Showing posts with label web development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web development. Show all posts

Friday, September 27, 2013

Amazing Website Testing Tools for Web Developers



As a web developer you would like to be assured that all the problems have been solved in the functionality of the great site before you launch the final product for your customer.  The following top 10 tools for web developers will help in testing for Cross Browser Compatibility, Website Speed Test, Security Test, Responsive Design Test, Accessibility Test, and so on.



Safari Web Inspector

Web Inspector feature is one of the remarkable Apple’s Safari web browser gems. Users can be able to see Safari Web Inspector after turning development tabs. It shows images, stylesheets and scripts on any webpage.

But, the most useful portion of Web Inspector is its Network feature that displays in real-time the order and speed in which documents and scripts transfer to the browser from the server. This tool allows you to find which files, scripts, or images are putting the most strain on browsers. After knowing the strain, you can simply fix it.

Firebug Firefox Extension

Firebug is the most favorite extension of programmers that solves debugging issues with front-end code and CSS. Checking out through Firebug is the best response, if any image or style that’s out of line. Moreover, users can also be able to change styles within the extension to see how a website will truly show in the browser.

UI Parade

UI Parade (Live Tools) is a collection of free online designer applications, allowing easy developing UI elements with some experience of coding. Apart from creating custom elements, users can easily download creations in their applications and websites.

AccessColor

Professionals, who want to test the color brightness and contrast of the background and forefront of all components available in the Document Object Model (DOM), can have AccessColor.

This marvelous tool is best for searching an appropriate combination of color mixtures within HTML & CSS documents instead of developing each value to input.

W3C Validation Services

W3C is one of the best standards in all of web validation. W3C Validator displays errors based on industry standards by looking into the markup of any website.

Users can find more than a dozen languages and a dozen varieties to choose from. One can find numerous assistance related with W3C validation like amplified load speed of web pages, future-proof feature check, cross browser compatibility, easy repairs & fixing, better search engine ranking, etc.

  Selenium

One of the leading open source testing frameworks for web applications, Selenium is based on Java scripting, offering a collection of choices that used for creating a comprehensive automation test suite.

Some of the effective components of Selenium are Selenium Client API, Selenium Grid, Selenium IDE, Selenium Remote Control, Selenium Web Driver and Marionette.

Browsershots

Browsershots User Interface testing tool is used for checking cross browser compatibility of your website. It is one of the best open source online web applications that make screenshots of your website in diverse OS and browsers.

Solex

Solex is another efficient open source web testing tool that acts as a HTTP proxy. This testing tool used as a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE. The best things about Solex are users can simply record, adjust and replay a client session.

All HTTP requests and responses between client and server are recorded by this testing tool. With Solex, user can also get the result through XML format and an optional XSL format.

Fluidui

If you are searching for a mobile app prototyping tool, then you have Fluid UI that design and test low and high-fidelity app mockups on a mobile device with simplicity. With the help of this tool, you can easily unlock creativity through its simple and UX oriented.

Watcher-mainly, is a Fiddler add-on that used by diffusion testers to determine web safety concerns. Watcher is one type of reflexive susceptibility scanning tool that especially designed for HTTP based web applications. Moreover, it doesn’t dangerous for cloud, hosting & construction locations.

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

No More Confusion as to Which Portable Applications are the Best to Use in Website and Design



Why are portable applications so awesome?  Portable applications can be stored in pen drives and hard drives so you do not have to carry around your laptop. You may have wondered which applications to use in order to be beneficial in website development and design.

These are the top portable applications that have been suggested should  be a great help to developers.



KompoZer Portable:

KompoZer Portable is one of the excellent portable applications that isHTML editor. This application rivals the functionality of Dreamweaver. As compare to NotePad, it is a great application that allows you to enjoy advanced features and easy code editing functionalities that are not possible through other apps.

Riot:

RIOT is also the best portable application that can be used to compare the original with the optimized image in very less time. The application has easy to use interface that allow users to use this application without any kind of difficulty and it instantly see the resulting file size. For advanced users, this image optimizer is fast and easy-to-use that is simple yet powerful.

GIMP Portable:

GIMP is a free portable application that is a great alternative to Photoshop. Many users find it quite difficult when they used it to Photoshop, but it is extremely powerful, if they use it as a portable application. It is as powerful as Photoshop as there is not better alternative than GIMP.

Inkscape Portable:

Inkscape Portable is an open source scalable vector graphics editor that allows you to perform your drawing while on the go. This application is standards-compliant and its portable version is the most powerful that allows you to make your different parts of developing website easy. It supports with different SVG features that include markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.

Icofx:

The best and professional icon as well as cursor editor, IcoFX is an award winning application that is a perfect solution for icon creation, editing and extraction. This application is designed to work with Windows XP, Macintosh icons supporting transparency and Windows Vista. It allows you to generate windows icons up to 256×256 for Windows Vista/7 and Macintosh icons up to 1024×1024 for Macintosh OSX 10.7 Lion.

MobaPhoto:

MobaPhoto is a free and open source image manager that is one such application that does not require any kind of installation. Stuffed with numerous features, this application is very useful in terms of its quality, performance and features. Being a very useful application, you can use it to manage and track tons of pictures.

Fotografix:

Supports with layer, scripts and filters, Fotografix comes with small footprint and it is only 760kb after extract. Packed with numerous features such as Eye dropper, Clone, Magic Wand and more, this application is an alternative for you when you just want to do some easy image editing and do not want to open various applications like GIMP.

http://www.whatech.com/members-news/web-design/16101-7-best-portable-applications-for-web-developers-and-designers