If you’re thinking about building a new website, you need the right tools for the task. Every professional website designer has a toolbox of strategies and tactics they use with every project. If this is your first attempt at building a website, it pays to do what the pros do.

In this blog, our team of London website designers and developers will highlight some of the tools & resources we use. We want to show you what’s possible when using the right methods and systems to design your site. Here are our top 10 resources for web development in 2022.

#1 Total WordPress Theme

When designing a site, you need a web builder and Content Management System (CMS) offering a high level of customization. With WordPress, you get everything you need to design custom templates using the Total WordPress theme.

The Total WordPress theme gives you freedom with your design customizations without restrictions or limitations to your design requirements. It’s a great choice for newbies to web design and professionals.

Build your site fast with over 90 section templates, more than 75 pre-styled post-entry cards, and over 45 quick-import demo samplers.

Customise your template using the easy drag-and-drop editor, and choose from over 500 live customization settings and the onboard font manager.

WordPress Total Theme integrates with JavaScript, giving your built-in filters and hooks, along with more than 600 snippets and a huge selection of custom add-ons.

You get complete control over the development process and compatibility with plugins like bbPress, WooCommerce, Toolset, WPML, Sensei, LearnDash, TablePress, and more.

#2 BeTheme

BeTheme is the largest WordPress and Portfolio Theme, offering three key features. You get the BeBuilder, the Admin Panel, and more than 650 customizable, pre-built themes for your site. This theme comes with more than 40 built-in features and unlimited design potential.

The BeBuilder suite lets you create any site or template layout with the wraps, sections, styling options, and shortcodes. The Admin Panel does away with the need for coding, with the BeBuilder offering you a huge assortment of page-building features.

Create unlimited design layouts from more than 3000 pre-built pages. Import, export, and retrieve content blocks and design revisions, creating any page background for your template.

The new “Theme Options ³” allows you to augment the Admin Panel by setting up your store’s portfolio, blog, and listings.

#3 Trafft

Manage and automate your business appointments with Trafft booking solutions. It’s easy to implement without the need for technical support. It’s a great choice for newbies to web design, bringing you a free solution to your design needs.

Trafft is easy to implement, and you get a free plan, along with three paid plans to tailor to your business needs. Activate the features you need for your site, and manage your appointments on one platform.

Trafft supports appointments at multiple business locations, integrating with MailChimp, Google Calendar, Google Meet, Zoom Meetings, SendFox, Zapier, and many other services. Customise your booking pages, change the font and colours and add custom code.

All Trafft subscription plans feature email and SMS notifications, as well as employee assignments, group booking capability, scheduling and online payments, including modulus for taxes.

#4 wpDataTables

If you’re running a WordPress site, we recommend using the wpDataTables plugin if you want to include charts and tables on your site.

This plugin processes huge amounts of data in seconds, giving you accurate, clean charts and graphs that catch the attention of your visitors.

With wpDataTables, you get four chart-building systems allowing you to create interactive, responsive charts that are easy to edit. It works with Google Charts, Chart.js, Highcharts, and Apex Charts, allowing you to use multiple databases in several formats.

Highlight or colour-code the key data on charts using conditional formatting. This plugin is easy to integrate into web builders like Avada, Elementor, and Divi.

#5 Mobirise

Mobirise is a  free offline web builder platform is ideal for creating small to mid-sized websites. If you’re more visual than technically-minded, you’ll appreciate the functionality of this platform.

Mobirise offers over 4,000 website blocks, with more than 100 HTML themes and over 300 templates for your home page.

Mobirise comes with a range of useful features, including galleries, sliders, icons, Google map integration, and much more.

#6 Amelia

The Amelia plugin is user-friendly, allowing you to automate and manage appointments and bookings, saving your clients time while organising your schedule.

Change or cancel appointments online and manage single or group appointments all in one place. You also have functionality for managing event bookings at multiple business locations.

Schedule and track schedules and employee assignments and integrate Amelia with Google Meet and Zoom for conducting training or consultation sessions with your clients.

#7 LayerSlider

This website building tool brings life and excitement into your boring template design. Transform the look of your templates using eye-catching animation, modern graphics, and a host of interactive features.

LayerSlider comes with more than 150 slider and popup templates with a user-friendly interface for the editor.

Newbies to design will find it easy to create amazing landing pages, popups, image galleries, and animated page blocks. LayerSlider can even handle complete website builds.

#8 Uncode

Uncode is the ideal choice for WooCommerce WordPress themes. Uncode offers you a multi-use theme for your freelancing business, agency, or blog.

Uncode comes with more than 550 section templates from the Wireframes plugin, allowing you to create any template layout.

Using the WooCommerce Custom Builder combined with the Single Product builder makes Uncode the ideal choice for eCommerce websites.

#9 Essential Grid

This WordPress gallery plugin brings you a tool for creating breathtaking image galleries that breathe new life into your template design.

Share your top-performing blogs along with your portfolio. Essential Grid lets you create appealing product displays while allowing you to share audio and video content.

#10 Slider Revolution

Create impressive visuals for your visitors using the Slider Revolution plugin for WordPress. Slider Revolution allows for the integration of speedy, efficient, and effective design features.

You get more than 200 templates and 25 add-ons for pulling dynamic content directly from your social media accounts.

Conclusion – Why Do It Yourself? Hire A London Web Design Company To Do It For You!

Sure, it’s admirable that you want to build your website yourself. We get it; you’re looking to bootstrap the early stages of your business. However, have you considered the opportunity cost involved with your strategy?

It could take months to build your site and even longer for it to attract qualified traffic to your offers. In that time, we can have your website up and running and earning.

Reach out to the team at WebDeveloperLondon, and we’ll discuss your project in a free consultation that costs you nothing but your time. In the meantime, you can read our blog on how to find the best website design company in London.