There are a lot of online generators which are of no use to any designers, however some can help designers to an extent. Some example of online generators are favicon generators, background generators, button generators, and badge generators. Some of the useful kinds are the ones that solve one purpose with quick and easy steps, especially useful for new designers, following is a list of some useful CSS grid layout generators.
Grid Layout Generator By PageColumn:
Blueprint Grid CSS Generator:
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In this article free applications useful and effective for the development and creation of websites with your Mac computer. Without further ado, here are 5 Excellent Mac Application for Web and Graphic Design.
Fotoflexer : Fotoflexer claims to be “The world’s most advanced online image editor”. It offers completely free access to numerous features such as photo effects, graphics, shapes, morphing, and the creation of collages. You can also integrate and share your art with social sites like MySpace, Flickr, Facebook, and more. This can be an important app if the site you are creating is going to use applications.
Simple CSS : With Simple CSS you can create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch or edit them right from the comfort of your desktop. Update styles on multiple pages all at once and reduce the data transfer usage on your page for faster loads.
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A site’s navigation menu is one of the most prominent things that users see when they first visit. There are many ways to design a navigation menu and since almost all websites have some form of navigation designers have to push their creative limits to build one that’s remarkable and outstanding. In this article, you’ll find a showcase of beautiful, creative, and stylish navigation menus for your inspiration.
Tennessee Vacation:
Alpine Meadows:
White House:
The Hole In Our Gospel:
Navigant Consulting:
The Lippincott:
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CSS is a technology that web designers use everyday, but yet it is something that most struggle with as well. Whether it’s keeping stylesheets for large sites manageable or creating image effects that are cross browser compatible, there are plenty of things to cause frustration. This article is an attempt to provide you with a few resources that might help you with your CSS or introduce you to a few tricks you didn’t know about.
Organizing Your Stylesheet Using CSS Edit:
Rob Soule of Viget Labs shows you how to organize your style sheets using CSS Edit, a powerful CSS editor built exclusively for the mac.
Tips For Organizing Your CSS:
A set of practical tips for organizing your style sheets.
Write A Well Structured CSS File:
A detailed and well written post about how to write a well structured CSS file.
Expandable CSS Tabs Tutorials:
A tutorial on creating expandable CSS tabs.
Simple Round CSS Buttons:
Learn how to create rounded corner buttons with only One Image and One CSS file.
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In the times of impressive web2.0 designs and portfolio, designers have tough competition. It is said that first impression has the last impression, therefore it is important to have an interesting introductory text consisting of a few words about the company or designer behind the site.
These introduction is useful for readers as it provides clear information about the designer or the purpose behind the site.
These introductions text are generally highlighted through large text, positioned at the top of the site and always catch the visitor’s eye. Here in this article list 20 examples of excellent web page introductions style used in portfolio websites that you can use as inspiration for your own designs.
Digital Mash:
etonDigital:
Matt Dempsey:
Deaxon:
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Advanced Glow Effects:
Learn how to create advanced glow effects on lines or text.
Create a Dream Design With 3D Typography:
Create 3D organic text and an accompanying design with this excellent tutorial.
Trendy Geometric Lines:
Learn how to create the popular geometric line effects used in web and print design.
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TextMate: TextMate is a powerful Mac OS editor for programmer and designers. It allows you to theme the interface to your preference, auto completes character pairs like parenthesis and brackets and allows you to from within a document.
TextPad: TextPad is a general purpose text editor for Windows-based systems. It has plenty of features like a spell checker for 10 languages, a Warm Start feature which lets you start the program from where you left off when you last opened it, and a keystroke macro recorder for automating keystrokes (which can save you a ton of time from typing frequently-used code) and lots more.
Ultra Edit: UltraEdit is a popular and powerful Windows-based text editor for developers and programmers. It has support for languages like PHP, JavaScript, Perl, C/C++, has built-in file management features, and has a notable and robust search-and-replace feature. Checkout their feature map to see a gallery-style presentation of UltraEdit’s features.
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In this article we have brought 12 free web based applications that are very helpful for you to process your daily work. They are too much simple in terms of their usage because many of these do not need to register with them to use the service.
Pict: Pict.com is a free image hosting service that lets you upload and share your images with one click. You can upload images up to 3.5Mb, JPG/PNG/GIF formats supported, it has automatic image resizing, multiple uploading and much more.
Copy Taste: CopyTaste enables you to create your own private URL with the data you wish to share with your friends or colleagues. You can paste codes, tips or stories into the text editor, upload an image or a video file, or share a video link from any video streaming site. And the best part is that you can do all of these at once without any registration required.
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Everybody needs to managing your tasks day to day. So need a task-management applications that are lightweight, simple to use and easy to get started with. Adobe AIR has those in spades. Here are four great Adobe Air To-Do List applications for maintaining your day to day tasks.
Doomi: Doomi provides a simple interface in which users can enter their to-dos which will be added to the list of active to-dos. Checking an active to-do transfers it to the old to-dos which can be shown or hidden in the same interface. By default neither the active nor old to dos are shown in the interface, this can be changed with one mouse click however. A reminder can be set for each to do which will alert the user after some time has passed. The interface does not stay on top all the time and there is unfortunately no configuration menu at all. You cannot set transparency levels for instance or make the application stay on top. What i really would like to see in a new version would be support for hotkeys, transparency and a sticky interface that can be set to be always on top.
KonoLive: KonoLive is a free group collaboration software for the Adobe Air platform. It has many similarities to Instant Messengers at first glance like the IM-like interface or the ability to add and manage contacts in the application. Everything centers around contacts and activities in the Getting Things Done software. Activities are are tasks at hand that can be defined loosely or in detail depending on the requirements. It takes for example only two clicks and a short test to create a new task in the software. The task can be filled with information at a later time but after its creation it is simply having a name and owner. Your tasks are available offline with the AIR app, and also online thanks to KonoLive.
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Icons are essential in any graphical user interface. They are effective visual cues for performing tasks or navigating to a certain location. There are many resources online that can help and inspire you in your own icon designs and in this post we have share some of the best tutorials.
Juicy RSS Feed Icon:
How To Design A Set Of Multicolored Buddy Icons:
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