10 Free and Awesome Web Design Tools

By Iggy Ko | 5 comments | Freebies

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All web designers need the right web design tools to help with their designs. This is why I put together a list of 10 free and awesome web design tools. Use these design tools to design faster and more effortlessly.

Aptana Studio

Build web applications quickly and easily using the industry’s leading web application IDE. Aptana Studio harnesses the flexibility of Eclipse and focuses it into a powerful web development engine.

Cage

Simple, useful tool to help you better manage creative projects online.

Colorzilla

With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily. The powerful CSS gradient generator allows quick and easy creation of beautiful gradients.

Colourlovers

COLOURlovers is a creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles.

 CSS3 Generator

CSS3 Generator lets developers generate cross-browser snippets for various CSS3 properties. Developers are given full customization functionality, like border-radius, text-shadow, RGBa, box sizing and box resizing.

FileZilla

FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

 CSS3 Maker

Simply put in the wanted values in the boxes and then code is generated automatically, with a preview. You can download the code after.

Inkscape

Inkscape is an open source vector illustration program. You can export multiple objects as PNGs. It’s also a basic but good alternative to programs such as Illustrator and CorelDraw.

Button Maker

Simply move the sliders to adjust the gradients or the hover background color, the hover text color and so on to get your desired button.

 Kuler

Kuler is a free online tool from Adobe. This tool is a colour scheme showcase that enables you to create new schemes from experimentation or from images you select.