The designers and programmers of Fatgraffix Digital Studios strive to produce websites that are optimally designed for today's limited bandwidth Internet. We seek the finest tools available to help us achieve our goal. Following are tips, software programs, plugins, and other tools of the trade that we believe might be of interest to other website producers.

• ColorFinder by ACME Technologies
  • handy freeware tool for the mac which allows you to check out hexadecimal color codes anywhere on the screen
  • download it here

• Websafe 216-color gif color swatch
  • This is a gif you can use in conjunction with the ColorFinder above. Just drag and drop the swatch gif into any browser window, open up ColorFinder and use the dropper to determine the hex codes of the colors you select from the swatch
  • Copy or drag the swatch to your desktop from here
  • Or try this 216-color swatch which is organized by color and hue: here

• The esteemed 'blank.gif'
  • An essential addition to any web developer's toolkit, this small (49k) gif may be used to create blank spaces of any width and height wherever blank space is needed
  • Use it as follows: <IMG SRC="blank.gif" WIDTH="x" HEIGHT="y" BORDER="0">
  • Try and drag it off your browser window here ---><---