My Top 10 Super Handy Links
(originally posted at idealware.org/blog)
Inspired by Eric Leland’s post Wonderful Tools for Web Developers, here are some of the links I use all the time and keep close to the top of my bookmarks. If you work on a web or communications team I think you will find them useful too. If you have a favorite free online tool you can’t live without, share it in the comments.
Need to know if you are the only one that can’t get to a web site? http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
Free tool to check out how your site looks on a variety of browsers and platforms (Full disclosure: I use browswercam.com now)
http://browsershots.org/
Really cool way to preview screen fonts and compare how they will look online
http://typetester.maratz.com/
How do you figure out what that font is on a graphic someone found deep in the archives?
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
Check your writing against several readability scoring methods and get suggestions on making it more reader friendly.
http://www.editcentral.com/gwt/com.editcentral.EC/EC.html
Just a simple word count tool – nothing fancy, but handy
http://www.wordcounttool.com/
Lorem Ipsum Generator – when you need some greeking fast
http://www.lipsum.com/
Its always good to know if your code will pass HTML muster
http://validator.w3.org/
And your if your fancy new styles are legit according to the CSS validator
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
One more for fun:
For all your twitter and social networking needs – nifty copy-paste symbols
http://thenextweb.com/TwitterKeys/