Web Design & Development with Google Chrome

Posted Friday 18th Nov 2011 by James Bavington

In today’s web design video, we talk about Google Chrome from the perspective of a web designer, developer or search engine optimiser. Historically both Nick and I have been fairly loyal to Firefox having used it as our default browser for years, it’s only recently that we’ve made the switch to Chrome.

As you probably know, one of the great things about Firefox is the diversity of Plugins and Extensions that you can install to tailor the browser to suit your personal needs. Over the years, we’ve both installed and removed countless plugins that support us with our day-to-day website development and SEO operations. However despite effectively ‘Growing-Up’ with Firefox, there’s a few things that annoy us and encouraged Nick and I to experiment with Google Chrome. I won’t go into detail but just generally speed and the infrequent crashing and freezing.

At first, I found myself using both browsers simultaneously. Chrome for general fast web browsing and Firefox for dissecting website coding and performance. Now however, after installing a few Chrome extensions, I’ve almost completely wheened myself of Firefox.

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By James Bavington

Creare's Web R&D Manager is a creative graduate and self-taught front-end developer. When not sat at a computer, he's either at Comic-con, driving his car or reading military history. See all of posts.

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  • Patrice

    I love Chrome but as a web-developer it is important to check how a website looks in Internet Explorer. This is very easy with the IE Tab plugin (http://chrome-plugins.org/extensions/ie-tab/). With this you don’t have to have IE on your machine anymore.

  • http://www.tenddeapact.com Alex – Tenddeapact Solutions

    Interesting video. Thanks for sharing. @Patrice there is also an IE Tab plugin for Firefox compatible with Firefox 7…

  • Gavin

    Great post guys. Patrice, the plugin you have mentioned is a good plugin but as it’s Windows only and all of us at Creare work in a Mac environment, we can’t utilise it. I always thought though, if that plugin is for Windows only, why not just open your Internet Explorer browser?

  • Leon Victor

    This awesome video tutorial is very useful for professionals and beginners to Web Design and Development.