You can also save your work if you plan to edit your code later, and collaborate with others using a generated URL. Future releases of Mooshell promise user logging, snippets collection, and tagging to name a few.

Features:

• Edit & debug Mootools scripts online
• Backend support for AJAX calls.
• Clean, Save, Run, and Update your Mootools code on the fly.
• Make quick edits and view results instantly.
• Emulates the lightweight quality of Mootools coding.
• Collaborate with others using a generated URL.
• Similar tools: Codepad.

Check out Mooshell @ www.mooshell.net

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• CodeFetch: Programming Code Searching Tool
• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others
• FriendPaste: Simple Text Sharing
• ByteSizeMatters: Measure the Byte Size of Text in CSS or JavaScipt Code
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online

Using the site is easy, simply add CSS code directly or get it from URL, then select options according to your needs and apply them by hitting “Process CSS” button.

Here is the list of things you can do:

- Sort and optimize selectors and their properties.
- Compress font-weight and colors.
- Remove unnecessary backslashes and semi-colons.
- Discard invalid properties.
- Compress code layout in 4 compression modes ranging between high readability and smallest file size.

The output result can be obtained as a CSS file or viewed online as optimized and formatted CSS code along with the invalid properties and compression ratio.

CleanCSS is not the only application that lets you optimize and format CCS online, MakeUseOf reviewed a number of similar tools in the pass as well, including Style Neat, CSS Compressor and some more in 11 Tools to Check, Clean & Optimize CSS Files.

Check out CleanCSS @ www.cleancss.com (by Srikanth AD from Techonaut )

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• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others
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• ByteSizeMatters: Measure the Byte Size of Text in CSS or JavaScipt Code
• ValidChecker : CSS, HTML and RSS Validator
• StyleNeat: Organize CSS Code Online

It provides you with options to choose between four compression levels, depending on the degree of compression you wish to have. Other compression options include removing unnecessary backslashes and semi-colons, compressing the font-weight and colors etc.

Just paste the CSS source code into the given box and click on the ‘compress’ button to get the compressed version of the code. Apart from the compressed code, it also provides you with the compression ratio and invalid properties in the code. It’s quick and easy to use.

Features:

• Compress CSS code.
• Remove unnecessary backslashes, semi-colons in CSS code.
• Options to compress the font-weight and colors.
• Free and easy to use, no sign up required.
• Similar Tools: Style Neat, ByteSizeMatters and some more.

Check out CSS Compressor @ www.csscompressor.com (by Srikanth AD from Techonaut )

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• ValidChecker : CSS, HTML and RSS Validator
• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others
• StyleNeat: Organize CSS Code Online
• Repper: Tool For Creating Patterns Online
• PSD2CSS : Convert PSD Files (Photoshop Docs) to CSS

As an additional feature it can also produce rollovers with various effects (Desaturation, Sepia, Embossing, Flipping Horizontally/Vertically, Inverting) and give your website that missing look. The application makes use of HTML 5 features and generates valid CSS.

Using the site is really easy, simply chose your files, then optionally select rollover effect from drop-down list and click on “Create CSS Hover” button. This will generate a preview containing the original image and the transition image as seen in the image below. If you liked the results you can grab the corresponding CSS and HTML code.

Features:

• Create CSS sprites online.
• Optionally apply  automatic rollovers with various effects like desaturation, image flipping or sepia…  .
• Allowed image types : png, gif, jpeg and each file should not be greater than 5mb in size.
• Multi upload and batch processing supported.
• Lets you preview applied effect.
• The generated CSS are compatible with Mozilla, Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE  > 6.0.
• Free and no registration.
• Also see 11 Useful Tools To Check, Clean & Optimize Your CSS File.

Try out CSS-Sprite @ www.css-sprit.es (by Chinmoy from Techarraz.com)

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• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others
• StyleNeat: Organize CSS Code Online
• FriendPaste: Simple Text Sharing
• CSS Redundancy Checker
• ByteSizeMatters: Measure the Byte Size of Text in CSS or JavaScipt Code

Moreover, the application also allows to enter multiple text spinets and easily compare their sizes.

Features:

• Find out the byte size of text in CSS and Javascript files.
• Measure the size with or without the whitespaces.
• Takes into account line terminator differences across operating systems .
• Free and simple to use.

Check out ByteSizeMatters @ www.bytesizematters.com

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• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others
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• StyleNeat: Organize CSS Code Online
• Mooshell: Edit & Debug Mootools Scripts Online
• CSS-Sprit.es: Create CSS Sprites (no coding needed)

It gives you a set of colors extracted from the image along with a hexadecimal code of each color. Download the generated colors as an Adobe Swatch file (.aco) onto your computer or click to send results to your email.

There is also an iPhone version available, which lets you extract a palette of colors from any image captured with the iPhone’s camera.

Features:

• Generate color palette from image.
• Supports PNG, GIF, JPG image formats.
• Upload file size limit 500 KB.
• Download the extracted colors as an Adobe Swatch file (.aco) or send results to your email address.
• iPhone version available.
• Similar sites Color Palette Generator, Pic2Color and  ColorHunter.
• Free, no registration required.

Check out Pictaculous @ www.pictaculous.com

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• ColorSuckr: Extract Color Schemes From Images
• ColorSchemeDesigner: Online Color Scheme Picker
• Colors Palette Generator: Extract Colors From An Image
• ColorHunter: Create Color Palette From an Image
• ValidChecker : CSS, HTML and RSS Validator

Works easy, simply enter your stylesheet URL and associated HTML pages, and click on the “Check” button. The application will scan that stylesheet and show you redundant CSS selectors that are not present on listed HTML pages. Since these selectors are not used anywhere, you can remove them without causing any problems.

Keep in mind that the app does not understand javascript and may therefore tell you that certain selectors are redundant simply because they don’t appear in your javascript manipulated HTML.

Features:

• Helps you clean and optimize css files.
• Check as many CSS files as you want.
• Does not work with javascript manipulated HTML.
• Free and no sign up.
• Also see 11 Useful Tools To Check, Clean & Optimize Your CSS File.

Check out CSS Redundancy Checker @ www.services.immike.net/css-checker

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• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others
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• FriendPaste: Simple Text Sharing
• CSS-Sprit.es: Create CSS Sprites (no coding needed)

When you search for color palettes by tag, ColorHunter searches Flickr.com for images labeled with that tag and then uses thumbnails from those images to create a color palette.

You can also create an optional account and make a list of your favorite color palettes.

Features:

• Create a color palette from picture.
• Search by tag, hex color code or image URL.
• Option to upload an image and get color palettes based on colors in the image.
• Make a list of your favorite color palettes.
• Free to use, with optional sign up.
• Similar web tools: Pic2Color, Color Palette Generator and Color Combos.

Check out Color Hunter @ www.colorhunter.com (by Srikanth AD from Firefox Ninjas)

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• Pictaculous: Image Color Extraction App
• Colors Palette Generator: Extract Colors From An Image
• ValidChecker : CSS, HTML and RSS Validator
• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others
• StyleNeat: Organize CSS Code Online

The varieties of patterns you can make are limitless. Created patterns can be saved onto your computer, used as background on you social network or used on your own site (CSS code provided).

For more info watch demo video below:

Features:

• Beautiful pattern creator.
• Create as many patterns as you like.
• Upload your image or use default ones.
• Download pasterns onto your computer.
• Use them as background on your social network.
• Get CSS code to use pattern on your site.
• Similar tools: BgPatterns and PatternCooler.

Check out Repper @ http://repper.studioludens.com

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• PatternCooler: Design Cool Background Patterns for your Site
• BgPatterns: Design Tiled Backgrounds for your Website
• AVA7 Patterns: Free Website Background Patterns
• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points
• ValidChecker : CSS, HTML and RSS Validator

The application can generate customized rounded corner graphics and code (CSS and HTML) which you can add to your site for free. It lets you customize the background color, corner radius and transparency settings for that round cornered graphic.

To get started simply specify your preferences and click on “Create Graphics” button. In return you will get four images along with CSS and HTML codes that you will have to paste on your website.

Features:

• Create rounded corners online.
• Make as many corners as you like.
• Customize page and box background, corner radius and transparency.

For those of you who want to learn CSS and be able to make rounded CSS boxes on their own MakeUseOf published a cool roundup on best sites to learn CSS online.

Check out CornerShop @ www.wigflip.com/cornershop

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• WebPagetest: Test Load Speed Of Your Website
• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points

There are few additional custom options such as entering CSS directly or importing it as a file from your computer, sorting CSS properties and selectors alphabetically, switching between multi-line and single-line formatting.

Features:

• Organize css files online.
• Input CSS directly or import file from your computer.
• Option to sort properties and selectors alphabetically.
• Switch between multi-line and single line formatting.
• Download organized CSS onto your computer.
• No signup needed.
• More cool CSS tools in 11 Useful Tools To Check, Clean & Optimize Your CSS File.

Check out StyleNeat @ www.styleneat.com

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• CSS Redundancy Checker
• ByteSizeMatters: Measure the Byte Size of Text in CSS or JavaScipt Code

Features:

• Searching code snippets on published programming books.
• Lets you search for almost any programming language codes you want.
• Free. No registration required.

Check out CodeFetch @ www.codefetch.com

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If you are a computer programmer this is an ideal tool to paste code snippets and share with your programmer friends, as it supports most of the popular scripting and markup languages.

Features:

• Simple text sharing tool.
• Paste text and share the link with your friends
• Control (optionally) who can view/edit the text by putting a password.
• View history of paste edits, compare changes.
• Create a new fork paste with its own link, from an existing paste
• Use it to share programming code snippets.
• Supports many programming markup and scripting languages (C++, Delphi, HTML, CSS, PHP etc.)
• Free, no registration.
• Missing: Browser add-on or bookmarklet for copying text would be really useful.
• Similar sites: Txtb.in, cl1p and TextSave.

Check out FriendPaste @ www.friendpaste.com

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• ByteSizeMatters: Measure the Byte Size of Text in CSS or JavaScipt Code
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online

To start, simply select image and press on “Get Palette” button. Set of color palletes will be generated, you can then use your mouse to compare and view the hexadecimal code of each color on the pallete.

You can save the colors as a CSS Stylesheet (.css file) or Photoshop swatches (.aco file). The application supports PNG, GIF, JPG, JPEG image formats with a maximum size of 1 MB.

Features:

• Generate color palette from an image file.
• Save colors palette as a CSS Stylesheet (.css file) or Photoshop swatches (.aco file).
• Compare and view palette color by selecting with mouse.
• Max file size: 1 MB.
• Supported image formats: PNG, GIF, JPG, JPEG..
• Free and no registration.
• Similar sites: Pic2Color, Color Palette Generator and Color Combos.

Check out Colors Palette Generator @ www.cssdrive.com

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• ColorHunter: Create Color Palette From an Image
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• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others
• StyleNeat: Organize CSS Code Online

Additionally you can get ready to paste CSS and XHTML code that you can add into your stylesheet file.

Features:

• Collection of free website background patterns.
• Browse, preview and download any pattern you like.
• There are over 600 background patterns available.
• No registration needed.
• More sites to get free backgrounds: PatternCooler and BgPatterns.

Check out AVA7 Patterns @ www.patterns.ava7.com

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• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points
• ValidChecker : CSS, HTML and RSS Validator

Features:

• Create and download background patterns for your websites.
• Save ready patterns online on PatternsCooler.
• Option to preview patterns in full screen mode.
• Huge pattern library with 13000+ patterns to choose from.
• Save and re-edit patterns you like.
• Other similar website is BgPatterns.

Go to PatternCooler @ www.patterncooler.com

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• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points
• Repper: Tool For Creating Patterns Online
• CSS Redundancy Checker
• CornerShop: Make Rounded CSS Boxes

Your clean, tabbed formating will stay in place. Who ever visits the link will be able to view, print and copy the contents to clipboard.

Features:

• Quickly share formatted text or code online with others.
• Preserve clean, tabbed formatting when sharing.
• People can view, copy to clipboard and print out the shared text.
• Change formatting style to text, html, css, xml, javascript, php, sql, ruby, python etc.
• No registration required.

Check out TextSnip @ www.textsnip.com

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• ByteSizeMatters: Measure the Byte Size of Text in CSS or JavaScipt Code
• ValidChecker : CSS, HTML and RSS Validator

When the background is ready you can either download it to your computer or save it on BgPatterns. You can also see the backgrounds created by others, leave feedback and even download and use them on your own website.

Features:

• Easily create tiled backgrounds for your website.
• Create as many backgrounds as you like.
• Customize: select pattern, canvas, color, change opacity, rotate pattern, etc.
• Save created backgrounds in your BgPatterns account or download them as .JPG file.
• Browse, rate and download background patterns created by other users.
• No registration required, however registered users can bookmark and manage backgrounds in one place.

Check out BgPatterns @ www.bgpatterns.com

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• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points
• Repper: Tool For Creating Patterns Online
• CSS Redundancy Checker
• CornerShop: Make Rounded CSS Boxes

Tutorials are well organized and apart from primary categories, the tutorials are divided further by relevant subcategories. For instance Photoshop category is sub-divided into:

Animation
Basics
Buttons
Color
Designing
Drawing
Photo Effects
Photo Retouch
Scripting
Text Effects
Textures
Web Graphics
Web Layouts

So as you can see above, it’s very easy to find exactly what you need. Additionally you can sort tutorials by date, user rating, and comments. But if you want to share your opinion and rate tutorials then you will have to register.

Features:

• Search for tutorials or browse by category.
• Sort tutorials by date, rating, number of saves, comments etc.
• Comprehensive tutorial database: Over 24.000 tutorials listed and more added daily.
• Register with Good-Tutorial to rate and comment on tutorials.
• Submit your own tutorial.

Go to Good-Tutorials @ www.good-tutorials.com

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• PSD2CSS : Convert PSD Files (Photoshop Docs) to CSS
• VunkySearch: Lists Cool GIMP And Photoshop Tutorials
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• Tutzor: Top Notch Photoshop Tutorials Collection
• TutSearch: Search Webdesign, Photoshop & CSS Tutorials

Here is how it works:

(1) Create the new look in GIMP or PhotoShop. Make sure to check these guidelines before you get started.

(2) Once the design is ready, upload the .psd file and wait until PSD2CSS is finished processing it. Download the files.

Here are a couple of simple tutorials to get you started

Check out PSD2CSS @ www.psd2cssonline.com

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Additional Features

• Follow-up on errors via email or using your feedreader.
• Monitor up to 10 documents/URLs at the same time.
• Free. No registration required.

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• PSD2CSS : Convert PSD Files (Photoshop Docs) to CSS
• Pictaculous: Image Color Extraction App

Features

• Create professional looking CSS menus.
• Save created menus on your computer or keep them on IzzyMenu server.
• Create as many menus as you like.
• Share menus with others by making them public.
• Choose from dozens of ready menu templates.
• Customize menu: Colors, borders, text font/size, links, hover, add submenus, background etc.
• No registration required.

Go to IzzyMenu @ www.izzymenu.com

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• PSD2CSS : Convert PSD Files (Photoshop Docs) to CSS

Feature List

• Easily wrap text around any image or shape. No CSS skills required.
• Offers simple to use and intuitive drag and drop interface.
• Use one of the three methods to export generated wrap code to your web page: 1. Bundled HTML/CSS code, 2. HTML code with separate stylesheet, 3. Javascript code (requires Javascript).
• Absolutely free: No signup or email required.
• Got Questions ? See video demo below or visit CSSTextWraper FAQ page.

Video Demo

Check out CssTextWrap @ www.csstextwrap.com

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