Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
MyFontbook is an unique online font viewer that helps save designers time by providing a number of tools to view installed fonts quickly and easily. Unlike a classic font management tool, MyFontbook is platform independent and can be used freely through any web browser. MyFontbook tries to fill the gap between the limited font tools provided by your operating system and the expensive font management applications aimed at power users.
The MyFontbook font viewer was created in 2009 by Jeremy Taylor, a freelance web developer.
Compare all of your installed fonts with an easy to use font viewer. Both list and swatch views help you quickly browse your font catalog.
Organize your fontbook using tags. Tag fonts to describe a font style or tag fonts by project. You may rate fonts that you often use with the familiar star interface.
The gylphs view allows you to quickly scan characters and symbols. Looking for a specific dollar sign for a design? The font viewer makes it easy to find the right typeface.
Visit this cool font site here: MyFontbook
A cheat sheet is a printable guide of a particular programming language, software or framework. A web designer spends most of his design time to move around different software environments and it becomes really hard to memorize the shortcuts and hot keys for each environment. Hence, cheat sheets provide great help for them. In this article, we present 34 essential cheat sheets for the most popular web based technologies.
Get the cheat sheets here
Learn how to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more.
Get this cool info here: Digital Inspiration
Digital Inspiration, launched in 2004, is now among the Top 100 Technology Blogs on the Internet out of an estimated total of 130+ million blogs.
The purpose of this site is to help you take maximum advantage of the software tools and web technologies at your disposal so that you spend more time doing things your really love.
Search through 116,166 icons or browse 284 icon sets:
Basic search
You can use both a single keyword e.g. ‘ computer ‘ or multiple keywords such as ‘ red folder ‘. The results are sorted by how well the entered keyword matches the tags for each icon. So if you have two icons, one with the tag ‘ computer game ‘ and another with the tag ‘ computer ‘, then the second one will be ranked higher when you do a search for ‘ computer ‘, but both icons will show up in the search results. Besides the matching of tags to the search string, the icons are also ranked by their rating given by the users as well as the number of times the icon have been downloaded.
Search for icon sets
All icons are grouped in icon sets. You can search for icon sets by using ‘ iconset: … ‘. Try it out here: ‘ iconset:discovery ‘. The best way to find the icon set you need is by probably be using the browse page. When you click an icon set while browsing you are taken to a ‘ iconset: … ‘ search result page. If you find multiple icon sets you like you can search all of these by separating them with a comma like this: ‘ iconset:drf,fatcow,discovery ‘
Visit this cool free icon finder tool here: Iconfinder
Stripe Generator
A free tool for the webdesign community by
pop minds web & new techs studio
TIP: You can modify slider values by typing directly the desired value
# Play with sliders and color pickers, untill you obtain a super-cool stripe tile
# Press “Download” to save your creation
# Edit your css adding the line to the element you want to stripe
You can use this cool free tool here: Stripe Generator
PHPForm.org
This cool site lets you create a form for your web site in just seconds. All you do is choose what info you are wanting to collect, choose your colors, etc, then it creates the HTML form for you.
You can see this cool tool here
http://www.phpform.org/
Open Source Software / Script Directory. They catalog useful free open source software. Their primary mission is to provide a resource for users to find and use open source applications that are Stable.
They catalog hundreds of scripts for you free to download and use on your web sites and blogs.
Visit this cool resource at: http://www.opensourcescripts.com/
CGTextures strives to be the worlds best texture site. Being a 3D artist myself, I know how hard it is to create textures without good photo materials. Making textures should be about creativity, not about spending hours looking for the right image on the internet.
Lots of categories to choose from. Textures are contributed from a variety of sources and people.
You can visit this cool design resource here:
CGTextures
Wordpress Theme Generator
This online generator creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme. Without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge.
Change the colors, settings, layout, preview live, click “save” and download your unique Wordpress theme zip-file. Extract, upload, set, and you are done! If you have any questions or need additions visit the forum.
Supports WordPress 2.1 to Wordpress 2.8 Themes. With Yahoo! UI (grids, tabs & fonts) to support all A-Grade browsers and valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Theme supports Widgets & Tags.
The world is applauding to the wordpress generator launched by yvoschaap.com. It lets you create your own unique wordpress theme easily within minutes.
You can use this cool tool here:
Wordpress Theme Generator here