Nowadays it’s all about portability and availability, so even if you are a web designer or web developer I’m sure you are looking for tools that can be available on any platform and even more important, to be able to access them from everywhere.
Thanks to the power of the internet, we now have a lot of extremely useful tools which are available online so you don’t have to install all your tools on every computer that you have or work on. All you need is internet access and a good browser just like Google Chrome and you are done. A great advantage of using online tools is that all your work is in the cloud so you can share it or work with it from virtually any device.
So, as a web developer you always need small apps to help you with different tasks such as generating a CSS code or testing a web page on different screen sizes. Installing these applications can become very annoying, especially if you work on many computers, therefore you need online alternatives. In the list below you have 16 extremely useful web apps which can help you a lot in your work. Check them out and let me know what you think.
Privacy policy generator
With GeneratePrivacyPolicy.com you may create professional privacy policies with our user friendly tools. Privacy policy agreements are tailored specifically for your website, your business and your requirements.
Domai.nr
Domainr helps you explore the entire domain name space beyond the ubiquitous—and crowded—.com, .net and .org.
Springloops
Springloops is a code collaboration and management tool for teams to work together more efficiently and prevent overwriting files or code. Easily manage, collaborate and deploy projects as a team.
Twitter Profile Designer
This neat web app will help you create gorgeous backgrounds for your Twitter profile. It is free, easy to use and it has lots of patterns and colors.
Clickdensity
Clickdensity isn’t just another statistics or web analytics tool – instead it allows you to analyse user behaviour, and identify usability and information architecture issues that would have been missed without Clickdensity’s insight.
Typetester
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.
Pingdom Tools
Pingdom Tools is a collection of tools for testing page load time, ping and traceroute. You’ll get a breakdown of all sorts of information for each test that is very helpful for performance and error testing and more. You can even monitor website performance and uptime for free.
Kuler
Adobe Kuler is a web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.
Are My Sites Up?
Monitor your website status and receive alerts via SMS, email, Twitter or more depending on the level of account you choose. Get error codes with your notifications and even get keyword searches.
Resize My Browser
This simple yet extremely useful tool will help you to set the browser size by both Inner window and Outer window. It is important in order to see how your website or application will look and work on different screen sizes.
Loads.in
loads.in gives you the possibility to see how fast your (or any) website loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide. If you have a worldwide audience, or your site is hosted in a different country from where your visitors live, it is useful to see how long it takes to load your web pages. With loads.in you simply enter the full URL of the page you want to check, and the page is retreived by a browser at a random location. For each subsequent check you can choose a specific location and browser profile.
CSS3 Generator
This CSS3 generator will help you create style sheets using a very clever system of questions.
jsFiddle
jsFiddle is a neat tool which will help you convert your code in functional components.
Aviary’s Image Editor
Providing a world-class photo editing experience for your users couldn’t be easier. Aviary integrates quickly and seamlessly into your existing codebase. You’ll be up and running in no time.
Launchlist
Launchlist is intended to help and encourage web designers and developers to check their work before exposing it to the world at large. The product was born out of frustration. For too long we had been using archaic methods to conduct pre-launch testing and the web was an obvious choice to do it better.
Koding
Using Koding is like having a full IDE in your browser. You can work with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and many others languages so it will give you a massive portability by developing only using your browser.
