In this blog post I am sharing a list of
top 20 recommended free tools for web designers
that will help speedup the development process for web designers and
developers. These tools offers webmasters a quick access to perform
complex task like creating CSS3 buttons, compressing images, etc. This
comprehensive list of free online applications contains the best of all
free online tools available. So, read on and share your thoughts with
me.
List of Top 20 Recommended Free Online Tools for Web Designers :-
1.
Wordle :- This tool will help you for generating
“word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater
prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You
can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
2.
Smush.it :- Smush.it uses optimization techniques
specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files.
It is a “lossless” tool, which means it optimizes the images without
changing their look or visual quality.
3.
Kuler :- It is a web-hosted application for
generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what
you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color
variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.
4.
Typechart :- This tool let you flip through ,
review and compare all web typography style corresponds with a “style
ID” and allows you to annotate prototypes and retrieve the css while
coding.
5.
CSS Linear Gradients Generator :- This little helper generates the code for CSS3 linear gradients online.
6.
Launchlist :- It is intended to help and
encourage web designers and developers to conduct pre-launch testing
before exposing it to the world at large .
7.
Favicon Generator :- It will help you to create
your own custom favicons for free . Image size you submit for creating
favicon must be 100 Pixels x 100 Pixels .
8.
BounceApp :- It is a little app from Zurb that
lets people quickly add feedback to any webpage and toss that back and
forth with other people .Just enter any domain name and get the live
screenshot of it .
9.
XML Sitemaps :- This online generator helps you
to create an XML sitemap that can be submitted to Google, Bing, Yahoo
and other search engines to help them crawl your website better.
10.
Typetester :- It is an online application for
comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web
designer’s life easier.
11.
HTML Entity Character Lookup :- Using HTML
entities is the right way to ensure all the characters on your page are
validated. This lookup allows you to quickly find the entity based on
how it looks, e.g. like an < or the letter c.
12.
IconFinder :- It is a icon search engine which allows you to search icon through more than 600+sets in an easy and efficient way.
13.
Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator :- It is a
powerful Photoshop-like CSS gradient editor . You’ll need a recent
version of Firefox, Chrome or Safari to use this Gradient Generator .
14.
Font Face Generator :- This generator let you create your own @font-face Kits by uploading the fonts you want to use.
15.
Wufoo :- It is an online HTML form builder that
helps anyone create beautiful contact forms, online surveys and event
registrations without writing a single line .
16.
CSS3 Button Generator :- Simple and usefull tool to make CSS3 buttons online easily .
17.
ResizeMyBrowser :- It is a simple, useful and beautiful browser window resize app for Web designers and developers.
18.
Snipplr :- Snipplr lets your store and share all of your commonly used pieces of code and HTML with other programmers and designers.
19.
Bubbl.us :- It is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
20.
Photoshop :- Use easy web tools to add quick tweaks and fun effects to your photographs .
