The Ultimate List of Web Applications For Web Developers and Designers

This is a list of top class web applications that can aid you in your next projects.

Aviary

Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser. Excellent tools like:

Image Editor

Aviary’s image editor is a flash based application that supports brushes, blend modes, layers, undos, redos and more. You can import your images from popular sites like facebook, picasa and flickr, you can share your creations with other aviary users too.

Color Editor

Choose up to 20 colors per palette using color association rules or an uploaded image.

Effects Editor

Create stunning effects with a “Yahoo! pipes” like functionality. Drag, drop, and connect generators, effects, resources, and controllers. Combine terrains, patterns, computational effects, and more to create stunning art.

Vector Editor

Vector editor is a tool that lets you create fully scalable vector art appropriate for logos or tee shirt designs. You can work with paths, lines, curves, and objects.You also control stroke, fill color, and gradient.

Image Markup

You can use the image markup tool to quickly capture images and web pages from your browser and crop, resize or mark them up. The image markup tool comes as a Firefox extension too.

Fawnt

Fawnt is a font resource for designers, developers, and anyone that appreciates the web’s highest quality fonts. This is the home of free fonts. You can download more that 10.000 fonts and you can add your own too.

The fonts listed are gathered from around the web so you might find fonts that are free for personal use instead of 100% free. You should always check the licence of each font you download.

Repper

Repper is a free-to-use pattern creator that turns your images into eye-catching designs. It’s the easiest way to create beautiful patterns for your desktop or social profile background. Creating thousands of patterns with simple moves from one image is easy as dragging your mouse.

For example, the pattern shown on the picture, has been created from the parrots image (on the bottom right ) by just dragging the square box around.

You can then link to the pattern in order to use it on social profiles, or to download the pattern and use it in your designs.

MockFlow

MockFlow is an online tool for creating wire-frames of software and websites. It helps to enhance your planning process by enabling to quickly design and share interactive UI mock-ups. You can use more than 60 tools to wire-frame your applications and designs.

The UI is built with Flash technology and it is very easy to use. Anybody that used a WYSIWYG editor will be able to use it in minutes.

You can export your pages in PNG and PDF format with comments, visualize a sitemap of your pages and upload images to use. The basic account is free and allows you to create one mock-up with 4 pages and watermarks your mock-up. There is a premium package too with no such limitations.

PhotoXpress

PhotoXpress.com is a premier-quality image bank, providing creative professionals a vast and legal image library for both personal and professional use – including Web site design, brochure illustrations, advertisements and editorial illustrations.

Launched in May, 2009, and based in Hartford, CT, PhotoXpress.com features nearly 500,000 images in 22 categories, with subjects ranging from people in professional settings to international scenic shots.

You can browse by category or search for images by type.

Icon Finder

Icon Finder is PhotoXpress’s little brother but for icons. You can search and choose from more than 110.000 icons in 238 icon sets. You can narrow your searches with some cool filters like size, licence, iconset and many more. You can also add tags or search by tags and download each icon in PNG or ICO format.

You want more? Icon Finder has more! Download icons with a black, white or a transparent background, add your own icons or apply for a custom icon design from other users.

You still want more? Yet again, Icon Finder has more!!! There is also a RESTful API for you to use.

GetSignOff

You may produce the best website designs ever, but getting sign off is always painful. Presenting designs to distant clients and managing their feedback is challenging.

GetSignOff provides a mechanism for presenting your site designs, managing feedback and organising multiple versions of a design. It can be used to approve mood boards, interface elements, imagery, personas, storyboards, site design concepts or any other element of the web design process, you get 30GB of storage and supports versions of each design.

GetSignOff was built with the designer in mind and you notice this from the first view.

Smush.it

Image optimization is an art few have mastered. Useful image editing tools exist that allow images to be edited to reduce their file size while retaining image quality. Using these tools is a good start for optimizing images, but more can be done using advanced tools like Smush.it.

Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files. It is a “lossless” tool, which means it optimizes the images without changing their look or visual quality. After Smush.it runs on a web page it reports how many bytes would be saved by optimizing the page’s images and provides a downloadable zip file with the minimized image files.

PodiPodi

PodiPodi is a command line interface for websites inspired by Humanized Enso. Embedding PodiPodi in their sites, web designers can add a new layer of interaction for their users & services such as: Youtube, Google search, Flickr, Yahoo, and more. PodiPodi is embedded in a page as a java-script gadget.

You can also load Google gadgets, view your twitter timeline or latest twits, view sitemaps and countless other options

Fx

The Effect Generator is whole new way of creating Flash content online for free, within a simple but powerful what-you-see-is-what-you-get drag-and-drop graphical editing environment.

Unlike most online Flash generators, which normally configure a limited range of template effects, The Effect Generator lets you select from whole multitudes of transitions, layouts, animations and public media, so your imagination is the only limit. The site also contains a moderately-sized template library, which, aside from illustrating the power of the effect building system, also lets you rapidly configure stock effects. Once created, effects can be rapidly posted to blogs, social networks, or any custom HTML page.

Backboard

Backboard is a simple utility designed to help you get feedback on whatever you are working on:- Managers might use Backboard to gather input on product plans.

Marketing teams can collaborate and gather feedback on graphic designs. Web designers can get client feedback on their latest concepts. Students might discuss and evaluate ideas for class projects.

Creating a backboard is plain easy. You upload, link to a document (web page) and you set what and how a user can review and give feedback. You get a full account for 14 days upon sign-up.

FontStruct

FontStruct is a free font-building tool that lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.You create ‘FontStructions’ using the ‘FontStructor’ font editor.

Once you’re done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.

There are also fonts to download, created by other users like you that share their creations. The FontStruct service is free.

Rsizr

Rsizr is a Flash application that lets you resize JPG, PNG, and GIF images on your computer.

With rsizr, in addition to normal image rescaling and cropping, you can also resize images using a new image resizing algorithm called seam carving that tries to keep intact areas in your image that are richer in detail.

Seam carving is a brilliant image resizing technique pioneered by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir.

It is free of course!!!

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