Firebug - For web designers

With my Windows 7 RC running out in the near future I decided to switch to a retail copy and start the process of reinstalling everything. One of the first things to get setup was of course firefox and with it firebug.

For those of you who don’t know firebug, it is a web development tool that allows you to inspect HTML and modify style and layout in real-time. This superb tool allows you to see the effect of any changes you make to a website on the fly without making actual modifications to the code. You can also debug and profile javascript and pause execution at any time. As with most of the best bit of software it works really smoothly, is incredibly powerful and saves us hours of development time.

For you web designers out there who don’t use firebug, get it now!

There is also chromebug to integrate with Google’s browser should that be your choice. For you IE users there is some sort of version that can be used by adding code to your site, not tried it but it looks like it’s a PITA. Just use firefox, it’s simply better.

Tags: firebug, google, The Web, web designers, web development tool

Filed under: The Web by Matt Dean