Pixel Ruler is a useful and free tool
Here is a very simple and easy to use tool that has proven useful for me. It’s called Pixel Ruler and you can get it here. If you spend any time online, at some point you’ll need to measure something in pixels.
Pixel rulers for us ‘netizens are about as necessary as having a hammer or screwdriver around the house. I am always using a pixel ruler to measure something on my site or something else on a screen.
For example, the other day I was embedding a Flash video player into a post that I wrote on a cigar review that I did. I needed to measure how high the player controls were because the sizing of the video made everything look squished.
So I whipped out the Pixel Ruler and measured the vertical depth of the Flash player controls, which happened to be exactly 20 pixels.
Pixel Ruler in action!
Then I went into the control panel for the player size and increased the vertical height by 20 pixels, saved it, refreshed the page and bam!
The video looked perfect.
The above Pixel Ruler is free to install and use. It will float over your screen and will with all of your applications. You can also rotate it horzontally or vertically. The widest you can make it is 1300 pixels and you can change the color of it as well.
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Cole J | Oct 27, 2008 | Reply
As usual, more interesting and useful information! I love the upbeat nature of your blog. Thanks!