southern writes:  

Introduction

Linting tools help improve the code quality and optimize it for better performance. Linting tools have sets of defined rules to verify the code, without actually executing the code. Web designers often overlook the CSS code quality and unstructured coding style. As the product grows, this can create a real mess and usually results in a lot of difficulty finding and fixing the issues. You will find many articles with lists of CSS linting tools, but unfortunately most of the tools are no longer available. Hence, this post talks about the 4 best ACTIVE CSS linting tools which you can leverage to validate and optimize your CSS code. Enjoy!

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southern writes:  

What are Favicons?

Favicons are small 16x16 icon files that are displayed next to the URL of your site in a browser's address bar. Additionally they're often displayed next to the name of your site in a user's list of open tabs and bookmark listings making it easier for the user to quickly identify amongst other sites.

What are App Icons?

App Icons are the images you press on your smartphone to launch an application. As newer phones are released with higher resolution screens, higher resolution app icons are needed. Developers still want to maintain support for the older phones with lower resoltion so when you create an app icon you need to create several size variations of the same image. This is true for all smartphones like the iPhone and Android, and even tablets like iPad.

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southern writes:  

Cross-browser client side URL redirection generator tool

An advanced online tool to create well supported URL redirect scripts. This is very useful, when you can not use server side redirection techniques. Due to the cross-browser solution, no-script support and SEO friendly code, this tool became popular among webmasters around the world.

Insider Zone

southern writes:  

Pixie is a utility made especially for webmasters and designers. It is a color picker with few extra goodies.

Run it, simply point to a color and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that color. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected color in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current coordinates of your mouse pointer.

It is the only tool for you to work with colors.

Download Pixie now:

Nattyware

papamike writes:  

I kinda tripped over this resource and thought I'd share it with everyone. Taken from the website:

The HiSoftware "Cynthia Says" portal is a web content accessibility validation solution. It is designed to identify errors in your content related to Section 508 standards and/or the WCAG guidelines. This free tool, meant for educational purposes, is an online test which only validates one page at a time.

Go to Cynthia Says to learn more.
Go to Section 508 to learn more.

link writes:  

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