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• •• Web Development Tools •

Accessibility Test

• Accessify.com » A collection of Accessibility Tools and other miscellaneous Development Tools.
• UsableNet » Free Accessibility Test. Provides free accessibility extensions (508/W3C Accessibility Suites) for Dreamweaver as well.
• Watchfire WebXACT » Free online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues. Very useful!
• WAVE 3.0 Accessibility Tool » Another free Accessibility Test. You can install the WAVE Toolbar and bookmarklet to your browser for convenience.

 

Accessibility - Sematic Document Test

• Semantic Data Extractor » This tool, geared by an XSLT stylesheet, tries to extract some information from a HTML semantic rich document. It only uses informations available through a good usage of the semantics defined in HTML.

 

Accessibility - Visual Impaired Test

• Colour Contrast Test » Allows you to check the contrast of two colours using the W3C’s colour contrast algorithm by specifying the colours directly.
• Lynx Viewer » This service allows web authors to see what their pages will look like (sort of) when viewed with Lynx, a text-mode web browser.

 

Anti-Spam / Privacy

• Email Obfuscation » Combating Email Harvester Robots using ISO, Hexadecimal and Mixed Output Email Obfuscation.

 

Browser Compatibility

• Browser Cam » Creates screen captures of web pages loaded in any browser, and on any operating system. A useful and time-saving service.
• iCapture » For web designers who are deprived from owning a Mac. Allowing realtime viewing of the site in a handful of Mac browsers.
• ieCapture » For web designers who are deprived from owning a PC. Allowing realtime viewing of the site in a handful of PC browsers.

 

Search Engines Optimisation

• Robots.txt Syntax Checker » Analyses the syntax of a robots.txt file to see if its format is valid.
• Submit Corner’s Web Tools » Lots of search engines optimisation tools that helps to access the site before submitting it to search engines.
• Web CEO » Web promotion software that consists of a unified workspace for ten programs that help to promote your site in search engines, intelligently analyze your visitors, and easily maintain your online estate.

 

W3C Validating Services

• CSS Validation Service » Checks the validity of the cascading style sheet.
• MarkUp Validation Service » Checks the HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
• Valid DTDs » List of valid DTDs.

 

Web Page Optimisation

• Web Page Analyzer » Calculates page size, composition, and page download time; and offers advice on how to improve page display time and website speed.

 

Others

• Clock Script Generator » Customise your own clock script.
• Lorem Ipsum Generator » Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Great for filling up the content for your prototype website layout.

 

 

• • •• DESIGN Tools ••

Online Colour Generators

• ColorMatch Remix » Color picker tool.
• Color Schemer Online » Helps to create harmonious color schemes.
• Colour Scheme » Another nice one.
• EasyRGB » Lots of useful tools here e.g Search a Tint, Color Harmonies, Color Matching, Color Calculator, and Monitor calibration.
• ILU Color Calculator » Helps to identify color harmonies faster than with any color wheel or chart. Very useful and user-friendly!
• Web Color Theory » Not a bad tool. Good aid for web designers to choose the colour scheme for the web page’s links, text, and headers etc.