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I came across this recently from a post by my Caribbean neighbour over at Cayman Host
The Blog Readability Test is a ‘fun’ tool to test the readability of your blog/website/facebook or myspace profile.
Am I making this blog too hard to read?
I teach at the college level so maybe I’m unconsciously writing at this level?
I would hate to lose readers by making my posts hard to read. What do you think? Should I try to simplify my writing a bit?
Comments welcomed!
A random collection of some of my favorite addons (in no particular order!)
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way webpages look and function. Hundreds of scripts are already available for free. And if you’re the tinkerer sort, you can also write your own.
Greasemonkey will change the way a web page appears or functions by associating some javascript with the web page. Some scripts change the colours, get rid of ads, add functions to particular web pages.
Where can you find Greasemonkey scripts? Check out Userscript.org
Lifehack.org posted Top Ten Greasemonkey Scripts to Improve Your Productivity
Lifehacker posted My Favorite Greasemonkey User Scripts
More info at Wikipedia - Greasemonkey
Continue reading ‘Firefox Addons - Weekly Roundup No 3′
In-series is a nice plugin to link posts together. You can see it in action on my ‘Firefox Addons Weekly Roundup‘ Series.
In Series provides a way for you to manage stringing together posts in a series. You can add and remove individual posts from series, and reorder posts within a series, all from the post writing screen. The plugin also allows you to customize how series information (like tables of contents and next/previous links) are rendered across your site.
It creates a table for the posts in the series and places it by default at the beginning of the post. To place the table at the end of the post follow these instructions from the authors FAQ’s.
The quick solution is to go to the Options tab and the Series sub-tab in the WordPress admin interface, clear the “Post layout” field, and then paste “%content <div class=’series_links’>%prev %next</div><div class=’series_toc’>%toc</div>” (without the outside quotes) into the “Post layout” field. Click “Update Options »” to save your settings, and you’re done.
I came across this tweak recently for adjusting a theme to remove the annoying dotted link in firefox. There’s also a method for fixing your own firefox to permanently remove it.
Fixing the Fox
If you want to retain the dotted border for tab-based navigation, apply this to a:active. This still allows the indicator to appear when focused by keyboard, but hides when mouse activated. It’s the best of both worlds…
First an addition to Web Developer addons that I came across this week!
LinkChecker checks all the links on a web page. Valid links are highlighted in green, invalid links in red (customisable). Easy to use!
Now some addons to make blogging easier!
ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.
I love scribefire and use it daily. You can set any number of blogs and easily write posts, assign them to categories and post without needing to visit the blog. There’s even an inbuilt FTP facility.
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