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If you are a web designer and are looking for some good web designing and development tools you are at right place. You can definitely get numerous of them on internet, however not all of them are free of cost. Most of the good online tools ask for a good amount of money and if by chance you manage to get some free tools, they provide the restricted facilities and utilities. Some of the online tools packages are said to be free but they include the hidden chargeable utilities.
After doing a thorough research I found some very good and reliable online tools which are free of cost and can also be considered as the best ones. I have tried to cover almost every aspect of web designing and development while looking for these free online tools.
All of the online tools I have sorted out perform different functions and provide different utilities. Check them out and try whichever is best suitable for your web designing and developing process.
1. Redmine
This is a great tool for the webmaster having some web developers working under them. Redmine allows the user to keep a track of many projects at the same time. This is actually a project management tool available online for free. The user can now track the job time and even assign the set tasks to the web developers in the team. Redmine is also helpful in managing different files and documents online.
2. Billing Boss 
As the name itself suggests it is a free online tool which helps in creating free invoices. Billing Boss works well for the small business owners and the freelancers. The users can send unlimited number of invoices within no time. The invoices made in Billing Boss are very well categorized. All the invoices are saved automatically. The best part about the Billing Boss is that it is mobile friendly and supports various currencies. It is integrated with the electronic transfer of PayPal and thus you can send the invoice anywhere in the world.
3. Yuuguu
It is a screen-sharing tool which works in almost every operating system. Using Yuuguu you can collaborate with the users working on Linux, Mac or Windows throughout the world. You can share your screen with anyone you want with just a single click. It is best used when a team sitting in faraway places wants to work together. You can share your presentations or any other files using Yuuguu. It is absolutely free of cost. 5 participants can take part in the sharing at a time.
4. Dropbox
This is the best online tool to share the files in all your computers singlehandedly. All you need to do is to install the Dropbox in all your computers. Once installed the file in Dropbox will automatically appear in the Dropbox of every computer. You can also connect your Smartphone to Dropbox.
5. BrowserShots
Using this free tool you can make sure that your website is doing well in all different browsers. You just need to enter your website’s URL into the address bar and select the browsers you want to check. Within no time you will get the screenshots of your website appearing on those different browsers.
6. Toggl 
Toggl is a time tracking tool and works best for the employers having freelancers in their team. The working time of the freelancer can be tracked using Toggl.It also produces the reports and the performance charts of the freelancer working on the basis of per hour. You can also embed it to Gmail, Netvibes and iGoogle to share the tracked time or the performance report with other.
7. Google Docs
This is one of the most widely used online free tools. It is an online spreadsheet tool as well as word processor tool. The best part about Google Doc is that it is compatible to Word and thus no compatibility issues arise.
8. Mockingbird
You can create the mockups of the website within no time using the mockingbird tool. You may get a perfectly balanced page just by dragging and dropping the required elements into the mockingbird. You can also share the mocked pages with others.
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Kuler is the tool associated with the look of your website. This is a Flash driven site with complete database. Kuler is created by Adobe Labs. This tool is very helpful as you can create, match, modify and twirl the colors which match your website suitably. Creating the color swatches for your website becomes very easy with Kuler. You can also download other people’s swatches and also can extract the color pallets from any of your favorite photographs.
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Ilya Elbert writes for several IT Services NYC and NYC Computer Repair corporations.
About James
Browsershots sounds like a good one. I haven’t tried it.
I’ve had sites display differently across different browsers. The sad part is I didn’t know for some time. For example, rounded corners rendered by CSS didn’t display as rounded corners in IE. I was clueless for more than a year.