By Mitch Keeler

When it comes to browsers that give the webmasters a lot of control and tools to use, you can look no further than Firefox. With the right extensions and toolbars - Firefox can in fact become the web developer’s best friend.

Firebug - you can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page!

Web Developer Toolbar -A Toolbar with every web dev tool you could ever need or want.

FireFTP - A FTP program built right into your Firefox browser, two birds - one stone.

FireShot - FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screen shots of web pages.

FoxyProxy - An advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox’s proxy configuration.

IE View - Make short work out of checking your web site in both Firefox and Internet Explorer.

ColorZilla - You can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust and paste it into another program.

Screengrab! - Screengrab saves entire web pages as an image.

HTML Validator - Use this to validate your HTML and CSS to work as the standards say they should.

YSlow - YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on Yahoo’s rules for high performance web sites.

MeasureIt - Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any element.

SeoQuake - Helps web masters who deal with search engine optimization and internet promotion of web sites.

View Source Chart - Draw a colored chart of the web page’s source code to make it easier to understand.

Save As Image - Adds the ability to save a page, frame, or part of either as an image.

CSSViewer - A simple CSS property viewer.

Now you have all the tools you need to help build that fantastic web site (of course with the help of your Lunarpages hosting account.) There are new extensions coming out every day so if you ever notice one not on the list - be sure to drop it in as a comment!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 at 10:02 am and is filed under Issue 4 - November 2007, Tips and Tricks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS feed . Both comments and pings are currently closed.