Saturday, May 16, 2009

Cool Online Web Tools

The nice thing about the majority of these free tools is that no account creation is required.

Button Factory - http://dabuttonfactory.com/
Create buttons online. It's free and has nice 2.0 buttons!

Drawter - http://drawter.com/
Whoever made this deserves an award. Quite intuitive free tool that allows you to draw your website and generates the code for it.

WhosAmungUs - http://whos.amung.us/
Web site tracking widget including displaying visitor info on a map.

Sosius - http://sosius.com/Haven't tried this personally (yet) but it looks cool. It's an online workspace.

Bubbl.us - http://www.bubbl.us/
Cool mind mapping online.

Buttonator - http://www.buttonator.com/
Modern styles for making buttons.

Charts - http://charts.hohli.com/
Great for making quick charts.

Online Code Converter - http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/us/javaUnicode/converter.html
Convert character codes.

MorgueFile - http://www.morguefile.com/
Stock photos even for commercial use (read the 'license').

Wufoo - http://wufoo.com/
Create online forms for every occassion you can imagine. Versatile and good for inspiration.

280 Slides - http://280slides.com/Editor/
It's basically Powerpoint online. Free and easy.

Color Scheme Designer 3 - http://colorschemedesigner.com/
Design colour schemes online. (Nice interface)

COLOURlovers - http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes
This is an interesting site that not only provides colour schemes but also schemes based on patterns.

Pattern Tap - http://patterntap.com/
Awesome place for inspiration. You can view the different looks of 404 Pages, Audio, Breadcrumbs, Borders, Comments, Contact etc...

Kuler - http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/rating?time=30
Colour schemes you can contribute and create.

IzzyMenu (Builder) - http://www.izzymenu.com/
Comprehensive online menu builder that doesn't require an account.

Wirenode - http://www.wirenode.com/
This is an "ok" site. It provides a fast way, visual way of creating a site for mobile devices.

doTemplate - http://www.dotemplate.com/
This is the ultimate for lazy visual people. Customize the templates they have online and the templates are actually good!

Web Graphics Maker - http://en.web-graphics-maker.com/
Make backgrounds, lines, and bullets online. Includes transparency on png's.

Bradicon! - http://ico.bradleygill.com/advanced.php
Turn images in to icons.

Text to PNG - http://www.text2png.com/
Interesting concept. Converts plain text into a png. You can either use hosted (free) or grab the source for yourself (requires php).

Iconspedia - http://www.iconspedia.com/
Ok, not a tool but wicked Web 2.0 style icons/buttons/images.

Fresh Badge - http://www.freshbadge.com/
An ok site that generates badges.

Loading GIF Generator - http://www.webscriptlab.com/index.php
Good idea! Create animations to use as a 'loading' message.

Dynamic Drive Button Maker Online - http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/button/
Creates small buttons (eg, rss, xhtml etc...)

Timelines - http://www.mytimelines.net/
Create cut and paste timelines from any feed.

Wordle - http://www.wordle.net
Create tag clouds.

Iaza - http://iaza.com/
Vast assortment of image manipulation capabilities online.

LogoMaker - http://logomaker.com/
Cool creative customizable icons. Create the logo and link to it for free or download it for a price.

FotoFlexer - http://fotoflexer.com/
Basic image manipulation online.

Maya - http://www.stockfreephoto.com/
Online image manipulation. You can also download this and place it on your own site for free. (PHP)

Pixenate - http://pixenate.com/
Another free online image manipulation site.

Online Button Maker - http://www.advancewebsoft.com/free-oscommerce-cre-loaded-zen-cart-oscmax-button-generator-p.html
Pretty good button generator.

Big Huge Labs - http://bighugelabs.com/
Show off your pics from Flickr or Facebook. Create calendars, motivation posters, badges and more.

Cool Text - http://cooltext.com/
Cool Text

Logo Generator - http://www.logogenerator.com/
Excellent online logo generator and it's free!


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