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20 Useful Web Apps, Tools, and Resources

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.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Google Analytics

Learn more about where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Google Webmaster Tools

Provides you with detailed reports about your pages’ visibility on Google.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Colour Lovers

Great site for color inspiration – Thousands of color schemes and more.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

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.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Color Mixers

Color Tools, Color Theory, Color mixers and Palettes.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Color Blender

Free online tool for color palette design and matching.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Alexa the Web Information Company

Website that provides information on web traffic to other websites.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Greeking Machine

Useful tool to generate dummy text for your design comps.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Type Tester

An online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Postable

A simple tool to convert some special characters to HTML entities.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

W3C XHTML Validator

W3C’s easy-to-use XHTML validation service, based on an SGML parser.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

W3C CSS Validator

Finds errors and potential problems in Cascading Style Sheets.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Clean CSS

Optimize and format your CSS using a variety of different compression settings.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Web Page Analyzer

Free website performance tool and web page speed analysis.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Feed Burner

Allows weblog owners and podcasters the ability to manage their RSS feeds and track usage of their subscribers.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Stock.Xchng

Stock photography community – browse their huge gallery for high quality stock photos or share yours with others.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Vecteezy

Vecteezy is an index of Free Vector Graphics available for download by some of the best designers around the world.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Domains Bot

The first place to go to find a great domain name: Available domain suggestions, name spinner, expired and expiring domain name search.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

Make Words

Generates domain names that haven´t been used yet.

Useful Web Applications and Tools

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  1. Blagoj Srbinov

    Thanks for the list. Very useful.
    Great design btw.

    Cheers.

  2. Kareem

    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!

  3. Chris

    I’d also like to suggest SwiftFile for the list! Ridiculously easy way to send files securely for free: http://www.swiftfile.net

  4. gamehome

    Wow,so many useful web design tools I never seen before!
    I am a fresh man , and I like your design and articles,they are helpful!

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  7. ranjit

    very useful info. Thanks…

  8. mark

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