Top 10 Must-Have Free Web Developer Tools

I have included a list of available tools that can help web development projects fast and effective. There are a lot of tools that can considerably increase speed and reduce issues and debugging with an improve quality output.

The following tools and utilities are described below:

1. Firebug

Firebug is a popular web design add-on for Firefox. It gives the web designers a powerful tool to debug their web designs. It can be used to analyze which CSS style is affecting certain elements, it also inspect DOM to know the webpage form, determine the attributes of HTML elements and a lot more.

2. Xobni

Xobni is a free add-on for Outlook that offers its users a fast and accurate search and navigation in your email achieves. It became available with mobile devices such as BlackBerry with a goal to offer an advanced and well improved address book for you mobile devices.

3. Web Developer

Web Developer Extension for Firefox is an add-on that adds several web developer tools that is massively useful to your browser and will help the web designers to perform their task efficiently. It will show as a toolbar on the upper portion of your browser with various helpful menus such as CSS and Cookies.  This is available in Firefox and Chrome and support OS such as Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

4. Color Cop

This software can be able to match your webpage colors. This is also useful if you want to match your new page design to your existing page and make a customized color so your page will not mimic other websites. A color picker is an important tool to have. Color Cop is a small box that floats on the upper part of your webpage.

5. IETester

This software is best for web developers. IETester allows them to test their webpage for compatibility issue and to test on different versions of Internet Explorer at the same time and in the same process.

6. Karen's Replicator

Karen’s Replicator is able to backup your files or your entire drives automatically. It copies files and folders from a drive to another and you can place the source folders anywhere on your network. It is extremely great program that can support files up to 2GB of size. It has new feature in which the user can designate which file should not be copied.

7. Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free software for Windows with built-in editor such as text and source code editors. It is also best for tabbed editing in which the user is capable of working with multiple files. It has support for FTP Browser, Syntax highlighting and folding, recording and execution of Macro and a lot more.

8. Visual Web Developer Express

Visual Web Developer is a lightweight version of Visual Studio. It is a freeware tool that acknowledges the developers to assess the web development of Visual Studio 2008 Editions with free of charge. The main job of Visual Web Developer is to make websites for ASP.NET. It has the interface of What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG), an improved HTML editor, drag and drop, and it has support from web technologies such as XML and JavaScript.

9. Paint.NET

Paint.NET has developed as a substitute for Microsoft Paint program which is included in Windows. It evolves into an editor that has supporting layers, transparency, blends and plug-in. Paint.NET is a free photo treatment tool making. To maintain by most people, it certainly offers more than one sufficient features.

10. Spotify

Spotify offers streaming of preferred music in extent to major record labels and independent labels such as EMI, Sony, Warmer Music, and Universal. Spotify is a radio-style wherein you can register for free or paid subscriptions. Users can make their own playlists that they can share with other registered users. The playlist link can also be drag into your email or your messenger. You can use the playlist link everywhere.