14 tools for web design and web development for 2014

Together with WEB moving by leaps and bounds (adaptive design, CSS preprocessors, postprocessors and other things) it may be a problem to try to keep up with something new and useful.
Below you will find 14 tools, 7 for web designers and 7 for web developers, which will help the website evolve from concept to reality.

For web designers

1. Adobe Creative Cloud

Of course, Photoshop and Illustrator are two important tools for any web designer. Together with Creative Cloud you will have access to both of them, and plus to some other tools, such as: Typekit, InDesign and Kuler. All Creative Cloud tools interact very well with each other, and should be available to any designer.

2. UI Faces

Since finding the right pictures for a layout can be time consuming, UI Faces collects avatars via Twitter and makes them available for use in your design.
')

3. 0to255

I use this tool almost every day. 0to255 simplifies the search for varieties of the selected color. It is an ideal tool for selections, active states and highlighting.

4. Google Fonts

Typography in WEB has come a long way since the days of Arial, Courier and Georgia. Google Fonts is a huge library of free, ready-made fonts that can be downloaded at the layout stage.

5. Samuel L. Ipsum

To the fans of the movie “ Snake Flight ”, I present “Samuel L. Ipsum” (Samuel L. Ipsum). This is Lorem Ipsum quote generator. Keep in mind that there are three options to choose from: quotes from profanity in the words of Jackson films, pure quotes from Jackson films, and the usual ol 'lorem ipsum.

6. Responsive Sketch Pad

UI templates Responsive Sketch Pad is your good companion when you are at the pre-planning stage. Dot mesh makes it easy to stick to lines and visualize the site in the browser and on a mobile device.

7. Macaw

This tool has not yet been released, but it already looks like a rather interesting offer. Macaw promises the same flexibility as an image editor, but it will write semantic HTML and concise CSS.

For web developers

1. Coda 2

This is my favorite because of its “all-in-one” code editor, FTP client and built-in MySQL editor. Coda 2 also includes a programming reference library and a visual CSS editor.

2. CSS Pre-processor

Depending on what you are developing, a guide will help you here. SASS requires Ruby to work (built into any Mac) and, at the basic level, does the same as LESS , another preprocessor. Both are great tools and offer time-saving features like nested rules, mixes, variables, and logic.

3. Front-end Framework

Again, there are two great suggestions to consider. Together, Twitter Bootstrap and Zurb's Foundation will help make prototyping and development for modern WEB faster and easier. Both packages are an adaptive grid system with style elements and javascript by default, for implementing rich WEB.

4. Browserstack

This is a favorite of the whole set. Browserstack allows you to test a complete design in any browser and in any configuration that you could only think about. This is a handy tool if you still need to support IE7 and IE8 in your projects.

5. Pingdom

Uncover DNS and boot problems with Pingdom. You will see how long it takes to download various resources on your site along with a general indicator of performance.

6. Chrome Developer Tools

If you use one of the tools included in the Chrome Developer Toolkit , then let it be called a web inspector. Together with the inspector, you can quickly diagnose problems and make changes to the markup. You can also effectively use the console for logging and interacting with JavaScript.

7. MAMP Pro

Twist sites locally with ease. MAMP Pro makes it easy to install and administer Apache, MySQL and PHP development environment. If you are working on a large number of sites for clients, you need to have such a server.