Today there are tons of tools and resources available on the internet for web designers. Most of the tools and resources are confusing and difficult to use.
Photoshop – Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop is an image editing program developed and published by Adobe. It is useful for web designers to improve their work efficiency. It has some unique features like layers with masks, color spaces, ICC profiles, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, clipping paths, and duotone settings. You can also apply many color contrasts and formats.
Dream weaver – Dream weaver is a web development tool and HTML editor originally developed by Macromedia and now owned by Adobe. It is ideal for web designers. It supports many web technologies such as PHP, Cold Fusion, CSS, Java Script, and ASP.NET.
Flash: Flash is a widely used popular method of adding animation and advertisements to web pages or websites. Using Flash Animation you can also attract your message to the common man. It helps to improve the visibility of your web page or website.
Illustrator: Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor. It has been developed and marketed by Adobe. It has certain features that are useful for web designers, such as text settings, additional fonts, bidirectional text flow, dictionary and hyphenation module, and ME character import/export options.
XHTML – XHTML statistics for Extended Hypertext Markup Language. It is the extended version of HTML and also works with Html and xml syntax. XHTML also provides extended compatibility with other XML-based languages.
Firebug: Firebug is a Firefox add-on and is integrated with Firefox. With the help of Firebug, you can edit, debug, and monitor live CSS, HTML, and JavaScript on any web page.
CSS Edit – CSS Edit is a powerful style sheet editor. It has a wide range of features like previewing anything faster.
Fireworks – Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editing tool. It has some extended features such as hierarchical layers, smart guides, image optimization, 9-slice scaling, and states.
Yslow for Firebug: Yslow is a Firefox plugin integrated with the FireBug web development tool. Analyzed the current statistics of the web page according to which it offers suggestions to improve the performance of the web page and also provides performance analysis.
Browser Shots – Browser Shot is a free open source online service that allows you to generate screenshots of your web page or website in different browsers. It is useful for checking the capability of various browsers.
ColorZilla: ColorZila is a Firefox plugin that helps analyze the color of the DOM of the web page and creates the corresponding palette. It also supports different languages like Indonesian, Korean, and Norwegian.
I hope this article helps you improve your design skills and efficiency with these web design tools and resources.
