If you ask me, Wibiya takes the cake on this one and leaves it’s competitors far behind. Wibiya is definitely the best Web Tollbar out there that is free in terms of both money and Ads. You can see an example of this toolbar inaction at the bottom of my site.

Wibiya enables blogs to integrate the most exciting services, applications and widgets of their choice into their blog through customized web-based toolbars.
Their platform offers a one-stop solution for integrating, managing and tracking third-party applications. Read the rest of this entry »

About 7 years ago, the browser wars were over. Internet Explorer had become the de facto standard, and for a while, there were very few compatibility issues in web page design.

Today’s browser wars make the late 90’s look like a minor skirmish. In addition to Firefox and IE, we’ve got multi-platform versions of Safari, Opera, Chrome, and a wealth of mobile phone browsers. In addition, there are multiple versions of all these browsers, many of which have different rendering idiosyncrasies (I’m talkin’ about you, IE6/7/8). Read the rest of this entry »

If you are into web development then you surely must have heard of Firebug. Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. It is one of the most popular and downloaded Firefox Addons because it can inspect and edit HTML, tweak CSS to perfection, visualize CSS metrics, monitor network activity, debug and profile Javascript, quickly find errors, explore the DOM and much more.

Well now with the help of Google, it can do much more. Google has introduced a Firefox Addon called Page Speed which works along side Firebug. Install both of these Addons if you are using Firefox and follow the instructions in this page. Page Speed performs several tests on a site’s web server configuration and front-end code. These tests are based on a set of best practices known to enhance web page performance. Webmasters who run Page Speed on their pages get a set of scores for each page, as well as helpful suggestions on how to improve its performance.

I personally recommend using Page speed. I have used it on this site as well and I think it has drastically improved my site performance.

Download Firebug

Download Page Speed