subject: The Essential Website Design & Development Tools [print this page] The process and activities leading to developing a website and the tools necessary to do so are wide in todays world of web technology. Though its not a simple process, with the help of the right website design and development tools, a website can achieve any heights. Besides, the various tools help a web page become quite efficient, both in terms of functionality and usability.
In general a website can be divided into various categories and areas. From client end coding, server end coding, use of database technology and development to the intricacies of designing a web page, there are lots of tools available in the online market for one to choose from and make it work for the best. Some of the common tools that can be used by the website developing team includes the following:
Photoshop Also referred to as Adobe Photoshop, it enables the designer to come up with web page layouts and flawless editing of pictures.
Illustrator Another of the famous Adobe product, it helps designers to create and edit vector-based images and graphics quite smoothly.
Dreamweaver Being one of the most popular web development software platform, it enables the user to integrate various different aspects of website development, be it by using HTML, CSS, PHP or even JavaScript.
Flash It helps the designer and developer use various distinctive changeable animation on a website page.
Image Optimiser It helps the designer and developer resize, compress or even optimise an image, be it in gifs, jpgs or pngs which in turn help convert one image type to another.
Media Cleaner It helps one to stream video in the highest quality possible and absolutely in very less time.
There are still various other tools available that can be of a great help to the website developers and designers, like the the WebSpeed Optimizer, Drumbeat 2500, Actinic Catalog, Topstyle and so on. These tools are proving to be quite useful and successful in providing a new outlook to the field of web development and designing. Besides, with the increasing number of people worldwide wanting to develop websites, the tools help the developer and designer to come up with unique approaches to building a website.
As of now, the process of website development and website design has undergone a massive number of advancements. So the web developers and designers also need to keep themselves abreast about all the latest designing and developing tools and techniques, which will help them to come up with more efficient and user friendly websites.
