Isolated colors may look beautiful but in combination with other colors may look muddy, or ‘change’ their main hue altogether. If you want to avoid surprises, try ColorCombos’ combotester. You get to pick up to four colors either by hex code, or through a visual pop-up; the combotester then lets

If you are looking for web 2.0 badges for your site, or need to create some simple buttons, visit Web20Badges. You’ll find some pre-made web 2.0 badges and a generator that allows you to create various round badges and buttons. You can customize colors, font, font size and the angle

If you’d like to give a visual XML editor a try, you may like the free Vex editor. Vex provides a wordprocessor-like interface and is best suited for “document-style” XML documents such as XHTML and DocBook rather than “data-style” XML documents. Related posts: Free XML Sitemaps HTML5 Visual Cheat Sheet

Just for fun: See a collection of the 30 funniest blue screens of death on web designer’s Francesco Mugnai’s blog. There are images of blue screens in amusement parks, stores, on buildings and even on arms as tattoos! Related posts: Screen Capture Firefox Add-on More Free Games For Your Website

Checking links one by one for the nofollow attribute is tedious. NoDoFollow (by Zachary Fox)shows which links on a page have the nofollow attribute and which are regular follow links. Related posts: Screen Capture Firefox Add-on Firefox Firebug Extension Web Developer’s Toolbox for Firefox

As a web designer you can never have too many fonts; take a look at the free fonts at Fontstock for some new fonts you could include into your next design. As with all freebies, you should read the terms and see where and how you’re allowed to use them.

There are many useful open source applications out there and Help Center Live’s Live Chat application is one of them. “Help Center Live is an open-source, community driven live chat & support system. You may easily provide live support on your website just like large companies do with very little