Posted in Web Development Tools on Friday, January 20th, 2006 | Via
Wow, this is useful. For example, opening as a window in the bottom of Firefox, the element inspector and xmlHTTPRequest logger provide great information, and a series of small tabs are available for you to check the CSS, XML, JS and Box properties of an element.
Posted in Web Development Tools on Thursday, April 6th, 2006 | Via
Perhaps not so much a development tool as a business tool, if you have clients with websites, SiteUptime should help keep you on top of things with 24/7 site uptime monitoring.
They allow 1 free site per account, with advanced packages starting at 3 sites for $5/month, can monitor web servers, email servers and FTP servers and paid accounts have the ability to recieve SMS Alerts.
Posted in Web Development Tools on Sunday, October 8th, 2006 | Via
Jungle disk is software (win, lin, mac) that allows you to easily connect to Amazon's S3 storage service and provides a GUI for passing files back and forth. A snap to set up, now you have no excuse for not having offsite storage that doesn't double as your dedicated server.
Posted in Web Development Tools on Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
Rob Goodlatte has thrown together a simple bookmarklet that can help you to align text to a baseline grid. This looks pretty handy for adjusting the spacing of your text, helping to align text on an evenly distributed vertical grid. Learn more about the concept on A List Apart.
Posted in Web Development Tools on Monday, February 6th, 2006
An HTML tutorial written specifically for working adults who needed to learn HTML quickly and easily
. If you need to get some clients up to speed about some of the basics, this could come in quite handy.
Posted in Web Development Tools on Friday, March 6th, 2009
A pretty useful tool for getting some quick data about a website, from social popularity on the usual social sites to spotlight "In the blogs" covering blog mentions of a site down to its nameservers and hosting company. Having just had to look up some nameservers today, this was useful. I have to say I really like the name.
Posted in Web Development Tools on Thursday, October 6th, 2005 | Via
A PHP time tracking script for keeping tabs on client work. They offer a hosted solution, but the script is downloadable for local use. It is licensed under the GPL, and would be an interesting candidate for mixing in some ajaxy goodness...
Posted in Web Development Tools on Monday, February 14th, 2005 | Via
A cool little app that will output a color palette based on an image that you upload.
Posted in Web Development Tools on Friday, February 11th, 2005 | Via
A project of Forty Media, Web Design Miracle Search allows you to search the finest web design websites for inspiration or answers
. At the time of posting the project is in beta format. Head on over and try it out!
Posted in Web Development Tools on Sunday, February 13th, 2005
A tool that will take a given url and test it's cacheability by examining the HTTP headers of the document. Links to a bookmarklet that can be used for push-button testing of a pages cacheability.
Posted in Web Development Tools on Monday, February 14th, 2005 | Via
Given an URI, this tool will measure, from multiple locations on the internet, the response time of the indicated document (and any link elements in the header of the document) in addition to it's size and status code.
Posted in Web Development Tools on Thursday, February 17th, 2005
A great little tool for helping webmasters run a whole gamut of tests on our websites. Input the URI to be tested and it will return a list containing links for the input url to common testing services, like Bobby, the W3C validator and many others.
