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2004 April 3 • resources, tools, writing

Readability.info

website: Analyzes the characteristics of your writing and outputs a variety of readability scores and statistics based on common readability formulas. The underlying tool is the GNU style utility. You can also see readability scores for popular Web sites to help get an idea of how they stack up.

2004 March 21 • design, resources, tools

Browser Support 2004

article: thecounter.com’s stats are live again. There you will find browser use stats which are aggregated from a widely distributed hit counter script, and presumably a sample a broad cross-section of the population.

2004 March 21 • tools

Create Tutorials, Demos and Training

tool: Camtasia Studio records high-quality videos of your Windows computer screen, enabling you to share your PC knowledge with everyone in your office and around the world. Easily edit, enhance and publish your screen recordings in all the popular multimedia formats.

2004 March 7 • design, tools

Technicolor Web Colour Designer

tool: There are a plethora of color scheme tools on the web. Here's another, with an added bonus. Not only can you choose your colors, but you can then apply them to a mock-up layout on the same page. [credit: design PRINCIPLES]

2004 February 21 • design, tools

4096 Color Wheel

tool: There are several great color matching/picker applications currently on the Internet. Here's a new one that displays web-safe, web-smart, and un-web safe alternatives of the colors you are looking for. [credit: design PRINCIPLES]

2004 January 17 • accessibility, tools

Web Accessibility Checking Toolbar

link: Accessible Information Solutions (AIS)  has developed a free web accessibility checking toolbar for Internet Explorer. [credit: webgraphics]

2004 January 4 • design, resources, tools

4096 Color Wheel

tool: A simple color chooser, incorporates auto-columns of web-safe, web-smart and unsafe colors as you hover over a color wheel.  [credit: webgraphics]. Also see Web color tools for links to additional color tools.

2003 December 14 • resources, seo, tools

Poodle Predictor

tool: See your site like Google does. Enter your URL to see what your site will look like in search-engine results. See how search-engine friendly your site is, can a spider crawl it easily? Will it get good rankings?

2003 December 14 • design, resources, tools

Color Scheme

tool: Generates several types of color schemes. Every scheme is based on one (base) color, which is supplemented with additional colors..

2003 December 14 • blogs, tools

Weblog Tool Roundup

review: Webmonkey reviews weblog apps.

2003 December 6 • accessibility, resources, tools

Testing Tools for Developing Accessible Web Sites

tools: For those developers out there who would like to try and build an accessible site, or would like to just have some neat and useful testing tools, we have collected a few which are provided here as a service. They are provided "as is" and remained licensed to their original authors, who have provided them royalty free. [credit; WATS.ca News]

2003 December 5 • design, resources, tools

Easy RGB

tool: Search for color complements to your RGB values. Create color harmonies, combinations and themes. From your main (or background) color select, trim and accent tones. [credit paper & pencil]

2003 November 27 • business, process, resources, tools

AIfIA Tools

tools: Document templates, process map posters and other IA tools.

2003 October 26 • tools, web standards

Layout-o-matic

tool: Choose specifications for a multi-column layout to generate CSS+HTML for download.

2003 October 26 • tools, web standards

List-o-matic

tool: A wizard like environment to create CSS-styled lists.

2003 October 25 • resources, tools

WebPageAnalyzer.com

tool: Enter a URL to calculate page size, composition, and download time. Calculates the size of individual page elements and finds the total for each type of component. Based on these characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve page display time incorporating the best practices from HCI research into its recommendations.

2003 October 23 • resources, tools

RSS Resources

website: Web based RSS tools.

[credit: Lockergnome's RSS Resource]