Anidan Design » Cool Tools http://anidandesign.com Web design, Wordpress, and Graphic Art, tips, tricks, and tidbits Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:40:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Need an online generator… for anything? http://anidandesign.com/cool-tools/online-generators-smashing-magazine/ http://anidandesign.com/cool-tools/online-generators-smashing-magazine/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 01:08:15 +0000 dani http://anidandesign.com/cool-tools/online-generators-smashing-magazine/ Smashing Magazine you should! Get to know 'em by checking out this HUGE list of online generators courtesy of Smash Mag!!

]]> If you don’t know about Smashing Magazine you should! Get to know ‘em by checking out this HUGE list of online generators courtesy of Smash Mag!!

Full list –> Online Generators | Smashing Magazine

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]]> http://anidandesign.com/cool-tools/online-generators-smashing-magazine/feed/ 4 Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done http://anidandesign.com/blogging/lifehacker-top-ten-blogging-tools/ http://anidandesign.com/blogging/lifehacker-top-ten-blogging-tools/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 03:12:31 +0000 dani http://anidandesign.com/blogging/lifehacker-top-ten-blogging-tools/ Lifehacker and a few of my own as well...]]> 10 tools and tricks by those expert bloggers at Lifehacker and a few of my own as well…

  • Windows Live Writer – OMG, if you are a blogger and you aren’t using this, you have no idea what you are missing! And it’s FREE!! With plugins to customize further, I don’t know how I ever blogged without Live Writer.
  • Tumblr – tumblr.com explains it best by saying if blogs were journals, tumblr would be a scrapbook… Tumblr is a great way to easily post pictures, thoughts, websites, videos, and more to the internet.
  • Launchy – this is a great all-around tool, not just for blogging. Launchy provides the ability to launch programs from a few keystrokes rather than sorting through your start menu or having a desktop full of icons.

View the full article at lifehacker: Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done

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]]> http://anidandesign.com/blogging/lifehacker-top-ten-blogging-tools/feed/ 4 UserVoice – what do your user’s really want? http://anidandesign.com/web-design/uservoice-feedback-tool/ http://anidandesign.com/web-design/uservoice-feedback-tool/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 01:31:36 +0000 dani http://anidandesign.com/web-design/uservoice-feedback-tool/ 99designs.com and I came across this super helpful tool for gathering feedback from your website users.

UserVoice.com

]]> Recently I have been “entering contests” at 99designs.com and I came across this super helpful tool for gathering feedback from your website users.

UserVoice adds structure to feedback and reduces the overhead of an honest dialog with our users — It creates a market around good ideas so we get more quality than quantity. – Rich, Lance & Marcus Team UserVoice

UserVoice.com

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]]> http://anidandesign.com/web-design/uservoice-feedback-tool/feed/ 0 Font Viewer http://anidandesign.com/cool-tools/font-viewer/ http://anidandesign.com/cool-tools/font-viewer/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 21:01:00 +0000 dani http://anidandesign.com/cool-tools/font-viewer/ I could not live without this tool! Font Viewer allows you to view all of your font families with their various styles. Indispensable design tool!

]]> I could not live without this tool!

“The application renders all installed font families in a scrollable grid view. It allows you to change the font size, color, background color and text to be displayed. It has a built in list feature that allows you to select fonts and then store the names, this acts much like a light-box on the various stock image websites. You can export your list to .txt or .fv for later use and we also added a feature that will export your list to .pdf with the all styles applied.”

Download Font Viewer at FontViewer.net

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]]> http://anidandesign.com/cool-tools/font-viewer/feed/ 3 Browser Compatibility Tools http://anidandesign.com/web-design/browser-compatibility-tools/ http://anidandesign.com/web-design/browser-compatibility-tools/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:01:47 +0000 dani http://anidandesign.com/web-design/browser-compatibility-tools/ Browser compatibility is just one of the many factors that must be taken into consideration when building a web site. Not everyone has the same screen size or resolution, and the different browsers available for people to view the web vary considerably when it comes to displaying web content. One of the first things you need to do when planning for a site is to find out who will be viewing your site. What are the most common browsers they are using? Are they using larger desktop screens or widescreen laptop displays? (Using Google Analytics is a great way to find out the specs on who is viewing your site.) Here are a few tools I have found to help with browser compatibility issues.

  • Download the latest browsers – download.com is a great place to download all the latest browsers for testing your web site.
  • Anybrowser.com – THE place to find all sorts of tools to deal with browser compatibility issues. There are resources to help you design a compatible site, viewers to help you view your site in different situations, as well as help with search engine optimization… all free!
  • BrowserShots.org – this site allows you to test your site in many different browsers including linux, mac OS, and bsd.
  • Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer – View any page as any (previous) browser
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]]> http://anidandesign.com/web-design/browser-compatibility-tools/feed/ 2 The Great Flickr Tools Collection http://anidandesign.com/cool-tools/flickr-tools-collection/ http://anidandesign.com/cool-tools/flickr-tools-collection/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:04:55 +0000 dani http://anidandesign.com/2008/flickr-tools-collection The most extensive set of Flickr tools EVER! Quick Online Tips presents The Great Flickr Tools Collection, this collection includes official tools as well as third party Flickr tools. Everything you need to use Flickr to it’s full potential.

View –>The Great Flickr Tools Collection

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]]> http://anidandesign.com/cool-tools/flickr-tools-collection/feed/ 0 CSS Text Wrapper http://anidandesign.com/web-design/css-text-wrapper/ http://anidandesign.com/web-design/css-text-wrapper/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:52:54 +0000 dani http://anidandesign.com/2008/css-text-wrapper Have you ever wanted to wrap text around an unconventional shape?

Check out this new tool from the Idea Shower that allows you to do just that.

CSS Text Wrapper by the Idea Shower

CSS Text Wrapper

“The CSS Text Wrapper allows you to easily make HTML text wrap in shapes other than just a rectangle. You can make text wrap around curves, zig-zags, or whatever you want. All you have to do is draw the left and right edges below and then copy the generated code to your website.”

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