The 3 Best Aid for a Great Web Design and Development

There are many tools available in the market that aid web developers in creating responsive and adaptive websites. In this blog, we look at the best among them and how they can be of use to the user.

DESIGN

1. Responsive Wireframes 

In design, the foremost task is to layout the key ideas and to determine their placement across the page.

It is here that Responsive wireframes comes into the picture. Created by James Mellers of Adobe, it offers desktop and mobile varieties of common wireframe mock-ups including homepage, guided entry,  promoentry, product detail and comparison pages.

2. Wirefy

If you’re one of those who say ‘content first’, then Wirefy is designed specifically for you. It is a style agnostic wireframe tool built to give content precedence rather than the subjective design. It allows you to create functional, fast and responsive wireframes using standard elements. Though you need a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS to work with it, it is only a small effort towards realising a fuly functional wireframe that propels a responsive site.

3. Intuitive Colour Picker

It is an online colour picker tool that fills the whole browser gets with colour. It is a colour picker for data driven design. You can choose a colour theme and click on the screen to save that colour and continue with the second colour. You can move your mouse left to right to change the hue and up and down to adjust the brightness and change the saturation with scroll. You can create a whole collection of colours.  Here’s a screenshot which shows how it works.

DEVELOPMENT

1. Codekit

Among softwares that simplifies web building and coding on Mac, Codekit must definitely be on top of the list as it compiles everything including Less, Saas, Stylus, Javascript and Haml. Aslo allows you to auto refresh the browser without having to type commands again.

2. FitText

Prepared excellent content but not able to scale text to the device? Chill. FitText allows text to scale according to the device, resizing text on ratios with just a jquery plugin. Though there are other applications that offer precise control over typography, FitText should do just fine if you’re working with just headlines.

3. Webflow

If you’re one of those who just wants to build a website without coding at all, Webflow has specially designed drag and drop features that help you create a customized website sans code. These drag and drop features do not require specific inputs but just a basic plan as to the outward content of the website.