You’re a webdesigner? Here’s some tools. You might know some of them or not. These are the one I use and I find useful.
CMS
When it comes to making a website, I try to avoid coding as much as I can, especially if I don’t need to. The use of CMS is very helpful. You might already know some of them(Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla,…) but Modx is certainly one of my favourite. Fast, flexible, easy, seo oriented…I can millions of reasons to give it a try.
CSS framework
A CSS framework is a library that is meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of a webpage using the Cascading Style Sheets language. There’s a lot of different frameworks, so feel free to choose yours. I personaly use Yahoo YUI, but they pretty much do the same thing.
CSS optimizer
Sometimes, I use lots of different CSS files and compressing them helps keeping light weight files.
Em calculator
Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design. It converts size in pixels to relative em units, which are based on a text size.
Form
You probably need at one point to build a form for a contact page for example. If like me you’re a little lazy, just use that form generator:
W3C
You probably know these ones if you like your websites to be fully css and xhtml compliant:
Link Checker
You need to make sure that you don’t have any dead link? This tool will help you with that:
Browser compatibility
If you don’t have the chance to have different testing machines, a pc, a mac…You can test online how your design looks like in all the different borwsers.
Sitemap
You need to submit google or Yahoo an xml sitemap? You want to help search engines to crawl your website easier? This website’s gonna help you:
