I’ve decided to compile a small list of resources I use on a daily bases including tools for optimizing your site, photoshop resources and a few blogs I read.
Pingdom – Pingdom is a great tool for finding bottle necks and testing the general speed of your pages
Kraken – This amazing tool will compress any images/css/js you have to smaller sizes to optimize your site’s speed
Sprite Cow – If you’re building CSS sprites for your site you need this tool, it will give you the css for each image you select in your sprite
Subtle Patterns – This site is full of subtle patterns which are amazing for any web or graphic design projects
Premium Pixels – An excellent resource of quality PSDs from Orman Clark
Smashing Magazine – If you’re in the web profession you should be reading this blog
Line 25 – A great blog by Chris Spooner with a new article in web design weekly, including tutorials and inspiration
zscreen – This Windows program will allow you to screenshot anything on your computer and instantly upload it to any image host
What tools do you use in your daily web adventures?
Pingdom also offers the ability to monitor a site. They have a free plan that lets you monitor a single site for downtime, response time, etc. Highly recommended.