This is a first post. More will follow as I get up to speed on WordPress. Pretty nice package I must say. It has made a huge jump in usability since its early versions! Need to find a couple of plugins, most importantly one which can color code source code samples which I intend to post here. If anybody knows of a good one let me know.

OK, I know the footer is broken, but it should be fixed by later tonight.

Since I didn’t have a lot of time to invest, I Googled and found out that the answer to fixing the footer issue was “Kubrick Fixed“.

I find this list of plugins useful during web development.

For Firefox:

• Firebug
• Everybody needs a good JS debugger these days.
• Web Developer Toolbar
• General CSS debugging and viewing tools
• User Agent Switcher
• Change your browsers User-Agent header to see what differences are caused by user agent sniffing.
• LiveHTTP Headers
• Shows you the raw HTTP requests and responses.
• IE Tab
• Opens an instance of IE hosted in Firefox
• MeasureIt
• Lets you select an area of a webpage and shows you the X,Y coordinates and measurements associated w/your selection.
• ColorZilla
• Lets you eyedropper a color from anywhere on a web page.
• Linky
• Select multiple links and open in new tabs.

For IE

• nStuff WebDevInfo BHO
• Similar to Firebug, but for IE.

I do most of my development in Firefox, not too surprisingly as it is the best of the browsers on Windows at the moment.

Scott Gu posted an update which helped solve an issue I was having integrating Lightbox into one of my pages.

The basic issue was getting ASP.NET to attach a javascript in the HEAD element of a web page. (By default the methods built into ASP.NET will only emit script blocks in the pages main form element.)

Scott’s update points to Sue @ edream.org’s excellent write up about extending a HTML Generic control to get the job done.

Much simpler than my earlier solution.

Thanks to you both! -Hardy