must have web tools

Last week I was working as a consultant at a clients office. He had a mandriva box running that I was using. I have no problem coding in vi, I prefer it! Anyway, while working on the project I realized I was missing all my web tools on my powerbook. So I started to think and update firefox on the machine with all of my MUST HAVE web tools.

1. Web Developer - This extension for Firefox gives you the abliity to test various parts of your code (html,css,javascript), along with some other great tools for measuring image sizes. Every website should be w3c valid. This tool allows you to validate your code!

2.ColorZilla - This is another Firefox extension that reads the color value on any point of your browser. I must for graphic designers! ColorZilla also can display a pallete and allow you to pick the color and give you the value.

3. del.icio.us Extension - If you do not have a del.icio.us account go sign up now. This is a social bookmarking website that keeps track of all of your bookmarks. This is great for people who have a lot of bookmarks or websites they need to know the URL, but do not carry a laptop with them 24/7.

4. Gradient Image Maker - with the new web 2.0 crazy, every website wants a graident image somewhere. Since I do not use GIMP everyday or carry a photoshop install CD with me, this is the easiest way for a web developer to make their own graidents without any knowledge of any graphical program. Dynamic Drive is a great site for web developers. It also features some other tools like a favIcon generator. A favicon is the image that shows up in your tab. You just upload an image and it will resize the image specific for the favicon and give you stub code to use for your web site.

I am sure I will be adding or posting to this again, but if you do not uses these please go download and play with them. Suggestions, Comments, etc. email smitten at avronics dot com

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