25+ Free Online Tools for Designers and Other Professionals

Here are list of online tools which will allow you to do things on the fly. At times we are too dependent on desktop applications to do these jobs but these tools will achieve the same output online. Hope you like them.

Zamzar

Zamzar supports conversion between a wide variety of different file formats. It supports following formats doc – Microsoft Word Document, html – Hypertext Markup Language, mdb – Microsoft Access Database, ods – OpenDocument spreadsheet, pdf – Portable Document Format, rtf – Rich text format, xls – Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet, xlsx – Microsoft Excel 2007 Spreadsheet, xml – Extensible Markup Language

Pixlr

Are you sitting at a clients and require to do a quick edit to an image ? do you wish you had photoshop with you ? has it ever happened that you are not carrying an laptop and need to resize your image at the earliest ? Pixlr bring you advanced online image and photo editing tools, just choose your flavor, jump in and start creating! It cant get better or more complex than this. It is very close to having your beloved photoshop online. Just love it !

Sitemap-Builder

This online tool will allow you to generate google friend XML sitemap of your URL.

Browser Lab

Allows you to preview any web page on different browsers and compare the output.

Image Optimizer

Image Optimizer lets you easily optimize your gifs, animated gifs, jpgs, and pngs, so they load as fast as possible on your site. Furthermore, you can easily convert from one image type to another. You can either provide an URL or upload it to opimize it. Only draw back is upload size limit: 300 kB

Screen Toaster

This is an free online screen recording tool. It does not require any download and is compatible with windows, mac or linux. It captures your screen in one click and you can use the captured output on your blogs, websites or send them via email. Its a good tool to make screencasts, tutorials, demos, training, lectures and more.

Quick Ribbon

QuickRibbon is a completely free Web2.0 tool, a website ribbon generator which lets you create a custom ribbon, insert a link in it and place it in the top right corner of your website. It will take you less than 5 minutes to generate your own website ribbon with this trendy widget and add a stylish Web2.0 look to your page – it’s quick, easy and fun. You can use quick ribbon to attract your site’s visitors attention to new features, announcements, sales, etc. Get rid of the boring banners and make your news stand out with style.

Favicon Maker

Want to display your own logo on the browser address bar and browser tabs ? Simply select a picture, logo or other graphic (of any size / resolution) for the “Image to Use” and click “Generate FavIcon.ico” It even has an option of converting your twitter display image into a FavIcon. You can easily create high-quality favicons for browser address bars, page tabs and bookmarks.

YouSendIt

Yousendit.com allows you to send large files upto 2 GB in size. Just select and upload your file, feed in the receivers name and voila your huge file has been sent as a link to the receivers email Id. It is one of the best online file sharing and collaboration with FTP replacement tool online. It also has an outlook plugin which allows you to attach and send files via outlook express without visiting yousendit.com

Bitly

Use Bitly to shorten the size of long irritating URL’s which become difficult to share. It also allows you to track the no of click it receives once you sign up.

Flow Chart

Flowchart.com is an online multi-user, real-time collaboration flowchart software. It’s Flowcharting made easy. You will be required to sign-up before you can start using it.

Copyscape

This tool allows you search for copies of your page on the web.

Word Count Calculator

If you’re a webmaster and you’ve ever needed to submit your link to an online directory or link exchange which limits the number of characters or number of words that you can use for your site description, you surely know what a nuisance it can be to add up words or characters! Free word count calculater allows you to “cut and paste” word count and character counting tools together on one handy page to help you to quickly determine the number of words and characters contained in any phrase.

Pass Pack

A tool that protects your passwords everywhere you go. You can save all your pins and logins in one single place, and access them from home, the office or anywhere else! There is nothing to install or carry around. Your password manager also comes with a little button that allows you to login to a website at a click of a button.

FontStruct

Make and share your fonts online. You can download the fonts for your personal use too.

Vector Magic

Convert bitmap images like JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs to the clean, scalable vector art of EPS, SVG, and PDF with the world’s best auto-tracing software.

Although it is a very innovative tool I would not recommend this tool to trace your vectors and use it for printing your brochures and visiting card. The output of this online application is not very precise and convincing. Always get a professional to recreate a vector from a bitmap.

Slide Share

Upload and share your PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios on SlideShare. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to make a webinar or embed slide share widget on you web page for people to view your presentations online.

Quick Currency Converter

A free online currency converter tool.

Colorate

Browse color palettes or make your own. It also has features like adjustment, blending and mixing of colors you generate.

Lipsum

This free online tool allows you to generate  place holder text called ‘Lorem Ipsum ‘. Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.

Liquid Planner

The Best Way to Get Projects Done, Online scheduling, collaboration, time-tracking, and more in one easy package. The result for your team: fewer meetings, less e-mail, less re-work and more project wins.

Net2FTP

A web based FTP client.

ViewLikeUs

A a brand new site that allows you to check out how your website looks in the most popular resolution formats. It’s powered by Ajax & PHP so no need to download anything! To Get started just type your URL in the address box and view your output.

Google ChatBack Badge

A Google Talk chatback badge will let visitors to your web page chat with you. They’ll be able to chat with you whenever you’re signed in to Google Talk as you@gmail.com.

CSS Fly

CSSFly is a web 2.0 tool for easy editing websites direct and in real-time in your browser. Simply edit the (X)HTML-code and the external Style-Sheet files : what you code is what you get! This tool is designed for developers. Use it for developing, testing or checking your web-project or take a look behind the scenerys of your favourite websites.

Google Translate

This amazing free tool by google allows you to translate text, webpages and documents online. It also allows you to view other website in other languages.

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