My Website Designing Toolbox - RD298

<p class="p1">In <a href= "https://resourcefuldesigner.com/episode89">episode 89 of Resourceful Designer</a>, I discussed checklists and your design business. As a bonus to that episode, I offered my WordPress Website Setup Checklist. That was five years ago, and things have changed. In that time, I've grown and expanded as a web designer. The tools I use to create websites have also grown and expanded. Here is an up-to-date list of the tools I regularly use to design and build WordPress websites. Don't build in WordPress? Don't worry. I share a few things that may help you regardless of the platform where you design websites.</p> <h2>Conceptualizing the website.</h2> <p class="p1">Before I get down to designing and building a website, I want to know what I'm building. These are the tools that help me in the conceptual stage.</p> <h4>Dynalist:</h4> <p class="p1"><a href="https://dynalist.io" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Dynalist</a> is a great outlining app that helps you get work done. I use Dynalist to outline the structure of every website I build. I like to know what pages a site will have and where they sit in the hierarchy. Dynalist helps me do this.</p> <h4>Coolors.co</h4> <p class="p1"><a href="https://resourcefuldesigner.com/coolors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coolors.co</a> is a super fast colour palette generator. I use it to choose colours for a website before the build starts. It's also convenient for finding great colours to go along with a client's existing brand colours.</p> <h2 class="p1">Setting up the website.</h2> <h4>SiteGround</h4> <p class="p1"><a href="https://resourcefuldesigner.com/siteground" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SiteGround</a> I host all my and my client's websites at SiteGround. They're inexpensive, reliable, easy to work with and score well in web host comparisons. What more could a web designer ask for in a web host?</p> <p class="p1">Siteground has a very convenient one-click WordPress install feature that gets me up and designing quickly. Their installation regist