The challenge for any web professional is balancing quality and time. With tight deadlines and demanding clients, it is often impossible to produce a product that we can be happy with. One solution is using tools and resources to our advantage, allowing us to create better products in less time.
At Focus 44, we test many online resources every month to find new and usefultools to save us time. Wehave compiled a list of links to the tools that we frequently include in our day-to-day work flow. Hopefully our leg work will help you in your design and development projects as well!
Mozilla Firefox has always been a good friend to web professionals. We use it as our primary web browser for a lot of reasons. The biggest reason, however, is the huge number of custom plug-ins available for free. There are numerous design and development plug-ins that we use on a daily basis and would not like to work without!
Developer Tools & Resources
Here are a collection of online tools and resources that have proven useful for web development.
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» XRAY
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XRAY is a bookmarklet. Use it to see the box model for any element on any web page.
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» Speakeasy
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A great tool for testing your internet connection download and upload speeds
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» Ajaxload
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Loading .gif Generator. Quickly customize and create loading .gif's. Great for Ajax/JavaScript and applications
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Designer Tools & Resources
Here are a collection of online tools and resources that have proven useful for web design.
» Icojoy
» famfamfam
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Free Stock Icons
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» Dynamic Drive
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FavIcon Generator. Also creates desktop icons.
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» TextureKing
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Free Stock Textures. Great site to find all knids of hi-res textures.
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» Color Designer
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Quickly create custom color schemes, complete with RGB and HEX color codes.
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» Stripe Generator
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Create custom stripe backgrounds in minutes.
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» Font-ex
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Free quality fonts!
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» A List Apart
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A great online magazine "For people who make websites."
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» Digital Web
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"Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects."
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Please Contact Us to let us know about any broken links, or to suggest tools and resources that you feel others might benefit from.