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Screen Ruler

Screen Ruler is a great tool that allows you to accurately measure anything on your screen. This is especially useful when measuring graphics, web page browser sizes or interface controls. Screen Ruler can display Pixels, Inches, Picas or Centimeters.

When launched, Screen Ruler will appear horizontal showing approximately 400 Pixels in length. Whenever your cursor is over Screen Ruler it will change to cross-hairs and the distance of the cursor from the left (0) of the ruler will be displayed next to the Size Slider Control.
Price: FREE,

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Macromedia HomeSite

Pros: Advanced hand-coding features, productivity-enhancing wizards, and a customizable user interface to efficiently build, deploy and manage your entire Web site.
Cons: Intended for the hand coding savvy audience.

Macromedia HomeSite 5 provides a lean, code-only editor for web development. Advanced coding features enable you to instantly create and modify HTML, CFML, JSP, and XHTML tags, while enhanced productivity tools allow you to validate, reuse, navigate, and format code more easily. Configure Macromedia HomeSite to fit your needs by extending its functionality and customizing the interface.

Macromedia HomeSite+ is included with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. Macromedia HomeSite+ is an application based on Macromedia HomeSite 5 but with additional functionality for application development.
Price: $99, www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/

WebTrends Log Analyzer Standard

Pros: Fast and easy-to-use web traffic reporting for the small business.
Cons: Intended for single server web site, but if you are interested in client-side data collection WebTrends offers a more expensive advanced edition.

WebTrends Log Analyzer is the most powerful and easy-to-use web site analysis solution specifically designed for the small business. Offered on multiple platforms, Log Analyzer provides the classic WebTrends reports thousands of businesses around the world already rely upon. WebTrends Log Analyzer Series offers the most complete set of reports available at an entry-level price.

Price: $499, www.netiq.com/products/log/standard.asp

Aha-Soft ArtIcons Pro

Pros: Allows professional and amateur graphic artists alike to create and edit icon images and manage icon files and libraries.
Cons: Most of the features in the tool can be accomplished by Adobe Photoshop users, so it is not an essential add-on for Photoshop owners.

It allows you to create, edit, view, extract and find icons and manage icon libraries. You can create and edit icons with image formats in standard and custom sizes, and in color depths of up to 16 million colors. It contains different paint tools including enhanced gradient and chess fills. You can import icons from image, cursor, library files and executables. ArtIcons lets you scan files and folders for icons, delete equal icons and arrange icons in libraries.

Price: $29.95, www.aha-soft.com/articons/