<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On May 15, 2007, at 8:13 AM, Jean Gazis wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">I installed firebug and the web dev stuff in firefox, but I don't know what to do with them, they don't seem to show what I want to know, or I can't figure out what it is showing me. (I also suspect firebug slows my firefox down drastically, but that might be totally unrelated.)<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>If you click on the "inspect" tab, Firebug will show you all sorts of stuff, including what relevant CSS tags in what CSS files are affecting a given element. It's great for figuring out what's going on in a page you're trying to learn from or trying to debug.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>A couple of other text editing apps I've used are TextWrangler (and BBEdit, which is a $ version with more features) and TextMate.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Also very very helpful is MAMP -- a ridiculously easy way to set up a local Drupal install so you can do all your work on your computer, making page refreshes almost instantaneous.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Laura</DIV></BODY></HTML>