A Reddit Post encouraged me to start maintaining a list of useful resources for web designers/developers. Of course, I’ll throw in a lot of tools & resources from my own lists, too. If you want to suggest an additional tool, resource, or edit, shoot me a message using my contact form, email me, or hit me up on Twitter.

Photos/Illustrations

• https://www.pexels.com/: Free stock photo site
• https://unsplash.com/: Free stock photo site
• https://screenshot.guru/: Capture screenshots of web pages
• https://www.canva.com/: Kind of an online photoshop
• https://www.photopea.com/: Free online design editor that supports PSD, XCF, and Sketch formats
• https://undraw.co/: Free flat illustration
• https://stocksnap.io/: Free stock Photos
• https://pixabay.com/: Free images
• https://snag.gy/: Easy way to share a snapshot
• https://www.transparenttextures.com/: Background Textures

Colors

• https://flatuicolors.com/: Flat UI color picker/palette picker
• https://color.hailpixel.com/: Color picker
• https://coolors.co/: Color scheme generator

Tools

• https://unfurlr.com/: Find the original URL behind a short URL
• http://coralcdn.org/: Access sites when they’re down
• http://e.ggtimer.com/: Online timer
• http://www.polishmywriting.com/: Check your writing
• http://gtmetrix.com/: Check your website for speed issues
• https://privnote.com/: Create self-destructing text nodes
• https://www.ifixit.com/: Guides to fix almost anything
• https://alternativeto.net/: Find free software recommendations
• http://buzzsumo.com/: Check most shared content
• https://trello.com/: Project Management Tools
• https://tools.pingdom.com/: Website speed test
• https://emojipedia.org/: List of emojis you can use on web
• https://www.materialpalette.com/: Material design palette
• https://www.mindmup.com/: Logic mapping

Libraries/Plug-ins/Snippets

• https://pannellum.org/: Panorama viewer
• https://gethead.info/: A list of everything that could go in your <head/>

Files

• http://ge.tt/: File sharing
• https://wetransfer.com/: Transfer big files for free
• https://virusscan.jotti.org/: Scan any suspicious file
• https://www.fromsmash.com/: File transfer service
• https://smallpdf.com/: File conversion (including PDF and other PDF tools)

Social Media/Email

• http://ctrlq.org/first: Find the first tweet containing a keyword
• https://www.join.me/: share your screen with anyone
• http://10minutemail.com/: create a temporary e-mail inbox
• http://scr.im/: protect your e-mail against spam

Fonts & Icons

• https://fonts.google.com/ Webfonts & font downloads
• http://iconfinder.com/: Search for free & paid icons
• https://lukaszadam.com/illustrations: Free icons & illustrations
• https://iconmonstr.com/iconicfont/: Free Icons
• https://icomoon.io/app/#/select: Free icons
• https://thenounproject.com/: Free icons
• https://icons8.com/: Free icons
• http://www.socicon.com/: Social icons

Text

• http://meettheipsums.com/: Ipsum collection
• https://brajeshwar.github.io/entities/: Character entities

Other Resource Collections

• http://oozled.com/: Resources for everything creative
• http://webdesignrepo.com/: Web Design repo
• http://littlesnippets.net/: To inspire your website designs
• http://www.unheap.com/: Repo of jQuery Plugins
• https://uimovement.com/: UI inspiration
• http://frontendtools.com/: Tools for front end developers
• http://allthefreestock.com/: Search a lot of stock image sites at once

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