Five Free Tools for Web Developers August 1, 2010
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Website development can be a challenge in many ways, including to your wallet. After spending all your cash on the best computer hardware design you are left with precious few dollars (pounds, euros, pesos, or yen) to spend on the top of the line web development software. Have no fear, here are five free tools to make a web developer’s life easier.
Free web developer tool #1:Browsershots
Browser Shots is a unique little application that allows you to preview your site through a variety of web browsers. Sure your website looks great in Firefox where you developed it, but not everyone who visits your website uses Firefox. With Browser Shots’ software you can see what your hard work looks like to visitors using any number of browsers from Chrome to Kazehakase.
Free web developer tool #2: FavIcon
FavIcon is clever little bit of software that allows you to make custom icons on your computer using you own images quickly and easily. This way your website can have the coolest icons on the web. It only works with gifs, jpegs, pngs, bmps.
Free web developer tool #3: Yuuguu
This bit of software does not represent any new amazing bit of technology, however it is a free screen-sharing tool. It works with a variety of hardware and does not require downloading to your laptop. Yuuguu is a simple and free way to collaborate and edit projects with remote teams.
Free web developer tool #4: Dropbox
If you are web designer collaborating with remote teams, Dropbox is perfect for you. This handy little bit of software lets you store and share documents online making your project run smoothly and quickly. Drag and drop files using the Dropbox icon on your desktop and it appears in an identical folder on your teams’ desktop. Even better, any drop box file in the folder is backed up online. Also works with smartphone hardware.
Free web developer tool #5: Mockingbird
This is a little software application that allows you to quickly sketch out previews of your web designs when you want to see what they would look like without doing all the work to get them there. Just grab various parts of your website and drop them in different places to see how different web designs might look. Of course its just a mock-up but Mockingbird works
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