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Online, Unmoderated User Testing Loop11 is an online usability and user experience testing tool, allowing individuals and companies to conduct online, unmoderated user testing on any kind of digital interface. Loop11 is not a survey or web analytics tool, but a user experience tool… helping you to understand user behaviour and improve your website's usability.

How to create video lessons Knowmia.com is a place for great video lessons of all types and styles. Students are looking for lessons that they can relate to, and they all learn differently. Selecting the right tool for the job can heavily influence the type of lesson you end up creating. The following is a list of tools of which we are aware (and can work with Knowmia.com). We continually update this list based on what we learn from teachers. We do not endorse or officially recommend any of these tools (nor do we have formal partnership with the companies that make them). This is simply a directory to help you decide how to produce your next lesson.

CSS Button & Text Field Generator Button and Fields Builder Another simple online tool: CSS Button & Text Field Generator. This tool takes the properties you input to generate the button or text field style you want.

What is the Luminosity Contrast Ratio Analyser? It is primarily a tool for checking foreground & background colour combinations to determine if they provide good colour visibility. It also contains functionality to create simulations of certain visual conditions such as colour blindness.

About AccessColor AccessColor tests the color contrast and color brightness between the foreground and background of all elements in the DOM to make sure that the contrast is high enough for people with visual impairments. Assuring that you provide enough color contrast between foreground and background colors takes time and we hope that this tool will help web developers to build accessible websites by visually flagging the section(s) of a page with problematic color combinations. AccessColor will find the relevant colour combinations within your HTML and CSS documents rather than requiring you to find each value to input yourself in order to test the contrast between each colour combination.

14 Brilliant Tools for Evaluating Your Design's Color Making sure that you choose the appropriate colors for a design is very important for readability. In addition, ensuring that the colors you select are viewable by persons with vision deficiencies such as color blindness is a good practice to follow when thinking about web accessibility.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) is not very difficult to learn. The hardest thing is to ensure the CSS layout being displayed identically among different browsers. Even though CSS3 will be released soon, but I believe it will take quite a long time for all the browsers to start supporting it, especially all the old browsers like Internet Explorer 6 *AHEM*. Right, here is a list of CSS tips and tricks that I believe will help you! You might also want to use some of the tools that will help you in web design and development - 22 extremely useful tools for web designers and developers

What's GrayBit Do? GrayBit is an online accessibility testing tool designed to visually convert a full-color web page into a grayscale rendition for the purpose of visually testing the page's perceived contrast.

CSSTidy CSS Parser and Optimizer CSSTidy is an Open source CSS parser and Optimizer. Compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OSX, it can be controlled by command line and as PHP script. Get faster loading webpages with extensible Open Source Tool.

BudgetPulse personal finance software is the perfect solution for managing your finances. You can organize your cash flow, expenses and bank accounts in one place. And easy to understand charts and graphs enable you to visualize how you're spending your money month-to-month. This enables you to track your progress, discover where you can make savings and improve how you manage your money. Budgetpulse is absolutely free, online budgeting service for all users. In the current economic climate, this is one of the best budgeting tool available on the web.

Ever wanted to master the keyboard shortcuts and get more productive on the web? Here is everything you need - 10 quick cheat sheets for some of the most widely used tools on the web. Download, print and stick them somewhere near your desk.

Accessibility Color Wheel Choose a foreground color by pointing the mouse over the wheel or the grey bar and click. Then click the "Background" button and choose a background color the same way. If OK becomes visible here below the color pair is good for accessibility. Otherwise change one color or both by selecting foreground or background with the left buttons. Ok in the "C","B" or "Contrast ratio" fields means the contrast/difference in brightness or contrast ratio is good for that form of daltonism.

The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave, and follow us on Twitter for updates and Wave tips.

This tool allows you to visualise good colour combinations on a Photoshop style colour picker. It's primary use is finding acceptable colours from an existing inaccessible combination - while maintaining the aesthetic appeal of the original.

Can You Be a Web Designer? Got what it takes to be a Web Designer? Great resource site with ideas, tools and design inspiration.

Free dreamweaver cs3 video tutorials Welcome to our free dreamweaver cs3 tutorial videos, we hope that you enjoy your time with us. The Dreamweaver 9 video tutorials are designed to show you the basics and tools needed to create your own web page or update your skill set in this new version. Video-tutes Dreamweaver 9 tutorial videos can show you how to embed video files, add sounds and interactivity into your web project as well as the new Spry features.

We will take you through the very beginner steps of tools and menus, as well as simple tasks. Splicing footage together, adding your own effects and using Photoshop to export graphics for use on your website. Our Photoshop tutorial videos show you complete production and workflow practices in producing internet delivered video graphics & print design. Our free video tutorials feature lessons on how to use the most basic functions in Photoshop.