12 tools for the modern web designer

Adam is the co-founder and CTO of DesignCrowd.com, a logo, web and graphic design marketplace. Follow him on Twitter.

As web pages take on greater importance as the ‘face’ of many businesses, more sophisticated and powerful developer tools are being created to serve this growing demand. Building a website that maintains customer interest and has 100 percent uptime has become a challenge for many small businesses. Here are a few of the best web design tools that are easy to use and powerful.

Duo

Testing a responsive web design can be cumbersome. Duo makes it a little bit easier. It’s a browser that concurrently displays both desktop and mobile views. The widths can be easily adjusted.

Atom

Atom is a text editor, but unlike others that require arcane knowledge to customize, Atom is built on Javascript, HTML, and CSS. This means that designers and front-end developers can tweak to their heart’s content, in a language they already speak.

Webydo

WYSIWYG has come a long way since the days of high school students selling horrible Dreamweaver sites to the local fish and chips joint. Webydo is one of the more recent offerings in this space, and claims to help designers work with a powerful engine to produce production-quality work without having to get too deep into front-end development.

Myth

Glyphr

Dewey

Layrs

Viewflux

Stylify Me

Type-Finder

Tiff

Ink