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Web Designer  and Graphics Designer Sites and Tools
Website designer and developer tools and sites. The emphasis on quality and free continues. Free is Good.
 

Fonts, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Stock Photos, and the like.

 
HTML, CSS, and the Like. How does your code look?
The Category Web Design CSS contains 7 items.

http://www.csszengarden.com/   A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.

http://www.dezwozhere.com/links.html   A vast link collection for all things CSS, Accessibility, and Usability

http://alistapart.com/   A List Apart Magazine (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/   w3.org specs for CSS 2.1

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/   w3.org XML specifications.

http://www.w3.org/2005/Talks/   advanced CSS discussion.

http://www.mezzoblue.com/css/cribsheet/   CSS Cribsheet

Color Theory....
The Category Web Design: Color contains 3 items.

http://www.december.com/   Hexadecimal Color Chips. very nice.

http://www.colorsontheweb.com/   This site is dedicated to the use of colors in design, and especially in web design. Discusses color theory, the color wheel, color psychology, and how to create a great color scheme for your website.

http://kylejackson.net/   Photoshop brushes

HTML, CSS, and the like. How does your code look?
http://www.starr.net/is/type/htmlcodes.html HTML codes for foreign language accents and special symbols.

http://validator.w3.org/ W3.org: validate your code.

http://htmlgoodies.com/  HTML Goodies intended purpose is to help new and growing website developers learn their trade, and to provide them with tips, guides and reference sets for their use as they become more accomplished. Just a very very handy site filled with reference materials, tutorials, and other goodies for the beginning and experienced web developer.

http://www.seoconsultants.com/ Many helpful tutorials and tips for CSS, ASP, SEO, and all the rest of Coder Alphabet Soup

Free Font MotherLodes

http://www.searchfreefonts.com/

http://www.1001fonts.com/

Photoshop Brushes

http://brushes.500ml.org  Many very nice Photoshop Brushes. Linkware. Free for personal use, must include a link back to their site if you use them. You may not use these brushes for commercial purposes unless specifically asked beforehand.

easyelements.com Free Photoshop Brushes Free for personal use, small fee for commercial / for-profit use.

http://www.brushes.obsidiandawn.com/ Hundreds of beautiful Photoshop brushes, textures, and more. Free for commercial and non-commercial use, with credit and linkback. Thank you Stephanie for making it free for commercial use!!!

http://kylejackson.net/Nice Photoshop brushes, creative commons license with credit and linkback

Free Photoshop Plugins and Resources

http://www.freephotoshop.com/html/free_shapes.html Links to many sites with freeware plugins, filters, brushes, etc. Includes downloads, descriptions. Very useful site.

http://thepluginsite.com/resources/freeps.htm Sign up to download free plugins. With the download you receive a subscription to their occasional newsletter. Worth it.

Fabulous Toys
http://www.tickermyfeed.com/ Add an RSS feed to your site for free.

http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/ Color Palette Generator. Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. Useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.

Odds and Ends
http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/  Browsing and exchange of the World's famous brand-logos. The primary use of site is to enable designers to access vector-forms of the well-known brand-logos that they can use in their presentations, given the permission of the copyright owner.

Generally I build my own from scratch, but resources like this are always good to hang on to.

Free Dreamweaver Templates.
http://www.freesitetemplates.com/templates/browse/dreamweaver/

Free Flash Templates
http://www.templatesbox.com/ 

Useful Information regarding Flash, courtesy Jim Peragino of Planetlogic:

Due to the Eolas Patent, Microsoft has decided to change the way of activex support in IE. As a result, it is required to first click on most Flash animations to active it. The Falsh object will say please click to active this control.

However, Microsoft also provided ways to work around this limitation. This means if you could change a little bit of the web pages, then the Flash menu will act as before, and there is no need to active it by the extra click.

I’d suggest using the FlashObject to work around this active requirement. It is free.

The instructions on the following web page to download and install it on any of the site you may have developed with flash.

 http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/

For the record, Jim is a great guy to work with, and he has been incredibly helpful to me.

 

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