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5 development resources that you may not have noticed

Posted by Andrew Faulkner on September 11th, 2006.

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Over the last month I have noticed many ingenious tools/resources for improving the websites that I design or making the process of developing more efficient. “Let’s not keep these to myself,” I thought. It’s easy for great tools to pass you by.

I’m hoping the 5 resources below are new to many of you. If you find them useful/rubbish then comment below with your findings. Here goes, folks:

AJAX-S

A very interesting use of AJAX. Imagine PowerPoint but in web format. Useful for pitches perhaps?

browsershots.org

Comes into its own if you just can’t get hold of a particular browser.

Fagan Finder’s URL info

Maybe more useful after the launch of a site. Keep track of useful info about your website here.

Most Inspired

Getting sick of wading through all those gallery sites? Most inspired has all the major galleries fed onto one page. Marvellous!

Link Thumbnail

A clever use of javascript to show users a screenshot of where the link will take them. Based on css classes so can be adapted for use on all links or just assigned links. Cunning!

I hope these are of some use. If you wish to see more posts like this then shout up below.

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A typo: ingo, should be info

Some resources you might like:

Considering filesize and scripting:


paginated thumbslider build on Jquery and with one example extended with Thickbox (like Lightbox)

Johan
September 11th, 2006
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But I like “useful ingo”…

madrid
September 12th, 2006
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A typo: ingo, should be info

Changed. Thanks.

Andrew Faulkner
September 12th, 2006
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Great post - yes, more like this please!

David Horn
September 12th, 2006
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Andrew-
You beat me to the punch. Just discovered browsershots yesterday and it’s great. In fact, that was going to be the subject of my first post back at fadtastic in a long time. Drat!

Michael Murphy
September 12th, 2006
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Michael,

Sorry! You could always test it out and post a review here.

Andrew Faulkner
September 12th, 2006
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iface thoughts » Blog Archive » Test In Multiple Browsers
September 12th, 2006
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Max Design » Some links for light reading (13/9/06)
September 13th, 2006
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What about The Scrutinizer

Rosano Coutinho
September 13th, 2006
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Rosano. Didn’t know that existed. Thanks.

This is a road to discovery. :D

Andrew Faulkner
September 13th, 2006
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Thanks for the read and links…
Im going to have fun with these links especially the browsershots page

JP2 Designs
September 14th, 2006
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[…] Development resources that you may not have noticed: List has a nice list of five (plus one in comments page) of some development tools that can and will definatly help JP2 Designs with their web development. The browser page will be a great help, it allows you to view the page (URL)  on different browsers and shows you what it looks like. This will help greatly as it will help take away the need to have numerous broswers on your computer. […]

Interesting Links for this week. - JP2 Designs - Web and Print Development - Perth, Western Australia
September 14th, 2006
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Nice post and please do more of these. :D

Tim
September 18th, 2006
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