January 2013
The ULTIMATE GUIDE to logo design: 25 expert tips | Graphic design | Creative Bloq
Follow these pro tips and create your best ever logo design. Paul Wyatt reveals everything you need to know to improve your designs.
website dimensions - exact pixels - live check
With the help of CSS3 and mediaqueries you can change the layout of your website based on the detected screen size of the device (be it a computer screen, tablet, smartphone,...). But what are the current guidelines in pixels? Find out here.
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December 2012
Awesome web tools to simplify front-end development | CatsWhoCode.com
by 1 otherOctober 2012
Easy color contrast ratios | Lea Verou
Browser support is IE10 and modern versions of Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera. Basic support for IE9. No responsive version yet, sorry (but you can always send pull requests!)
September 2012
21 Handy Online Tools To Test Your Code Snippets and Preview Your Work Instantly | Design Inspiration
These online tools make your life easier and you can save a lot of time while in the developing process of your projects.
20 Open Source Tools and Applications for Developers : Dezign Matterz
From graphics editor to Php Authentication and management app, following apps are capable of resolving all your development and designing related issues.
World Time Converter - Convert Time at a Glance - Pick best time to schedule conference calls, webinars, online meetings and phone calls.
World Time Buddy (WTB) is a cross between a clock, a world time converter, and an online meeting scheduler. It's one of the best online productivity tools for those often finding themselves traveling, in flights, in online meetings or just calling friends and family abroad.
August 2012
July 2012
Color Oracle
by 1 otherColor Oracle is a free color blindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux. It takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you in real time what people with common color vision impairments will see.
June 2012
TinyPNG – Compress PNG images while preserving alpha transparency
by 5 othersAdvanced lossy compression for PNG images that preserves full alpha transparency.
May 2012
Color Laboratory -- AWARE Center -- HTML Writers Guild
by 2 othersThis color laboratory allows you to select colors and see how they appear next to one another, and in various foreground/background combinations. It also allows you to see those colors as they might appear to color-blind users.
The Toolbox: a directory of useful single-page sites and apps
by 2 othersA collection of the best time-saving apps, tools, and widgets from around the web
February 2012
Alex's blog: DOM Inspector as accessibility tool
When you need to understand why your web page or your ARIA widget has accessibility issues then it's quite handy to inspect both DOM and accessible trees and what's most important to see *relation* between elements of these trees. That's what DOMi gives you.
November 2011
A Guide To Improve Your Website's Readability Through Colors
Colors have a huge effect on readability. This is why you need to choose them wisely so that they not only create esthetically pleasing combinations but also make it easier for users to read the text. Text is an integral part of any site and we shouldn’t punish visitors for coming to our site by using hard to read color combinations.
Easy YouTube caption creator | Accessibility tools, web developer tools, wizards and markup generators | Accessify
1 commentThe Easy YouTube caption creator is designed to make it very simple to create a caption text file (.sub format) that you can then add to YouTube video files that you have uploaded.
Developer Tools in Firefox Aurora 10 ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Mozilla is building a collection of stable, fast and usable developer tools that ship with the browser. I’d like to introduce a collection of improvements that are scheduled to be released in final form on January 31, 2012.
The Future Of CSS: Embracing The Machine - Smashing Coding
The common conception among Web designers is that a good style sheet is created by hand, each curly bracket meticulously placed, each vendor prefix typed in manually. But how does this tradition fit in a world where the websites and applications that we want to create are becoming increasingly complex?
DingoAccess » Measuring accessibility
There has been much discussion, and some arguments, about how to determine the accessibility of websites. Unfortunately, this is often polarised around two simplistic choices: A compliance/conformance based approach that usually involves a checklist of criteria; or, some form of user testing by people who have different disabilities and/or who rely on different assistive technologies. Both approaches have their strength and limitations, and neither can provide a reliable declaration about the accessibility of a site on its own.
August 2011
Adobe Muse: a step in the wrong direction » Blog » Elliot Jay Stocks
May 2011
Tools and Tips for Creating Transcripts | Blog Accessibility
When creating transcripts for videos, adding details about the setting, actions and such may be beneficial to those relying solely on the transcript. Once the spoken word is captured, that text can be used to caption the video (again, essential for accessibility) and repurposed to create products in other formats. Definitely a win-win scenario!