In need of speeding up your web design work? We have gathered some of the best tools that will help you save time, enhance and develop your projects faster. Have a look!
Ultimatumtheme.com
For all of you who know what it is like to build a WordPress theme, you probably experienced the efforts and time taken in doing this, especially if you have a limited HTML and CSS knowledge. Thanks to the Ultimatum WordPress theme builder, you can now create your own themes and export them in no time, using a simple drag and drop technique. It is a software that takes care of your theme coding and makes sure all the functions work properly.
Thus, the template creator tool lets you create your own custom layout and to add structure to the theme. In order to do this, all you have to do is to use the link Template and then click on “Create a Template” at the top of the menu, to start the process. It gives you full control over the settings and you can also use the page builder to add custom options. Some of Ultimatum’s features are the responsive design, custom post types, 10 menu scripts, custom widgets or shortcodes.
Browserling.com
Browserling is an online service that provides effortless cross-browser testing for web developers and web designers. It has a wide range of different browsers and operating systems that you can choose from to do a complete cross-browser and cross-operating system testing of your website.
Starting a browser instance is simple – You just go to browserling.com, type in the URL of your website, select the browser you want to launch and press “Go”. Voila! In 5 seconds you get a fully interactive browser almost as if you had that browser installed locally.
Besides that, you can also capture, save, edit and send screenshots of your web pages in various browsers. Thanks to its Live API, you can automate your own cross-browser testing needs and embed browsers in your own application. In conclusion, you will no longer have the problem of not knowing whether it looks good on, let’s say, Windows 7, or not. Try it out and happy browsering! 🙂 PS. It has a free version.
Instapage.com
If you had enough of WordPress landing pages, you can use this new cloud-based landing page creator, which gives you the chance of easily creating all kinds of landing pages, including: optin/squeeze pages, sales pages, webinar sign-up pages, mobile app download pages, Facebook landing pages, thank you pages or small business websites. It is good for beginners and its facility of designing a page makes it so good.
When creating a landing page, you will have over 80 templates to start with, which you can modify as much as you want, because Instapage makes it possible to change anything you like, including adding and removing section. A true blank canvas! Finally, we have to mention that the price is the best around. Small businesses will probably love the $9 monthly fee, especially when having all of those features.
Jumpstartthemes.com
MVP Ready is the perfect tool to help you with your project, as it provides many features that can shorten your path to success: Wide Browser Support (so you can access your project anytime, anywhere, either on your laptop or on your mobile), Dashboard Layouts (the three unique and easy to use dashboards are Analytics Dashboard, Reports Dashboard, and Sidebar Dashboard) and Powerful Charting (donuts, lines, areas, pies, auto-updating, and stacked charts – all are available for you to use).
Shrinktheweb.com
Shrink the Web has a highly acclaimed team support and the fastest time possible for captures and lets you capture website screenshots. It is easy to install and integrate and also really easy to use as you just have to copy the webpage link and paste it into the bar. It also provides a large variety of features and accounts depending on what you want to do.
Powermockup.com
PowerMock up provides you wireframes and mockups for PowerPoint, making your slides and presentations more interactive. Even though their library is quite large, you can also use your talent by creating new shapes and building a custom library that you are able to share with other users.
Themify Ultra
Ultra is one of the most powerful themes from Themify that lets you create unlimited layouts using a drag & drop technique. It gives you full control of the site design, meaning that you either make your site share the same look or create an unique aspect for every page.
Teslathemes.com
If you want to personalize the look and feel of your website and turn it into what you want, then TeslaThemes is the right answer for you. Besides other benefits of using it, there is a team of professionals ready to help you whenever you want in order for you to have your dream website.
Themetrust.com
Create is the most powerful and flexible theme ever created by ThemeTrust. It is full of features that will make it easier for you to have full control over your layout. An advantage over other themes is that it uses the #1 premium slider plugin, Slider Revolution, which is free if you use Create.
Snappages.com
If you need help while building a website or launching a blog you can easily use SnapPages. They even have special features for blogs like spam filtering for comments in order for you to save time on moderating and to have more time to reply to the important comments. You can choose between two accounts: pro or dev but you can also start your website with a 14 day free trial to see what they have in store for you.
MHthemes.com
All premium WordPress themes provided by MH Themes are fully responsive and have great features, helpful options and awesome custom widgets included to create nice magazine like websites in no time.
In conclusion, these tools will have a positive impact over your projects, making them way more advanced, in order to boost your workflow.
Source: David Walsh