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10 Web-based Sandbox Tools for Testing Your Code Snippets. One of the greatest benefits the Internet provides web developers is the ability to share and collaborate with other professionals.

10 Web-based Sandbox Tools for Testing Your Code Snippets

When you’ve hit a coding roadblock, you can reach out on your social networks to see if your friends can give you a hand. Why use a web-based sandbox tool instead of a testing server or a local web server stack like XAMMP or WAMP? Not having to set up and save HTML, CSS and JavaScript documents simply to test and debug small code snippets, being able to back up your code snippets remotely, and the capability of quickly linking to and showing off your work (which many of these tools can do) are the major reasons you’d want to use them. In this article, you’ll find some of the best free code sandboxing tools for testing, debugging and/or sharing your code. Common Features Though each tool in the list has its own unique features that might make one of them more appealing than another, you’ll find these general features in most of them: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. jsdo.it 7. 30 Must See Web Generator for Lazy Webmasters.

Here’s a list of 70 hand-picked, easy to use, and free web generators that will save you tons of time and energy.

30 Must See Web Generator for Lazy Webmasters

I have grouped these tools into 10 categories: Color Palettes, Robots.txt, Website Screenshots, Favicons, Web Backgrounds, Webpage Elements (buttons, tabs, etc), Memes, Forms, Logos, and Dummy Texts. The best part about these tools is that they are completely free (some need you to signup though). If you are looking ways speed up your work and channel more time and energy to new content ideas and marketing strategies, I believe the list is a must-bookmark. According to my last check on WordPress.com stats, there were more than 42 million blogposts published in May 2014 – and that’s just WordPress.com alone.

Who has the time to create everything from scratch these days? Category #1: Color Palettes Generator Functions/Details: To generate color palettes based on image input.Allow users to compare, review, and select color combination at ease. Palette Generator Pictaculous Kuler. Designers' List - Great resources and websites for designers. 50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement CSS3 is coming.

50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques - Smashing Magazine

Although the browser support of CSS 3 is still very limited, many designers across the globe experiment with new powerful features of the language, using graceful degradation for users with older browsers and using the new possibilites of CSS3 for users with modern browsers. That’s a reasonable solution — after all it doesn’t make sense to avoid learning CSS3 (that will be heavily used in the future) only because these features are not supported yet. The point of this article is to give you a glimpse of what will be possible soon and what you will be using soon and provide you with an opportunity to learn about new CSS3 techniques and features.

In this post we present 50 useful and powerful CSS3/jQuery-techniques that can strongly improve user experience, improve designer’s workflow and replace dirty old workarounds that we used in Internet Explorer 6 & Co. Visual Effects and Layout Techniques With CSS3 Navigation Menus With CSS 3 Learning New CSS3 Selectors.