Useful Free Tools For Website Designers

[jhilgeman]

:) I know it's a web browser and it's probably a good one, but the intended purpose of this thread is to list little programs, scriplets, bookmarklets, etc...

Sort've like a thread for listing fuzzy dice to hang from your rear view mirror, not for listing a great car that comes with fuzzy dice. :)

- J

[carbonize]

:) I know it's a web browser and it's probably a good one, but the intended purpose of this thread is to list little programs, scriplets, bookmarklets, etc...

- J

Hmm scriplets. A scriplet is a good description for the extensions :D

[jhilgeman]

ROFL! Then list the d--- extensions! :D

- Jonathan

[carbonize]

OK best three.

Web Developer
Lets you outline a pages block elements and/or it's tables, replace images with the alt text, remove images totally, resize the browser to one of three preset sizes, plus much more.

Checky
Lets you submit the page to over twenty different site checkers. Things from W3C HTML and CSS validation, colourblind filters to see how they see it, accessibility checking, wacthfire checking, etc.

CSS editor
Opens up a pages CSS in the sidebar and lets you edit it with the changes being applied to the page as you type. This is good for all the sites out there that use invalid CSS. And believe there are many.

[tertius]

Applet: Color Selector 3.0
License: Freeware
Information (as given at www.tucows.com - a source for this and other utilities): This program provides dynamically colored sliders supporting four color formats including RGB, HSL, HSB/HSV and CMY. It also has a color picker with zoom and area sampling, format converter, palette tool, seven built-in export formats, customizable formatting options including four built-in ones, and scripting support for VBScript and JScript, allowing you to replace export formats with anything you want.
Additional Software Required: VB6 Runtime Files and Windows Script Control

[paulhiles]

Any Password
Cost: Free
Url: http://www.romanlab.com/apw/index.html

Excellent little utility for storing all those usernames and passwords. Easily accessed and stored in a tree-like hierarchy.. all you need to remember is a single password to open the program. There is a neat little password generator for creating new passwords to your own specification.

[carbonize]

Any Password
Cost: Free
Url: http://www.romanlab.com/apw/index.html

Excellent little utility for storing all those usernames and passwords. Easily accessed and stored in a tree-like hierarchy.. all you need to remember is a single password to open the program.

Another wonderful feature of my suggestion, Mozilla Firebird, also a feature of Opera.

Another suggestion, although it may get classed as a full featured program, is Irfanview. It's a image viewing program that allows you to convert an image to a different format, crop images, apply filters, take screen shots, plus a lot more. Best off all it's FREE.

ps. A site worth visiting http://www.tinyapps.org

[tertius]

I also use ExamDiff, a freeware Windows tool for visual file comparison. It's great for line-by-line comparisons of 2 file versions when troubleshooting code!

Main website:
http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
(Look for the ExamDiff (Freeware) link; ExamDiff Pro isn't the free version.)

FWIW!
-Tertius

[brandblast]

Hi everyone,

Here is great free tool to use when designing a site's color scheme

http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html

Please help your fellow designers with your free links.

Thanks,

[bubbasmurf]

Thanks for the link,brandblast thats a great tool to have.