As I was setting up my google and adbrite ads, I noticed that the color presets from googles palletes didnt match the color of my sidebar. And the thing is, I dont know the exact HTML Color code for my sidebar since it only has RGB Codes set on the CSS File. So I asked my good ol’ pal Google to help me find a way to convert it to HTML Color code, and boy did it work like charm. Google handed me The RGB Color Calculator.

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Test out your site in various screen sizes. You want to be sure your visitor can see everything or at least important navigation links.

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WWW SQL Designer, an open source application, allows users to create database designs, which can be saved/loaded and exported to SQL scripts.

Various databases and languages are supported. Ability to import existing database design.

Database Supported Features:

• keys
• Foreign key constraints
• Comments
• Indexes

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Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming and downloading all toolbars is madness! That’s where SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website.

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Facebook Connect is the next evolution of Facebook Platform – enabling you to integrate the power of Facebook Platform into your own site. Enable your users to seamlessly “connect” their Facebook account and information with your site. Find their friends who also use your site. And also, share information and actions on your site with their friends on Facebook.

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This is a tool which helps you find available domain names. There are still chances to come up with a great name. Registering a new domain name is often cheaper than buying one from domain brokers. By combining your keywords with our group of common words it’s easy to get a new domain name. The tool checks the domain name availability for all the suggestions.

Website: http://www.domainexposer.com

FreshGenerator is a webdesign tool which can create interesting graphic elements used in many web 2.0 sites. You may use it to create boxes of different styles and colors.

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PrestaShop is another robust, professional-grade e-Commerce solution that you can download, install, and use for free. On the back end, you’ll use a full-featured back-office application to manage your online business (including inventory, orders, shipping, and customers) in real-time. Your customer’s payments are sent directly to your commerical bank account using the latest security technology.

Some Features:

• Featured products on homepage
• Cross-selling (Accessories)
• Merchandise return (RMAs) & credit slips
• PDF customer invoice
• Bulk lister/import .CSV files
• Content Management System (CMS)
• Reports
• Loyal customer program

Website: http://www.prestashop.com/

Demo: http://www.prestashop.com/en/showcase_demo

Download: http://www.prestashop.com/en/downloads/

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. MetaCarta developed the initial version of OpenLayers and gave it to the public to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under a BSD-style License.

OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. OpenLayers implements a JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference – OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community.

As a framework, OpenLayers is intended to separate map tools from map data so that all the tools can operate on all the data sources.

Website: http://www.openlayers.org/

Download: http://www.openlayers.org/download/

WebSnapr lets you capture screenshots/thumbnails of almost any web page. Let your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. WebSnapr also provides us the WebSnapr Preview Bubble which is a simple, unobtrusive script used to display an overlay bubble showing a hyperlink target thumbnail using WebSnapr. It’s a snap to setup which can increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.

Website: http://www.websnapr.com/

Demo: http://www.websnapr.com/previewbubble/