Web Design Software & Tools | Yburis Infotech

Web design is considered the most important step of a website development project. It plays an important role in the usability and attractiveness of the site. A designer must be equipped with best programs and tools before getting started on such a web site.

Development of a great website involves many aspects, in this article we have tried to hand pick variety of tools that are needed for day to day needs of web designers and developers. Yburis Infotech have included the best text, image editing software along with many other types of tools and programs that are used by expert website designers in almost every website building project.

Essential Web Design Software

1.       Adobe Photoshop

With Photoshop, you can adjust any aspect of an image or a graphic (including the colors, saturation, blurs, sharpness, and so on), and you can also create completely custom graphics from scratch (for example, website layouts and visualizations).

You can combine multiple images as part of one project, and make sure that they all fit together by using various filters or performing some transformations.

2.       Sketch

Launched in 2009, this tool has quickly found its spot among the best web design software out there. It’s somewhat similar to Photoshop, but not quite. I mean, where Photoshop can be used to work on any sort of a design project, Sketch is purely web-design-centered, and it shows.

The great thing about it is that all of the features have been built from the ground up to really address the needs of a web design project. The way the interface itself works, and the way all the toolbars and functions are laid out makes working with Sketch very intuitive and much easier to grasp than Photoshop.

3.       Adobe Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver provides you with a nice environment to work on your website, which combines a code editor along with a live view. You can adjust your website in either, so quick modifications are also possible.

The great thing about it is that you can build a complete website with Dreamweaver from scratch, and have it exported to actual working website files.

4.       WordPress

WordPress is the engine, and the great part here is that you can take this engine and then put basically any type of design on top of it. This means that you can take your website design built in Sketch or Photoshop and turn it into a working WordPress site. But that’s not all:

Something built into WordPress – the WordPress Customizer now enables you to adjust most of the visual aspects of your current website design/theme. Plus, with the addition of a handful of plugins, you can tune up that design even more. Not to mention all the extra features that you can get via plugins.

This is why I call WordPress one of the best web design software you can get your hands on. The capabilities inside the current version of WordPress basically enable you to design and build an entire website by starting with some nice theme that you’ve found on the web, and then adjusting it to fit your needs in the WordPress Customizer and through plugins, all without ever touching Photoshop or anything else.

5.        Color Wheel

Adobe Color is a color scheme creation tool. It’s all web based and entirely free. There are multiple ways in which you can use it, but the most common one is probably to start with a seed color, and then let the tool help you pick additional colors, which will then combine into a nice color scheme.

Having a consistent color scheme is very important for any web design project. Basically, when not done properly, a poor color scheme is a dead giveaway that a website hasn’t been built by someone who knew what they were doing.

6.       Pictaculous

It lets you upload a picture, any picture, and then extracts the main color palette used in that picture. This makes it an awesome tool if you’re building a website design where you want to put a certain picture in the background and want to make sure that everything around that picture will fit (color-wise).

7.       Balsamiq

Balsamiq fills an interesting niche when it comes to best web design software. For example, if you want to build a complete web design, you can use Sketch or Photoshop for that. If you then want to turn that design into a live website, WordPress will handle the task perfectly.

But what if you’re at an earlier stage? For example, you’re brainstorming with a team or even on your own, and you simply want to come up with a good layout that would be a nice starting point for further work. This is where wireframing comes into play.

8.       Lightshot

Lightshot is a very simple tool but an incredibly useful one at the same time. It is, by far, the best screenshot-taking tool out there.

When working on any design project, you will find yourself taking screenshots a lot. And especially if you’re working with other people and want to show them something.

9.       Sublime Text 2

Sublime Text 2 is probably the best code editor on the market. Granted, not a web design tool per se, but it’s hard to imagine taking a web design project and then – in the subsequent steps – not creating any code around it.

10.   WAMP / MAMP

WAMP and MAMP let you do just that. They are local web server software that comes together with a database engine and PHP processing – in a word, everything you need to get most websites going (including WordPress).

So in short, whatever you design, you can then put through WAMP/MAMP and see if it works properly prior to rolling it out to an external (production) web server.

These are software Yburis Infotech Inc website designer works and creates eye catchy and responsive website of our customer.