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2004 October 10 • toolsDeletedDomains.com
website: A free tool for uncovering both "on hold/expiring" domains and "deleted" domains.
2004 September 26 • toolsBlog + Wiki = Web Collaborator
tool: Web Collaborator is a new online collaboration tool which allows online groups to work effectively around the same document. [credit: Robin Good]
2004 September 23 • design, toolsCreating favicons
tutorial: A simple way to create a favicon for your site. The favicon is a the small icon that appears next to the URL of the websites in your browser.
2004 September 19 • ccs, resources, toolsCommon Fonts And Typefaces Across Browsers And Operating Systems
resource: Browser News is an online resource devoted exclusively to provide information about Internet browsers and related issues: HTML, compatibility, page load times, standards, and more. Authored by Chuck Upsdell, a Web site designer and engineer himself, Browser News is not... [credit: Robin Good]
2004 August 14 • tools, usabilityUsability Test Data Logger
tool: Todd Zazelenchuk has developed a usability test data logger, a customised spreadsheet for recording and presenting the results of usability tests. [credit: Column Two]
2004 August 8 • design, toolsFor the Color-Palette-Impaired
tools: Three links to three online tools that will help you to come up with a colors that work together.
2004 August 8 • ccs, toolsCSS Cascading Style Sheet OptimizerOptimize your Style Sheets
tool: Optimize your Style Sheets. This tool performs various operations to optimize the style sheet entered.
2004 July 11 • design, toolsHow To Identify Effective Color Schemes
tools: New color matching tools to help designers, presenters, art directors and information designers rapidly identify best color matches and harmonious color schemes. [credit: Robin Good]
2004 July 11 • accessibility, tools, usabilitySafe Web Colours for colour-deficient vision
tool: British Telecom has a site that shows color comparison (side-by-side) palattes for color-deficient vision. The palatte is available in RGB and Hex values and shows examples of “normal” (or not deficient) colors and how the color would look to someone with Protanopia (can’t see reds), Deutanopia (can’t see greens), and Tritanoptia (can’t see blues).
2004 July 5 • code, process, toolsQuality Tips for Webmasters
list: New from the W3C is this ongoing collection of tips for web masters on quality issues related to HTML, CSS and HTTP. This could well become a great checklist for use by any web designer, or as the core of a set of standards, practices and procedures for a whole team. [credit: redemption through standards]
2004 June 28 • e-mail, toolsHow To Avoid Email Filters
tool: Before you send any newsletters or email you can run them through a SpamCheck service which will alert you if your email subject line or text is likely to trigger any spam filters. [credit: excess voice]
2004 June 23 • process, toolsUser Experience Honeycomb
diagram:
Peter Morville's User Experience Honeycomb illustrates seven unique pieces of what makes a great user experience. The write up that goes along with it is pretty good as well. [credit: asterisk*]
ieCapture
tool: Lets those of us who don't have access to a PC check what their site looks like in Windows browsers. [credit: 456 Berea Street]
2004 June 4 • toolsNon-latin Lorem Ipsum
tool: Lorem Ipsum Generator 2 can generate dummy text in other languages and character encodings than the standard iso latin. [credit: 456 Berea Street]
2004 May 29 • toolscolor palette creator
tool: This tool will create 10 shades of a base color at varying degrees of opacity.
2004 May 29 • toolsReadability analyser
tool: At readability.info you can analyse the readability of text and ascertain a multitude of scores and statistic based on common readability formats. The tool can analyse web pages and Word documents. [credit: GUUUI - The interaction designers coffee break]
2004 May 16 • resources, toolsMac And PC Testing Sites
tool: Here's a wonderful pair of useful sites: iCapture shows you what your website looks like on a Mac running Safari. While ieCapture loads your site into a choice of Windows browsers, including IE 4, 5 & 6, Firefox and Opera. [credit: Design Detector]
2004 April 11 • process, toolsRole by phase matrix...
matrix: Depicts the key user engineering roles and the phases of a generic development process. At each role-phase intersection is a synopsis of the contribution that role provides during the phase. You can use this matrix to access more detailed information about each role, each development phase, and role-phase activities. [credit: Poorbuthappy Guide to Ease]
2004 April 11 • ia, resources, toolsContent Development Spreadsheet
resources: Another addition to the AIfIA tools page. [credit: Column Two]
2004 April 4 • toolsW3C Link Checker
tool: Has been upgraded and a standalone version released. You can check your links online or download a standalone link checker utility. Both the service and the standalone tool are free.