Ratchet - ipone prototype tool

Just having a bit of a snoop about on the Ratchet site, http://maker.github.com/ratchet/#gettingStarted looks pretty useful!

Prototype iPhone apps with simple HTML, CSS and JS components.

Web Matrix and Windows Azure

One of my colleagues has just given me a demonstration of how the new cloud hosting platform "Azure" from Microsoft is integrated with Web Matrix (also from Microsoft). I have to admit I was left fairly astounded at the simplicity of the interfaces, and the ease of use.

If you are looking to set up new websites, and hosting and be able to scale the hosting up and down to meet your requirements, seasonal changes etc then this combination of Matrix and Azure would be one I would give very serious consideration to.

The new Web Matrix is so slick and easy, you really only are a few clicks away from creating websites, installing CMS, template sites etc. and integrating them seamlessly with Azure for publishing and hosting.

50 tools for responsive web design

Another great resource from the .NET team
http://www.netmagazine.com/features/50-fantastic-tools-responsive-web-design

50 free web design tools

A great resource from .NET magazine, book marking it in here for future reference.
http://www.netmagazine.com/features/50-free-web-design-tools-rock

PSD resources

I stumbled across these quite by accident but it looks like great resource tools for PSD files /  templates / designs
http://www.psdchest.com/
http://freepsdfiles.net/

.Net - Responsive Week

.Net Magazine, have spent the past week featuring articles and tutorials on responsive web design.
It is well worth working through, great resource.
http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/build-responsive-site-week-designing-responsively-part-1 
This is part 1, work your way through.

Firebug lite in any browser...

Thanks to css-tips for this one, wish I'd found this site years ago  

Use Firebug in Any Browser

Just include this script on the site and you'll get a Firebug console that pops up for debugging in any browser. Not quite as full featured but it's still pretty helpful! Remember to remove it when you are done.

broken down for copy and paste
Just add the < and /> back in.
script type='text/javascript'
src='http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/firebug-lite-compressed.js'
script

Responsive Umbraco & Bootstrap site - Whitecapltd.com update

The latest version of Bootstrap is more refined and promising, currently working on a brokerage area for the Whitecap site, and hope to rip all the guts out and re-do with the latest Bootstrap very soon.

Will post how it goes..

Responsive Umbraco & Bootstrap site - Whitecapltd.com

Just thought I'd drop a post up here about using my experience using Twitter bootstrap, and Umbraco CMS to put together a website for Whitecap Associates - Yacht brokerage, management and build Whitecapltd.com, the idea being to create a responsive website with CMS, that will expand as and when the company require.

It was more complicated than I thought it would be, but after we at Noko incorporated the Zurb Foundation grid system into bootstrap, it all began to take shape. After realising that the best way to style the pages is to add a additional stylesheet, as a final layer of css levels, to overwrite and update the default values, it turned out ok.

Still have a few items that need a good polish, ie. a current state on the navigation, and a few minor tweaks here and there, overall though I'm pleased with the results.

Just grab the side of your browser and squash it narrow to see the mobile device view. www.whitecapltd.com