Starting with Website Design or Development work?
Using some excellent resources will help you to boost your productivity and workflow. Here are some of the most amazing tools and services, I trust and recommends.
Domains
Godaddy or Namecheap is an excellent choice for buying and managing domains.
Platform
WordPress is the most popular No. 1 CMS to create Beautiful Websites and Blogs.
Theme Framework
Genesis Framework is the most popular, faster and SEO rich theme framework for WordPress users.
Shared Hosting
Fastcomet, Bluehost, Dreamhost, and Siteground are preferred shared hosting for WordPress. Renewals fee are higher for last three hosting services.
Managed Hosting
WPEngine or Getflywheel are most recommended WordPress managed hosting for your Premium sites. WPEngine offers free Genesis Framework and child themes from StudioPress.
Local WordPress
Local by flywheel and Laravel Valet are most popular and easy to use local deployment tools you can use for the local WordPress installation.
Code Editor
Visual Studio Code is the most popular open source code editor for all platform. You can use Coda from Panic available on Mac only, works great for newbies.
FTP/SFTP
Transmit 5 (mac), Cyberduck or Filezilla are most popular FTP clients. I also use Shellcraft for managing SSH access for my VPS servers.
Design Tools
Sketch and Figma are the most popular tools for creating the prototype, preview and managing ideas for a section.
I will continue to update this page with more resources and tools.