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Read it, comment, and share it with your friendsGreat web tools for the frontend ninja
I just wanted to share some tools with everyone that I’ve been using lately.
- Functional Accessibility Evaluator
- This tool will check a URL and return results based on navigation, text equivalents, scripting, styling, and W3C specifications. You just have to give it a try to see everything it offers.
- Swift
- The Webkit browser for Windows. Want to know what your webpages look like in Safari? This browser uses the same engine. It’s a long way from stable but it’s great for checking pages.
- Sloppy
- This tool is a slow proxy that allows you to test your webpages under simulated slow connections like 56k.
- CSS Compressor
- If you have a large CSS file with a lot of lines and comments and you would like to use a compressed version for production, this tool makes that possible. I used it to compress the CSS file for this website.
- Web Page Analyzer
- This tool analyzes the performance of your website and gives advice on where to improve.
That’s all I have for now. Feel free to share any tools you like in the comments.
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Responses to my articleThanks for more links that I can use to justify wasting my time. heh
I particularily like the FAE. It reminded me of some things that I’ve been meaning to revisit. What was your CSS before/after file size?
Corinne: Wasting time is great!
Sean: 9.54 kb to 7.42 kb. Another reason I compress it is because it makes the CSS hard to read, which is good if you want to keep people from ripping your design. Not that anyone would want to rip mine, but I’m just sayin’.
p.s.: Of course, you should also keep an uncompressed copy in case you ever need to make changes.
I am not a fan of CSS in one line, must admit that. If everyone would keep style information in one line, who would learn from it? I think it’s great you could explore the CSS and eventually learn from it, your visitor would appreciate this.
Is someone would rip-off your design and CSS, he would do so in one case or another :).
P.S.
Nice article
really cool, thanx
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