Your web design & marketing BFF. Find, copy and save colors, fonts and styles from the current page. Optimize your SEO.

Latest Version

Version
0.0.13
Update
February 27, 2023
Size
493KiB
Developer
designsidekick.io
Category
Users
3,000+
Rating
5 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
ActiveTab
Scripting
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Design Sidekick Extension

Speed up your workflow, get inspired, and manage your website's SEO with a little help from Design Sidekick!

Instantly find colors and fonts on any webpage:
Find out which colors and fonts are used on any website. Copy to your clipboard or save to your favorites library

Quickly inspect page elements:
Click on any page element using Design Sidekick's inspector to view its design styles without having to open Dev tools. Copy the CSS to your clipboard or save the style for later.

Optimize your page for search and social:
Design Sidekick generates an SEO and Open Graph tag checklist to make sure you have all necessary tags and content structure to make a splash in search results and social media feeds.

Do more with a Pagecloud account:
Create a free Pagecloud account to get unlimited favorites, and have your favorites sync to your Pagecloud library. The easiest way to build and manage a website!

With Design Sidekick you can:
- View a list of all colors, fonts and type styles used on a web page
- Inspect a page element to view all design styles used
- Copy any design style to your clipboard
- Paste styles directly onto objects in your Pagecloud website
- Create a library of favorite styles to save for later
- View a page's content structure
- Identify missing SEO and Open Graph tags
- View an Open Graph preview
- Synchronize your favorites across all your chrome browsers (requires a free Pagecloud account)
- Start editing your Pagecloud pages directly from the extension

Design Sidekick is a free extension created by Pagecloud to make website building, editing, and managing even easier.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "Design Sidekick", "description": "Your web design & marketing BFF. Find, copy and save colors, fonts and styles from the current page. Optimize your SEO.", "version": "0.0.13", "manifest_version": 3, "permissions": [ "activeTab", "scripting" ], "action": { "default_popup": "build/popup.html", "default_title": "Design Sidekick" }, "icons": { "16": "icon16.png", "48": "icon48.png", "128": "icon128.png" }, "background": { "service_worker": "build/background.js" }, "host_permissions": [ "https://app.pagecloud.com/*", "https://local.pagecloud.com:8000/*" ], "commands": { "toggle-selection": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Alt+P", "mac": "MacCtrl+P" }, "description": "Start selecting objects in the Design Sidekick extension." } }}
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How to download and manually install Design Sidekick extension for Chrome

Looking for a way to install Design Sidekick extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.

However, you may need to install Design Sidekick extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install Design Sidekick extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.

Method 1: Download Design Sidekick extension and manually install through Drag &Drop

If you ever need to manually install a Design Sidekick extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.

Step 1: Download the Design Sidekick Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.

Look for the Design Sidekick extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the Design Sidekick extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for Design Sidekick extension that contains all the data.

Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files

Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.

Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page

Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.

Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension

Now, go to the folder where you extracted the Design Sidekick extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.

Step 5: Complete the Installation

Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.

Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.

Method 2: Download Design Sidekick extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode

This is another method to install Design Sidekick extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.

Step 1: Download the Design Sidekick extension file

Select and download the Design Sidekick extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents

Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the Design Sidekick extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your Design Sidekick extension running.

Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page

In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.

Step 4: Enable Developer Mode

After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.

Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension

Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."

Step 6: Select the Extension Folder

Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the Design Sidekick extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.

Step 7: Confirm and Install

After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.

Conclusion

Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install Design Sidekick extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.

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User reviews

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Mikey Bacque (ID: 000000580300a11b) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 02/16/2023 love this tool! super useful for web design