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Amateur’s Guide To Customizing Website Design With FireBug

makeuseof.com — The tool is a FireFox extension called FireBug and it is so cool that many web developers use FireFox for the only reason that it can be extended with FireBug.

Who dugg this? Made popular Feb 28, 2009

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  • nicnic77, on 02/28/2009, -1/+12"The tool is a FireFox extension called FireBug and it is so cool that many web developers use FireFox for the only reason that it can be extended with FireBug."

    Cram those keywords in there!
  • peterjmag, on 02/28/2009, -0/+10Firebug is awesome. Probably one of the best tools out there for helping amateurs and professionals understand everything that's going on in their code.

    If you'd like to dig a bit deeper into Firebug's features, check out these posts: http://michaelsync.net/category/firebug
  • spdorsey, on 02/27/2009, -0/+8Firebug is a GREAT resource if you design/code for the web. This article is a great primer and may do you a lot of good if you're a novice OR advanced user.
  • phrstbrn, on 02/28/2009, -0/+6Firebug is almost a MUST when developing Ajax applications.

    I live in the Console/Script/Net tabs.
  • inactive, on 02/27/2009, -0/+6Great beginners article. If you are an AM, check this out.
  • bradspry, on 02/28/2009, -0/+4I can't say enough nice things about the Firecookie add-in:
    http://tinyurl.com/3dd78b
  • Lambeco, on 02/28/2009, -0/+4Firebug has seriously saved my life developing web applications. I can't say I'm excited about people from marketing "doing it themselves"... designers and coders are around for a reason.
  • iritegood, on 03/02/2009, -0/+3iDon'tKnow whatYou're talkingAbout
  • PathDaemon, on 02/28/2009, -0/+3For the love of god, please stop using camelCase where it doesn't belong.
    Firefox. Firebug. Not that hard.
  • scy1192, on 02/28/2009, -0/+3How does Dragonfly compared to Firebug, web devs?
  • peterjmag, on 02/28/2009, -0/+2My time to edit ran out, but I figured I'd mention that I'm not affiliated in any way with that site. It's just a good resource that I found recently.
  • Forke, on 02/28/2009, -0/+2I ♥ Firebug
  • Browzer, on 02/28/2009, -1/+3I like Firebug as much as the next guy, but I have a REALLY hard time believing a person who doesn't know HTML and/or CSS is going to have the patience to use it.
  • smylie, on 02/28/2009, -0/+2Don't get me wrong - Firebug is great, and there's no way I'd be without it.
    But by far the best tool for CSS editing on-the-fly is the firefox web developers toolbar.
    It seems more natural to me to be able to just edit a css text-file, adding and removing selectors until you get the effect you want.
    (Plus there's a few other goodies in there such as W3C validation etc =)
  • parkerault, on 02/28/2009, -0/+2I basically use firebug as a WYSIWYG editor by opening up raw markup and then typing in style attributes on the fly. Once everything looks right just copy the definitions into a stylesheet and you're good to go. I can't imagine how I got along without it. The only thing that would make it better would be if it fixed your internet explorer bugs for you. :)
  • inactive, on 02/28/2009, -0/+2It sounds like it does a lot of what I use DreamWeaver for, but I just downloaded it to find out.

    After years of hand coding, DreamWeaver has made eveything fairly simple... but you never know... it's worth a try. I can always uninstall it if it is just more crap.

    My favorite plugin is the "Colorzilla" eyedropper. Stupid little thing, but it's magic. Same with the WebDeveloper addon... which does a lot more.
  • ngmcs8203, on 02/28/2009, -2/+3You got to love those PR agencies who hire consultants to teach them how to drive traffic for their clients.
  • findhostcoupons, on 03/22/2009, -0/+1Being a beginning designer, I would like to express my thanks to person who submitted this story!
  • berobreo, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1Firebug has some great features, but for CSS sometimes I prefer EditCSS, ..
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/179?id=17 ...
  • takmais, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1Hard to believe I was only introduced to Firebug two years ago but it's totally changed the way I build websites.
  • meckenrode, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1i've been using firebug for a while and it's a must-have along with colorzilla.
  • d03boy, on 03/01/2009, -0/+1Amateur Marksman?
  • isurfaddict, on 02/28/2009, -0/+1Firebug is one of the best tool for me. Whether using it for tweaking my designs or simply peeking at how other designers create theirs :)
  • Archer007, on 02/28/2009, -1/+1SEO++

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