A while back I posted some info regarding Firefox for Mac. All I can say is, if you’re not using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, you’re missing out. As usual, lately, I’ve been messing around with the website. To start, I made the switch back to using the WordPress blogging system rather than Movable Type. It wasn’t that I had any problems with MT, but it’s easier to find upgrades and make changes to the WP core, which I like. WordPress has a large user community that codes themes and plug-ins for WP that make trying out new things as easy as possible for a non-techy. The past few days I’ve been messing around with a “rotate” function within the K2 theme that allows me to add numerous header images to a folder on the server and it rotates the pictures after each page load. It might not sound like much, but it does help to prevent a static page every time someone visits the site, not that I have a lot of visitors . But the most common visitor, me, does get bored of the seeing the same picture every time.

Ok, I’ve gotten a little off topic. Today, while spending countless hours on my computer during blizzard conditions here in Denver, I was looking at some Firefox Add-ons. One of them in particular, Firebug, adds a web developer toolbar to the top of the browser. This toolbar just blows my mind. I can visit any website I like, view the source, CSS, and all sorts of information about the website, and make changes to the code which is viewable real time in the browser. It’s just amazing how this works. Now, it’s not making a change to the actual web site that everyone else on the net can see, just within my browser window. The current theme on my blog, K2, is based solely on CSS. The past few days I’ve been making minor changes to the CSS code, saving the file, then uploading it to the server. This process requires a lot of patience. Well, turns out this Firebug Add-on allows me to make multiple changes to the CSS code in real time, find the settings that make me happy (at least for the time being), and save the changed CSS code to a file. Then I can just upload this file to the server. I can’t even explain how much time this is going to save me when I decide to make changes to the sites look and feel. Now, for those of you that know me, you can now tell me to find a new hobby .

Again, I’d like to reiterate, go download Firefox (it’s free!).