Taking full advantage of your web browsers

A lot of people ask me how do they do that?

Have you ever wondered how someone has created something on the web? If the answer is yes then this blog might be of some use to you. I use a couple of tools to help me work out how a piece of design was built. The first is in your web browser is to view source. This can be done by going to (in Firefox) view – page source or “apple u” for short. This may be different if you are using different browsers etc.

Another way to work it all out is by using add-ons. Firefox comes with plenty of add-ons such as firebug etc. I use firebug, it means that you can high light various parts of the site and view the actual code for that part. You can also find keywords as if you were doing a search in Word. Confusing – it is a bit but can be very handy for debugging etc. However I bit of advice this will not work on flash and you will need the fla’s (original files) to sort that out directly.

To add firebug go to http://getfirebug.com/ and install it for free