We all know that smart-phones, Androids, iPhones and Tablets are gaining popularity like anything. Thanks to their popularity, responsive website designing is not only getting popular but also very important. Since websites are being accessed via mobiles on a larger scale, more and more web owners are turning towards responsive web designing. Web developers and designers who can design responsive websites are earning intensely. To support the entire process of responsive website designing and development, a lot of web design tools have been introduced. We should definitely thank those developers who are talented enough to design these tools and make things easier for other developers.
In this article, we have compiled 50 of the most useful responsive web design tools which can help developers in building a responsive design toolbox. This collection of responsive web design tools will help you a lot with your entrance in the field of responsive designing. The tools have been categorized for you to understand the tools and their functionality.
Grid & Frameworks
Let’s start with Grid & Framework tools.
Columnal
Columnal is a great tool for making your grids flexible. So, when your grids are flexible your window will be resized with ease. This is a project of Pulp+Pixels having a pinch of cssgrid.net and code inspiration from 960.gs.
Skeleton
This tool is popular among designers and developers because it is simple and efficient to use. This tool basically prevails CSS framework so you will get a neat and easy documentation and the best part is, no Javascript here.
LessFramework 4
With LessFramework 4, responsive web development gets a lot easier. This is basically based on CSS media queries.
Semantic Grid System
This tool is basically meant to design grid layouts for responsive web sites. In order to give you the maximum proficiency, the Semantic Grid System uses pre-processed CSS extensions like LESS, SCSS or Stylus. Also, it gives developers an option to select widths and deal with pixels.
Golden Grid System
This is best for beginners and with Golden Grid System you can make your web pages look good with pixels from 240 to 2560.
320 and Up
This is again a beginner’s guide or a template for responsive website. It is basically a CSS media queries boilerplate and is quite different in comparison to other boilerplates.
Inuit.Css
The best part of Inuit.CSS is that it is very convenient for users. It is quite to the point but supports plugins for more help.
Gridless
This is a boilerplate which helps users in developing responsive websites with extraordinary typography. Gridless is great for newbies.
1140 CSS Grid
This grid system is designed by Melbourne designer Andy Taylor and the basic purpose of this tool is to make your design adaptable to various resolutions.
1KB CSS Grid
Tyler Tate takes the credit for this tool. With this you can set the number of columns.
Bootstrap
Bootstrap has a huge number of free UI elements, layouts, Javascript tools for users’ to download and they can be utilized in various responsive designing projects.
Fluid Grid Calculator
This is indeed a simple tool with a simple functionality. You can easily seize the CSS of your fluid grid website design.
Fluid Grids
This will help you in creating responsive layouts with 6-16 columns.
Flurid
This is a great tool and indeed a useful one. It is a cross-browser CSS grid framework with up to 16 columns.
Grid Set
This will help you in making grids of all kinds. Mark Boulton has introduced the beta version but it is a good one.
Gridpak
This is an online grid generator which helps user with the number of columns, padding, and gutter. Apart from this, user can also add custom breakpoints. The best part is that with Gridpak, you can download PNG grid templates.
SimpleGrid
As the name suggests, it is pretty simple and is developed by Michael Kuhn.
Susy
Sassy is another form of the Semantic Grid System.
Tiny Fluid Grid
This is an excellent web app which can accommodate you in determining the grid system of your website in an interactive way.
Variable Grid System
This is based on 960 grid system and allows user to design customized grids.
Sketch Sheets & Wireframes
Responsive Web Design SketchSheets
This tool makes mapping out and placements of the elements a lot easier.
Responsive Wireframes
Built with HTML and CSS, this tool will help you in visualizing your responsive website.
StyleTiles
It also helps you in analyzing how your website will look like.
JavaScript & JQuery Plugins
Adapt.js
This is a great alternative to CSS media queries. This is basically a small javascript library.
Isotope
This is a jQuery plugin useful for designing responsive websites. It helps in the rearrangement of elements on resizing.
Masonry
With this you can create adaptive responsive layouts. It also helps in rearrangement of the elements.
Respond.js
The main purpose of this script is to make your responsive website compatible for browsers like IE wo do not support CSS3 media queries.
TinyNav.js
This helps developers in creating small drop downs for long lists.
Wookmark JQuery Plugin
This is a great tool and functions to detect the size of the browser and fits the elements accordingly.
ProtoFluid
It allows you to test your website in different resolutions.
Responsive.Is
This is again a great tool to test your responsive website for different devices. All you need to do is type in a URL.
Responsivepx.Com
It is yet again a testing tool however, the best part about Responsivepx.com is that it’s capable of resizing the website pixel by pixel.
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Responsive Web Design Testing Tool
What could be better than viewing your design’s appearance for different devices on a single screen? Debugging just got easy.
ReView.js
Developed in Javascript, this tool makes viewing of your responsive website a lot easier.
Screenfly
With this, you can view your website on multiple devices. Also, it allows user scrolling and rotations with the ability of enabling and disabling it.
Screenqueri.Es
This tool is perfect for pixel testing. Apart from automatic testing, users can manually enter the size and test pixel by pixel.
The Responsinator
This tool helps users in testing device on all sorts of devices. Also, you can check the functionality in landscape and portrait mode.
Sliders
Blueberry
This is a great thing for responsive and fluid layouts.
Elastislide
This plugin will help in the automatic adjustment of your browser window according to the screen.
Responsive CSS3 slider
This is adaptable to any screen size and screen resolution without any hassle.
ResponsiveSlides.Js
This is an extremely lightweight plugin useful for creating a responsive slider. It also supports all browsers.
Others
Adaptive Images
This tool is best for re-scaling images as it detects the users’ screen size and adjust things accordingly.
FitText.js
This tool provides font-sizes flexibility. With this, you can get scalable headlines as well.
FitVid.Js
This tool helps users’ in re-scaling the embedded videos.
Retina Images
This is a great javascript solution and will involuntarily dish up @2X larger, high-resolution images on retina displays.
Seamless Responsive Photo Grid
With this, the photo gird layout appears to be fantastic. The images are displayed side by side.
SlabText
In order to fill the vacant spaces, this Jquery plugin divides the headlines into rows.
Zurb – Responsive Tablets
If your responsive web design has big data tables, do not worry about it. Zurb modifies the table in such a way that tables work fine on small screens instead of breaking.
Categorizr
For device specific designs, this is the best tool.
The Responsive Calculator
From pixels to percentages, this responsive calculator will help you a lot in designing your responsive website.
Conclusion
Above mentioned tools are easily available and also easy to use. Feel free to share any responsive web designing tools with us that we may have not mentioned.
Thanks a lot for updating me with current tools being utilized for a responsive website. I will definitely use these tools for further implementations. Thanks again!!!
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