 As a web creator and a web designer, I have a pretty long list of resources and tools that I use. Also, every single time I discover a brand new tool, something that's really cool, that's gonna help me out with my creativity, help me out with my workflow, while I put it down inside of a list and my list has been growing. And there's so many dope tools out there that are just waiting to be discovered. So what I thought to do was to create a new series where I could showcase some of these tools, where I could show you all some of the ones that I use just about on every single project, some new discoveries, and also just some really cool rare finds that are fun to play with. And I like to geek out on this type of stuff. And I'm hoping that a lot of you also out there like to geek out too when it comes to finding these new tools. And if you do, drop it inside the comments and let me know that way I could keep putting out episodes like this. And of course, don't forget the YouTube stuff like subscribing and stuff. All right, let's go ahead and kick this off. And I'm going to show you three really dope tools that I'm using right now that I discovered. And let's just go ahead and have some fun. Number one is going to be patterns. And this one's dope. First off, it's free. And if you like to play around and put like really cool backgrounds or something like that, this could be really helpful. What this does is it's a free download and you could get all kinds of these cool backgrounds right over here. Now I am going to leave the links to everything inside the descriptions, but really quick, let me show you how this works. So you could download this and you could get a sketch file, a Figma file, XD or AI. I'm going to show you the Figma one because Figma is free. And I think most people are using that nowadays. And here it is inside my Figma file. Now I could go into any of these elements. Let's say I want to just use this blurb right here put in the background. Well, I could select this. I could change the color to either the presets over here or I could put in my own color as well and change that so that way it fits my site. And something like this could be really cool for like the background of the section on your website. And then we could export it and export SVG, of course, that way it's a small file size. So there's so much room to play with over here. You can get super creative with this. I've started using these for some backgrounds like one of the backgrounds I like to use would be like the dots right here. These are really popular to use. And see each one of these sections right here, you could isolate the parts right here and take only what you need. And you could have fun with it. This is where your creativity could really open up. So the best part about this of course is that this is a free tool. And if we go back over to their website, this is by product is right here. I believe, let me see, let's go ahead and click on this. Yeah, it's by is right here is graphics and they got all kinds of cool stuff in here too. Some of it is free and some of it is paid. I've been checking it out and even the paid stuff looks really good in here and for good prices. So go ahead and geek out on this but patterns I feel is a really good one cause it's free. All right, the second tool, number two is gonna be our calculator. Now whenever I'm building a site, I no longer use pixels for fonts. So let's say the base font for body is 16 pixels. This is an easy to use converter to show us RAM. Now I choose to use RAM for all of our fonts. For all of our font sizes because pixels is not good for accessibility. And the reason is when somebody zooms in the screen, well, the fonts could break if it's a big text but if it's RAM, then the fonts and the text will adjust to the zoom and size. So let's say you have a title, it's 48 pixels. There we go, we got a RAM of three. So you could convert all of your pixels and sometimes it's 42. This just makes it so much faster when you're setting up your typography, especially if you're an Elementor user, it makes the whole process quicker and every single project I do when I'm setting up my topography, I use this right here, this calculator. And if we go back right here, we have all these different calculators as well. So there's all kinds of stuff is super fast but this is the one I use the most is the PX to the RAM converter. All right, so that's tool number two. This is my go-to. In fact, if I were to open up a new toolbar, you're gonna see it's one of my go-tos here because I use it so much. And tool number three, this is something for the Elementor users and I am really starting to fall in love with this plugin right here. This is Toolkit for Elementor. Now it is built just for Elementor but let me explain why I'm falling in love with it. I have been able to remove plugins and combine everything into this one plugin right here. Now this isn't a regular plugin or add-ons that you would see for Elementor that has widgets. This is all about performance and all about optimizing your website and then has some pleasant extras in there that I was really just happy to see. Let me go ahead and show you, I'll do a brief walkthrough on it. So I installed it here on our website. If we go over to Elementor, then we got another option here for Toolkit and from here, right off the bat, we could always see where our performance is at and I just have to say that I have been playing around with this and optimizing sites with it and it's been doing more than what I've had with WP Rocket. WP Rocket has been my go-to plugin and it's been the one I've used on all of our websites but I have been getting better results with this. Now there's a lot to go through here. We won't go through everything but if you do wanna see a more detailed walkthrough and tutorial on Toolkit, let me know in the comments. I could do a whole video just on this alone because it is that robust and that awesome. So right here, like we would have with WP Rocket or another speed optimization, we got the option to turn off a lot of functions, turn off a lot of things for the loading and it's far more robust than what we would see inside WP Rocket but what this also reminds me of is Acid Cleanup. Now Acid Cleanup has been one of my go-tos for optimizing websites and this right here is basically combined, Acid Cleanup and WP Rocket. So there's more to it. Now there's so much in here. I could go through this for probably like 30 minutes, definitely, but we're not gonna do that. We got something like a site sinker where we could actually sync templates from different sites. So if you wanna create a template library, you could create one and sync your sites to your own template library. And this part right here, this is something I found really, really dope and I was really happy to see. That's our theme manager right here. So first off, we could put something like a template here in our dashboard and I'm adding this to our client sites right now. So what I did was I created a support portal and if I go to my dashboard, we're gonna see now our template here displayed on our dashboard. And if you're building sites for your clients, you could build like a support panel and that way too you could do a bit more branding as well. If you build a site for a client, you could do your branding, put something really dope up there like a welcome message to your clients and a way for them to get in contact with you. It's a really great way to connect with your clients and give them a more personalized touch. And then also another thing that I found was really cool that we could do here in the theme manager. We can customize our login page. So one of the tools that I use on all of our websites is WPS hide my login. That allows us to change our login to change the dash WP admin or dash login because bots are using that prefix right there to try to attack your site. So for a security measure, you should always change that WP admin. Here we could go ahead and add our own. I'm just gonna put at our own. So now if somebody wants to log in, this is the prefix for right here at our own. And they could also do the same for login attempts. Now that is the third plugin that I'm able to remove. I do not need to use a WPS hide my login. So so far this one plugin has allowed me to remove three others. And then also we could customize our login page right here. We could go ahead and put a background image. Now let's see, let's go ahead and find the image here. I'm gonna put this one. We could go ahead and put our logo. Let me find our logo here. There we go. We got the width. You could put your width. And then you could also, you know, you could put your URL here that so much to do. This is dope too. You could put your own CSS. You could basically build your own custom, customize your own login. So no more default WordPress login. And let me show you what it looks like. Now if we go to an incognito, let's go ahead and try to log in. Remember we had add our own, the prefix it, and don't worry, this is gonna change after this tutorial. So you can't get into my site. But yeah, let's go ahead and try to log in. And now you can see that we got our own login page over here. There's an option for CSS. We could play around with the logo size. And then with the CSS, we could go ahead and style all this up. And there's just so much more. We just scratched the surface of it for toolkit for Elementor. Well, that's it. Those are my top three for this episode. Now if you like these kind of videos, you wanna see more tools, more resources, drop them inside the comments. I could put these out on a weekly basis because I got so many of them and I'm always discovering more. I mean, there's so many dope tools out there. And the thing is, these keep me excited and I'm pretty sure that they're gonna keep you excited as well. And when we're excited, that's when the creative passion starts to come out and we get extra creative and have fun doing what we do. Well, I hope this video helped out and you have fun with it. And don't forget to do all that good YouTube stuff. Like, subscribe. It does help to support the channel. And I'll be back again with more web design related content. All right, thank you.