25 Extremely Useful Web Design Tools For Web Designers and Developers

Designing and developing a website isn’t a simple thing to do but doing things in the right and productive way make designer and developers life easier. There are several web design tools available online which will take your website to the next level.

In this post we have selected some of the extremely useful web design tools for web designer and developers which they should know and may bookmark.

Have a look and feel free to add more in the form below.

W3c Markup Validation Service

This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. If you wish to validate specific content such as RSS/Atom feeds or CSS stylesheets, MobileOK content, or to find broken links, there are other validators and tools available.

W3C Markup Validation Service

Kuler

Kuler allows you to create and browse color themes.

Kuler, Useful sites web designer and developers should know

BG Patterns

BgPatterns is a tiny web app for making background patterns in a few clicks.

Bg Patterns, Useful Sites Web Designer and Developers Should Know

Browser Shots

Browsershots makes screen shots of your web design in different operating systems and browsers. It is a free open-source online web application providing developers a convenient way to test their website’s browser compatibility in one place.

Browser Shots, Useful Sites for Web Designer and Developers

Watermark

Free watermark, add custom watermark, protect your photos and images.

Watermark Your Images

What the Font

What the Font allow you to upload a logo or an image containing a font, and it will tell you which font is it.

What The Font, Web Tool

Pixlr

Pixlr is one of the most popular advanced online image editor in the world.

Pixlr, Web Based Photo Editor Like Photoshop

Pingdom

The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser.

Pingdom, Test the load time of a web page

Buttonator

Buttonator is a advanced web based button generator tool which is very helpful for developers for their rapid development.

Butonator, Useful Sites for Web Designers and Developers

Iconfinder

Iconfinder provides high quality icons for web designers and developers in an easy and efficient way.

Icon Finder, High Quality Icons for Web Designers and Developers

View Like

View your website in different resolutions.

View Like, See Your Site in Different Resolutions

CSS Tidy

CSSTidy is an open source CSS parser and optimizer which will fix errors and optimize your CSS code.

CSS Tidy, Open Source CSS Parser and Optimizer

Brands of the World

Brands of the World is the largest library of freely downloadable vector logos and a great showcase for designers.

Brands of The World, Vector Logos Archive

Contact Form Generator

The free Website Contact Form Generator utility enables you to create form-to-email scripts for your ASP, PHP or Perl web site with no programming skills needed.

Contact Form Generator

Font Comparer

Just type in a few words and see how it will look like in different fonts.

Font Comparer, Useful Sites for Web Designer and Developers

Color Explorer

Import colors from photos, images, and artwork. With ColorExplorer you can quickly and easily create, manage and evaluate color palettes for use in graphic design, web designs, layouts, and much more.

Color Explorer, Useful Sites for Web Designer and Developers

Copy Paste Character

A very handy tool to copy Web Special Characters and paste them wherever you want.

Copy and Paste Web Special Characters

Name Check

Check to see if your desired username or vanity url is still available at dozens of popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking websites. Promote your brand consistently by registering a username that is still available on the majority of the most popular sites. Find the best username with namechk.

Name Check, Useful Sites for Web Designer, Developer and Blogger

URL Check

Monitors the availability, performance, and content of your website

URL Checker, Web Monitering for Availability, Performance and Content

Scrim

Convert your email address into a short, cute and safe link you can share on the web, in Twitter, forums, Craigslist, anywhere to avoid bots pick up your email and SPAM it.

Scrim, Share your email in a safe way.

Lorem Ipsum

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum allow you to create the desired number of paragraphs quickly and simply.

Lorem Ipsum, Dummy Text for the Printing and Typesetting Industry

Favicons

You can create favicons from scratch or upload and edit images from your computer.

Favicons, Useful Sites Web Designers and Developers

HTML Encoder

Type or paste the text you want to encode into HTML.

HTML Encoder, Useful Site for Web Designer and Developers

Test Every Thing

Test Everything test your design in many browsers as well as checking a page rank, and even validate your code standards compliance all in one place.

Test Everything in your Web Design

CSS Sprite Generator

CSS Sprite Generator allows you to send a zip file containing your images. It will returns you your images combined into a sprite, and even better, the CSS code that you’ll just have to paste in your main css file.

CSS Sprite Generator

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9 Responses

  1. Priya Telang says:

    awesome…thanks a ton….one tool I would like add and it really helps……its http://billable.me
    It just makes billing so simple….hope it helped

  2. Calgary Web Design says:

    Thanks for telling us these easy steps once I did a lot of reading to make sure i completely understood the process.

  3. Jessica says:

    Very helpful blog. some of the tools we are useing right now.
    I would definitely try others also . thanks.

  4. We are glad to hear that. Thanks

  5. This is a very helpful blog. Thanks for the post. All 25 of them are useful.

  6. kasra says:

    I can just say :: it is realy amazing article … ! tnx alot

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