Diagonal stripes can be used to give a design a more dynamic and modern feel, the downside is that they tend to involve quite a bit of messing with in Photoshop to create a completely seamless pattern, you only have to be 1 pixel out to ruin the effect.

Stripe Generator is an online tool that makes the process a breeze, you simply decide on the stripe size, spacing and colour and it creates a tile which you can then download ready to use.

You can even choose to use one of the many examples already created by other users.

I’ve recently been trying out Coda - a one window web development application for Mac OS X, and so far I am impressed.

It combines a text editor, CSS editor, web browser and FTP all within the same application. And if that doesn’t sell it to you other features include a HTML validator, a place to store ‘clips’ of code and even built in reference guides for HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.

It’s looking like a definite purchase when the free trial runs out.