If I am brain storming a website design I use this image to get me started. I print it out and sketch out what I envision the page to look like. If you want to download it you can do so here. It is a fun way to get the juices flowing as there is something about a blank browser window that inspires you to fill it up as opposed to a blank piece of paper.
If you have a WordPress site you should definitely check this feature out if you are on WordPress.com or the plugin if you are hosting the site yourself.
Need a web designer for a website? I just found haystack.com which lets you see examples of work from companies and freelance designers as well as how much their projects cost to develop. You can also find web designers in your area. For example check out web designers in San Francisco.
Facebook recently purchased FriendFeed and as a result released Tornado, a real-time web framework which powered FriendFeed. They decided to release the code as an open source project which I was happy about as you can see in the post above. Upon sending the link to Scott he thought he was quite the funny man with his little note on a demo page.
When Ajax techniques became popular, developers faced a new problem: how can we debug Ajax requests and responses efficiently for complex web applications? If using a debugger was hard enough with the RESTful model, triggering an Ajax-specific request is a pain and a bit more difficult; dumping logs and information pertaining to those Ajax operations had to be done using JSON or XML.
FirePHP is an add-on for an add-on: it extends the popular in-browser web development tool called Firebug with an API for PHP web application developers. FirePHP is free and easily attainable via the Mozilla Add-Ons section on the official Mozilla site. The official FirePHP site can be found via this web address: www.firephp.org. Christoph Dorn is the person responsible for creating FirePHP.