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Save paper. Look before you print.

Dale Basler — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:09:31 +0000

Today’s Green Fact: The average employee prints 6 wasted pages per day, that’s 1,410 wasted pages per year! [learn more]

I think a lot of that wasted paper comes from people printing pages off the Internet.

Below is a quick video with some page saving tips when printing with Internet Explorer.

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5 favorite Firefox extensions for web design

Dale Basler — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:07:07 +0000

As a web page designer, I am please with all the options that the Firefox browser provides. Even though Microsoft has made some significant advances with the release of Internet Explorer 7, they simply haven’t matched what Firefox has been able to accomplish.

I consider the vast collection of Firefox extensions its biggest strength. Here are my five favorite extensions for web page design:

MeasureIt
Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels.
ColorZilla
get a color reading from any point in your browser
Aardvark
See how the page is created, block by block
Web Developer
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools
IE View Lite
IE View Lite opens your current page in IE with just one-click

Change your Homepage

Dale Basler — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:32:33 +0000

Make any website your homepage. Change the homepage by:

visiting the website that you want as your homepage
drag the icon in front of the address over the house button on your toolbar
click ‘Yes’ to approve the change

That’s it! Your done!