Posts Tagged ‘Firefox’

ColorZilla the palette leech

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

ColorZilla has long been a tool in the web developer/designer chest. Even if you have tried and discarded it before you should check out the new version. It includes a DOM Color Analyzer. This traverses the DOM of the current page and returns a palette of used colours. This is useful for learning from well designed sites and also useful on your own sites. You can check colour consistency, simplify your palette and quickly get at colours you’d normally have to hunt through a CSS file for.

Nice feature guys.

Validate with Wingman

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

If you have ever built a complex website and needed to validate it you’ll know there are two choices; validate page-by-page or point a bot at it that validates everything and drives you nuts with irrelevant results.

Enter Wingman. A Firefox extension that records a session of web-pages you visit and submits them to a validation service. You then get back a neat list of pages and their validation results. It even handles pages that require a login. Handily the validation results show the important errors and problems, not pages of arcane nonsense.