I get asked by ad folks occasionally how to get a full screen capture for marketing materials, or to show ad positions in full page context, etc. One way is to use a piece of screen capture software like SnagIt. SnagIt can take a scrolling screen shot at full size, edit it after, export to [...]
It’s amazing how hard it can be to talk someone through a simple process on a Web page or computer application by phone. And it’s amazing how often a professional Web geek ends up end up doing that, both professionally and in your personal life (family and friends get discounted consulting, yes)? It’s an order [...]
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In my visual design projects (no chortling from my artist friends and colleagues, please), a wide range of stock photos certainly speeds things along. Sitepoint just twittered a link to a list of 30+ free stock photo sites they’ve posted. Sweet. Also of note are the two free stock photo search engines listed: http://www.everystockphoto.com and http://www.openstockphotography.org. Note [...]
I love free Web tools. Even when I have the paid versions, it’s nice to have a backup. For example, while I work in Dreamweaver for most development projects, I find Filezilla‘s free ftp client much more stable for getting my files to a remote server when my Web connection gets iffy. And I know [...]

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