Best Tools and Resources required for blogger template designer

If you are looking for Tools and Resources required for blogger template designer then here are the Important Tools and Resources for blogger template designer

We should choose the best blogger template which completely fit on our site and finding the best one isn't easy or may we we can't get our dream template. The only ways to get our dream blogger template are first invest money to hire any designer for it and tell him what type of template we want and the second one is we design our template. The second one is FREE but it require hardwork and some skills. Therefore, if you don't want to do hardwork then go and hire a template designer but if you have courage then the second option is ideal for you.

Also see: New Best Free Blogger Templates with Awesome design

To design a blogger template we should first learn some skills. To check out what skills require to design a template first goto below link and read it:

• What Skills required to design web templates?

After reading it, now if you have all the skills (except PHP) which are written in above post then you are ready to design you dream blogger template. 

While designing template we may require many tools and resources from simple to complex and from small to large and every one have its own significance. I have compiled all the important tools and resources which are required and help us to design or customise a template. Let's check them out :

A Testing blog

To start designing a template first you should create a separate test blog on which you can implement your experiments and can also check different scripts and codes before applying on the original template. And I highly recommend you to first create a testing blog.

The reason of creating a testing blog is that before you are going to implement on the original template first do a test of any script or element weather it is working fine or not.
another reson of creating a test blog is if you are customizing your live template then before adding any element on your template first you should test it on your test blog to check if it is working well or not without taking risk of damaging your original one.

Multiple Browsers or use browsershots.org 

Website templates may look different when viewed through different browsers the reason of this difference is that some elements or aspects of template may incompatible with the other browsers mostly old browsers. Therefore, to make our template compatible with all browsers we have to check our template on the other browsers.
For this you require to download the multiple browsers and then check your template by opening your site on them. Its seems somewhere bad and boring to download the browsers first and then check our template.
Therefore, to overcome to this problem i have got a good online tool and i going to share it with you named "
browsershots.org". This tool will provide us the view of different browsers to check our site template.
Just goto  http://browsershots.org/
and paste the url of your site and hit enter. There is a list of multiple browsers are provided. You can also select the browsers what you want.

Basic Text Editor

Well, blogger also have a html editor in it's dashboard but i think that we also need a separate text editor while designing or customizing a template. we can use a widows text editor known as notepad or if you want any other with some more features then i recommend you to use notepad++
This separate text editor help us in copy/paste of the scripts and codes and for other normal editing in the code.

Adobe Photoshop

To design a good looking template there is a need of good designed images for template such as to design a background image, header image or image for any other element of the template. Therefore, to design your custom graphics and images for template we should require a good image editor and i highly recommend you to use Adobe photoshop.

Adobe photoshop is very useful software as it have a lot of features and functions we can edit or create images in different ways easily. but if you don't want to use adobe than their are also some best alternative of adobe photoshop such as Corel Draw, GiMP etc. you can also use them for image editing but i personally think that these softwares can't compete adobe photoshop and i also use adobe. You can easily learn how to use it as it not require any rocket science.

We also posted some basic tutorials of adobe photoshop you can check them below:

• Adobe photoshop tutorials

Icons, Buttons, Backgrounds and copyright free images.

If you are not willing to design your own graphics like buttons, icons etc then their are some free useful online resources are available from where we can find icons, buttons,backgrounds and free copyright images.

Here i have collected some best sources for them you can check them.

To get free copyright images

Check out the below post to get best places for copyright free images:

• Best places to find free high resolution images for your site

To get free icons and buttons

Check out the below links:

• Font awesome icons
• google search

To get backgorund patterns

• subtlepatterns

Fonts

Well, fonts are not essential in designing or customizing of template but if you want to customzie your header or blog post headings and other text and make them out-standing then you may need best fonts for it. 

Another reason of fonts is that you may need different styled fonts while editing or creating image for your template to add a text in them.

To get fonts for template you can use google fonts as it free and have huge collection of fonts.

Below post may help you in finding best fonts for your template:

• Top 10 best Free Web Fonts for Websites

You can also visit our fonts section for more best fonts.

Final words

Well, these are the essential tools and resource which are required to design or customize a blogger template. Hope you like this article and find it helpful. If you got any questions in your mind then feel free to ask. We should give you the answer of your questions.