50 Super Handy Tools for Web Designers

Being a web designer is not easy. Not only do you have to consider design and architecture, but you also have to pay attention to various small details. The designer's work is surrounded by various problems. You need a set of super convenient tools to help you solve various problems that consume time and energy. This article introduces 50 very powerful tools, some of which you will find amazing. This is the first part.

LaunchList

A checklist for pre-launching a site, with 28 preset items to check, which can also be customized. Similar tools: The Ultimate Website Launch Checklist and The Ultimate Website Prelaunch Checklist.

Pencil Project: Sketching and Prototyping with Firefox

An open source GUI prototyping tool.

Zootool

A very beautiful bookmark tool that can organize your collected materials, pictures, documents, links, videos, etc. online.

Bounce

Enter a site address and the program will take a screenshot of the site. You can then annotate it, add comments, and share it with friends. Perfect for discussing a site's design with your clients online.

Ninite Batch Installer

This site can package a lot of free popular software (the best versions) together and install it on your machine at once, supporting Windows 7, Vista and XP.

Support Details (Highly Recommended)

If you want your user to provide his/her browser environment, such as Flash version, operating system, screen resolution, cookies, JavaScript status, etc., you can ask him/her to visit this site. This site may automatically detect these contents and allow the user to send you a report via email on the spot.

MugTug's Darkroom

An online image processing program that can adjust contrast, white balance, exposure, saturation, etc. It can upload pictures from Picasa and Flickr. Similar products: Pixlr and Sumo Paint.

Visual Website Optimizer

Visual Website Optimizer is absolutely the best A/B testing tool you will ever see.

Keyonary

This simple online tool can help you make a list of shortcuts for Mac OS X, Photoshop, and more.

gridr buildrrr

An online grid design tool that allows you to select the grid layout you want to use, preview it and generate CSS code.

Instant Blueprint – Create a web project framework in seconds.

Help you instantly generate a web project framework based on legal HTML/XHTML and CSS.

Hummingbird

A real-time (truly real-time, refreshing 20 times per second) site traffic analysis tool based on Node.js.

jsFiddle

Online web editor that supports JavaScript, MooTools, jQuery, Prototype, YUI, Glow, Dojo, HTML and CSS.

String: create a multi-language website or app

Help you create resource files for multilingual Web applications,

Titanpad

Multiple people can edit the same document at the same time, and other changes will be marked in different colors in real time. It can be multiple users in the same office or multiple users on the other side of the earth.

Pixelnovel Timeline: Version Control for Adobe Photoshop

This tool integrates the Subversion client via a plug-in, allowing version control to be implemented in Photoshop. Not a free tool.

0to255

Given a color, it will help you list various color variations of this color from light to dark, and it is specially optimized for the Web.

Load Impact: Website load/stress test

An online stress testing tool that simulates multiple users accessing your site at the same time and generates a report to analyze the number of visitors your site can support.

Ideone: Online IDE & Debugging Tool

An online IDE and debugging tool that supports up to 40 languages, including C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby. Similar products: PHP Anywhere and CodeRun.

Online Dummy Image Generator

Quickly help you generate an online virtual image so that you can do some tests.

HiFi RegExp Tool

Online regular expression tool.

Tableizer

Copy and paste the contents of your Excel table into this site, and it will help you generate a table in HTML format (HTML Table).

FollowUpThen: Easy Email Reminder

-If you want someone to remind you when to do something, you can send an email to an address such as [email protected]. 1day means one day later. In this way, one day later, you will receive their reminder email. 1day can be changed to a person or other time interval.

Divine: Conversion tool from PSD to HTML

This tool is a Photoshop plugin that can convert your PSD into a WordPress theme. (Translator: To be verified)

International source of this article: Smashing Magazine 50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers (Original author: Vitaly Friedman)