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Adding HTML Email Signatures to your Gmail Account RSS

Creating a Gmail Signature with HTML: Example #1To quickly and eas­ily add an auto­matic, rich text sig­na­ture to your Gmail account check out the Wis­es­tamp addon for Fire­fox. It will allow you to cre­ate cus­tom sig­na­ture, which will auto­mat­i­cally be added your emails sent from within the Gmail online inter­face. You can even cre­ate your own cus­tom HTML sig­na­tures to use as well.

Wis­eS­tamp also makes it easy to add links to your LinkedIn and Twit­ter accounts. As an alter­na­tives, some peo­ple praise the use of the Canned Responses, Labs addon. This is just as good, and proves to be a bet­ter solu­tion for some. Per­son­ally I pre­fer the auto­mated process asso­ci­ated with Wis­eS­tamp, adding a sig­na­ture is auto­matic which is great.
Creating a Gmail Signature with HTML: Example #2

Get Started

  1. Open the Fire­fox web browser – If you’re not using it, you check it out
  2. Down­load & Install Wis­es­tamp
  3. Fol­low the 5 First Steps with Wis­es­tamp instruc­tions to cre­ate your signatures

Take A Demo

For more infor­ma­tion check out Molly’s video for an in depth walk through.

Check out Fresh Tilled Soil: Web Resources! RSS

Some peo­ple may have noticed that the fre­quency of my arti­cles has died down a bit over the past month or so. I’ve been adding posts at a new loca­tion now for work.

Many of the top­ics are the same, if your inter­ested in check­ing it out head on over to Fresh Tilled Soil: Web Resources and take a look.

I’ll con­tinue to post on kevinleary.net as well, but not as often. I’d say that I plan to aver­age 2–3 new posts per month.

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Testing Page Load Speed With Firebug RSS

The more I find myself using JavaScript, the more I begin to worry about the weight of my pages. With the use of jQuery, much that was tra­di­o­tion­ally server side can now be han­dled on the client side with JavaScript.

So how does one go about mea­sur­ing the time it takes to load there web­site? Fur­ther­more, how do we deter­mine which files are tak­ing the most time to load? The answer is the Fire­Bug Net Panel.

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Working With Dreamweaver Site Files (.STE) RSS

When con­nect­ing to a new project via FTP I will occa­sion­ally come across .STE (Dreamweaver Site File) files being used as a means to store FTP user­name and pass­word infor­ma­tion. The FTP pass­word is always encrypted in these files. This causes prob­lems because I do not use Dreamweaver to build web­sites. Even worse, what if I were some­one else that did not own a copy of Dreamweaver?

If you come across a legacy site that uses an .STE file to pro­vide FTP infor­ma­tion it can be dif­fi­cult to get that infor­ma­tion into another program.

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2008 Apple MacBook Pro RSS

So I finally saved up enough to buy a new Mac­Book Pro. I’ll be curi­ous to see how this “Multi-Touch” busi­ness works. I’ll plan on giv­ing a write-up once she arrives.

Soft­ware

I’m hop­ing to step up the work­flow using the fol­low­ing web devel­op­ment soft­ware I’ve found to best suit my needs. I’ve made a list of web devel­op­ment soft­ware for any­one inter­ested in my Mac­Book Pro workflow:

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Improving Workflow With Shortcuts RSS

Tak­ing advan­tage of short­cut keys can save valu­able time, speed up your work­flow and increase pro­duc­tiv­ity. I’ve put together a list of links to short­cuts and cheat sheets for the var­i­ous appli­ca­tions and tools I fre­quently encounter. Please let me know if I’m miss­ing out on any­thing extra­or­di­nary (because I prob­a­bly am).

Mac OS X Shortcuts

Dan Rodney shows us some handy Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts
Mac OS X Key­board Shortcuts

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