Michael Ong | On9 Systems » tools http://www.on9systems.com Passionate about Mobile & Web Application Development Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:29:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Useful applications to make life easier in web design and development http://www.on9systems.com/2009/10/01/useful-applications-to-make-life-easier-in-web-design-and-development/ http://www.on9systems.com/2009/10/01/useful-applications-to-make-life-easier-in-web-design-and-development/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:00:49 +0000 michael http://www.on9systems.com/2009/10/01/useful-applications-to-make-life-easier-in-web-design-and-development/
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    • ]]>     Just put up this list to share with others in the team so thought I might as well post it here since it could be useful to folks starting out in web development. Do feel free to add on to the list if there’s something useful for us to use.

    Mind Mapping
    XMind http://www.xmind.net/ (Thanks to @David_Shen for introducing this .. much nicer than Freemind! I use this for meeting notes, to-do lists and jotting down ideas)

    Color Palette
    ColorSuckr http://colorsuckr.com/
    Color Palette Generator http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/

    On Screen Rulers
    JR Screen Ruler http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jruler.htm
    Pixus http://code.google.com/p/pixus/

    Screen Capture
    MWSnap http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

    Hard Core Editing (i.e. know your markup)
    Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

    Firefox Addons
    Web Developer Toolbar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
    Screengrab! http://www.screengrab.org/
    User Agent Switcher https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
    Firebug http://getfirebug.com/
    Pagespeed http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/

    FTP
    Filezilla http://filezilla-project.org/
    Fireftp http://fireftp.mozdev.org/

    IE Tools
    IE 6 and 7 Internet Explorer Toolbar http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/details.aspx?familyid=E59C3964-672D-4511-BB3E-2D5E1DB91038&displaylang=en
    IE 8 has built-in developer toolbar

    IDE
    Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/
    Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 (it really does its job well, have tried hard to replace it without much success)

    Wireframes/Design
    Adobe Fireworks CS4 (started using Fireworks since Macromedia days and its my favorite program when a mock or design is needed)
    Balsamiq http://www.balsamiq.com/ (Just started using this recently to improve my pen n paper process and its working out nicely)

    Great reading for design/dev ideas
    Web Resources Depot http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/
    Smashing Magazine http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

    Hope this helps you in your daily work. Happy coding!

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