Friday, November 20, 2009

Important Tools for Web Designers

Beginner or not, the outcome of a web designer's work greatly depends on the tools they have or use. If they have with themselves these web designing tools, they can surely finish their task with a remarkable greatness. There are so many tools that one can use. Some are free and some asks for certain amounts. To provide you with a narrow selection of web design tools, here are 12 of them. Remember that everything listed down here are not the “top” tools. There are more of them on the web. What you will see here are just the well-known and largely used tools.

Web Developer Toolbars provide one or a combination of debugging, CSS, HTML, DOM, JavaScript and other tools which aid in web development. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera have their own web development toolbar.


Colorzilla is typically for color related tasks. Its main features are Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies. It allows getting a color reading from any point in the browser, quickly adjusting this color and pasting it into another program, such as Photoshop.

Firebug works with Firefox of Mozilla. This allows debugging, editing and monitoring of any website's CSS, HTML, DOM and JavaScript and provides other web development toolbars. It has a JavaScript console to log errors and watching values.

Form Style Generator is another effective web design tool. You can customize the look and feel of your comment or any other forms by generating the style sheet with the help of this online form styling tool. You can customize the text, text fields and buttons with ease with this tool and then save and apply the styles to your form.

Favicon Generator lets you create a favicon for your website in just a short time. Favicon is the short term for “favorite icon”.

Icon finder is a search engine that focuses on icons that can be use with your design.

LogoEase is a free online tool that lets you create professional and attractive logos for your own website. All you gotta do is select the category of your website and then select the icon of your choice. Write your company name and then select your colors and save it.

Vecteezy is a site that gives off free vector graphics. Vector graphics are also called object-oriented graphics, these programs store images in the form of mathematical.

Webs is a free website hosting service founded in 2001, formerly known as Freewebs. This lets you create your own website for free. The domain should be in the format username.webs.com, which can however be changed to a regular domain with a premium membership.

Format Pixel lets you create your own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogues, portfolios and more.

Background Image Maker is an application that allows you to create background images.

Browser Shots lets you test your site in different browsers.

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