Favelets (AKA Bookmarklets)
Made these web design tools a while back and found them handy. You might like them, too. To test, click any link. To install, drag to your browser’s Favorites or Bookmarks bar. Alternatively: Point at link. Hold down mouse button and choose “Add Link to Favorites.”
- Resize 800
- Moves your browser to the left (allowing room for tool bars such as DragThing), resizes it to 800px wide by xx high, where xx is the height of your monitor minus some space at the bottom for your Dock or Task Bar.
- Resize 1024
- Same as above, but makes your browser window 1024px wide.
- Validate
- Test your page for markup errors.
- Fussy Parsing
- Same as above, but with “fussy parsing” mode enabled to locate potentially troublesome gremlins.
Linky-poos: banners old and older
Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks: The linkable banners below are based on this site’s 432nd design, dating from December 2003.
Too hep for you? Old-school animated banner ads from the 1990s are also available for nostalgia buffs.
The ever-popular 234 x 60. So cheery and bright!
The rollover kids, in zeldman.com standard issue 100 x 25.
Your 88 x 31, dripping with commercial potential.
Goodies
A few, anyway.
- Love you
- MP3 for thee.
- AJAX: Stronger Than Dirt
- This ad jingle from the 1960s takes on a strange new relevance now that a certain type of standards-based coding and design has been given a catchy name. Zipped AAC file, 544KB, requires iTunes.