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AUG 13

LIST OF ONLINE TOOLS TO CREATE ROUNDED CORNERSIf you are having problems creating the perfect rounded corners for your web site’s boxes and tables, then you will want to take a look at this list. We have gathered a list of rounded corner generators. Enjoy.

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JUL 18

LIST OF TOOLS TO GET COLOR SCHEMES FROM PHOTOGRAPHS OR WEB SITESHere is a list of intuitive yet very simple and easy color scheme tools which web designers or graphic designers can find useful. Many of these tools will analyze a picture or photograph and provide you with a usable color scheme based on that image. Some of these tools will analyze a web site and provide you with a color palette.

JUL 6

LIST OF WEB BROWSERS, A MEGA LIST FOR WEB DESIGNERSAs web designers, we should be aware of the web browsers out there to make sure that our sites work on them. Below you will find a list of web browsers that are available online. You might also be interested in our list of browser compatibility tools.

JUN 13

LIST OF SITEMAP GENERATION SOFTWARE TO GENERATE SITEMAPSThe following is a list of sitemap creation software which were created in order to ease the process of sitemap generation. Most of this software is shareware in which you can try it for a certain period of time but then have to pay for it when the alloted time is over. But there are also some freeware sitemap generators listed as well (software that is free).

JUN 4

LIST OF ONLINE SITEMAP GENERATION TOOLS TO GENERATE SITEMAPSThe following tools were created in order to ease the process of sitemap creation. Most of these online, browser-based sitemap generators are free. Part II of this article / list will be a list of Sitemap Generation Software. I hope that this list helps you generate a great sitemap for your site.

MAY 27

FREE IMAGE EDITORS ONLINE - ALTERNATIVES TO PHOTOSHOP EXPRESSI am not saying that any of these online image editing tools are better than Photoshop Express, but they are all quality tools that can be used to create great image effects. I have started this list off with Adobe Photoshop Express.

MAY 21

BROWSWER COMPATIBILITY TOOLS - A MEGA LIST OF BROWSER CHECKERSThe tools here let you view your site as other visitors do. Your effort is wasted if the majority of internet users are unable to view your masterpiece. In fact, some web sites are not even usable at all by some users.

MAY 15

FREE ONLINE BUTTON MAKERS, CREATORS, AND GENERATORSThe following is a list of free online button makers, creators, and generators that every web designer would love to have in their arsenal.

MAY 13

DOMAIN RESEARCH SITES & TOOLS FOR FINDING GOOD WEBSITE DOMAIN NAMESThe tools here, aside from checking the availability of your domain name, they have different features that will give you more details about your domain. They will inform you the search engine traffic, Pageranks, Alexa rank, whois details, back links and many more. These tools are fast and easy to use.

MAY 9

LINK CHECKER TOOLS & BROKEN LINK CHECKING SOFTWARE MEGA LISTThe list here will test your website to find and fix broken links before the page error will appear on your site. These useful tools will also provide you with reports automatically. Check out the tools and make sure that you find a suitable tool for you and your sites. There are so many link checking tools out there that everyone will be able to find the right one for them.

MAY 7

SCREEN CAPTURE SOFTWARE - MEGA LIST OF FREE COMMERCIAL SCREEN CAPTURE SOFTWARE AND SCREENSHOT TOOLSA very helpful list of screen capture tools, screen capture software to take pictures of your computer screen.

MAY 7

WEB ANALYTICS STATS AND SITE ANALYSIS SITES & ULTIMATE LIST OF STATISTICS TOOLSI have compiled a huge list of web site analytics and statistics programs, software, and tools.

APR 25

FREE URL REDIRECTION TOOLS & SERVICES FOR REDIRECTING YOUR WEB SITES PAGESI have compiled a huge list of URL redirection tools & services. This is a large list of quality redirection sites and tools.

APR 22

TOOLS AND SOFTWARE TO CREATE AND GENERATE FAVICONS AND ICONSAre you about to create a favicon or a set of icons? Well, then you are probably searching for some online tools or a list of software in order to create some beautiful icons. Look no further than this list of favicon generators and icon creators. This is the ultimate list of tools, utilities, and software for generating these pesky little icons / favicons.

APR 18

LIST OF THUMBNAIL CREATORS, TOOLS, AND SOFTWARE FOR THUMBNAIL CREATIONNo matter what your desire for a thumbnail version of your picture is, this free list is sure to provide a program that will meet your every need.

APR 10

ULTIMATE LIST OF FLASH-LIKE ANIMATION SOFTWARE FOR WEB DESIGNERSDo you love Flash but don’t know how you are going to afford it? There are tons of Flash-like animation software that I think you will find is just as effective for creating professional web animation. Take a look below to find a few free / open source Flash alternatives, as well as many lower price Flash alternatives that will surprise you.

APR 05

LIST OF TOOLS TO TURN ANY WEBSITE INTO RSS FEED - HTML TO RSS TOOLSDo you have a static HTML website, but you want to either turn this content into an RSS Feed or add an RSS feed to your web site? Then this is the list that will make you very happy.

APR 04

GRAPHIC DESIGN COLOR THEORY AND HOW TO CHOOSE COLORS WITH REAL EXAMPLESYou want to make sure you are sending the right message about your company with your logo. Here is a step by step look at some important factors to consider when designing a logo.

APR 03

ASP DATABASE TUTORIALS - CONNECTING TO A DATABASE WITH ASP AND SQLWe have researched the Internet and have come up with a great list of ASP Database Tutorials that you might find useful. The next time that you are having a problem with your SQL database when developing an ASP application, come back to this page to solve your problem.

OCT 26

1000 WEB DESIGN TOOLS THAT WEB DESIGNERS CAN'T LIVE WITHOUTThis list took me a few weeks to put together…the reason it took so long is because there are so many sites listed AND because these sites are so great that I couldn’t stop looking at them long enough to get back to work. I would say that these are some of the best web design resources / tools on the net.

SEP 21

LIST OF PLUGINS TO ADD INCOMING LINKS TO A BLOG'S SIDEBARI have gathered a large list of tools and plugins that create a list of incoming links on to your blog’s sidebar or other part of your blog. By adding a list of incoming links and trackbacks on your blog, you are offering webmasters an incentive for linking to your blog or articles and in return increasing incoming links to your blog.

JUN 07

HOW TO CREATE AND SEND HTML EMALS - A GUIDE FOR WEB DESIGNERSI am frequently asked how to create and send HTML email, usually with regard to how to broadcast it to a mailing list. This article presents the various options available to you.

MAR 05

SYMMETRICAL VS ASYMMETRICAL DESIGN - WHICH ONE?Where do you start with a graphic design layout? How do you know when it is done? Are you looking for a balanced symmetrical look or something a little more modern and out there? Does it matter? And better than that, who does it matter to?

MAR 04

PRINCIPLES OF GESTALT THEORY & HOW TO APPLY IT TO REAL WORLD GRAPHIC DESIGN LAYOUTSIn any given graphic design project or piece, several of these principles of Gestalt may come into play, and typically tend to compliment each other. As your expertise in graphics continues to grow, you will notice this more. For now, let's take a look at what these rules are.

FEB 29

SHOULD GRAPHIC DESIGNERS SKETCH? YES, THEY SHOULD!Why do we need to sketch if we are designers? Most of us have no talent as artists, even though we may be top producing in our field. I found out that drawing out the most primitive of sketches is equivalent to creating a road map. Graphic designers will find this article useful for their next design project.

FEB 25

HOW TO DESIGN LOGOS FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS - A GRAPHIC DESIGN TUTORIAL FOR FREELANCERSLogo design is the most creative of all graphic design processes. Besides the technical skills, it is the Graphic Designer's creative process which plays the most important role in creating a high impact, eye catching logo design. This logo design tutorial guides you through the steps to create an attractive and professional logo for your customer.

FEB 17

COOLEST BUSINESS CARD DESIGN PART IIICool business card designs that have really cool cutout shapes including dieline cuts, cool combinations of papers, embossing, cool use of materials, impressions, metals, and inks. This is a great list of inspirational business cards for Graphic Designes to use for reference.

FEB 13

HOW TO MAKE KEYBOARD BULLETS, STARS, HEARTS, FRENCH ACCENTS, COPYRIGHT SYMBOLS, AND MORE WITH THE ALT KEYDo you ever need to type symbols or foreign letters that aren't on your computer keyboard? As a Graphic Designer, I know that you do. This is a guide to using the ALT key to type special symbols.

JAN 30

BEST OF BLACK AND WHITE DESIGNS Yes, black and white designs can be just as effective as four color designs. This is a great list of inspirational black and white layouts for Graphic Designes to use for reference.

JAN 27

LIST OF SITES WITH PHOTOSHOP TENNIS AND GRAPHIC DESIGN COLLABORATION GAMESHere is a list of the sites online that you can find Photoshop tennis and other graphic design collaboration games.

JAN 15

HUGE LIST OF PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL DIRECTORIES, RESOURCES, & SEARCH ENGINES A huge list of Adobe Photoshop tutorial resources as well as Photoshop directories & search engines.

JAN 06

NETWORKING WITH OTHER GRAPHIC DESIGNERS USING FLICKR & FLICKR ALTERNATIVES In this article, I am going to suggest that you use Flickr and other Photoblogging sites to promote your Graphic Design careers. There is also a list of dozens of Flickr alternatives.

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