A Collection Of Tools/sites I Use To Save Time When I'm Creating A Website!

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by zoomx, Jan 29, 2013.

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    Sup guys,

    I see many people asking for different stuff, that can be easily found online, and so I want to share some of the websites that I use in my "journey" of creating a new website, or ranking it etc...

    1. http://convertico.com/ (Convert your PNG image to .ICO, for those who can't do this via Photoshop etc)

    2. http://validator.w3.org/ (Validate your CSS, see what errors your website might have)

    3. http://quirktools.com/screenfly/ (Check Your Website in different resolutions)

    4. http://browsershots.org/ (See your Website in different browsers)

    5. http://www.colourlovers.com/ (See how to use colors on your website in different palettes)

    6. http://www.stripemania.com/ (Create diagonal stripes for any of your designs)

    7. http://www.DaFont.com (Awesome database of free fonts)

    8. http://www.iconfinder.net/ (Icon search engine)

    9. http://cow.neondragon.net/stuff/reflection/ (add reflection to your images)

    10. http://www.google.com/analytics/ (Track from where your visitors arrive on your website, visit duration, etc)

    11. http://getfirebug.com/ (For those who uses Firefox, this is an awesome tool to edit on-the-fly your website and CSS, for those with Chrome, you already have something similar, simply right-click and "Inspect Element" will give you the same options as FireBug does)

    12. http://www.cleancss.com/ (Optimize and Clean your CSS)

    13. http://www.stylevault.net/ (Inspiration)

    14. https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools (Add your sitemaps, see how Google crawls your website etc..)

    15. http://www.brusheezy.com/ (Big database of free photoshop brushes)

    16. http://www.vecteezy.com/ (Big Database of free vectors)


    I know these are known by some people, but for the new ones, these sites will help a lot.

    I will come with more later... :)

    Cheers,
    zoomx
     
    zoomx, Jan 29, 2013 IP
  2. jamjar919

    jamjar919 Well-Known Member

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    Nice. Knew about a bunch of these, but didn't know about StyleVault, so thanks for that.
     
    jamjar919, Jan 30, 2013 IP
  3. wickedproductions

    wickedproductions Greenhorn

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    A couple other ones I find using a lot are:

    Subtle Patterns: http://subtlepatterns.com/ (Great site for backgrounds that are seamless and subtle)

    Type.io: http://www.typ.io/ (Site for text/font collections for the web.
     
    wickedproductions, Jan 31, 2013 IP