my $0.02.

Hmmm, you might be making this a little harder than it needs to be by switching between the two servers... Sounds like a pain in the rear-end to me. Personally, I just leave xampp and mysql running all the time and use preview mappings. Just because WeBuilder has a built in web server doesn't mean ...

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Just as another thought, you might also consider adding your code to a subversion repository. I use an online service provider who has a nice free version for small code bases (like mine). In order to access it, you will need some client software like TortoiseSVN . The beauty of it is, TortoiseSVN ...

I've never developed anything for Drupal... er, actually... I've never even downloaded it... so I feel a little out of sorts bringing this up but - I use another CMS that allows me to save my templates out to flat files during development. Perhaps Drupal has a similar ability?

I guess I've only played around with tidy a little bit... seems pretty sophisticated but also a little complicated. As in, I get the feeling that it will do whatever I want if only I can figure out which parameter to change. I'll start playing around with it and post any revelations I have on using ...

Nice post, I like your suggestions also. The "overwrite" dialog is something I wish I could disable. Just FYI, here is a small clip from the release notes that Karlis posted in the announcements section: What's NOT included in Beta 1 but will (hopefully) come in final or updates to the final release ...

Did you know you can use the middle mouse button to click on a tab and close it instantly? It will even ask if you want to save your changes if you haven't done so.

You could also put the CSS inside <style> blocks and your Javascript inside <script> blocks. This is what I have to do since I develop for a content management system that saves all of its templates as PHP files.