Written by Jerry . Published on 31 Dec, 2009 . Smart webmasters do not work everything out from scratch; instead, we make good use of the free tools available online. There are tons of brilliant web tools available online – it’s a waste not to leverage these tools and save some working time (or, to have more time for beer). In this article, I’m going to share my must-have list of 30 web design tools, I hope you’ll find them useful. On the other hand, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the developers who had done some much and made our world better.
1. QuickRibbon
QuickRibbon helps generate custom site ribbon. Input your link details and styles selections; and the tool will take care of the necessary Javascript coding. This great tool is best for lazy webmasters who wish to attract users attention to some important update/message.
Make some ribbon today at www.QuickRibbon.com
2. TabsGenerator
Need some cool tabs in seconds? Well, then you need TabsGenerator. TabsGenerator is a convenient design tool that allows users to create highly-customizable tabs (tweak size, colors, corners and borders) in CSS.
3. Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator
Okay, I admit Bullshit Generator is not that useful; but, I am sure we have time for some web 2.0 humor. Let’s “integrate undefined synergies”, anyone? 
4. UNIQUE
Gender, face features, wearings, skin colors… UNIQUE is a free web tool that allows users to create highly-customizable, human-like, avatars. Mind you, this web tool is kinda addictive – I spent more than 30 minutes playing non-stop with the features while writing this post.
Create your unique avatar at Unique.RasterBoy.com.
5. Stripe Generator 2.0
Stripe Generator 2.0 is a free design tool supported by Pop Minds Web & New Techs Studio (long name huh?). It helps generate (almost) any kinds of stripe you want for web background.
Try generate some stripes now!
6. Web 2.0 Badges
Web 2.0 Badges is a very popular badge generator (mainly because of their beautiful pre-designed badges, I guess). Any webmaster who is too lazy to design their own badges should check them out.
Let’s put on some badges for Web 2.0!
7. FreshGenerator
FreshGenerator is a pretty cool web design tool which helps to create small design elements like boxes or tabbed menus of different sizes, styles and colors.
8. Loader Generator
Equipped with a set of pre-designed loading icons, Loader Generator allows you to customize and generate your own loading ‘spinner’ in a fraction of second.
9. FavIcon Generator
DynamicDrive’s FavIcon Generator is perhaps the most popular favicon maker. This tool allows you to create various sizes of favicon (as well as icon) based on the your own image.
Try create your own Favicon now.
10. Button Maker
Button Maker is a free tool provided by Adam Kalsey that creates simple square-shaped site sticker. The sticker designs is pretty fixed; however the tool does allow users to tweak several design parameters (such as text margin, border color and background).
Visit: www.Kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker.
11. AjaxLoad
Like Loader Generator, AjaxLoad is another free tool that generates cool loading icons. What’s good about AjaxLoad is that the tool comes with a huge set of indicators in different shapes and designs.
12. RoundedCornr
RoundedCornr is another web design tool that auto-generates CSS codes for a box with rounded corners and a color gradient.
Click here to visit RoundedCornr.com.
13. 3D Pack
3D Package is a great tool for e-book and web templates sellers. It lets you instantly create 3d-box images online for free. Simply upload pictures (JPG, GIF, orPNG) for cover andyou’ll get a 3d-box in your favorite image format.
Check out 3D Pack, click here.
14. LogoCreator
Not good with logo designs? Try LogoCreator for some quick logo design works. This free web tool comes with 7 preset logo designs and allow users to customize various design parameters.
Care for some logos? Visit Creatr.cc.
15. CoolText
CoolText is another logo design tool that transforms texts to graphics. A point worth noting is that CoolText had been running online for a very long time – the free tool is online since year 1998 and it has rendered over 300 million of free images.
Check out this antique and make some ‘CoolText’.
16. FreeFooter
FreeFooter is an easy and fast tool that simplifies how you personalize your web site / blog page footer – definitely a great tool for lazy blog designers. 
17. ThemeRoller
Want some cool jQuery features on your site but not good with programming? Check out ThemeRoller – a free jQuery generator that allows you to create custom themes for jQuery components. Change font properties, colors, borders, hover variations, etc all very easily. It will show you a preview of what your settings would like like when applied to jQuery’s accordion, tabs, slider, date picker, and dialog box.
Find out how ThemeRoller works here.
18. jQuery Function Builder
jQuery Function Builder is a handy tool to quickly build up a collection of jQuery functions. While using this tool might need some basic knowledge in jQuery; it is, nevertheless, a great way to reduce programmers’ work time.
Build jQuery functions on the fly here!
19. TartanMaker
Fancy some Tartan-stripes background? Check out TartanMaker – a free design tool that helps create Tartan designs instantly.
Visit www.TartanMaker.com, click here.
20. ColorWizard – ver 3.0
Lack of good color? Use color wizard to do color-matching for you. The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected. It returns a set of hue, saturation and tint/shade variations of your color, as well as suggests color schemets to you, based on your color’s complementary color, split complementary colors, analogous colors and other variations.
21. Color Scheme Designer
The Color Scheme Designer is a brilliant color-matching tool for those who are selecting colors for their designs.
Try this design tool at ColorSchemeDesigner.com.
22. Post-It Note Generator
Fans of sticky note? Embbed it into your web design using Post-It Note Generator. Post-It Note Generator helps create eye-catching Post-It Note with customizable text designs, message color, and paper styles.
Make some Post-It note right away!
23. Genfavicon
Genfavicon is another favicon maker that helps generate favorite icon on the fly.
24. Gradient Texture Maker
Gradient Texture Maker is a free web tool that allows you to generate a graphics with gradient colors. This design tool is highly recommended for those who need to create website background with gradient color.
Check out Gradient Texture Maker.
25. Favicon CC
Favicon CC is not exactly a web generator tool. However, it enables you to draw and create favicon easily online – which I think most of y’all would be interested to look at.
Let’s draw some favicon at Favicon.cc.
26. SimWebSol Logo Generator
SimWebSol Logo Generator is another simple logo generator.
Visit online: www.SimWebSol.com/ImageTool/
27. Textorizer
Textorizer is a nice piece of web application that allows you to create cool graphics using text of your choice. The tool takes jpeg, png, gif, or xpm file less than 128K in length and produces an SVG file which reconstructs the original image using parts of the text scattered around.
Check out Textorizer.WhatFettle.com/
28. Buttonator
I used to spend hours working on Flash and Fireworks for web buttons. Well I wouldn’t do the same if I heard about Buttonator back then. Buttonator is a great button generator that helps create stylish buttons instantly – a great tool for lazy web designers and webmasters.
Make some buttons with Buttonator now.
29. Idee’s Multicolr Search Lab
Searching for the right images on Flickr to match your web design or blogpost? Try Multicolr Search Lab, a free web tool that helps you to sort out Flickr creative common images based on color.
Try out Multicolr Search Lab now!
30. BgPatterns
BgPatterns helps create classy background (see image). There are dozens of cool patterns to choose from and it’s a must see tool for all web designers.
Well that’s all for the list. If there is a web generator or tool that you think should be listed here, feel free to shout in the comment box.
cool tools and generators. I think many of the other web2.0 button generators are available….
I wouldn’t say I’m a lazy webmaster, but these tools are definitely time-savers and will help me get more work done faster. Very nice collection, thanks!
I’m a lazy web designer so will make full use of these tools.
I already use some.
Thanks for sharing all these useful tools with us. I really appreciate it.
How about a sticker generator? You know…you input an image, and it produces a sticker-looking one with drop shadow.
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Very nice collection, hv bookmarked it right away!!!!
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Thanks for sharing, this will help alot.
Really great! I like Stripe Generator 2.0 and BgPatterns. Thanks for sharing!
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Awesome list man…Thanks a lot!!
An excellent collection, not only if you are lazy, but also if you want to save your time spent working on web design templates
Love it
I’m just beginning, these tools will come in handy 
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Thanks for sharing. I hope I dont get lazy webmaster tag after reading all these services. Good one.
Another great must see web generator is JotForm:
http://www.jotform.com
You can basically go to jotform site, create a form using the drag and drop form builder and then get source code for your form. You can do all that without even creating an account!
Enjoy!
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Isn’t it just great when designers offer their work for free so that we can all benefit?
Thanks for these great tools
Great post. Thanks for sharing and certainly make use of some tools. Keep up the good work.
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Nice post, thankyou for sharing
Wow, what a great list of web tools,
thanks for the info. A few of these will
come in handy re: my own websites.
best regards,
Mason
Interesting collection; some I’ve used, some I’ll never use, and some that I may try as soon as I’m done writing this! Nice work
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Great Round-Up! My favourite: Bullshit Generator
Precious Article
Maybe you should have broken this up into two different posts:
1. 5 Useful generators to save time (8, 9, 11, 17, 23)
2. 25 Generators that will make your website extremely generic
“Lazy Webmasters” should probably not be “webmasters”. And, by the way, the “webmaster” title is kind of like geocities – dead.
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Cool list! Thanks for sharing
Quite useful for setting up grids for websites:
http://grid.mindplay.dk/
Great list, thanks for sharing!
Great post, although I feel that web 2.0 style is on its way out. Id like to see something a bit more original and refreshing from the designers of these soon.
cool tools and generators. I think many of the other web2.0 button generators are available….
Another great must see web generator is JotForm:
http://www.jotform.com
You can basically go to jotform site, create a form using the drag and drop form builder and then get source code for your form. You can do all that without even creating an account!
Enjoy!
I don’t think the title is correct but it’s a wonderful list. I feel using jQuery is smart, not lazy. That goes for most of those tools
Excellent list! Thank you very much!
thanks…
good share..;-)
I’m using Color Scheme Designer and it’s the best online tool I can think of.
very useful thank you
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Thanks for the resources, I found all of them good but my favorite being Unique. Looking forwards to more of such posts.
Great post! I plan on using these tools in the future. Thanks!
wow love the bullshit generator
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Great post! Thanks for all of the helpful items!
Very cool, links thanks alot, Hope to be back soon
Hey,
Love these, I made a dude for my facebook with the avatar creator… http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=12538897&id=691820093
Great tools, not that the Islandnet.com web developers are lazy but I am sure they could use these tools from time to time when we design sites for people so we can increase the speed and lessen the price.
Keep this stuff comming.
Thanks,
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Islandnet.com
Very Nice one i like it
Wow, what a great collection. I will definitely link to this site for many of my development requirements.
Excellent article, I am going to bookmark and spread the word with all my web designer friends. I should be able to save lot of time avoiding re-inventing the wheel.
thx for this list.i think fav.icon.cc is the best.
Wauuuuu,excelente aporte por tu parte!!!
miles de gracias!!!
Definitivamente un sitio fundamental para todo diseñador web.
The Logocreator is a copyright problem creator with Preset #4
Wow! Nice sites!
There is also this one:
http://www.webestools.com/
With a lot of generators.
Thank you
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful info.
Wow, Great round-up. They are all very useful and save lots of time. Good job!
WoW! I really like all these tools….Nice post.. Thanks for sharing
i am a lazy webmaster too and this info has quenched my thirst.
keep em posted
lol I think I’m lazy too. I’m using a lot ThemeRoller is cool
thanks for sharing!
Great list, thanks!
Great list of generators. Thanks for putting this article together. I added it to my Delicious account for future reference.
Pretty awesome thank you. Now I have another powerful reason to be even lazier …
Awesome! Great post. It’s all i need.
eat post, although I feel that web 2.0 style is on its way out. Id like to see something a bit more original and refreshing from the designers of these soon
Hey, this page is priceless. Thanks!
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Nice list of the tools, I used most of them but thanks for sharing some cool new ones.
strip generator is the best one.. and nice list..
This very usefull post for me…
Color Scheme Designer is my fav
Very cool, thanks.
Bookmarked.
Guys, I am glad that you guys like the list I made here – I am totally flattered! Million thanks for all the good words and bookmarks – they mean a lot to me.
Awesome..
Thanks
I am a lazy guy. these tools will really help.
thanks
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Thanks for these tools sharing! I would also recommend to try service for easy automatic website layout creation from PSD design, it works fine for me: http://psd2htmlconverter.com/en/
waw, that multicolor search is impressive *-*
and i like a lot the others about jquery and the logo playing. the bullshit made me laugh
very good job to ifnd it all !
I just Stumbled on this and am drooling like a kid at Christmas!!1 Im a web designer and you have no idea how much time this is going to save me!!!
HI,
This is very nice tips, I have read it over and over again.
Hope to use the tips right now on my internet marketing blog.
Thank you,
Roy!
very nice tips, thanks
Fantastic collection of quick tools for spicing up “boring corners” of websites.
Thanks for taking the time to collect all these for us….instead of calling us “Lazy Webmasters”, what about “Too Many Projects At Once Webmasters”
Thanks again Jerry.
Thank you for webmaster tools. This can save my time
awesome…… i did need this…
There are some great tools in this collection,
Thank you
Thanx, these tools are definitely useful to us Web Developers
nice sharing…the best website i ever seen
great site! I’ve already used some of the above.
One more interesting think: If you have a single PDF, you can create 1:1 Flash Website with flip page effect with no coding and for free with pressmo.com
Thanks for these list, its really helpful for us.
Great Site..
Me to i have use some of these before. but some are new for me ..
Thanks for sharing.
Awesome tools and websites, thanks!
great collection thank you, these tools are definitely useful to us Web Developers
great collection, bookmarked, if you want to publish html pages easily go to http://qip.li it lets create html pages online it has a great editor with syntax highlighting and more, and you will be writing your own code.
Great tools, lol I am not a lazy designer but saved time is more money lol thanks again
found you through stumbleupon and this site definatley deserves the thumbs up
thanks again
Sorry, but i cant understand why PHP Forms is not listed here. It is a powerful and free service
Very useful list for webmasters. Another good tool also be useful: flip book creator. It is a powerful tool to make amazing flash flip book for websites.
Lazy? All these seems like a lot of work! XD
I am one of laziest web masters so I adore resource like those. Actually I know all of them and use, but any case I like to see lazy people taking care about other lazy webmaster people
I would just add lazy link building tool easier way to find some backlinks tracking your competition.
Would like to see some more ‘lazy’ series
Great list! Thanks!
Nice list but it missed the most important app i.e. Salt (saltapp.net)
Thank you for the list. I found some pretty cool apps that I shall use to generate my websites. I am a lazy webmaster you know.
you’re missing cssbuttongenerator.com – the best css button generator!
this is great! A very useful list for webmasters! Thanks for sharing!
Wow this is very useful, thank You very much for sharing this.
the http://www.buttonator.com/ links seems to be broken
This is a really fantastic list, some great tools for people who dont want to use photoshop or coding programs to generate amazing results, thanks for sharing