16 Tools And Generators For Web Designers
Posted on 16. Jul, 2009 by Web Design in Roundups
Calling all web designers and developers! Here is an unmissable list of helpful web tools you need to check out if you haven’t already. On the list are color palette generators, available domain name finders, template makers, CSS grids and much more! If you have any more tools / generators you would like to share with us, then please feel free to drop in a comment and we will add it to the next list. Remember to click on the images to visit each tool.
Adobe Kuler
Kuler has got to be one of the best color tools on the net at present. It can generate you so many different types of color palettes based on many different rules.
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OpenKapow
Build your own web mashups (called robots) using OpenKapow. There are many examples and demos that are ready for you to download. These include Google Maps, eBay, Amazon, RSS Feeds and more! And the best thing is you don’t have to write any code.
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Toufee
With Toufee, you can create amazing flash slide-shows and movies using the Toufee maker. You can put these slide-shows / movies on your website very quickly, and without any programming skills needed.
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Wordpress Theme Generator
This fantastic online generator created a custom and unique WordPress Theme based on what you input into the boxes and dropdowns. You don’t need any HTML, CSS or ,PHP knowledge. Just fill out the form and your done! You can customize the colours, layout and even preview it live on the right pane.
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1KB CSS Grid
The 1KB CSS Grid is a lightweight approach to creating a grid system. Simply select the number of columns you want, the column width and gutter width and your sorted!
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Custom Branded Twitter Application
This is a very clever way of making a custom tool, so that when you tweet, you will be placing a direct link to your website on every one of your followers home pages. Amazing! Plus its non spammy.
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Bust a Name
Bust a Name is a very easy to use but complex domain finder tool. You can add groups, select options and bust a name will combine words and tell you what domain names are available.
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Ajax Loading Image
This is a very simple but effective tool for web designers. Most web applications and websites use preloaders. Here you can configure your very own. Just pick the preloader image, and customize the background color and foreground color.
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Color Palette Generator
This awesome tool generates a dull and vibrant color palette from a photo or image you input. Really handy if your stuck for colors to use.
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Stripe Generator
This background stripe generator is especially useful for when you are designing in Photoshop. There are so many configurable options for you to choose from.
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Buttonator
With Buttonator, you can make buttons for your website in a matter of seconds. Simple choose your button style, configure the font style, size etc, button size’s and your sorted. Download and start using on your website.
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Web Template Builder
This is one of the best free template generators out there. You can have a working template in 3 easy steps. Pick your template, customize the colors, fonts, titles, corners, and then download it for free!
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CSS Typeset
CSS Typeset is a handy tool that generates pure CSS code to put in your CSS Stylesheet based on what options you inputted. Customize fonts, sizes, colours, and alignments.
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Make Words
Make words is a domain name generator. You simple enter the min and max length of the domain name you want it to generate, and what you want it to start and end with, and it will generate you a nice list of domains, and tell you if they are available to register.
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Rounded Cornr
Ever wanted to easily create rounded corners? Well now you can with this simple tool. All you have to do is select the corner radius, the background color and the box color. There is even an option for gradient overlays!
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Navigation Tabs Generator
This handy web tool will generate you a set of CSS tabs to use on your website. You can edit the CSS code, and get a live preview of what your tabs will look like.
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Ryan
16. Jul, 2009
These are some great new tools to use!
Keith
16. Jul, 2009
Another great post
cssah
16. Jul, 2009
Excellent post for designers ,adobe kuler is my best color app
Andy
17. Jul, 2009
Yeh, but there is also colourlovers.com and colorschemer.com
Omar Abdallah
16. Jul, 2009
amazing, but makes me more lazy than I am:D
Cindy
17. Jul, 2009
Always great information from Web Design, this is another fine example.
Great work…
Dicky
17. Jul, 2009
Great collection! There are a lot of cool and awesoem tools here.
Abu Farhan
17. Jul, 2009
wow great tools, this one first time I know about all of that, I want to try CSS type set. Thanks for share
Mersi
17. Jul, 2009
This is one of my most favourite posts!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing this info.
Binoj Xavier
17. Jul, 2009
Thanks for the post. very useful
Lara
17. Jul, 2009
kuler is amazing thanks guys
Behrouz
17. Jul, 2009
great post and Adobe Kuler is best tools for color design
and http://www.flashbanneronline.com is Flash Banner Generator , Absolute FREE
FossilDesigns
17. Jul, 2009
Nice! Definitely some good tools here!
Markus
17. Jul, 2009
I do know most of them already, but that “Stripe Generator” is neat indeed!
Carabon
17. Jul, 2009
Great Tools, thank you very much!
Jake Rocheleau
18. Jul, 2009
The rounded corner generators are truly life-savers. It takes at least a half an hour out of Photoshop time, along with a lot of these other resources, too.
Andy
19. Jul, 2009
Over the years i have mastered it, and can now do it in photoshop into css in 5 minutes
Paulo Henrique
18. Jul, 2009
Veru good post for webdesign!
Congratulation.
http://www.agenciadda.com.br
Pradeep CD
19. Jul, 2009
Great article… I like Kuler, stripe, ajax loading image and palette generator…
John
20. Jul, 2009
Very informative post. Thanks Andy for collecting all of them at one place
John
http://www.Raptivity.com/webexpert
Geoff McDonald
20. Jul, 2009
Great Web Tools!
I’m doing a redesign at the moment and they’ll be very handy.
Thanks!
Geoff
countzeero
20. Jul, 2009
Some great tools here! Thanks
Danh ba web 2.0
21. Jul, 2009
Great collection, thanks you very much
keep up the good work !
Amna
22. Jul, 2009
FANTASTIC!
Thanks a bunch. =)
Cesar Hernandez
25. Jul, 2009
Great Job! fantastic Thanks
DJ
29. Jul, 2009
Bookmarked!
Vector Man
17. Aug, 2009
Interesting tools for work. Thank you.
Buttonator is very funny engine for lazy designers:) Good luck
Can Berkol
20. Aug, 2009
Good compilation. Thanks.
Rady
10. Sep, 2009
Great. Thanks very much.
Domain Search
07. Oct, 2009
Great post. Thanks.
I’ve been using the domain search at http://www.domainwhiz.net. I love it. Maybe you want to add it to your list
Rob
21. Oct, 2009
really useful stuff, great post, thanks
Carmen
05. Dec, 2009
Whats been your experience with Toufee?
A. Reis Designs
15. Dec, 2009
These are really some great time-saving resources! Thanks for the post.
Dan Sensecall
15. Dec, 2009
How about sprite generators?
Always seem to come in handy for me!
Nice post
Stacie
16. Dec, 2009
I am excited to check out all of these sites! I have heard of a few. Thanks for posting!
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Ian
22. Dec, 2009
http://www.slickplan.com is another awesome tool to create flowcharts for planning out sites. Really nice interface and easy to use.