40 practical web design tools

Original article: 40 incredibly useful web design tools you shoshould use daily

Original Author: Daniels MEK's

Translation: tunpishuang

This article will show some tools that web designers should often use. If you need some inspiration, you can visit the most popular design presentation site to find the desired works and examples. Some design-related tools, online generators, free font sites, and template sites will help you test and manage sites more efficiently. Remember, it is not the best way to do everything yourself. A certain degree of reference will make it easier for you to complete the task.

I strongly set up your extensive reading of this article to add helpful websites to bookmarks. When you are discouraged, let's take a look.

Inspiration Class 1. deviantart

Deviantart is one of the largest art display sites on the Internet. You can find inspiration here.

2. Web design library

Web design library is a resource site that provides design and research platforms, covering a large amount of theoretical knowledge and practical information.

3. stylevault

Stylevault.net is a design presentation site where designers can present their talents while others can also benefit from it.

4. behance

Behance is a good place to find inspiration, because their design is more professional.

5. The design inspiration

The design inspiration was created by a group of designers who sought design inspiration throughout the day.

Design Tool 6. colour lovers

Colour lover is an international community of designers. artists from different industries are here to find inspiration for colors and give ideas to these professional or personal projects.

7. Adobe Kuler

Adobe kicker is a web program launched by odbi to help you create and share color themes.

8. Color hunter

Color hunter can use images to create colors.

9. colorotate

Colorotate can be used to cater to the color processing process of the human brain in terms of 3D visual effects.

10. stripemania

Stripemania is an online Web2.0 tool used to generate textures. The texture size and gap can be adjusted, and the color transition effect can be selected.

11. fontstruct

Fontstruct can draw a grid to draw its own font.

12. dafont

A font site that can be sorted by letters, themes, and updated dates. Most fonts can be downloaded for free.

13. Icon Finder

A 100,000 free icon search engine is included.

14. whatthefont

I saw a nice font, but I don't know its name?

Submit the font image to whatthefont. It will find the font name closest to your font in the database, or ask the font enthusiast to help in the whatthefont forum.

15. lorem ipsum

Lorem ipsum is the meaningless text for printing the typographical industry. It is a lorem ipsum generator.

Encoding tool 16. Typetester

Typetester is an online font comparison tool.

17. typeface. js

With typeface. JS, You can embed custom fonts in webpages, saving the trouble of text-to-image conversion.

18. firebug

Firebug is an extension of web development in Firefox. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript on any web page.

19. Smush. it

Smush. It reduces the image size by optimizing the image format. This is a non-destructive tool. That is to say, the image appearance and visual effect remain unchanged while optimizing the image.

20. pform

Online HTML form creation tool.

21. Zend Studio

Zend sudio 7.0 is a professional php development environment. Its design can maximize developers' efficiency, develop and maintain code faster, solve program problems, and improve the efficiency of teamwork.

22. Fire FTP for Firefox

Fireftp is a Mozilla Firefox extension and is a free, secure, and cross-platform FTP client.

23. expandrive

Expandrive is like a USB flash drive on your Mac or PC. You can open, edit, and save files on a remote computer.

24. W3C validator

The W3C checker is a W3C free service used to check the validity of web pages. There is also a CSS checker.

25. jquery UI

Jquery UI is an open-source interface component library-interaction, gadgets, and animation effects, based on the jquery JavaScript library. Every component is written based on the event-driven architecture of jquery, and it is quite topical, so that developers and people at any technical level can integrate into their own code.

26. Clean Ajax

Clean is an open-source Ajax engine that provides an Advanced Interface for Ajax technology.

27. reflection. js

Relection. js can display the launch Effect of images on webpages. It uses neat JavaScript code to make your code clean.

28. blueprint CSS

Blueprint is a css framework designed to reduce development time. It provides a solid foundation for your project through grid, layout, plug-ins, and printed CSS.

29. cleancss

Cleancss is a powerful CSS code optimizer and code formatting tool.

30. XHTML character entity reference

This page contains special characters of 1.0 allowed by HTML 4 and XHTML 252, which are described in section 24th of W3C official HTML 4 specification.

31. pingdom

Pingdom is a site monitoring tool that can be monitored for 7x24 hours a year. It provides statistics on the online time and response time, and sends warnings by email and SMS.

32. lightbox 2

Lightbox is used to display images on a webpage. Easy to set.

33. Wix

A free Flash web page creation tool.

34. Best free templates

Bestfreetemplates.info provides an excellent CSS template for you to download.

Test Management site 35. browsershots

Browsershots is a Web-based browser compatibility check tool that can clearly preview the Display Effect of your site on various browsers. If you do not need to register, submit the URL directly, and wait for 3-5 minutes, browsershot will generate a variety of browsers for you.

36. browsercam

View your web design in any browser of any operating system, and check JavaScript, DHTML, forms, and other dynamic functions.

37. Are my sites up?

Are my sites up is a simple service, and you will be notified immediately when your website is offline.

38. Google Analytics

Google Analytics is an enterprise-level website analysis solution that allows you to know the access status of your website and effectively promote the market. The powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use features give you a fresh way to analyze website traffic. Through Google Analytics, You can promote more targeted ads, take the initiative in the market, and create sites with higher returns.

39. w3counter

W3counter is a free site analysis solution. You can answer the following questions: who are the website users, how they find your site, and what they are interested in.

40. elogic

Tracks and monitors site activities. Understanding site data is the key to successful online commerce.

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