Tuesday, 14 July 2015

The Must have Web Development Tools

A website must be loaded and served with impressive graphics along with high-end functionality. Here comes the need of a web developer, to create a user-friendly website by employing web development tools and techniques. These tools help in boosting the performance and the productivity of a website. To simplify, we have listed some tools essential for the development process.

This is a preview tool to inspect the content and the web design on multiple mobile devices. This tool lets you to wirelessly pair iOS and Android mobile devices with a computer to inspect and debug your mobile web design, make changes to HTML, CSS style, and Javascript. These changes and alterations will be immediately reflected in the targeted mobile devices.

                                               

                                       


Its major drawback is that it supports only apple iOS and Google Android devices. So, you can test and inspect only these two types of devices. With the help of this tool, you can take a screenshot of the page opened on the devices connected to your computer.                                    

Setting Up:
  1. First download Google Chrome Browser as it is a prerequisite.
  2. Install Adobe Edge Inspect in your computer as well as your iOS and Android devices.
  3. Open the app on your computer and devices you intend to test.
  4. Connect them with your computer.
  5. After completing the authorization process, you will see Edge Inspect on your device and carry on with the job of previewing.

This tool helps the developers to collaborate with other developers on big projects and enables them to do the coding changes. With the help of this tool, they can code and chat at the same time. It comes with various features like drop document trees, smart drag, and FTP integration to make coding easier for developers.


It involves teamwork over the long run to handle collaboration as you need to share your screen with someone else and write the code simultaneously. Like when you share a document on Google docs and see someone fix a small error that was committed by you, then Cloud 9 is the reason behind such correction. It even lets you add and remove developers on a project. Hence, there is a real-time interaction level involved with this tool.                                                

  •  Foundation 3 
Foundation3 is a tool that makes it easier and faster to code for responsive web designs. It is a mobile-first responsive framework providing designers with the best tools for speedy development. In a nutshell, it acts as a blueprint for creating unique responsive web designs. It is developed by ZURB which is equipped with the resources and experience to solve a responsive problem. With the help of this tool, the developers can create smoother transitions and animations to accelerate the process of website development.
Its latest version has come up with a simplified grid structure for flexible styling. This tool is compatible with both CSS and SASS. It is an open source tool available on Github.


                         
Fontello is an app that provides stunning and stylish icons in the web font form. The developers can choose the icons from this app. It has eleven icon sets which are completely free including Font Awesome and Iconic. There is a huge variety that you can choose from. It has even got a search bar for line filtering and provides you with your updated search result. When we download Fontello, a set of 14 files spreads out. After you have chosen your icons, you can switch over to the other tab for changing the names of the icon. It even helps in editing & customizing the codes and the symbol names. So, you can customize the characters that are associated with each icon.

                     
It is a project management application designed to work on mutual projects requiring a team effort. Under this, the whole team’s communication and work are put onto a single sheet which hosts all your tasks, files, communications, etc. and everything is held at a single location online. You can even be a part of multiple basecamps using Launchpad. Once the basecamp is set up, you will be able to create your first project, allot a name to it and invite your members via email. By this, you can connect people from different fields, companies, and departments.

                   
This tool is an ideal option if you want to use unprefixed CSS properties. It lets you add a prefix of the current browser to any CSS code. This JavaScript performs all the work and allows you to skip writing in vendor prefixes for new CSS 3 styling. So it is viable to code all the unprefixed CSS 3 properties as the JavaScript adds the current browser’s prefix to any CSS 3 code you write. This is the only tool which can help you avoid the toil of adding vendor prefixes to your CSS 3.
You can even adapt the script to process all of the CSS code on a page. It processes linked style sheets, embedded sheets, inline sheets and many more. Another virtue is that the script auto-detects which properties need prefixing. It detects the properties that are supported and which of them are supported only with a prefix.

                                                 
                                 
  • HTML Entity Character Lookup 
This tool ensures that all the characters of your webpage are validated. However, it requires a scanning through 250 rows of characters to find the right entity code.

Features:-
  1. This tool is easily available on Firefox plugin.
  2. Developers can copy the HTML entity to the clipboard with this tool.
  3. You can add your own keyword terms and characters to the entities.
                                        
                  
With the help of the above-listed tools, you can optimize the performance of your website and make it more user-friendly. Although there are numerous web development tools, these 7 tools are affirmed to be quite effective to save time and ensure user satisfaction.

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