Free Traffic Tips

People often take screenshots of web pages for miscellaneous reasons – when designing a page, debugging a web application, or even for graphical reference. Usually, though, only a portion of the screenshot is actually relevant to the user’s purpose, leading to a large portion of the image getting cropped. This can be time consuming, and annoying at times.

Snapper allows users to designate an area of a web page for a focused snapshot, cutting out the additional work needed for cropping unecessary information.

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Pixel Perfect is a Firefox/Firebug extension that allows web developers and designers to easily overlay a web composition over top of the developed HTML.

By toggling the composition on and off, the developer can visually see how many pixels they are off in development.

Pixel Perfect also has an opacity option so that you can view the HTML below the composition. By being able to see both the composition and the HTML you can now simultaneously use Firebug while Pixel Perfect is still in action.

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YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool. YSlow grades web page based on one of three predefined ruleset or a user-defined ruleset. It offers suggestions for improving the page’s performance, summarizes the page’s components, displays statistics about the page, and provides tools for performance analysis, including Smush.it™ and JSLint.

YSlow is licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 1.1, with portions licensed by third parties under other license terms. To review the terms before installing, see http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/faq.html#faq_license.

YSlow uses Yahoo!’s Smush.it service, which is subject to Smush.it Terms of Use: http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/smush_it/smush_it-4378.html

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