A web developer plays a crucial role in designing a user-friendly and visually enticing website. Developing an effective website with controlled navigation and workflow can be challenging for even experienced web developers. It is important to understand the latest web development trends and tools that can help you speed up your efforts and work in a more efficient manner.

We are listing here some important resources and tools, which can help you in enhancing productivity as well as accuracy in terms of developing a website.

HTML Encoder

It is an online tool that converts HTML code into a JavaScript Unicode string. You can simply enter your text or html code you wish to encode in the box, press the process button and you get the results instantly. To finish, simply cut and paste the new code into the place where the original code was and then save.

CSS Sprite Generator

This is another great tool as it reduces the number of HTTP requests and increases the speed of your website. It allows you to upload your images in a zip file, combined into a sprite, and paste the CSS code in your main css file. This technique can be very effective for improving site performance, particularly in situations where many small images, such as menu icons are used.

Test Everything

This website allows you to test everything included in a website. It aggregates over 100 different tools to test almost everything on a webpage. The major categories include CSS and HTML validators, SEO tools, Social services, Web proxies, Network tools, Text tool and Image tools (works only with Image URLs).

CSS Tidy

It is a free, online application that fixes errors and optimize your CSS code. Optimizing CSS code helps in faster loading of web pages and lower the traffic costs as well. Before trying out CSS tidy you can also check out some examples to understand the functionality of CSS tidy more clearly.

layouts

This simple CSS framework allows you to create web pages layout. Similar to Yahoo!’s Grids CSS, it offers 5 preset widths that supports fluid-width or fixed-width layouts. Its features include option to make layout flexible, font-size adjustments, self-clearing sections and also over-write CSS classes for people who require “pixel perfect” layouts.

pForm

It is an online tool that helps in generating great looking HTML form instantly. It offers various color schemes to get started and allows you to design your form with an Ajax interface. It also enables its user to add any type of form objects text fields, checkboxes, dropdowns, file upload fields, and also customize field label, type size etc.

Typetester

It is an online application for comparing how different fonts and font attributes will look on your designs. It helps in testing and editing any text with different font, font size, color, background, alignment, and more. You can also have a quick preview of the text and font appearance.

Load impact

This online load testing service lets you load- and stress test your website over the Internet. You can have several different test configurations and run the tests whenever you want. The test results are stored on the system for easy access at any time.

Cuzillion

It is a tool for quickly constructing web pages to see how components interact. It lets you observe these activity and share sample pages with others. It is a simple three step process in which you have to add components (external script, inline script, external stylesheet, etc.),  arrange and modify and submit your changes. The server returns the page as per your specification. It also allows you to make further changes by clicking on.

ErrorKey

This online tool provides you with an answer for errors you encounter on the web page. It allows you to check the error message you are getting and give you a detailed explanation with its meaning. This will help you avoid these problems or troubleshoot through them quicker the next time they pop up.

Hope these tools will help a web developer in creating a successful website with excellent usability features and functionality. Please provide us with your feedback and suggestions on the same.