We web designers need to think of a lot of things when designing web sites. Colour being one of the primary concerns. Sometimes its difficult to get an understanding of what someone who is colour blind would see. Is there enough contrast between text and backgrounds? Now you can find out in a moments notice with GrayBit.
This is a really great tool! When you’re out and about you can post entries to your blog from your mobile phone. Makes keeping your blog updated even easier! Can you guess how i posted this entry… Oh the joys of technology!
I can sometimes get frantic calls from clients saying “My websites’ down!!” when in fact its up and running. The reason the client can’t see it can vary from their internet connection wasn’t working to a faulty BT exchange and that side of the country just wasn’t getting info from the server. So I was really excited to find this little tool:
www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Need to figure out what your website looks like on different systems with different browsers? Browser Shots is a great tool for quickly getting an idea of what users see.
A great opensource piece of powerful software. GIMP is a basically on free version of Photoshop which allows you to create edit almost any type of graphic. Really useful to be able to alter your images for use on the web.
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