We would have loved to incorporate transmogrifier into the name, but that's hard to type and spell.
||Step 1 > Visit Url or open file ||Step 2 > Click the addon button ||Step 3 > Addon opens double pane and clears any current CSS ||Step 4 > Edit CSS and refresh
There's probably already an addon like this. Admittedly I've never looked past Firebug.
[1] http://www.bluebison.net/content/?p=786 [2] http://www.webputty.net/credits
Wish the stiqr guys had a bit more exposure. Awesome product.
Or maybe you have a board with some buttons on it. The one with a picture of a cow makes a cow noise. The pig makes a pig noise, etc.
Turns out this is also really good design practice. For a long time, when the web was new, having lots of "neat stuff" meant that you knew how to make neat stuff, which meant that you were "professional".
As this "neat stuff" became more accessible, it started having the opposite affect.
The transition you've seen happen in web is the same one that you saw happen in print. Things start off "fancy", but as "fancy" becomes easily attainable, it starts to look cheap.
You may be interested in this article: http://lesswrong.com/lw/154/why_real_men_wear_pink/
"Why Real Men Wear Pink"
For example:
Each Fisher Price style button leading through to a small nugget of information that users can consume very quickly and move on or should we continue designing pages that are more traditional in their layout (more text+images)?
http://www.welcomebrand.co.uk/blog/2010/09/10/the-dumbening-...
Personally, I don't think it's a bad thing at all. Obviously the grandparent disagrees, but the question is quite valid.
Can't see how it could be regarded in such a light? Too bad.
