March 11th, 2008
89 Tools and Resources for Web Design
I took some to put together an excellent list of design tools and resources. Let me know if I’ve missed anything!
ajaxload.info
Ajaxload - Ajax loading gif generator
asoboo.com
The network for creative, internationally-minded people
befunky.com
BeFunky is all about expressing and representing yourself by turning images and videos into cartoons.
bigartmob.com
Join art lovers throughout the UK in the Channel 4 Big Art Project. A gallery of UK public art photographed on camera phone. Help create the most comprehensive map of public art in Britain by sending pics from your mobile phone to bigart@bigmartmob.com. Create your own online art gallery, including Big Art Map, and blog from the streets via your mobile phone.
blogperfume.com
Blog Perfume - - Perfume WordPress Blogs with Themes, Plugins and Blogging Resources
brusheezy.com
Photoshop Brushes - Brusheezy is the a HUGE collection of Photoshop Brushes and Photoshop Patterns to download, or upload your own!
bubblesnaps.com
Bubblesnaps. Create your own Bubblesnap today! Easily add animated speech bubbles to your photos and e-mail them to your friends as ecards!
calendarsquick.comprintablesindex.html
Printable Calendar Templates - CalendarsQuick.com
carbonmade.com
Carbonmade helps you build and manage an online portfolio website. Use Carbonmade to show off your design, illustration, art, or any other type of creative work.
clickbooq.com
clickbooq is an easy-to-use website creation, management, and hosting solution developed exclusively for professional photographers and visual artists.
code.google.comapischart
Developer’s Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code
colorblender.com
Free online tool for color palette design and matching
colorjack.com
ColorJack is an online Color Scheme Generator used by Graphic Designers, Interior Decorators, and many other people from around the world. Currently available in 13 languages.
colourlovers.com
Find design inspiration with thousands of palettes and color schemes to fall in love with. Influence color trends by rating, commenting and sharing.
colourmod.com
ColourMod provides a free DHTML Color Picker as well as widgets for Apple Dashboard and Konfabulator on Apple and Windows
comiqs.com
Comiqs | Create & Share your Comic Stories
commandshift3.com
Vote on your favorite sites, see the best-designed sites in various categories, and submit and vote for the top website designs. It’s awesome.
conceptshare.com
ConceptShare: Online Design Collaboration Made Easy
csstextwrap.com
The CSS Text Wrapper allows you to generate HTML and CSS to wrap text on your website into any shape.
csstypeset.com
CSS Type Set is a hands-on typography tool allowing designers and developers to interactively test and learn how to style their web content.
curbly.com
Post pictures of your pad, share design ideas, and get expert advice.
designerpages.com
Designer Pages is a free social application for finding products in architecture and design. All the products are posted by suppliers’ themselves.
designfloat.com
Design Float is a social media site dedicated to the design industry.
designgrabs.com
Design Grabs: The Social Design Gallery
designmyroom.com
Explore interior design, decorating and home improvement ideas. Share, rate, vote, become a design star! Find home design inspiration from top interior designers.
deviantart.com
Art - community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose. Art prints.
deyey.com
Name Card Design, Printing and Sharing
dezignus.com
Free vector graphics, silhouettes and vector icons, graphic design and best designers. Download illustrations of sexy girls, styles, shapes & brushes for PS CS3, backgrounds, textures.
dhtmlgoodies.com
Click here for DHTMLgoodies.com, a site with DHTML and Ajax scripts, demos and tutorials.
dripbook.com
Dripbook is an online community of artists painters, photographers, designers, stylists, animators, illustrators, printmakers, architects creativity displayed with images portfolios allow artists share art Dripbook survey of the visual arts world
dynamicdrive.com
Click here for Dynamicdrive.com, a comprehensive DHTML site featuring DHTML scripts, tutorials, and more.
famfamfam.com
famfamfam is the personal website of Mark James
favicon.cc
create favicons online
flashface.ctapt.de
It provides a palette of facial objects: eyes, jaw, hair, etc. For each, you pick the one you like, then place and size it appropriately. I thought the Flash-based interface was pretty clever. You can even save your creation.
flip.com
Make flipbooks, online scrapbooks. Upload your photos, videos & music to customize. Share with Facebook friends, embed on Myspace or Xanga!
formsite.com
FormSite is a hosted forms service that enables non-technical users create online forms using only a web browser. There is nothing to download or install.
freshbadge.com
Quickly create very trendy, eye-candy, and very web 2.0 badges for your site, blog or scrapbook.
genfavicon.com
Generator Favicon. A favicon (short for favorites icon), are litle icons associated with a particular website or webpage, shown next to the sites name in the URL bar of most browsers. The most common sizes for favicons are: 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128. Browse to the files location on your computer to select the image and press Upload Image button to generate a favicon for your site
genopal.comonline.php
Create amazing color schemes
gogofrog.com
Gogofrog - Imagine building a unique 3D web site within just a few minutes… and best of all it’s absolutely FREE.
goo3d.com
Full 3D for Adobe Flash in one click
humblevoice.com
Awww yeah. You found Humble Voice.
iconbuffet.com
Tons of icons for your site or desktop
iconfinder.net
Icon search engine. Search trough 30.000 great icons in good quality. All in PNG-format with alpha-channel. Perfect choice for webdesigners.
iconspedia.com
Download free png icons & Icon Packs | IconsPedia
inserit.com
Create amazing dynamic pages without programming
issuu.com
Issuu - You Publish
javascriptkit.com
Your comprehensive JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, and Ajax stop
kuler.adobe.com
kuler from Adobe Labs. Quickly create harmonious color themes online. Explore, create and share color themes.
litmusapp.com
Painlessly test your email and web site designs
luxa.org
Photoshop tutorials and advanced effects for graphic designers
maxtango.com
All about ecards
mimoa.eu
Mimoa has dedicated itself to bring Modern Architecture closer to YOU. Your Modern Architecture, assembled, compiled and completed, synoptic, swift and always up-to-date. Architecture to be added, searched, visited and re-viewed, MY Modern Architecture: MIMOA.
modernagenda.com
Your guide to Modern World
mycoolbutton.com
You can create a web 2.0 button in only 4 steps. You can paint your button with preloaded web 2.0 icons or upload your personal icon and customize the font of the text inserted. Enjoy with php, gd2 and Photoshop base button and jquery ajax powered. Hosting/housing windows and linux domain with php/mysql/gd2.
pagii.com
Pagii-Social publishing network
polyvore.com
Create outfits using real products saved from any online store. Share your style with your friends or browse thousands of looks by color or brand.
postalz.com
Send postcards online
premiumnewstheme.com
Premium News Theme
professionalontheweb.com
Professional On The Web is a directory of web professional profile, projects and portfolio; tagged by their Know-How.
pushuppulldown.com
Push Up Pull Down
quickribbon.com
QuickRibbon website ribbon generator, free Web2.0 widget
redbubble.com
RedBubble is an online art gallery and creative community that makes it easy to buy and sell art as high-quality framed prints, greeting cards, posters, designer T-Shirts and more.
redesignme.org
Your reaction to bad design
roundedcornr.com
This online tool generates HTML/CSS code and images to decorate your Web site with rounded corners and gradient.
scalenine.com
Scale Nine : Graphical theme and skin goodness for Flex and AIR.
scenecaster.com
Create or transform 3d scenes
scratch.mit.edu
Snap together blocks to create stories, games, and animations and share your creations on the web
sketchplanet.com
Sketchplanet is an online user-driven sketching community.
sproutbuilder.com
Sprout is the quick and easy to build sophisticated multimedia content, indluding mini-sites, widgets, mashups, and more
supermarkethq.com
Supermarket - Great design. Straight from designers.
synthasite.com
A unique website building experience for everyone that wants to publish content onto the web!
tartanmaker.com
Generate seamless tartan patterns!
templatr.cc
Layout builder
terraims.comdmapicons
mapicon Factory allows you to generate map icons and markers for use in Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and other map-mashup applications.
text2png.com
Easy Text to PNG conversion
toondoo.com
ToonDoo - The online cartoon, comic strip creator. Create your own cartoon, comic strips, publish, share and discuss!
typetester.maratz.com
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its’ primary role is to make web designer’s life easier.
vastpark.com
VastPark - Grow your own Virtual World, online game or Real time 3D visualization.
vecteezy.com
Vecteezy is an index of Free Vector Graphics available for download by some of the best designers around the world.
vectormagic.stanford.edu
Vector Magic - precision auto-tracing online
vflyer.com
Marketing Platform for online sellers
voki.com
Create a character, make it talk, take it anywhere
web20badges.com
Web20Badges is a set of free and very cool Web 2.0 Badges.
wix.com
Wix.com - Make your own stunning Flash websites and Flash web content for Free. Design free Flash MySpace layouts and publish Free MySpace comments with Wix.
xhtmlchallenge.com
Home. websites comparison on validation and code markup to vote best coded sites
yeeoh.net
View is a web design showcase, providing the members with the power to decide which sites are showcased and which sites are not. We believe this concept gives the visitors and especially the registered members much more control over the content they would expect to see on a web design showcase.
zingfu.com
ZingFu - 3000 years of photo sharing
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Comments
Great and informtive list. Thanks for sharing.
Sarah
March 11th, 2008
This is one heck of a collection!
Daniel
March 11th, 2008
This post is really useful. Fantastic!
Thank you for sharing.
Helio Jenné
March 22nd, 2008
Nice collections, Can you add my free icons site to your list
http://www.freeiconsdownload.com
Thanks
free icons
March 23rd, 2008
“I took some to put together an excellent list of design tools and resources. Let me know if I’ve missed anything!”
(I think you missed the word “time” in the sentence above.)
Typos happen. Nice list though… thumbs up.
Randy Ludacer
March 25th, 2008
Hi Jason,
You forgot us
My name is Lee and I’m with Wix.com.
We have just finished developing a unique product for artists & designer.
Wix is an online publishing platform that allows users to create and publish content in flash without the need to code and without being constrained by the template based solution. This makes Wix a great way for artists to present or promote themselves online and get their art to standout.
WixArt allows artists to easily create: stunning websites, online exhibitions and
art widgets. You can see what I’m talking about here: http://www.wix.com/artwix/flash%20art
Also have a look at some of our user sites:
http://www.wix.com/artwix/Cindy%20Thornton
http://www.wix.com/artwix/Quentin%20website
http://www.wix.com/artwix/Driian%20Top%20space
http://www.jaxcal.org/
http://www.wix.com/vanillaroyal/gallery
Each document can be published as a standalone site or can be embedded anywhere on the web. It is searchable although it is Flash.
We’d be happy to give your readers advance access to our closed beta Wix so they can see this for themselves.
I look forward to hearing from you,
Lee
BTW
I’m sorry I wrote you as a comment, I couldn’t find your mail
Lee
May 2nd, 2008