Adam, Free WordPress Theme
Skip the fluff, download now for free.
Adam, is part one of the five series WordPress Themes by Netjelly. Designed with the intent to bring content to the forefront of your web site. Simple, minimalistic design. Adam gets the job done by removing the clutter other themes often offer.
12 Best Minimalist WordPress Themes
The early days of blogging were simple online journals; content reined king and design was for the birds. We have come far from those days, and the online community now understands the importance of well-designed frameworks, but the disagreements on imagery still exist.
Here are 12 WordPress themes promoting minimal design with content as the forefront.
And yes, I shamelessly promote my own themes.
WordPress Themes coming back
That’s right.
Our series of simple WordPress themes are being release again. We are hard at work on five with the plan of releasing eight, along with our current WordPress theme.
Netjelly themes are based on the principles of minimalist design with the intention of bringing content to the forefront. They get the job done without the fluff and annoyance that comes with cluttered themes. And they are totally free.
John; Frank; Peter; Lee; and Adam.
Be ready.
Firefox Add-ons for Webmasters
I switched my default browser to Firefox years ago for better security and faster browsing.
Over the years, I have become more dependent on Firefox for not only allowing me to view the Internet but also having such a large collection of user created add-ons that make the software even better. These add-ons have become an essential part of my web development practice.
Here are the best tools directly from my toolbox.
1. FireFTP
FTP Managers are huge advantages to any webmaster and even more so when it’s been packed into the same program you use to browse your website with.
Great alternative to the normal desktop programs, it works like a charm.
2. Alexa Sparky
Alexa is the number one source for finding information on website traffic in the world. The team has created a useful add-on, which allows you to receive traffic information about the site your current visiting without having to visit the Alexa site itself.
I use this add-on to check different sites backlinks and traffic trends. When using the add-on it will submit non-personal information to update its traffic information.
3. YSlow
I have become a perfectionist about my site load times since adding YSlow to my toolbox. YSlow is an add-on developed by Yahoo that provides useful information about your sites memory usage, and then gives reports on how to lower the overall time it takes to load your website.
The lower you get the total memory usage means the more people that can view your website if you have a bandwidth cap placed by your web host.
One last thing, Yahoo also packed the popular Smush.it (image compression) tool in this package.
4. FireBug
I use this tool the most out of everything in my designer toolbox. It allows you to make live changes to your websites CSS, HTML, or JavaScript. Microsoft has provided a similar tool for Internet Explorer but it does not match up to Firebugs abilities. If you decide not to add any of these add-ons, I would suggest to at least download this one.
HTML Validator is a tool used when building and maintaining any website. It gives you detailed reports of any errors or warnings it may have found while scanning your websites coding.
They packed another feature inside making use of the Tidy service, which will automatically correct all errors and allow you to download the newly error free coding.
6. MeasureIt
Basically, all this add-on currently does is measure. I find it excellent in finding out element and image sizes. They do plan to release updates to have a snap feature on CSS items, making this add-on even more useful.
7. ColorZilla
I often want to know the color of an object without having to go through the pain of checking it. Colorzilla solves that issue by allow you to use an eyedropper to get colors off anything in your Firefox window.
It also contains an interesting feature that will pull a webpage’s most used colors and give you the pages color scheme.
8. CSS Usage
CSSUsage is an add-on to FireBug; it is a rather unique tool by providing an ability to scan CSS files to find out if you have any unused elements located on your website.
I use it to clean out my CSS files to keep my total memory usage low.
Foxy SEO Tool has compiled multiple tools found all over the Internet used to improve your websites optimization into a toolbar located underneath the address bar in your Firefox window.
Tools All Web Developers Should Know About
If you are new to web development, you may be unaware of the free tools found all over the internet. In this article, I show the tools that are found in my toolbox.
Firebug (Firefox Addon)
I use this tool the most out of everything in my designer toolbox.
It allows you to make live changes to your websites CSS, HTML, or JavaScript. Microsoft has provided a similar tool for Internet Explorer but it does not match up to Firebugs abilities. If you decide not to add any of these tools, I would suggest to at least getting this one.
Notepad++ is a free source code editor. This is a great option for anything one that is looking for programming software.
I would suggest that you try this out before purchasing one.
An FTP Client is an essential tool for running a website. They speed up the time between uploading and downloading files from your web server. Filezilla was not the first software I stumbled across but ended up being the one I now use for all my FTP needs.
It does not offer anything different that you would not except from a normal FTP Client but this is a better options then purchasing one. It gets the job done.
Thunderbird is an email management tool developed by Mozilla. The software allows you to receive email from all of your account in one handy program.
It’s an awesome solution for email organization.
Google always creates useful applications and Analytics is no exception.
It gives detailed reports about your web traffic. You can see numbers on user country, browser choices, popular pages, bound percentage, and more.
CleanCSS allows you to optimize your CSS to decrease load times and bandwidth usage. It can fix errors, format coding, and other useful options. You and visitors will benefit from an optimization.
BrowserShots helps you ensure cross browser compatibility. It will take photos of your website in over 40 different browsers and allow you to download them for long-term usage.
Browser compatibility is necessary for websites and this tool does it.
Google Webmaster Tools is another wonderful gadget that Google has given us. The Webmaster Tools allows you to basically invite Google to crawl and index your pages, know which keywords are bringing in visitors, gives detailed crawling information, and quite a bit more.
It’s worth checking out!
Site Explorer is similar to Google Webmaster Tools.
You can see top search queries, crawl errors, inbound links, and other information.
Smush.it is an image optimization tool by Yahoo. You have the option of using the site or the Firefox Add-on named YSlow, which contains the tool.
If you download the add-on, it will scan all the images on the page and place make a zip file available for download.
