Free online tools that can be used in daily routine of web designers and developers, to save time or just bring some new ideas.
Every web designer or web developer wants to do work easier and looking for shortcuts, free tools, helpers or just ideas. One of the first thing that I've learned in my career is importance of finding the best and most trusted resources to ease or just help me to do job easier and better. These are resources that I've started using a while ago, all of this websites have improved my productivity and quality of my web design works.
ColorCombos
If the first step is choosing CMS or programming language to develop website, the 2nd one is always choosing the color scheme. This site was built to help web developers quickly select and test website color combinations. Website features several useful tools like - Combo Maker, Combo Tester, Combo Library, Combo Resource, etc.
BgPatterns
The next step in web design probably for most of us are choosing background patterns. BgPatterns is a tiny web app for making background patterns in a few clicks. It can be real fun playing with options, colors, images, canvas.
IconFinder
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