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Generate Sharp Navigation Tabs in Seconds

The graphic utility Tabs Generator provides a quick way to make sharp looking navigation tabs in no time flat. Even for the well-versed in Illustrator will find this handy utility to expedite the process for generating custom tabs. The style is configurable to size dimensions, border styles, colors, gradients and orientation. Just customize to your specifications and download to your desktop.

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Test Your Color Combinations With Combotester

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Finding just the right color combination for your web projects can be a challenge. With Combotester you can easily test color pairings as well as access a substantial library of preselected combinations. It works great for collaborative design sessions and options allow you to quickly generate a link or image to share.

Pixie Makes Working With Colors a Snap

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If you do any sort of design work, you know how important it is to use just the right colors. Pixie is a free, lightweight, and unobtrusive utility for Windows that captures the exact color values of whatever your mouse happens to be pointing at. A quick Ctrl-Alt-C and the HTML value is on your clipboard ready to paste into your editor.

Great Site for Web Content Photos

The number of photo sites grow by the day. One issue for reusing photos for web content is following fair use rights. The rights vary depending on the site and the photographer. Sometimes obtaining and understanding those rights becomes a hassle. One location I return to again and again for web photos is www.sxc.hu. The usage rights are stipulated very clearly for each photo and the quality of images tend to be sharp and very useful for a whole range of topics.

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Shift Your Lists into Fifth Gear with Listamatic

Every web designer or developer worth his weight in salt knows the power of the list. It is one of the most flexible and useful conventions for structuring a series of links, bullet points within content or navigational schemes. Listamatics provides a quick view of the plethora of options to format this beloved content treatment method. Why waste time wading through the tombs of CSS sites on the topic when you can get the information from one location? How cool is that?

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