Saturday, September 30, 2006

Useful Firefox Addons for web/template designer


Firefox has become a must to have browser for almost internet users. Although it become tough concurrence from IE,Opera and newly lunched Flock, Firefox remains on the top for the last few months in many survey. Firefox extension is one of the strenght that the community own. This extension help a lot of internet surfers simplifying their task to download video, to use IE based tab, to pick color, to measure a table etc etc.

Therefore I would like to recommend 5 vital extensions to those who busy designing and creating new web templates.

  1. ColorZilla
  2. Collection of tool that help you to pickup color. Also provide the Eyedropper tool so that you can determine your desire color on the web.
  3. Measureit
    Help you to measure something on the web. Width of table, width of paragraph etc etc. For example if you want to make a image for your header, you can measure directly the width of header by using the tool.
  4. IE Tab
    Its vital to make sure your CSS work on Internet Explorer. Using this tool, you can view your webdesign in an IE tab in the Firefox itself
  5. Fasterfox
    Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
  6. Perfomancing Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog

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