In this roundup I have compiled a list of Websites that make life easier, enjoy! Comment on your favorites that did make the list or share with us your favorite tools.
Iconfinder.net
One of our favorite sites here at PSDbase, Icon finder is a simple yet powerful search engine targeted at helping designers find useful icons to use their designs.
lipsum.com
Another great tool, lipsum provide Dummy text to designer’s and Coder’s to fill areas on websites/designs to make the template look more live and complete.
Codedpreview.com
A fairly new application but its publicity throughout web communities has helped this website grow at a tremendous rate. Codedpreview allows a user to display a html based preview of what there website might look like coded.
Blueprintcss.org
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.
Stripemania.com
Stripemania is a simple and free web 2.0 tool to create seamless diagonal stripes for your designs. You are able to choose the size of the stripes and the spacing between those. You can even add color gradient effect for all of your stripes.
Browsershots.org
Browsershots checks the compatibility of your code.
Kuler.adobe.com
Kuler is an interesting site that creates color schemes.
aremysitesup.com
Arenysitesup, the name says it all. A simple application that allows you to check your sites status.
Addons.Mozilla.org
Firefox’s addon site that has a large database of addons which help you with anything from tinkering with coding issues, to picking great custom color schemes.
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Hey nice list, bookmarked this site
These are awesome tools for a designer to have in their arsenal. Particularly a fledgling designer, such as myself.
Thanks a lot!
PS: I saw a post of yours stating that code related tutorials are forthcoming. I cannot wait for those! I like your presentation style insofar as your tutorials (You break things down enough for even novice users to understand, yet you don’t “talk down” to us – awesome!) are concerned. Consider yourself as having a new subscriber!
Alexander J.
@Alexander
thanks for the kind words & thanks for subscribing, yes we plan on having coding tutorials up asap.
ps: if anyone would like to suggest there own or a favorite web tool I would gladly add it to the list.
You have a good little blog here. All the best for the future I hope this blog grows!
One of my fave tools that make life easier for me would be the 960 Grid System – http://www.960.gs