Useful tools for web designers / developers

Web technologies were evolving very quickly over the last few years. This ever changing situation makes it more difficult for every web designer and developer to stay on top of the things. There is a large number of the different tools, which can help you with all your day to day tasks and streamline the development process. This collection lists some of the most useful tools each designer / developer should try at least once to find the right one for him/herself.

Lorem Ipsum Text Generator

Lorem Ipsum Text Generator makes it easy to quickly grab preformated (tagged) lorem ipsum text. If you need a specific number of paragraphs, words or letters you can specify this using our text generator. 3 easy steps: Select – Press Copy Button – Paste to your html editor.

960 Grid System

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels.

Adobe BrowserLab

Preview and test your web pages on leading browsers and operating systems – on demand.

Are My Sites Up?

Your clients and/or customers don´t care that a hamster chewed through a network cable somewhere in Northern California. They want their website up.

Browsershots

Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test.

Domainr

There’s a whole world of domains out there—hundreds at the top–level and even more beyond. Whether you want a short URL or something big, Domainr helps you explore them all.

Dropbox

Put your files into your Dropbox on one computer, and they´ll be instantly available on any of your other computers that you´ve installed Dropbox on (Windows, Mac, and Linux too!)

FavIcon from Pics

Want to display your own logo on the browser address bar and browser tabs?

HTML Entity Character Lookup

Using HTML entities is the right way to ensure all the characters on your page are validated. However, often finding the right entity code requires scanning through 250 rows of characters.

Icon Finder

Search through 124,176+ icons or browse 320+ icon sets.

WayBackMachine

Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.

Photoshop.com

Well, Photoshop Online! Almost!

phpForm

Create Web Form Template Online in Seconds.

Screenr

Now you can create screencasts for your followers (and more…) as easily as you tweet.

CSS Sprite Generator

CSS Sprite Image Generator.

Icon Generator

Icon Generator is a little application that lets you generate a CS3 or Web 2.0 style icon, only 3 step. Pick color, type characters, and save it. Just create 4 different sizes of the icon.

What The Font

Seen a font in use and want to know what it is?

TypeKit

Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal.

SlickMap CSS

SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation.

ajaxload.info

Generate 'wait' indicators.

ColourLovers

This Web Tool helps you create a pallet of colours.

TypeTester

Style your type using simple selection settings and get CSS for it.

Keyword Suggestion Tool

This is a handy little tool will show you the results of your query from both Wordtracker and Overture for determining which phrases are searched most often.

Free SEOTools

The SEMToolBar is an attractive, easy-to-use toolbar that allows users access to statistics relating to online marketing campaigns.

Free Search Engine Marketing Tools

Web Developer Toolbar

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools.

FireBug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages.

ColorZilla for Firefox

Advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Palette Viewer and other colorful goodies for your Firefox.