The key benefits of Web Development Tools

Web Development Tools help to facilitate the web development projects with enhanced features which help to increase the development speed, reduce debugging and retesting time and effort, and at the same time, improve the quality of the development work.

Below are some of the essential, must-have web development tools for web developers who are looking for ways to further enhance and ease their complex development work;

1. Firebug ' facilitate and speed up one's development time and efforts significantly regardless of whether it is for coding, CSS, viewing HTML or others. It is fast and effective in hunting down any XML, CSS, HTML errors and allows one to search and find that specific errors quickly.
2. Y-Slow 'This is an excellent tool used to evaluate a site performance based on the Yahoo's seven categories. A score will be assigned for your site after the assessment and evaluation.
3. Web developer extension toolbar ' This tool came handy and have proved to be very user friendly which enable one to inspect and check on all the possible aspects about a page inclusive of its accessibility, version, images, icons, JavaScript for possible defects and bugs. It can rapidly validate the HTML, JavaScript, webpage structure, shortcut key, header and footer information for errors and defects.
4. CSS Sprite ' this is an excellent feature to improve your web page performance, by reducing the amount of HTTP required to launch the page images. This required significant planning and coding to be in place to enhance this improvement.
5. Test Plug-in for JavascriptMVC ' is a great JavaScript testing framework which helps to make development faster and speedier by simplifying the entire process of unit testing with the availability of the complete sets of utilities in a web page.
6. Example if one has noticed that his blog was slowed down by some advertising ads but can't really identify which one has actually caused this slowness; Pingdom tools are useful to test out how different advertising scripts affected the loading time of his blog respectively.

In this modern world which speed is everything, no web developers can live without these useful web development tools, because their benefits and contributions are way too valuable to fore-go.

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