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25 attractive twitter background images

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:31:26 +0000

Twitter is now one of most visited social sites which easily helps you to catch up your friends updates and status or even follow people who share your interest , and of course it’s important to every one to make his profile attractive to other followers on twitter so here you are some attractive background sure it will help you to add your style at your twitter profile .

and finally here you are a nice site can help you design your won background profile yourself

hope you enjoy it …

+25 Top FireFox addons for designers, developers and webmasters

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:38:29 +0000

Who doesn’t know Mozilla browser which known as FireFox? of course nobody. Mozilla succeeded to attract large amount of people to use their browser instead of other browsers by including a lot of benefits that are not exist in other browsers. In a short while almost all internet users became Firefox fans while other browsers tried hard to catch up with it, but without any usefulness till now.

One of Fire fox’s benefits is Add-ones, which considered the most important feature. Add-ones are very small application that works with the browser to perform a specific job helping the browser user. Of course designers and developers are the main users who will find out that these add-ones very useful to perform their job the way it should be with accessibility.

Here are top add-ones considered best ones in professional users opinion.

1.IE View 1.4.5

This application lets you to load pages in internet explorer or even to mark certain pages to be loaded automatically in IE.

2.Alexa Sparky 1.4.7

This is the official add-one from alexa, used to inform you with all alexa data in your status bar.

3.ColorfulTabs 4.1

Very simple add-one that coloring each tab of your browsed pages with different color which will make you easily distinguish pages, also it will add very good look for your browser interface.

4.ColorZilla 2.0.2

This add-one is an eye dropper and color picker. This tool will make you able to catch your liked colors from any spot you want.

5.CoLT 2.4.6

This great easy add-one makes you able to copy either a hyperlink’s text or both the link and the link’s text (in a format you specify) by two simple menus.

6.Console² 0.5

Are you java script programmer? this tool will be very helpful for you since it discover all programming errors and show them to you to be able to fix it.

7.Copy Link Name 1.2.9

This add-one makes you able to copy source anchor of a link in any web page using simple context menu.

8.EditCSS 0.3.7

This useful add-one makes you able to modify CSS sheet or what is known as Cascading style sheet in current loaded pages.

9.Event Spy 0.2.5

This small add-one makes you to watch java script events when they are taking place.

10.Firebug 1.4.5

The most used add-ones for all programmer,designers and webmasters. This application makes you easily do almost every thing to current loaded web page, you can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript online since this application contains needed tools integrated with your firefox browser.

11.FireFTP 1.0.7

Access all FTP servers easily and instantly with this great ftp client integrated with firefox.

12.FireShot 0.80

Great application makes you easily capture the current whole page or just appearing part. Also this application differs from other similar ones in that it contains several tools makes you able to edit the captured image several ways.

13.FoxyProxy Standard 2.16.1

Manage proxies easily with this advanced tool, This tool will replaces all difult firefox proxy management features.

14.Greasemonkey 0.8.20091209.4

Customize the way your current page looks.

15.Html Validator 0.8.5.8

Find out HTML errors written by the web designer using this small application that shows you number and places of errors in HTML page instantly in small icon founded in status bar.

16.iMacros for Firefox 6.3.1.1

Tired of continuously repetitive work each time you runs your firefox? make this small application records every action you make while running firefox. It can record your visited pages, filling forms and much more.

17.Image Zoom 0.3.1

Great tool used for zooming small images and elements you need to enlarge.

18.ImTranslator 3.2.9

Im translator is a very useful dictionary used to translate all words from any language to the language you need instantly. It supports more than 40 languages such as Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simp.), Chinese (trad.), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese and much more.

19.NoScript 1.9.9.30

increase security level to protect your system from others attacks while browsing the net. This small application prevents running of active contents that comes from sites you don’t trust.

20.Pixel Perfect 1.1.0

Small application lets designers and developers to overlay web composition over top of the developed HTML.

21.SEOpen 1.0

Are you into search engine optimization SEO? this tool will help you to access to almost every web-based tools helping you to do perform great SEO.

Quickly check inbound links, PageRank, http headers, and much more.Just by right click.

22.ShowIP 0.8.19

Nice small application lets you know the IP number of the current page and perform several actions usinf this add-one. You can copy IP to clipboard directly from page, just use right and left mouse buttons to perform what you need.

23.Shareaholic for Twitter, Facebook, Google… 1.9

Share you links in more easy, fast, accurate way using this application. This add-one lets you to deal with more than 60 services including Twitter, Facebook, Google Gmail, Delicious, LinkedIn, etc.

24.Total Validator 6.1.1

Are you web designer? this add-one will be very helpful for you. This application will make you able to validate your sites either if it was online or was running locally. you can take shoots of your page too by this great add-one.

25.TwitKit 1.2.2

Small add-ones that add Twitter side bar to your firefox browser to be able to deal with twitter directly from your browser without needing to visit twitter for several purposes.

26.Window Resizer 1.0

Resize your browser to the resolution you need easily with this small effective tool.

27.X-Ray 0.9.1

Discover all tags found in web page without needing to view the source code.

25 color tools for all designers and webmasters

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:10:26 +0000

As a designer,you may admit that colors are considered the the main component in any designing project. Of course you did try to find colors that could matching your client chosen one to be used in his project, and of course you did face some difficulties in this situation specially when the chosen color was not from the main colors that you could find the matching ones immediately.

Color tools application would give you the hand of help for these purposes, specially when you won’t have to search for anything!

all you have to do is giving the application the color of yours and it will make the rest.

Here are about 25 inspiration-stimulating online color palette tools that will make your work easier, faster and more propositional.

1.Color Tools

Large group of color tools that you could use for several purposes such as choosing web safe color, mix color values to create new colors,find how well two colors match, find similar colors to a chosen color and much more.

2.colr

play with colors in this application wich will be helpful for all web designers.

3.Colour lovers

the most famous color website that will help you to match colors the way it should be, also you will find different color pasterns and pallets designed for coloring purposes.

4. 4096 Color Wheel

simple color application used to pick colors you need and knowing if it was web safe or not.

5.colorschemer

several tools used for coloring purposes.

6.Web 2.0 Colour Palette

colors that are useful when you are trying to build a website that has web 2.0 style.

7.Color Scheme Designer

8.colorjack

9. 100 Random Colors

10.colorblender

11.color schemer online

12. colordb

13.Accessibility Color Wheel

this great application shows you the color you chosen for backgrounds and text and till you if they were fit together to be read easily.

14.Color Palette Generator

This application makes you able to generate color pallets from any image you have. so if you like any colors of any image you will be able to get this colors using this application.

15.colorhunter

Hunt color from any image you have using this cute tool easily.

16.visibone colorlab

17.colorcombos

huge library of color schemes that will help you to choose the perfect matching color to be used in your web sites designs.

18.colormatch

19.colorspire

Great color tool that shows you the colors you choose in a page layout demo to decide if you really like the combination you used.

20.Color Palette Generator

21.easyrgb

Great tools that will serve you in all colorization purposes, for example you will find Color calculator, Create color harmonies, Monitor color calibration and so much more.