Free Web Development Tools You Don’t Want to Miss
Throughout the years, website development has gained more and more interests from the society, a number which keeps rising exponentially. Some use websites for their businesses, while others for personal purposes. Whatever the reason is, many people are using the web today.
Whether you are an advanced web developer or you just begun your coding journey, it is inevitable that you will use tools or libraries to help you along the way. Because some tools fit our needs, they are sometimes better than the others that do not.
Below are some of the best tools I recommend.
1. Bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular library and is very useful to help developers build a responsive page. There are many design templates ready to be used, such as typography, forms, buttons, navigation, and other interface components.
Not only does it have many features, Bootstrap is also very easy to work with thanks to its neatly written documentation.
I use Bootstrap in my website for many reasons. First reason is to make the website mobile responsive. Also, I use Bootstrap to properly layout each webpages. Last, I take advantage of Bootstrap’s readily designed templates such as dropdown menu, carousel, and alerts.
2. Free Web Submission
If you have a website, you might want to submit it to search engines to be found by more people. Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have used this free service to submit their sites to search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing and more. This service is mostly used for SEO purposes.
The process is quick and easy. With just one click, your site will be submitted to up to fifty search engines. Amazing, right?
3. Form Spree
Ever want to create a Contact Us page but cannot build a back-end system? Using Form Spree is the best tool to solve this problem. The best part is that we as developers can use our own HTML, JavaScript, and CSS code. And Form Spree will handle the rest.
Using spam prevention tools is such as Google reCAPTCHA is very easy to utilize. Just with one click you can have this feature ready.
In my home page, I built a Contact Me form for interested viewers to easily send me a message. Feel free to use the form by clicking here if you have any request, question, idea, or feedback. Below is a screenshot of the form.
These are the three tools I recommend using. Bootstrap serves to make your website responsive; Free Web Submission enables users to submit their website to various search engine easily; and Form Spree is used to create working forms without having to deal with any back-end.
They are all free and easily accessible, so you can try start using them now!
