Best Gadgets For Web Designers

As a web designer you will always want specific system requirements to be fulfilled in order to deliver cutting edge websites to your clients. There are several laptops and PCs which offer software and hardware specs that are actually needed by a web designer. Here we will discuss about some of the tools and gadgets that will simplify and enhance your web designing experience.

Apple MacBook Pro:

 Generally a web designer needs several heavy programs to be installed in the system. For instance Dreamweaver, Flash and Adobe Photoshop are frequently needed to accomplish tasks. Apple MacBook provides you with the required power and speed to run all these programs. Another fact is that when you are buying a laptop make sure the RAM is high so that you can run several programs simultaneously without any problem. Besides all these you get cloud which can be used to share files between two computers so that you are always up to date.

Apple iPad 2:

 A geek’s gadgets list is incomplete without Apple iPad 2. You can carry this tablet wherever you go. It can also be beneficial if you want to pay a visit to your client and show how the work is going on.

Wacom Intuos4 Extra Large Tablet:


Tablets can enhance the workflow of a web designer to a great extent. Specially drawing and annotating images is greatly simplified with a tablet rather than any pointing device. The extra large version of this tablet is best for web designers. You can also find a wireless version of the tablet.


External USB Sata Drive Dock:

This amazing gadget can connect two laptop hard disk drives and can be used to back up your important website files. The data transfer rate is 480 Mbps with USB 2.0. 

Canon PowerShot SD 870:

 When you have this pocket camera, it is possible to capture any image and make appear on the website you are going to build for your client. The image quality is great and it can easily be cropped to fit into your website.

 

Optimus Maximus Keyboard:

 

This is an awesome keyboard which is completely customizable. The best part is that each key is an OLED screen which can be programmed. Depending on what you are doing the keys will change. You can even configure photoshop hotkeys for accessing most frequenly used functions.
We will be updating this page with more interesting gadgets that web designers will find helpful. If you have any suggestions please comment here. Meanwhile you can check out freelance web developer london for some really cool web designing stuff.