Website Development Tools
Domain Name Generator
www.nxdom.com
hwww.name.com
Take the Domain Name
instantdomainsearch.com
Always test your site in many browsers, so go with crossbrowsertesting.com.
Always find a good team that you can work with for coverting PSD files and indesign files to html, css and javascript, here is a good one that I know of call xhtmlized.
Another firm is http://xhtmlweaver.com, I have never used them.
Site Design:
- zurb.com, a bit more expensive but they’ve worked with tons of startups.
- electricpulp
- A ton more web design firms
- CrowdSpring, personally I have never used them.
- 99designs.com.
Some design firms I haven’t tested out:
This is a great place to find stock photos for you sites
MS Windows editors:
- Notepad++, some tips can be found here.
Online resources:
- gomockingbird, one of the best wireframe tools ever.
- CSS Cleanup Tool
- HTML Cleanup Tool
- Blueprint CSS Framework (e.g. Example)
Firefox development plugins:
- Add N Edit Cookies
- DNSStuff Toolbar
- Netcraft Toolbar
- EditCSS
- Firebug
- Html Validator
- LinkChecker
- Server Switcher
- Total Validator
- View Cookies
- Web Developer
- YSlow
- IE Tab
- Page Speed from Google
- HttpFox, to view GET and POST data from HTTP requests
- Fiddler, to view GET and POST data from HTTP requests
Google Chrome plugins:
SEO Tools:
Certificate Verification:
Color palattes. Create a good one
avivadirectory
colourlovers
colorcombos
www.degraeve.com/color-palette/
Charting
protovis