Designing a website from scratch is hard. If you’re new to this, it can be downright terrifying. But fear not! If you’re wondering how to go about creating your first website, we’ve got the goods for you—and none of it will cost you a dime!
Below are some of the best free web design tools out there:
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Best Free Web Design Tools
Adobe Color CC. Adobe Color is a free online app to try out, create, and save color schemes, each in five variations.
Adobe Color CC.
Google Fonts. Google Fonts is a quick and easy way to find and add quality fonts. With hundreds of free, open-source fonts available, browse and compare font families, then simply grab the code to add to your collection.
WhatFont. WhatFont is a useful extension to identify fonts. On any web page, just click your WhatFont button to find out.
Type Genius. Type Genius is a simple web app to find nice font combinations. Just select a start font, and instantly get a suggestion for a complementary font pairing.
Type Genius.
Iconfinder. Iconfinder is an icon search engine to search through 900,000 icons. Browse both premium and 100,00 free icons.
Vectr. Vectr is a free design app for web and desktop to create vector graphics. Share Vectr document URLs for visual feedback. Annotate an image, and share changes in real-time.
Unsplash. Unsplash in a website for free dynamic images. No stock photos here, you are free to modify and distribute the images all you want. The site posts 10 handpicked photos every 10 days. It also has a gallery of example websites that have used the images.
Unsplash.
Stock Up. Stock Up is a search engine that aggregates stock photos from 26 different free stock photo websites. The site currently indexes over 13,000 free images.
Lost and Taken. Lost and Taken is a design blog that provides free texture images. The site has textures from a wide variety of categories, including film, smoke, paper, watercolor, paint, plaster, light, smoke, motion blur, and nature.
TextureKing. TextureKing posts free stock textures to enhance your design. With hundreds of free textures available, the site includes textures from concrete, wood, fabrics, liquids, dirt, glass, and metals.
TextureKing.
Design and Development Tools
Skitch. Skitch is an application from Evernote to visually communicate ideas, share feedback, and collaborate. Clip from anywhere on the web. Make your point with shapes, arrows, and quick sketches. Use Skitch on your desktop, tablet, and phone to give feedback and share ideas. Basic plan is free. Paid plans start at $24.99 per year.
Canva. Canva is an online graphic design platform. Non-designers can easily create graphic designs and layouts with drag-and-drop features. Design with free stock photos, icons, and shapes. Create menus, banners, social media graphics, and more. Canva’s basic platform is free. Premium elements are never more than $1.
Canna.
Pixlr. Pixlr is a free photo editor from Autodesk to enhance images with free effects, overlays, and filters. Choose from a pool of effect packs to give your image the look you want. Stylize images to look like a pencil drawing, ink sketch, poster, and more. Use the Editor, O Matic, and Touch Up web apps to create stunning images.
Google Web Designer. Google Web Designer is an advanced web app that lets you design and build HTML5 web content. Create using drawing tools, text, and 3D objects. Animate objects and events on a timeline. Add image galleries, videos, maps, and more.
Webflow. Webflow is an all-in-one design platform to create responsive websites. Start with a blank canvas for total creative control, or pick a template to get started fast. Drag and drop to build animated and interactive design without writing code. One project is free. Premium plans start at $16 per month.
Webflow.
Themify Flow. Themify Flow is a framework to build responsive themes within WordPress. Simply drop in the layout modules, and configure the options. Style everything with a live preview of the design. It comes with Google Fonts, color picker, image upload, and more.
Mobirise. Mobirise is an app to create small and medium websites, landing pages, promo sites for products and services, and more. Drop the blocks you like into your page, edit content in-line, and publish. Choose from a large selection of pre-made blocks, such as content slider, responsive image gallery, and video background.
Marvel. Marvel is a web app to design interactive prototypes. Design in your browser or add images using Photoshop, Sketch on pen and paper. Turn your designs into interactive mobile and web prototypes in just a few clicks. Import your team from Slack and Asana. Free with commenting on three projects. Paid plan starts at $15 per month.
Bootstrap. Bootstrap is an open-source, front-end framework for creating websites and web applications. Bootstrap comes with dozens of custom HTML and CSS components, and templates for forms, buttons, typography, and more.
best professional web design software
1. WordPress
Source: WordPress
WordPress powers 40% of websites around the world, and no wonder. This web builder offers thousands of pre-made themes and a high level of customization (thanks to its functionality and 50,000+ plugins), making it a perfect choice when building a website to fit your brand. WordPress also has an excellent content management system (CMS). It’s easy and straightforward to publish content in the blink of an eye. And word has it that it’s the best CMS for SEO.
WordPress offers a free plan. Paid plans start at $4/month.
2. Webflow
Source: Webflow
Webflow is an all-in-one responsive web design tool that folds a CMS, managed web hosting, and free SSL certificate all in one no-code platform. Build interactions and animations into your website, drag-and-drop unstyled HTML elements. Or make use of pre-built elements like sliders, tabs, and background videos. The tool features a master component library of core layouts, components, and patterns. Plus, Webflow gives you the ability to prototype and export code to hand off to developers if you don’t want to launch a site on its native subdomain.
Webflow starts free, with plans going up from $12/month on an annual basis.
3. Wix
Source: Wix
Wix is a user-friendly web design software for complete beginners. Don’t know where to start? Choose from over 800 templates or answer a few questions from Wix Artificial Design Intelligence (ADI). ADI will automatically build a website based on your responses. To customize it, drag and drop elements on the screen and edit as you see fit.
Wix offers a free plan. Paid plans start at $4.50/month.
Additional options of a drag-and-drop website builder include Boxmode and Webwave.
4. Statamic
Say hello to Statamic, the CMS of the future. Built by developers for developers, this laravel-based and open-sourced CMS handles everything without any plugins. And by everything, we mean everything. Custom fields, navigation builder, search, you name it. Compared to other CMS, it’s easy to customize Statamic from the frontend. Its flat-file mode reduces complexity and makes maintenance a piece of cake. This is one cool web builder.
It’s free to use Statamic. Paid plans start at $259/site with an additional $59 for updates (free for the first year).
5. Ghost
Source: Ali Abdaal
Ghost is a simple professional publishing platform. In addition to the blogging tool’s standard features, Ghost also offers built-in memberships and email newsletters. Other great features include the minimalistic and powerful editor, site speed, and user-friendly and lightweight CMS. If you want to set up a membership website with zero hassle, look no further!
Ghost offers a 14-day free trial, with plans going up from $29/month when billed annually.
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