Web Design Tools You Can’t Live Without

Posted by admin

Jan 30

Getting your small business online can be difficult, until you have found the right combination of tools. In particular, creating a professional look and feel for your webpages is crucial for building trust and reputation.

I thought about a set of tools that make the every day task of adding new pages, changing the look and feel of existing page elements, and updating code so much easier.

Firefox and Firebug

Combined with Firebug, FireFox can help you to quickly improve your site’s HTML, JavaScript, Image handling and CSS. Basically FireBug turns your browser into a real-time webpage code analyzer and editor. You can make changes to your code in FireBug and see them instantly on the browser. This saves your from having to refresh your browser every time you want to see what effect code changes have had. There are also additional plug-ins that can combine with these to help you analyze page speed bottlenecks and more. Even if you don’t know anything about code, using these tools together can provide a lot of useful information about how your website is responding to page visits.

CSS3 Generator

If you hate having to design websites or webpages by hand, then this is the tool for you. CSS3 Generator is an online tool that allows you to create cool CSS3 effects in real time. Simply copy and paste the CSS code it generates into your own webpages and away you go. Before CSS3, the only way to achieve some of these effects was through the use of images. Using images slows down your website, which in turn can affect your SEO.

ColorZilla Gradient Generator

The ColorZilla Gradient Generator is a similar tool to the CSS3 Generator outlined in point 2. While they are both a real time online tools for generating CSS3, the gradient generator focuses specifically on providing flexible, powerful, beautiful and colorful background gradients. In addition, colorzilla has made sure that the code they generate is compatible with most browsers, so you can be sure that any code you copy and paste will work the same in any browser.