lorem ipsum A page which generates “greeking”–the fake Latin that simulates word patterns in written speech. It’s a great tool for mocking up pages that will have large sections of text, without having to actually have the text ready.

vision monster A tool for finding the hex codes for colors, characters, and other elements.

color schemer A tool for picking simple color schemes based on a few simple templates. It includes the ability to see what the schemes will look like to people with various types of color blindness.

color schemer v2 Another tool for chosing color schemes for webpages. It includes more colors for each scheme and options to choose not only the basic color scheme, but also to vary some of the parameters such as color intensity

color helper A site which allows you to dynamically set the color values for background, text, and links. It also allows you to set a background image. The feature to “colorify” an existing webpage seems to be unavailable. Just a tip: when you first load the page, everything is black. Enter “ffffff” into the top box and hit the “update” button. This will set the background to white, and allow you to see what you’re doing.

rgb colorboard A simple tool for finding the hex code of a color based on its rgb values. This is a very limited tool.

color hex chart A quick and dirty color chart listing the colors where each hex is a double (i.e. ‘66′ or ‘ff’).

screen calipers
An interesting little tool that allows you to measure anything on your screen in pixels. I haven’t tried them yet. Anyone have a review?

pixie color picker
From their website: “Pixie is an easy-to-use, fast and tiny utility designed especially to fit the needs of Webmasters and Designers. Its a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected colour in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current x y position of your mouse pointer. Its the only tool you’ll need for working with colours.” A

speed tests A collection of links to sites that test you upload and download speeds.

pixel perfect digital Free graphics and images

stock stash Free graphics and images.

w3c The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) site has a host of tools and information regarding stardards and development for web development.

css 2.1 specs A complete listing of CSS 2, Revision 1 specifications.

css properties list A quick and simple listing of css elements, their uses and syntax. This is for those who prefer to have the straight-forward explanations of code, without any commentary or ‘how to’ explanations.

nypl online style guide “This Style Guide for the Branch Libraries of the New York Public Library explains the markup and design requirements for all Branch Libraries web projects, along with various standards and best practices. This Style Guide for the Branch Libraries of the New York Public Library explains the markup and design requirements for all Branch Libraries web projects, along with various standards and best practices.”

html element index An index of html elements, their use and syntax.

ascii - binary A quick chart of common ascii characters, with their decimal and binary equivelants.