Top 10 Indispensable Web Design Tools
1 year, 5 months ago by Nat.
Web designing is considered an art for many graphic artists. Not only does it make a website more inviting to the eyes of its visitors, but it also serves as a communication tool, allowing visitors to get a grip of what a specific website is all about within its construct or design.
Although the main principle may sound easy enough to follow, the part of doing it can be hard. This is the reason why tools were developed to help designers better create a web design that suits their objective as well as allow visitors to fully understand the website’s intent.
There are 3 types of tools in which our Web Design Philippines Insider have put together. These are:
- Tools for Inspiration
- Tools for Colors and Fonts
- Tools for making a web designer’s life easier
Tools for Inspiration
1. Deviantart.com
DeviantArt.com is a popular social networking site made for artists. This allows them to feature their works of art and other artistic designs and characters for other artists to comment and discuss on.
However, many professional and expert web designers have also used this social networking site to feature some of their works in web design. This made it a popular “hang-out” place for many web designers who are looking for an inspiration for their next web design, which is why DeviantArt.com was marked by our web design Insider as one of the first indispensable tools for web design.
2. Stylevault.net
Similar to DeviantArt.com, Stylevault.net is also a popular social networking site for graphic artists and web designers alike. And similar to DeviantArt.com, it also allows them to feature some of their work, including a few web designs. This makes it another popular “hang-out” websites for those looking for a good website to follow.
3. flashmo.com
A popular website for full Flash avid fans, flashmo.com offers the widest range of “Free” flash templates for use of the public. Although built for Flash enthusiasts, web designers can still get their inspiration, particularly with its unique collection of full Flash websites.
Tools for Colors and Fonts
4. Adobe Kuler
Adobe Kuler is a tool used for creating color themes. Creating a color theme can be a pain for many web designers; this is why Adobe developed a tool in which designers can for creating color theme for their website.
Other than a component in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Kuler can also be accessed as a web-based application. The advantage of using the web-based application is its wider collection of color themes which came from other Adobe Kuler users.
Being a web-based application, Adobe Kuler allows users to share their color themes to other graphic artists as well as web designers, which is why our web design Philippines insider marked this tool as the first in Colors and Fonts.
5. Dafont.com
Dafont.com is a popular website which offers some of the widest collection of font styles which can be used in websites. Part of the reason why this website became popular is because it also offers free font faces for web designers; however, most of it requires payment.
Tools for making a web designer’s life easier
6. IconFinder.com
One of the most popular indispensable tools used by web designers, this website offers the widest collection of “Free” icons in the World Wide Web. This makes it easier for web designers to design a website without having to bother themselves in making their own icons for their website. This is the reason why our Web Design Philippines Insider chose this as one of the most indispensable tools in web designing.
A new addition in Adobe CS Live, Adobe BrowserLab is a web-based application used for testing websites in different browsers of different versions, from Firefox and IE, to Safari and Chrome. This tool makes it easier for web designers to see their website’s outcome in IE while using a MAC OS, without having to buy and install an IE web browser.
8. Lorem Ipsum
Though a simple dummy text provider, Lorem Ipsum have become a popular tool used by many web designers. Part of what made it popular is that this tool made it easier for web designers to see what their website would look like if it has enough content within it.
9. FireBug
FireBug is Firefox add-on which allows web designers to edit and debug their website’s CSS and HTML in a real-time environment. This makes it easier for web designers to debug their website and see in real-time the changes it would make for their website. This, however, is not permanent. This tool is only used for testing purposes only.
10. W3C.com
W3C.com offers a free validator to check if your website conforms in today’s web standards. Other than HTML and XHTML, it also offers a CSS validator.
