8 Essential Online Tools for Web Designers and Developers

• Khurram Alvi
• 11th July 2011
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Making your life easier by finding useful stuff is one of our passions and something that we love to do. We search and look for freebies like icons and fonts, or other useful tools to help you, so you can focus on just doing your work. We have found some of the most useful online tools for development and designing, and the best part is that they are all absolutely free.

1. 0 to 255

0 to 255 is a simple but very useful tool. It helps web designers find different variations of any colour they are using.

2. Spritebox

It is a WYSIWYG tool that can well aid web designers to quickly create CSS classes and IDS from one sprite image. It uses the background-position property to align areas of a sprite image into block elements of a web design. It is created with the combination of HTML5, JQuery and CSS3, and is free to use.

3. JsFiddle

JsFiddle is a very useful tool, in other words it’s a playground for web developers. It can be utilized in numerous ways. Developers use it as an online editor for snippets created from JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. If the code is embedded on a blog, it can be shared with web developers helping them to easily isolate bugs etc.

4. Frame Box

Frame box is a user friendly tool. It is used by web developers for creating and sharing wireframes.

5. CSS3 Generator

As the name suggests, CSS3 Generator is a code generator. It is a simple tool that creates cross-browser CSS3 code based on different values you want.

6. ProCSSor

It is a powerful and an absolutely free CSS enhancer that allows you to format CSS just the way you want it to. It gives you the authority to turn CSS into something that is visually more compelling with minimum effort.

7. Super Conversion Button

This little but very useful tool allows you to create very effective call-to-action button in a matter of seconds.

8. Wordmark.it

This tool allows you to have a quick look/preview of how a wordmark would look with the fonts installed on your system, before setting out to look for new ones.