27 Free Web Applications for Webmasters and Developers

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27 Free Web Applications for Webmasters and Developers

by czar 21 November 2009 4 Comments

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After a long research, I decided to make a list of most used free applications for web developers and designers. All of them are tested on Windows XP and Vista. I’ve also added editor’s rating (level 1 to 5.One is poor, five is excellent) and level of “easy of use” (level 1 to 5.One is easy, five is hard) I will continue researching and adding more free tools to the list.

	Aviari Aviari is a collection of easy to use online tools for image editing, color editing, effects editor, vector editor, image markup, screen capture and audio editing. Requires: Flash Link: http://aviary.com Editor’s Rating: 5 Easy of use: 3

	Adobe Kuler Web based application for generating color themes. With Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community. Requires: Flash Link: http://kuler.adobe.com Editor’s Rating: 4 Easy of use: 5

	BGPatterns Web based tiled backgrounds designer, create any pattern your site needs just for few minutes. Adjustable size, pictures, colors, texture and transparency Requires: Flash, JavaScript Link: http://bgpatterns.com Editor’s Rating: 4 Easy of use: 4

	CSS Sandbox CSS Sandboxis an interactive page to play with CSS properties on-the-fly. Just click and see the effect instantly Requires: JavaScript Link: http://aurelio.net/css-sandbox Editor’s Rating: 2 Easy of use: 3

	Splashup Create new images, edit existing images and manipulate layers with filters, layer effects and myriad other drawing and image editing tools Requires: Flash Link: http://www.splashup.com Editor’s Rating: 4 Easy of use: 3

	Color Scheme Designer Color Scheme Designer is a web based application for generating color themes. You can experiment quickly with color variations. It is simpler and easier to use than Kuper Requires: JavaScript, Browser newer than IE6 Link: http://colorschemedesigner.com Editor’s Rating: 4 Easy of use: 5

	WhatTheFont Find, try, and download fonts from the world’s largest collection of fonts online Requires: Created Image to search the font Link: http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont Editor’s Rating: 4 Easy of use: 4

	PHPanywhere Develop and maintain your php applications in almost any browser, with all the comfort that you are used to in any desktop ide, with one major advantage: you can do your work anywhere (hotel, internet caffe, etc.) PHPanywhere features include Syntax highlight, FTP explorer, Unlimited undo/redo familiar desktop enviroment Requires: Opera 9+, Firefox Link: www.phpanywhere.net Editor’s Rating: 3 Easy of use: 4

	Templatr With Templatr you can build your own templates and download the finished page. Yu have the ability to select the layout, use your own graphics, and customize all elements by using different settings Requires: JavaScript Link: http://templatr.cc Editor’s Rating: 3 Easy of use: 4

	iPlotz iPlotz allows you to rapidly create clickable, navigable mockups and wireframes for prototyping websites and software applications. Requires: Flash Link: http://iplotz.com Editor’s Rating: 4 Easy of use: 5

	Stripe Generator Generate seamless striped background images. You can play with sliders and color pickers, until you obtain a super-cool stripe tile Requires: JavaScript Link: http://www.stripegenerator.com Editor’s Rating: 4 Easy of use: 4

	psd2css You can create dynamic web pages from your photoshop designs in seconds. Just upload your PSD files to the system. It can be used for creating WordPress Themes, Drupal Themes, Dynamic Menu Systems, or Entire Website from one PSD File. Requires: JavaScript Link: http://psd2cssonline.com Editor’s Rating: 3 Easy of use: 3

	Identifont The largest independent directory of typefaces on the Internet, with information about fonts from 579 publishers and 156 vendors. Requires: N/A Link: www.identifont.com Editor’s Rating: 3 Easy of use: 1

	DimDim Dimdim is a browser-based web 2.0 service that allows anybody to talk, listen, chat and broadcast via webcam, show slides, share desktop and much more. Requires: Flash Link: http://www.dimdim.com Editor’s Rating: 4 Easy of use: 3

	Pingdom Tools Pingdom offers several tools for testing your website ping tracerouteThe and loading time. Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser. Requires: JavaScript Link: http://tools.pingdom.com Editor’s Rating: 4 Easy of use: 2

	Mozilla Labs Bespin Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology. Just add a script tag and a CSS file to your page and you can have the power of Bespin’s editor right in your own apps Requires: Firefox 3.x, Webkit Nightly Builds, Google Chrom Link: www.bespin.mozilla.com Editor’s Rating: 4 Easy of use: 4

	ViewLike ViewLike allows you to check out how your website looks in the most popular resolution formats. It’s all powered by Ajax & PHP so no need to download anything Requires: JavaScript Link: http://viewlike.us Editor’s Rating: 4 Easy of use: 1

	Adobe Browserlab How many times you were wondering how your website will look under different browsers? Adobe Browserlab makes that possible without opening and testing each browser. You can test your website on demand. It’s easy and fast to see how your design appears to your visitors in real time Requires: Flash Link: https://browserlab.adobe.com Editor’s Rating: 5 Easy of use: 1

	IzzyMenu IzzyMenu is an easy to use Menu Builder, which allows you to build your CSS & DHTML menu in minutes.Choose from dozens ready styles or create your own menu style. Requires: JavaScript Link: www.IzzyMenu.com Editor’s Rating: 3 Easy of use: 3

	net2ftp net2ftp is easy to use web based FTP client. It’s compatible with FireFox and Internet Explorer Requires: N/A Link: http://net2ftp.com Editor’s Rating: 3 Easy of use: 2

	serFISH – SSH Client serFISH provides web-based access to any SSH server. It can be used to bypass firewalls and proxies on a secure HTTP connection. Moreover, the consoleFISH makes it possible to anonymously open SSH connections as the IP address of the connecting web client is not sent to the remote system. Requires: JavaScript Link: www.serfish.com/console Editor’s Rating: 3 Easy of use: 3

	Google Code Playground As everything else done by Google this is an excellent tool for webmasters. You can test, learn and build just about anything with Google Code Playground. You can also access API examples, customize, debug, run, save and export your work Requires: JavaScript Link: www.code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground Editor’s Rating: 4 Easy of use: 3

	Yahoo Pipes Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. Like Unix pipes, simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs With pipes you can power widgets/badges on your web site, grab the output of any Pipes as RSS, JSON, KML, and other formats, geocode your favorite feeds and browse the items on an interactive map, combine many feeds into one, then sort, filter and translate it. Requires: JavaScript Link: www.pipes.yahoo.com/pipes Editor’s Rating: 3 Easy of use: 4

	Ajaxload Ajaxload is an easy to use and basicAjax loading gif generator Requires: JavaScript Link: www.ajaxload.info Editor’s Rating: 2 Easy of use: 1

	Genfavicon Free Online Favicon Generator. All you have to do is browse to the file’s location on your computer to select the image and press “Upload Image” button to generate a favicon for your site. You can also use an image URL. Requires: JavaScript Link: www.genfavicon.com Editor’s Rating: 4 Easy of use: 5

	Pixlr Another great web-based image editing tool. Edit, adjust and filter your images. No registration is required. Requires: Flash Link: www.pixlr.com Editor’s Rating: 5 Easy of use: 2

	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.Price: Free Requires: JavaScript, Firefox, Safari 2.0+, Opera 8+ or IE 5.5+ Link: www.typetester.org Editor’s Rating: 4 Easy of use: 2

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Richard said:

Nice collection of tools you’ve got here. Really useful. I’ve used some of them but the majority are new to me. I was going to reply on the forum but I thought I just do it here. Good post

# 23 November 2009 at 3:23 pm

czar (author) said:

Thank you. I will continue researching and collecting more free tools. Stay tuned for part 2 of the list.

# 23 November 2009 at 3:26 pm

Jim Ord said:

Dear Czar,
I came across the following list of free WYSIWYG Html Editors, whilst looking for code. Is it possible to do a review. I am encountering drawbacks with Kompozer and would like to try something better if it exists.
Regards,
Jim

# 8 January 2010 at 1:43 pm

Jim Ord said:

Woops – the link – http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/resources/free_wysiwyg_html_editors.php3

Sorry!

# 8 January 2010 at 1:45 pm