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| Super Moderator Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: California
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Reputation: | I've been designing my own websites for the past 2 years, and these 2 years have consisted of a lot of long nights of code hacking trial and error, uploading and refreshing ad infinitum. Only a few days ago did I learn of 2 useful tools that probably could have saved me hundreds of hours that I could have spent sleeping instead. So I thought I'd start a thread where we can share web design tools and references that save time and make webmastering easier.
__________________ My business: Franga Designs ~ My blog: Pecuniarities ~ My CafePress Shop: Mozartini ~ Follow me on Twitter! Last edited by hermione; 08-30-2008 at 01:29 AM. |
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| Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: France
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Reputation: | Good list! I have to add Paint.net (also via Mrs Micah) for design work: buttons, graphics etc. Very easy to use, and free!
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Reputation: | I'm trying to implement Google Analytics...if any of you have a minute to click on over, it would help me see if I've done it right! Thanks. The Paycheck Chronicles
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P.S. I've found that it can take a few hours for stats for a visit to show up in GA.
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For what it's worth, I find that I don't always get the same results (for the things I can compare) with Google Analytics and SiteMeter. So I usually just take the result with the higher number!!
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Reputation: | I use GA, SiteMeter and StatCounter and don't get the same numbers either. I prefer StatCounter most because I find it the easiest to use as far as checking stats go. The "Recent visitor activity" is my favorite feature for a good overview of where each visitor came from, how many pages they viewed, entry and exit pages, IP and ISP, returning visits, country, etc.
__________________ My business: Franga Designs ~ My blog: Pecuniarities ~ My CafePress Shop: Mozartini ~ Follow me on Twitter! |
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| Senior Member | Good list! I work in web design and can attest to the awesomeness of the firebug extension. I literally use it every day. If you work with IE7 the IE Developer toolbar is quite useful too. If you ever find a color used on a website and want to know what it is, then Colorzilla is the firefox add-on for you. It puts a little icon in the bottom left of your browser: clicking once will get you an "eyedropper" tool that tells you the hex and rgb values of any color you hover your mouse over. Double clicking the icon will give you a web safe color picker to play with! Another tool similar to hermione's RGB Color values is the Colour Contrast Check tool. You can use the sliders to pick a foreground and background color and the tool will tell you if there is enough contrast between the two based on the standards set forth by the world wide web consortium. |
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Reputation: | Thanks for all the info. I'm such a newbie!
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| Senior Member | Hmm, might have to check out colorzilla. It will beat screenshot and matching by hand, lol. I've spent an hour or more matching the perfect shade of Blue Knight blue before and let me tell you it sucked. |
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Reputation: | Oh yeah, I use ColorZilla too and it is such a time saver. A tip for that is if you're trying to get the color of text, use the ctrl +++ function to enlarge the letters so you can get an accurate swatch of it.
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