Website designing is an art. An art that is created with craftsmanship and passion to convey ideas and information without verbal communication. It is also a process similar to change; always evolving and constantly set on the path of improvement. A set rule for any website design company, operating anywhere on the globe is that client is the ultimate king and his needs should be met. This rule can also leave design companies into a pretty big mess, if your capabilities are over promised at the sign off proposal stage.
But thanks to the much needed tools and kits for today’s designers and developers. Now they need not sweep in front of clients to fulfill every requirement that is coming up. Instead, with the use of tools and kits available to designers and web developers, they can quiet creatively craft a web design and develop it along with all the functionalities that any client could imagine and ask for, already built-in.
Here is a list of some of the most usable tools for web designers and developers that we think will suit to every clients’ needs:
Wire framing/Mockup Tools
Blueprint Wireframe Kit –
The Blueprint wireframe kit is the creation of a Turkish designer, Goksel Vancin. The kit includes choices of lines, text boxes, drop down menus and categories, textures, photo boxes, fonts, on-off switches and loading bars. It’s a great kit to create quick concepts of website that include content placements and forms.
Rapid Wireframing Kit –
The Rapid Wireframing kit includes 7 wireframe examples as starting points and 6 different templates to cater to different requirements of the web designers along with built-in notes and 77 icons. Although this kit is a priced item, but the price is worth it as you get a handful of resources with which you can create multiple intuitive and creative platforms for your website designs.
Photoshop Wireframe Kit –
Another impeccable free wireframe kit that adds a lot to your creativity and design capabilities. It has notes, images and videos, form fields, heading styles, paragraphs, bullet lists, navigations, ad banners and common website elements like email signup forms, search boxes in it.
Design Tools
Yahoo Design Stencil Kit –
Yahoo design stencil kit is undoubtedly the most extensive kit available for designers. The graphic user interface (GUI) includes calendars, menus, mobile including iPhone, navigation, pagination, UI control tabs and more. It also supports multiple file formats like OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), PDF, SVG and PNG.
Web Form Elements –
Web form elements is an easy to customize layers and form style for designers to use. Along with a wide variety of tabs, dropdowns this kit gives a jet kick start to any design interface creation.
Photoshop Grid Template –
A simple to use template that guide designers for a 20px gutter design. It also prevents them from creating designs with edges of the screen that might not be there on the design where they have planned them to be. Makes it easy to manage the design and arrange elements on it.
UX Development Tools
Languages/platforms –
There is a coding language behind every website upon which it is developed. It’s a formal constructed language build to communicate with the computer system and create programs that you control according to your will. Some of the most used website development languages are:
- PHP – one of the most used web development language that developers are well suited with. Majority of the news sites like Huffington Post, e-ccommerce sites for instance watch winder store, Olx, etc. all are running on PHP.
- JavaScript – a programming language based on HTML to create websites.
- HTML5 – The latest version of HTML and XHTML.
- Python – Used extensively in website development that requires complex integration of multiple systems in one web.
- CSS3 – the latest programming language being widely used in front end development of websites and applications.
Databases –
A cloud or server based repository that stores all the data the flows in and out from a website. The most popular databases used for website development are:
- MySQL: the world’s most used and popular database that is open sourced.
- MongoDB: MongoDB is the next generation database that is gaining popularity in recent times and is being used in development of web based applications.
- Redis: Redis is also an open source database and an in-memory data structure store that is used as cache and message broker.
- PostgreSQL: a strong and popular open source object relational database system.
- PostgreSQL: A powerful, open source object-relational database system.
Summary
There can be various website design and development techniques and resources available to help streamline the work process. The ones we have mentioned are the most popular tools and kits used for website design and development in 2016. Feel free to comment below if we have forgot to include anything much required.