How to Ease a Work with 10+ Free & Premium Web Development Resources

because a Developer is as good as its tools …

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Looking for a high-grade web development tool? Dozens of them can bring your concept to life. Still, I know how difficult it is to choose one.

Though the choice is wide, some applications stand out. They offer more opportunities to realize ideas of any complexity. They have easier navigation. Plus, modern professional instruments are at your disposal.

Still, it’s impossible to test all the tools personally. The market is full of worthy options.

In this article, you find the most popular and worthiest premium & free web design tools. There are developer and designer apps, color, and fonts tools, and coding resources.

Moreover, you get a collection of PSD website templates, a couple of web design kits, and premium visual editing tools.

Intrigued? Fewer words, more useful information. Let’s go!

Premium Web Design & Development Tools and Editors

Web design freebies have budding functionality. Search for advanced features? Then, I would recommend paying attention to premium products. They often have more templates, themes, plugins, fonts, visual elements, graphics. Premium web development kits offer a wide and unique choice of instruments.

The following 6 web design tools deserve a web developer’s attention.

ONE Membership

The ONE is a subscription service. It includes 10300+ digital products for website building. It has both newbies and best sellers. With this subscription, you save a lot. Affordable together, but apart, these products cost more.

So, the development kit includes:

• WordPress and eCommerce themes;
• HTML and CSS templates;
• presentation templates;
• a wide choice of graphics;
• plugins.

Moreover, you get:

• 1 year of free hosting;
• an unlimited yearly license;
• 24/7 support.

Price: $17 per month and $199 per year. As a special offer, you get 50% off on TemplateMonster products beyond the membership.

Suitable for:

• projects of any complexity and thematic focus;
• beginning and advanced web developers.

Canva Pro

I bet you already know Canva. Canva Pro includes everything that a free version has. Plus:

• unlimited storage;
• unlimited folders for designs;
• 400,000 designs, templates, photos, icons, and shapes;
• opportunity to export designs as animated GIFs;
• easy resize designs into custom dimensions;
• opportunity to set color palettes for a brand;
• priority support.

This graphic design tool stands out with its simplicity. Furthermore, it has a library with 1.5 million free photos. You can edit all designs and templates.

Price: $9.95 per month. 30-days trial available.

Suitable for:

• beginning and advanced web developers;
• multipurpose projects;
• projects of any theme focus (business, education, marketing, entertainment, traveling, art);
• people with a lack of time (drag-and-drop nature).

Novi HTML Visual Builder

Create an HTML website and look for web design tools? Novi Builder is a good choice. It’s a drag-and-drop visual editor. Still, it has a convenient code editor. There, you can change HTML, CSS, and JS codes.

Moreover, you get:

• icons and fonts manager;
• a comprehensive text editor;
• a media and a presets library;
• a page manager.

Plus, it has an intuitive context menu. During the process, it gives you website design tips.

With Novi you can:

• create and design landing pages;
• create and design multipage and multipurpose websites;
• create and sell your templates;
• use stylish designs.

Price: $29 per year for a startup plan. $49 per year for an advanced plan. $149 one time for a developer plan. You can also try for free.

Suitable for:

• web developers and designers;
• projects and websites of any subject matter.

PSD Templates

Here are 3,770+ PSD website templates. They only have graphic design source files. Every template has a homepage and subpage. Every subpage already contains standard elements (e.g. icons and texts, contact forms, news feed).

Besides, these Photoshop website templates have unique designs and high-quality typography.

You deal with raw source files. It means that you can do any changes without limitations unlike in CMS platform design.

Price: Starting at $10.

Suitable for:

• web developers and designers of any skills level;
• any type of project.

Visme

Visme helps to create:

• presentations
• infographics
• chat & maps
• any types of documents
• graphic and printables.

It has a toolkit for wrapping up content in the most attractive way. It has:

• presentation templates with addons (timelines, sections, services, product comparisons, etc.);
• ready-made editable slides;
• infographic templates with ready-made blocks, headers, and footers;
• instruments for working with data (Microsoft Office integration);
• color palette;
• fonts library;
• millions of free images.

Besides, Visme has easy navigation.

Price: It has different plans for individuals, students, and businessmen. Plus, you can try Visme for free.

Suitable for:

• web developers of any skills levels;
• student and teachers;
• nonprofits;
• projects for education and business.

Webflow

Webflow is a full-fledged website builder. It specializes in 4 spheres:

• design
• CMS
• hosting
• editing

A visual designer is convenient for web developers. Instead of writing code, you can generate it. You can use pre-made blocks and change them with the tool’s features.

You can still work with code. Webflow has support for box model, custom transitions, flexboxes, floats, 3D CSS transforms. It also has modern typography, visuals, gradients, animations, and DOM organization.

With Webflow, you can launch an eCommerce store.

Price: check out on the website.

Suitable for:

• beginning and experienced web developers;
• any type of website or project.

Free Web Design Tools

Having worthy web design freebies in stock is always handy. Besides premium giants, there are free web design tools that deserve a web developer’s attention. Most of them have decent quality.

Below, you see a tiny part of them.

Freepik

Freepik offers free vectors, stock photos, PSD, and icons. It has a library with designs, graphic resources, and illustrations. They are available for personal and commercial use. Freepik specializes in creating infographics.

Features:

• business cards templates;
• brochures, logos, frame flyers, and banners creation;
• background templates;
• mockups;
• infographic templates.

Price: $9.99 per month, $89.99 per year. Free trial available.

Suitable for:

• web developments and designers;
• simple users, who need quality graphics;
• projects of all subject matters.

Crocoblock freebies

Crocoblock is a toolkit with everything you need to build a website. It’s compatible with Elementor. Within a service, some free perks are available.

You can get 50+ free web design templates. There are home and landing pages. Other pages like the product, team, services, pricing, project pages are at your disposal. The WordPress pages are customizable. You can change them to your taste fast.

Moreover, you can download a free developer’s toolkit. It includes:

• Contact Form 7 layout;
• WP Query Generator.

WP Query Generator allows:

• sorting posts by date, comments, meta value;
• including/excluding posts by tags, categories, and terms;
• connecting tax queries;
• adding meta query & building logical relationships;
• adding date queries and setting relations.

Price: free.

Suitable for:

• web developers and designers;
• people with no coding skills;
• websites of different theme focus.

Draftium

It’s a prototyping tool. Have an idea? You can realize it in 20 minutes. For this purpose, you have:

• 300 pre-built prototype templates;
• 250 ready-made blocks;
• quality typography;
• free images and icons.

Besides, there are tools for:

• page linking;
• creating presentations.

You can create your mockup. After you post a prototype, you can get feedback in a matter of minutes. It’s real-time collaboration. You create a project and discuss it right away. That’s convenient.

All templates are customizable. You can organize content in any block.

Price: free. You can create up to 3 prototypes and use 50 generic templates. Unlimited editing is available.

Suitable for:

• web developers and designers, who have no time;
• everyone, who wants to see how their future project will look like.

Paaatterns

You get a collection of free patterns for all vector formats at this link.

Features:

• 22 patterns;
• unique shapes and colors;
• in .png and .vng.

Due to layer styles and vector shapes, all designs are customizable. You can preview all the patterns. The products are available for personal and commercial use.

Suitable in:

• .sketch file;
• .fig file;
• xd. file;
• ai. file.

You can use patterns together with the designer’s kit to enhance the result.

Price: free.

55+ elements UI kit by Thomsoon

Within a free collection of UI elements, you get:

• navigation and statistics elements;
• sliders;
• widgets;
• PSD vector elements;
• icons.

You can preview a website. It’s possible to change it to Wireframe. All elements have a minimalist design. If you up for simplicity, this kit might be a good choice.

Suitable for:

• web developments and designers;
• requires Photoshop version CS4.

Price: free.

We reached the end of the collection with free web design tools. A good thing is that you don’t always have to deal with coding. Most of the resources have a drag-and-drop nature. It saves time when a deadline is soon. Still, most of them allow diving into code for detailed editing.

If you want to share any other worthy free or premium web design tools, you are welcome.

Leave your comments.

Let’s expand the collection together! :-)