9 Most Popular Online Tools for Web Design & Development.
Redmine
is a great, free alternative to other pricey project management apps
available online. It does pretty much everything you could possibly
desire, albeit in a less polished way than some of its more expensive
rivals. With Redmine, you can manage a large number of projects
simultaneously, defining personal roles and assigning tasks to specific
team members if necessary. You can track time and issues, create Gannt
charts and calendars, create project wikis and forums, and manage
documents and files.
Billing
Boss is a fantastic, free invoicing tool, designed especially for small
businesses and freelancers, which lets you send an unlimited number of
invoices to an unlimited number of clients, quickly and easily. All of
your invoices are saved automatically and catalogued in a logical,
understandable way. Billing Boss supports multiple currencies, is
integrated with PayPal and is mobile friendly. You can even share your
account with your bookkeeper or accountant.
Yuuguu
is a multi-platform screen-sharing tool, which allows Windows, Mac and
Linux users to collaborate. You can quickly initiate an instant
messaging session with a client or team member, sharing each others’
screens at the touch of a button. It’s perfect for working together on
document presentations or for writing and editing documents in a group.
With Yuuguu, there’s nothing to download at either end, which means you can start sharing and communicating in seconds. The free Yuuguu package includes unlimited use with other Yuuguu users and 100mins/month use with non-Yuuguu users, as well as up to 5 participants in a single session.
Looking
for a quick and easy way to create favicons for your website, then look
no further than Dynamic Drive’s excellent FavIcon Generator. It’s
effortless to use, just select any image (provided it’s a gif, jpg,
png, or bmp) you want to turn into a favicon and press Create Icon.
Follow the simple instructions generated to create an eye-catching
favicon that will help your website stand out in your users’ favourite
lists.
For
online storage, look no further than Dropbox, an ingenious tool for
storing and sharing files between all of your computers and with other
team members. Once installed, a Dropbox folder appears on your
computer’s desktop. Drag files into the folder and they will
automatically appear in the Dropbox folder on each one of your
computers, laptops and smartphones. What’s more, every file is
automatically added to another Dropbox folder on the Dropbox website,
which is accessible from any computer in the world. Invite associates
to access your Dropbox folder, for quick and easy file sharing.
BrowserShots
is a straightforward, free tool for checking what your website looks
like in a wide range of different browsers. It really couldn’t be
simpler to use. All you have to do is enter your website’s URL into the
address bar at the top, check or uncheck to select which browsers you
would like to get a screenshot from, and press Submit. You can
fine-tune your search by screen size and color depth, as well as
enabling or disabling JavaScript, Java and Flash.
toggl
is the perfect time tracking tool for freelance web developers and
designers who tend to get paid by the hour. As an online tool, it’s
available from anywhere, which is great for those of us who frequently
work away from the office. As well allowing you to create projects and
start timing in a few clicks, toggl produces performance charts and
other reports for you and your whole team to analyze. Toggl can be
embedded in iGoogle, Netvibes and Gmail so that you can share your
performance with others. It’s free for up to 5 users.
Google
Docs is an online word processor and spreadsheet tool that’s free to
everyone with a Google account. It works in much the same way as
Microsoft Word, offering similar features in the form of multiple
fonts, font sizes and colors, page numbering, bullet points, alignment,
tables and spacing etc. It does not, however, offer headers and
footers, footnotes or a powerful find and replace feature, which some
people simply can’t live without.
The best thing about Google Docs is that it works seamlessly with Word, so you won’t have to worry about compatibility issues when working as part of a team. Google Docs really comes into its own when it comes to collaboration, however. Press the Collaborate tab to work on a document with several people at once.
mockingbird
is a wonderfully useful tool, which lets you create mockups of websites
in minutes. Simply drag and drop user interface elements into
mockingbird, rearranging and resizing as you go to create a perfectly
balanced page. You can add as many pages as you like, linking them all
together to show clients or associates how users might navigate through
your site.
Once you’ve created and saved a mockup, mockingbird issues you with a link which you can share with other people, or an embed code so that you can embed a mockup in your own website. It’s a lightweight tool with few features (there are, for instance, no templates to follow), but this makes it really quick and easy to use.
1. Redmine
2. Billing Boss
3. Yuuguu
With Yuuguu, there’s nothing to download at either end, which means you can start sharing and communicating in seconds. The free Yuuguu package includes unlimited use with other Yuuguu users and 100mins/month use with non-Yuuguu users, as well as up to 5 participants in a single session.
4. FavIcon Generator
5. Dropbox
6. BrowserShots
7. toggl
8. Google Docs
The best thing about Google Docs is that it works seamlessly with Word, so you won’t have to worry about compatibility issues when working as part of a team. Google Docs really comes into its own when it comes to collaboration, however. Press the Collaborate tab to work on a document with several people at once.
9. mockingbird
Once you’ve created and saved a mockup, mockingbird issues you with a link which you can share with other people, or an embed code so that you can embed a mockup in your own website. It’s a lightweight tool with few features (there are, for instance, no templates to follow), but this makes it really quick and easy to use.
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