Check Website Load Time

Site Timer is an online web tool to measure the length of time it takes to load a website, it breaks down each element and gives you a detailed report. Expected elements that it doesn’t find (such as a favicon for example) are highlited in red.
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Colour Picker tool

ColorPad is a small application that opens a colour picker which show RGB and Hex values of whatever pixel you pick (click in the colour window and drag to choose a new colour) It’s a small download and requires no installation.

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Image Cross Fader

A script for cross-fading images. Works in multiple browsers including Opera.

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Free Flash Banners

Bannersnack gives you a configurable template style tool to create animated Flash banners. The free versions are watermarked though a fee of $9 will remove it. That’s considerably cheaper than hiring a Flash designer. If you have the money, a good designer will always outperform a free service like this, but if you are on a tight budget this may be a great option for you.

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Website Analyzer

This website analyzer provides you with a wealth of analysis including an interesting Meta tag critique.

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Blacklist Checker

If you run a mailing list from your website and find that some of your subscribers aren’t receiving the newsletter (or even just your email) there’s a chance your server  been blacklisted as a suspected source of spam. This online tool checks to see whether you’ve been blacklisted by any of 125 known blacklists.

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CSS Navigation Techniques

Whether you are looking for inspiration or actual code that you can download to create navigation menus there’s plenty here.

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Keyword Spy

This web-tool provides an enormous amount of information about your competitors (or yourself) Simply enter a url and Keyword Spy will tell you all it knows about that sites pay per click advertising, which keywords they advertise on, how those keywords performed, what they spent on Google AdWords, how they rank, Organic (unpaid)  keyword rankings, ad copy and variations, and much, much more. The free version is limited to 10 results but you will find lots of info in those 10 alone.

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