Web Tools

Luckily for us web designers, there is certainly no lack of great web tools available out there. Many online services, often free, are launched on a daily basis and with our busy schedules, it’s not always easy to stay up to date. I recently came across a great list of web tools and below, I’ll be sharing 10 of them which you might not be aware of.

Although not strictly a web tool, this week’s Web Tool of the Week features Google’s new social project which aims to take on Facebook.

This week’s Web Tool of the Week is a truly great free tool by Adobe that allows you to create and browse color themes you can use for your web projects.

Following yesterday’s lesson which featured web based code editors, today’s Web Tool of the Week is a super simple tool which allows you to quickly test PHP and JavaScript code online.

This week’s Web Tool of the Week is an awesome simple web app that allows you to quickly create mobile application mock-ups by simply dragging mobile graphical elements.

This week’s Web Tool of the Week is the SiteTrail analysis tool which attempts to find as much information as it possible can on a website and return reports that are accurate to the number.

Today’s Web Tool of the Week is yet another great tool by ZURB. Chop is a simple way to add notes to a code snippet and share them.

This week’s Web Tool of the Week is a fun web based “toy” that generates word clouds from a source you choose. You are also able to tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Say hello to Wordle.net.

BounceApp.com is a great and easy way of sharing feedback you have with others. Developed by ZURB, BounceApp.com is very simple to use and more importantly, completely free.

This week’s Web Tool of the Week is a tool I had made myself a couple of months ago together with Michael Azzopardi. I’ve finally decided to launch a simplified version of what I had originally planned as I think it could be useful to web designers out there.