Everybody knows the great image software or Photoshop or free alternative GIMP, but there are some great web applications which you can use to edit images.
Some can be extremely useful for quick changes or for compressions. Compressing image can help speed up your page loading times but still keep the same quality of images.
Here is a list of some of the websites you can use to edit images online.
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As a Web Developer picking colours to use on a website is one of the hardest things for me to do, so I need a bit of help finding different colours that work well together.
I needed to find some web apps which can help me with this task. Here is a list of 10 apps I found to help in the colour picker process.
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With all the new features coming to HTML5 it might be hard to remember everything about HTML5.
Here are some cheat sheets to help you remember.
If you are a freelancer or even or you are a computer user who uses multiple computers you will need a space to store files in the cloud. This means that you can access the same files from any computer you use, allowing you can get to your files from any where.
There are many web based systems that allow you to do this including Google Docs, Amazon S3 or even Ubuntu One.
But one of my favourite applications to use is Dropbox this is because I can use it easily on my Linux based computer and Windows computer and it can site as a folder on my computer and will automatically sync.
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Make your website design easier by using a grid layout. This ensures that your website has lined up elements which make it better for the user experience.
Grid layouts also allow you to evenly space out elements on the page.
You can create the grid framework yourself or you can use a framework generator to make the css for your grid.
Here is a list of CSS grid generators.
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Social Media Alerts
Like Google Alerts but for social media.
Receive free daily email alerts of your brand, company, CEO, marketing campaign, or on a developing news story, a competitor, or the latest on a celebrity.
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I’ve been writing here on this blog for awhile now but I’ve never really asked what you the reader wants from here. I’ve always just used this to post resources which I’ve found useful, code snippets I’ve had to search for or tutorials which I use to remind myself. The best thing about this blog is that other people have found this information useful and they started to tell me how helpful this was.
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Here is a list of tools to use to get real time analytic reports for the visitors of your website.
Woopra delivers a complete suite of enterprise grade analytics in one easy to use live interface. Now you can monitor multiple Websites simultaneously in a tabbed window and switch quickly between each.
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Testing how your website looks and works in different browsers and different resolutions is very important for web designers. If your website only works correctly on huge widescreen monitors which many designers have then your visitors most likely will not see the same thing.
As a designer you are trying to give all your visitors the same experience and it shouldn’t matter what browser you are using and what resolution you are viewing the site on.
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Here is a list of a couple of websites that that help analysis your website which can help get the most of yours.
These analysis your on-page SEO, backlink, javascript, css and traffic to give you ways to improve on the performance of your website.
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