Web developer tools
A selection of free online web designer tools
While working as web developers and designers we often create tools to make our life easier. Being programmers we instinctively try to avoid repetition. If you know you are going to repeat a task more than a handful of times it sometimes makes sense to build a tool to do the job for you. This is what we do and we plan to tidy a few up and put them online for people to use.
One of the most tedious task web designers and developers come across is typing HTML markup. This free online TEXT to HTML convertion tool is the first of our free web developer tools that we plan to introduce to make the web designer's life easier.
Here is a simple tool for cleaning strings to use in urls
3rd Party tools
And some handy 3rd party tools that we like:
- Regular expressions tester
- MX lookups a blacklist checks
- Sound file resource
- Favicon maker
- Loren Ipsum genrator
- Graffiti generator
- Icon finder
- Browser tester
Fonts
Font resources:
- Free fonts on fontsquirrel
- Google free web fonts
- Adobe free web fonts
- Inkspot, one of our fonts on fonts.com
- Font identification
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