Great Color Picker
June 6, 2006 | 35 Comments
When doing web development it is often helpful to use a color wheel or some sort of color picker when coming up with color schemes. In general I’m satisfied with the desktop application Pixie in my normal web development toolkit. However, that tool does not present a color wheel or allow you to pick multiple colors from out of nowhere.
Enter 4096 Color Wheel. As far as I can tell, this is the ultimate web based application for playing with colors. It gives you colors in hex, like you’d want, but also presents “web safe” and “web smart” alternatives for any color you may pick.
Tags: 4096 color wheel, color, color picker, color wheel, pixie, web, web application, web development, web safe, web smart
My Web Development Toolkit
April 20, 2006 | 4 Comments
In addition to EditPlus as my favorite text editor, there are a few other tools I rely heavily on when doing web development.
The first is a simple tool, but one of the most valuable. Pixie is a utility for picking colors from various areas of the screen. It captures the RGB, CMYK, HSV, and most importantly HTML Hex values. With a simple shortcut key you can grab this value to your clipboard. It is extremely light and unbelievably useful.
Another common task I find myself repeating is measuring areas of the screen, primarily in pixels. For this I use JRuler. Again, this is a light utility that does exactly what it should without frills or excess.
To even my own surprise I find myself jumping regularly between Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox for browsers. However, if I’m doing and Ajax or general Javascript development, Firefox is the browser of choice. With that in mind, there are some must have extensions. You absolutely must get Web Developer and Firebug. These tools can strip hours off your overall development and testing time.
Tags: editplus, firefox, internet explorer, jruler, pixie, safari, web, web developer, web development