Black Friday 2018 for web designers and developers

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The biggest shop event of the year is well and truly underway. Black Friday offers creatives of all disciplines the opportunity to get hold of some brilliant deals. It's an excellent time to get hold of tools and services we want, for a fraction of the normal cost.

In this post, we'll be looking at 32 of the best web tools and services for web designers and developers. You'll find a mixture of both pro tools and more basic services for anyone just starting out in the industry. So whatever stage your web career is at, there's some top Black Friday deals to help you along the way. 

01. Hotjar 

Hotjar is probably the best solution on the market that will help you see how your visitors are really using your site. It’s everything your team needs in one place.

The script is used with great success by all kind of companies, from small ones to very large corporations like Microsoft or Nintendo. It works excellent with all the platforms on the market: WordPress, Magento, Google Tag Manager, Joomla, Shopify, and many others.

Hotjar is packed with tons of features and options. With heatmaps, you will quickly understand what users want, care about, and do on your site by visually representing their clicks, taps, and scrolling behaviour.

Recordings will help you identify usability issues by watching recordings of real visitors on your site as they click, tap, move their cursor and navigate across pages. Using the Conversions funnel, you will find the biggest opportunities for improvement and testing by identifying on which page and at which step most visitors are leaving your site.

There are many other features that will help you improve your website, check them on their website. Get started with Hotjar today, a free trial is offered and you don’t need a credit card.

02. Freelance Invoice 

Empowering more than 100,000 freelancers like designers, developers, writers, photographers, videographers and different types of consultants, Bonsai is the smartest and most complete invoicing platform on the market.

Bonsai is an all-in-one invoicing platform that you can use in your daily tasks, being packed with lots of professionals and useful features. Creating and fully customising invoices takes seconds, or you can quickly generate them automatically from any proposal, contract or time sheet. No need to have any special knowledge, the friendly interface will guide you every step.

With Bonsai you will get paid fast, it tells you when the client interacts with your invoice and when they plan to pay. You can even automate the reminders for your customers, stop wasting time for the payment follow-up. Get started for free.

03. Tailor Brands

Creating a successful logo is no easy feat. If you're just getting started with logo design, Tailor Brands provides a helpful service using AI to automate the logo-making process, creating the perfect first building block for your branding. In under five minutes, Tailor Brands' logo creator will learn what kind of design speaks to you and make a sleek and professional logo design according to your preferences.

For as low as $3.99 a month, you can create and customise your logo, and you can utilise products like their master design tool and EPS/vector file for just $9.99. Their premium plan (at $15.99) gives you an entire branding toolbox, including social media analytics and an automatic post scheduler.   

Today, Tailor is offering an exclusive Black Friday promotion to CreativeBloq readers! Apply promo code {blackfribrand50} at checkout and make a logo for an additional 60 per cent off.

04. BrowseEmAll 

When it comes to manual and automated cross-browser testing BrowseEmAll is the tool for you! This on-premise tool makes it possible to test your web project in all major desktop and mobile browsers.

It supports everything from manual to automated testing featuring great things like live testing, automated layout comparison, responsive testing, and test record & playback. And the best part? Everything runs fast and smooth directly on your Windows, macOS or Linux machine.

Get the free trial today and save 30 per cent with the coupon code 'BLACKFRIDAY' on every purchase until the end of the year!

05. Pageproofer

PageProofer is designed to be the easiest way to leave feedback and track issues during website development. They took the simplicity of a sticky note and applied it to bug tracking. With PageProofer anyone can leave feedback and report issues. You decide who can see PageProofer on your website. It only takes a few seconds to add it to your website.

Point, click and leave feedback. Screenshots and browser info are added to each note. Notifications can be sent to alert your development team.

Everything learned over 20 years of working with creative agencies and development teams they have applied to make PageProofer the feedback tool you would love to use. More importantly, it's something your team and clients will love too. Pricing: plans start at $20/month. Use promo code BLACKFRI18 to save 25%.

06.  Codester

Codester is one of the best marketplaces for web designers and developers where they can quickly buy and sell premium PHP scripts, app templates, themes, plugins, website themes and all kind of apps. It is hugely growing every day, browse it and pick what you need for your projects. They have even a special section where hugely discounted items are being sold.

07. Format

Format is a creative, clean and modern, free website template that you can use for your next portfolio project. If you need a template as a designer, freelancer, agency, web studio, Format is perfect for you! It features pop up video, smooth overlay for portfolio, and animation upon scrolling. 

08. WeGraphics Design

WeGraphics is a huge cooperative community where lots of great things can be found. They are covering extremely good the following fields: mockups, graphics, templates, themes, icons, and fonts. It’s the web designer’s paradise for any project he may have.

For a single $20 membership fee you can get complete and unrestricted access to the entire library of resources that includes not only works uploaded by other designers but also exclusive graphics commissioned and created custom by the WeGraphics team.

09. Meridianthemes.net 

MeridianThemes is having excellent themes which have a pixel-perfect design. All of them are beautiful, fully functional and lightning fast. Browse their collection to have a better idea. Be sure to check the Deals section, where hugely discounted items can be found. Use the coupon code "bf2018" and you will get 30 per cent off (valid from Nov 23 to 30).

10. Landingi

Landingi allows you to build landing pages faster than ever. No programming skills required - simply choose your template, adapt it to your needs and hit “publish” - in less than an hour. 200+ landing page templates, an easy to use builder, 800 fonts and 5000 stock images included as well as an A/B testing tool, analytics and dozens of seamless integrations! Check out this year's Black Friday deal and save up to $912 on an annual subscription!

11. Design Hooks 

DesignHooks is one of the best free resource websites dedicated to web designers and developers. It is packed with thousands of premium, yet free PSD mockups, Sketch, HTML templates, WordPress themes and much more. Everything is handpicked, you will be amazed by the quality of the products.

12. Paper Sizes 

PaperSizes is the best resource for international paper sizes, dimensions and formats. All possible formats and types are there. Extremely useful for designers.

13. WordPress Business themes

Grow your business with a powerful, clean and professional set of WordPress business themes that will definitely make your business stand out. Each Tesla Theme is pixel perfect, eye-catching WordPress themes for businesses, e-commerce sites, videographers, and more. Easily modify your site design with the included page builder. 

14. WordPress Event Themes 

Stunning premium WordPress event themes that give you the most inclusive, all in one solution, for an engaging, interactive and streamlined event. Awesome events around the world use ShowThemes, so if you need something reliable, and tested for years by some of the top events, look no further.

15. WordPress Gallery Plugin 

The popular WordPress gallery plugin, NextGEN Gallery, offers a complete gallery management system with the ability to upload in bulk, with metadata retained, sort photos, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and much more. With NextGEN Pro you can proof, sell and protect your images as no others can.

16. WordPress Photography Themes 

Photocrati is an epic WordPress photography theme, made by photographers. The highly customizable and easy to use theme is packed with over 60 preset designs, built-in galleries, e-commerce and limitless capabilities. It’s used thousands of photographers around the world, so if you need simple and flexible, look no further.

17. Freelance Time Tracking 

Bonsai is the best time tracking solution for freelancers. It’s the first-time tracker fully integrated with your workflow. Available on web, macOS, and iOS, this solution is a dedicated tool for any kind of freelancer – web designers, developers, consultants and pretty much anybody else.

18. 48HoursLogo 

48HoursLogo is the best logo design platform to use whenever you quickly need a helping hand with your logo designs but are on a budget. Try it, the results might just surprise you. 

19. WrapKit Builder 

With WrapKit Builder, anybody can build gorgeous websites and landing pages with only a few clicks. You can start from beautifully designed ready-made demos or you can take it from scratch with drag-and-drop sections. The interface is extremely friendly and intuitive, try it.

  20. MyThemeShop

At MyThemeShop, everybody can find the best WordPress theme for his project. The website is literally packed with tons of gorgeous and fully functional themes. You can get any premium theme or plugin for just $19 and extended membership for just $87.

 21. Logaster 

Logaster is a powerful logo design platform that is super-simple to use, pocket-friendly and which is delivering outstanding results. Create your logo easily with Logaster and download small-size logos for free and full-size logo from $20.

22. WorkExaminer 

WorkExaminer is a powerful internet monitoring software which you can use for employee monitoring. It can also be used for freelancers or in remote-teams. It is super simple to use and it is packed with lots of powerful features. You can have website tracking, screenshots capture, web filtering, and even PC tracking. Everything you need is there.

 23. Total Multipurpose WordPress Theme 

Total is a modern and responsive WordPress theme that combines the power of the WordPress Customizer and the Visual Composer page builder to allow you to create a website for virtually anything. The theme was created with many different niches and professions in mind – corporations, small business, online stores, lawyers, agencies, wedding planners, hosting companies, non-profits, bloggers and more.

24. Chic Blog & WooCommerce WordPress theme 

Chic is a premium WordPress blogging and WooCommerce shop theme with a super clean, modern, fast and well-coded design. Launch your blog and store today.

25. Fashionista WordPress theme 

Fashionista is a super minimal fashion style masonry blog WordPress theme which also provides full support for the popular WooCommerce plugin so you can easily set up your own online blog and shop (shop is 100% optional).

26. Selenium Academy 

Automated Testing From Start To Finish. This course covers everything from Selenium Basics all the way to maintainable tests. Use the coupon code BLACKFRIDAY50 and you will get a 50 per cent discount until the end of the year.

27. InstantLogoDesign 

Exactly as the name says, with this great web tool you will help you on your way to a gorgeous logo design. It is super simple to use and keeps costs to a minimum.

28. GoodieWebsite 

Jump online before the 2018 ends. Launch your website with Goodiewebsite.com. This unique platform allows you to work directly with a developer who will code your design within a few days and at the affordable price. At Goodiewebsite "Black Friday" last all year long as you can get a "design to code" conversion for $999.

29. InvoiceBerry 

InvoiceBerry is a powerful invoicing platform that you can use in your daily tasks. Creating and fully customizing a professional invoice takes less than 60 seconds and the platform is packed with tons of features and options.

30. MediaLoot Fonts 

Stand out from the crowd and look beyond Google Fonts -  for as little as $14 you can get complete and unlimited access to 80+ custom, unique, and stunning fonts suitable for web or print. The collection includes workhorse serif/sans-serif fonts as well as gorgeous extras like script fonts, rustic fonts, neon and art deco styles, and many more. As a huge bonus, buying access to the font library is a part of the overall Medialoot package that includes thousands of other graphics like icons, templates, and mockups. All of this for just $14? Now that's a huge deal.

31. What Font Is 

Using a database of 450k fonts (commercial and free) and font finder AI, for every image uploaded they show you over 60 similar free or 60 commercial fonts. Some use the system to find a specific font missing from the sent sources or by the client or just because they see a nice font and want to know what font is. Enjoy the best font detector on the market.

32. TemplateMonster 

Black Friday is one of the best chances to grab marvellous ready-made solutions for half a price. Get ready to buy all possible themes from TemplateMonster with 50 per cent off. Take a pen right now and mark these very days - November, 19-29. Do not lose your chance to get the most amazing digital products at the best prices!

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