A web designer accumulates a number of softwares to make his task of website designing convenient. Doing everything by hand is a tough task. However, there are few programs that are available which make things easy.

Color Programs
Application of Color to your web design is quite a difficult task, as web Colors are represented by codes such as #FFFFFF. This makes it difficult to get the exact Colors that you want. Therefore to make this task easier, a program called HTML Color picker tool is available. It is an important part of any web designer's toolbox and can be downloaded easily. It consists of a number of useful features such as complimentary Color suggestion. You can also pick out a Color if you see it anywhere on the web and feel that it will be good for your site.

Another great Color program is Color Schemer. However, if you want something for free, go for Pixie. This program displays the Color code of the Color that you move your mouse pointer on.

HTML Checkers
HTML checking programs such as W3C's HTML Tidy cleans up the unnecessary HTML tags, such as the one's produced by Dreamweaver. It is useful to make a good code, even short and compact.

Mozilla Firefox Extensions
Firefox gives easy access to certain extensions that can be easily installed. Most of these extensions are available for web designing. Hence, Firefox is the best browser for use while creation of a website.

Some of the most useful extensions are:

* Web Developer's Toolbar
This is a very important Firefox extension because it lets you view the changes that you make in  CSS for your site, while it is being done. This makes it a great way to write CSS.

* Link Checker
This tool helps to check the broken links by displaying the one's that work in Green and the one's that are broken in Red.

* HTML validator
It helps you to check whether your pages have a valid HTML or not. There is not need to type all the URLs into an Online validity checker.

* Search Status
This is used to monitor your site's position in search engines. It displays the Google Page Rank for your site, along with the data about the traffic and visitors who link to your site.