The website has taken a new role in this modern world especially the business market gains a lot from their very own website and mobile apps. As the result of this necessity, the web designers and developers had taken the hands up to bring in a revolution to the market. The increasing demand has put the designers and the developers in pressure and also led the way to develop many tools that might reduce the overall time spent in developing the website.
The big name tools are quite heavy in price, and the entry or the moderate level designers, and developers had some trouble in deploying them. Fortunately, the modern web world has many tools that won’t cost you even a penny from your wallet. The list of tools briefed below are some the best-in-the-industry free tools that help the designers and the developers to cope up with the fast moving web market.
Aptana Studio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used to develop web applications easily and quickly. No matter what your programming language (be it an HTML, CSS, Ruby, PHP and Javascript), this IDE allows you to build application without any hassle
For programmers and web developers, Bluefish is sure to be an excellent companion. It helps the developers with its various options to write scripts, programming code, and even website. Bluefish supports XHTML, HTML, CSS, JS, Python, SQL, Ruby and lot more to make itself as the all-in-one tool for the developers and programmers.
Do it on your own. It is very easy. CSS3 Generator is an online tool that allows you to generate code for any CSS key features like RGBA, font face, box sizing and more. All you have to do is, select menu and click the desired function and put in your values. That’s it. Copy and paste it wherever you want to use.
CSSed is a GTK2 application that allows web developers to create and manage CSS style sheets. Supported by Linux, it has features like auto-completion, syntax validation, highlighting and also offers support for other languages.
GTK+ based program, Dia is used to create diagrams and supported by Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. This program is used as an alternate for Microsoft Visio and can be widely used anywhere to draw structural diagrams like flowcharts.
Being the most secure CMS (it calls itself), Geeklog is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that helps manage dynamic web content. It has many plugins that can be used to add features like social networking, image galleries and many other.
It hard and very attractive to see free photo editing tools like Adobe Photoshop. The GIMPshop is an open source image editor that sits over the parent GIMP editor adding an Adobe-style interface. It is entirely free and has almost every feature as in Adobe Photoshop and other costlier creative photo editing tools.
Every JavaScript has its use. The JSLint is not a JavaScript rather it is a tool slightly into top side when compared with that of other JS tools with the same or similar functionality. It takes in javascript as input and analysis for potential problems and produces a report accordingly. It acts as another set of eyes to find the problems in your code or script.
There are also many other applications and tools that make your work easier. But the above-listed programs and tools are the best in the list of web design tools available online.