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5 Free Web Designers Resources You Must Know
Posted by admin in Design, Flash, Tips
Over the last few months me and my designer-developer buddies have been sharing our favourite web design tools, tricks and tips.
Our final conclusion was that it’s very exciting to be a designer these days. The web is quite gushing with many cute designing apps and tools.
Below you will find our current Top 5 Free Web Design Tools. Some are new, some are golden oldies, but all of them are tools we can’t live without! And what’s more, they’re useful no matter what stage of web design you’re at.
Feel free to share your own must-have tools of the trade in the comments below.
1. Wix.com: Create Your Own Free Websites, MySpace Layouts and More
We reckon Wix.com one of the best new tools around for creating flash websites, MySpace layouts & widgets. Flash design used to be a pain in the butt but with Wix you get a tool that’s simple to use, cuts our development time, requires no coding, offers fully customisable flash templates (useful for small client projects), is easy to update … and is free. We’re loving it!
2. FireFox Web Developer Extension Toolbar
Created by Chris Pederick, the web developer extension for your Mozilla Firefox browser is one of the best free tools out there. Seriously. It’s simple to install, and is especially useful with the debugging aspects of web design.
3. Colour Lovers & Kuler: Colour Choice Made Easy
Ok, so this is two free tools for the price of one. We all use both these sites to save time and get inspiration when choosing just the right colour palette for our sites and designs. And we love them both.
We know it’s been around for ages but if you are a blogger, or want to create a cool flexible & free blog, Wordpress is still by far the best place to go. But the part we’re loving most at the moment is the theme viewer section. We’re using it to get inspiration for simple, clean website designs. And also for what to avoid!
5. Browser Shots: Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test
A free open-source online service, Browser Shots saves you time by testing out your designs in various browsers in one place. You simply submit your web address and it makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers.
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Another one is coolrgb.com. Link coolrgb.com
You can create free logos and web buttons in seconds.
good thanks a lot
Nice blog good information
Firefox webdev toolbar is an absolute must!
in a related field (SEO) I find that SEO quake toolbar is indispensable
I can’t live without the Firefox Web Developer toolbar!
I’ve used Firefox toolbar from the beginning) Can’t imagine my life without it..
Good information, thanks for sharing. Very nice blog.
Gmail, nice to see there is skins for Gmail
Allen
Thank you. Nice blog. well done
I posted the list. Goodnes knows what my regular readers will think of it. They come to my blog for stories.
Wordpress.com can’t beat it. Just checked out Browser Shots – nice idea should save time when testing and launching websites.
Have to agree with a few of the posters, firefox toolbar is essential
This blog is really interesting, and being new to web design on a massive learning curve, i will use this resource to my advantage. Thanks
These are some nice resources you have listed here. When I’m designing and struggling with what colours go well together I tend to use Kuler as it saves time and it suggests colours that you wound not have thought to use. Next time I need some colour ideas I am going to try out colour lovers. Also just checked out Browser Shots, that looks like it will come in handy when developing websites.
Thanks loads for the link to check browser compatibility – that will save me some serious time in my web designs.
Great information, keep adding new stuff. Good work
wow thats great..thanks for the infos.
Very nice post!
Keep up the great work!
Ovi Dogar
AbsoluteCovers.com
Some handy links there! A few were new to me, all good!
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others…
http://www.ffiles.com
http://www.flashmo.com
http://www.flashkit.com
Colour lovers is the best site for the design side in my opinion, really gives you ideas into what colours work well. Also the browser checker site is something ive been looking for for a while now! so thanks for that, shame it takes so long for images to appear, think i need to start bringin my laptop into work for cross O/S testing.
Just came across your blog but got some useful information, keep posting.
Great post, I found it really interesting and informative! It’s always a bit of a challenge to come up with a good colour scheme, Kuler and colourlovers look like two great sites that I am definitely going too look into further. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the post! These looks like fun and useful tools. I’m already a fan of FireBug–how does the web developer toolbar differ? Already love Kuler too. I’ll definitely check out the others!