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Demands are made every now and then by website owners for their website design to display visually appealing web design elements that will attract readers or users to linger on the site. This is aside from the search engine optimization elements which need to be integrated into the over-all design of the site. The good news for web designers and web design company is that a number of web design tools are available online for free which they can use to translate their design concepts into layouts. Depending on the design elements web designers need for their design of the website, any of the following web design tools may be utilized.
- Firebug. This is a web development tool which is free and with open source in-browser intended for the Firefox web browser. It features:
- On-the-fly HTML and CSS editing intended for tweaking or debugging
- A console for logging, analyzing and debugging JavaScript
- An intuitive Document Object Model or DOM inspection tool to preview how the web page elements relate to one another.
- Smush.it. This tool uses optimization techniques specifically for images, helpful in removing the unnecessary bytes from the image files. This useful image editing tool allows editing of images to decrease the file size without compromising the image quality. After running this tool on a web page, it will generate a report indicating the number of bytes saved after the image is optimized. It also provides a minimized image files.
- Photoshop. This is a widely used commercial graphics editor that can be used for Mac and Windows operating system. It is the most used application for manipulating images and creating web graphics. Tools include:
- Filters – automatic adding of effects to the image or a selected area or section of the image
- Extensibility and automation with Brushes, Actions and Scripting
- Workflow enhancement features such as Layer Comps and Revert option.
- Zend Studio. This is the only PHP IDE (Integrated Development Environment) available which provide the capabilities needed to develop business applications. It simplifies the development of production-like environment through integration with VMware Work Station to run and debug PHP applications. It also features:
- Refactoring
- Code generation
- Code assist
- Semantic analysis
- Panic Coda. This is a shareware web development application used for Mac OS X operating system. It is used by web design company seeking to reduce the amount of applications such as FTP client, CSS editor, version control system, among others, Coda’s one-window web development philosophy makes use of a tabbed interface for text filing, file transfers, etc.
- jQuery UI. This is an open source library of interface components. Each component is built following jQuery’s action-driven architecture and themeable capability. Its components include:
- Interactions
- Full-featured widgets
- Animation effects
- Adobe Dreamweaver. This is a commercial application for web development which can be used for both Mac and Windows operating systems. Tools include:
- Syntax highlighting
- Smart code hinting
- Built-in FTP client
- Project management and workflow options
- Live View – provides preview of the source codes
With these web design tools made available, coding won’t be that complicated anymore. People who are new to web designing and development won’t find it difficult to understand how and where a certain code should be used. An explanation and guide is readily available in case some codes are quite difficult to understand especially for beginners.
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