20 Useful Web Apps, Tools, and Resources
Here are some of my favorite web apps, tools, and resources for my daily web needs. Feel free to browse through to see if there are any that would be useful for your everyday tasks, if you have some that are not mentioned please let me know!
Google Keyword Tool
Useful tool by Google to research keyword competition and search volumes.
Google Analytics
Learn more about where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site.
Google Webmaster Tools
Provides you with detailed reports about your pages’ visibility on Google.
Colour Lovers
Great site for color inspiration – Thousands of color schemes and more.
I Like Your Colors
Web app that will display the colors from your favorite website. The app searches for color values embedded in the site’s CSS files then displays a swatch.
Color Mixers
Color Tools, Color Theory, Color mixers and Palettes.
Color Blender
Free online tool for color palette design and matching.
Alexa the Web Information Company
Website that provides information on web traffic to other websites.
Greeking Machine
Useful tool to generate dummy text for your design comps.
Type Tester
An online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen.
Postable
A simple tool to convert some special characters to HTML entities.
W3C XHTML Validator
W3C’s easy-to-use XHTML validation service, based on an SGML parser.
W3C CSS Validator
Finds errors and potential problems in Cascading Style Sheets.
Clean CSS
Optimize and format your CSS using a variety of different compression settings.
Web Page Analyzer
Free website performance tool and web page speed analysis.
Feed Burner
Allows weblog owners and podcasters the ability to manage their RSS feeds and track usage of their subscribers.
Stock.Xchng
Stock photography community – browse their huge gallery for high quality stock photos or share yours with others.
Vecteezy
Vecteezy is an index of Free Vector Graphics available for download by some of the best designers around the world.
Domains Bot
The first place to go to find a great domain name: Available domain suggestions, name spinner, expired and expiring domain name search.
Make Words
Generates domain names that haven´t been used yet.
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Thanks for the list. Very useful.
Great design btw.
Cheers.
I was lost on what the Postable app was, but once I tried it it was genius! Manually changing characters is a *****. Bookmarking this article now :-D Thanks!
I’d also like to suggest SwiftFile for the list! Ridiculously easy way to send files securely for free: http://www.swiftfile.net
Wow,so many useful web design tools I never seen before!
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