Tools
How to do what you do, better and faster.
Browser Related Tools
- FireFox Add-Ons
- FavIcon Generator
- Install multiple versions of IE on your PC
- Multi-Version IE Testing
- CSS Cheat Sheets:
- Safari Beta for Windows
- Google Chrome
- iGoogle Personalized Homepage
- TypeTester compare fonts easily
Free CSS Tutorials, Menus, and Templates
- Bulleted List Navigation Tutorial
- Dynamic HTML menus
- CSS Menus by Stu Nicholls
- Menus from 13 Styles.com
- Equal Height CSS Columns
- Listamatic CSS menus
- Template Designs to Customize (be sure to credit your source!)
- CSS Box Model
- Force Scrollbar CSS
html {
overflow: scroll;
}
Working with Clients
- Sample Web Design Contract in DOC format
- Sample Web Design Contract in PDF (Fields need edited)
- Sample Invoice
- Website Content Planning
- Site Map Plan/Example
- A web site planning worksheet from Squaretree
- NOLO.com a free legal help site
Getting a Gig and Doing it Well
- Design Firms in Sacramento
- Salary and Job Search
- Craigslist Gigs
- Freelance Design Work Sites
- 17 Rules For Designers from How Magazine Blog
Social Networking
- What is it all about? http://www.batchblue.com/bluepaper-socialmedia.html
- RSS
- Personalized Portal Pages
- iGoogle
- My Yahoo
- Mac
Inspiration
- Web Designer Wall
- 33 Artistic Sites from the Web Designer Wall
- CSS Beauty
- CSS Play
- CSS Zen Garden
- CSS Remix
- The FWA
- 344 design
- Oh you clever designer…
- Cool gallery Trick
- “If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.” -Edward Tufte
- Polar Panorama Photos
Recommended Blogs on the Sidebar “Blogroll”
Tutorials
- Lightbox Image Pop-up for Galleries
- Persistent Navigation Indicators
- Writing for the Web: Keep it Short and Sweet!
- Curved Corners Tutorial from A List Apart
- Equal Height CSS Columns
- Design Know How from ideabook.com
- Video about Copyright: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
Images
- Displaying Images
- Beeeautiful Backgrounds to die for at squidfingers.com!
- Crystal Clear GNU licensed Icons
- http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/
You can check a box to search for images with a creative commons (CC) free commercial use license. - http://yotophoto.com/
Searches CC licensed images and public domain (federal govt images) from many many sites - http://www.nps.gov/
Federal money means public domain unless otherwise stated - http://www.usa.gov/
Choose image search, all public domain unless otherwise stated - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
All images are tagged with usage details - http://www.iconarchive.com
Tons of free icons for all kinds of things
Writing for the Web
- A good article: Who Needs Headlines? by Shaun Crowley
- Make sure that users can read what youve written with TypeTester
