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Darshan J
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Tools that I've used for Web Design & Development so far

This is a list of my most used tool/software/websites for Web Design & Development.

Pen & Paper

Nothing can beat a blank sheet of paper & pen, whatever it might be - design, coding, planning & everything in between.
It is exactly because the page is blank that you can fill it with anything that you want, so next time when you stress over a software/website to choose for a task(like to-do list), ask yourself if you really need it and try using a blank paper/book instead.

Windows 10

I use Windows 10 and not Linux although I do agree that Linux feels better for most web design/development needs. I use WSL, which is quite slower than actually running tools on Linux but it gets the job done and also with upcoming WSL 2 we can expect increased performance.

Ubuntu WSL

There are several distros available as wsl, I use this one

Windows Terminal

Nothing to say, terminal for using wsl over pre-installed command prompt.

VS Code

You probably use the same.

Web Browsers

I use Chrome most of the time and occasionally new Edge and Firefox

Photo editing

GIMP and Inkscape to rarely edit photos for web.

Taking Notes

Currently I use Dropbox Paper and thinking of moving to Onenote as note organization in it feels like a book.

Noise cancellation

Spotify - beware though as songs themselves might distract from the task at hand.
My Noise - Amazing website for noise cancellation.

Here's my spotify Music playlist.

Picking Color/Theme for design

Coolors that I recently used while designing my first portfolio webpage.

Adobe Color that I have been using for quite some time.

Other

A lot of Google/Stack overflow/MDN/Youtube searches and blog/article reading complete my toolset.

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