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20 Free & Open Source Image Galleries for Web Designers

DJ — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:53:22 +0000

20 Free & Open Source Image Galleries for Web Designers | CMD+SHIFT BLOG: Design, Tech, Internet, Web, Freelance, Blog by Liz Andrade, Owner of Seatttle Web Studio CMD+Shift Design. | Resources.

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Free Photoshop Brushes and Free Photoshop Textures!

DJ — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:02:06 +0000

Trendy Robot - Your number one source for Free Photoshop Brushes and Free Photoshop Textures!.

Often when I am totoally in a design funk, especially when under a deadline, I cruise various photoshop sites, and eventually, I have a flash! Yes, this can happen to you as well. At the very least you can up your arsenal of PS brushes and play!

Script & Style is a new site to hit regularly

Cheryl — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:16:10 +0000

Script & Style is a fairly recently-developed site of the type that collects high-quality articles spotted around the web that are useful to web designers and developers.

A project of Chris Coyier (whose name you might remember from my enthusiastic mention of his CSS-Tricks.com site) and David Walsh — if I’m remembering correctly, this is the same pair that put together the Band Website Template as well: Chris with the visuals and David with the programming.

Back to Script & Style — you might expect it to be a bit sparse, being a newer site, but it looks like the fellas have raided their stash because I’m back 25 pages into the archives and still going strong.

Each of their articles is not simply a headline link but describes what they found useful about the article to which they link. And you run the gamut here: MooTools, free icon sets, and someone’s best tutorials on converting PSD to XHTML is what’s in my browser’s page view right now, if that gives you an idea.

Based in WordPress, the site itself, with it’s pleasing half-and-half design, is a good way to kick start your design and development engine. So put it on your frequent visit list or RSS feed today.

Pattern Tap : Interface Collection for Design Inspiration

DJ — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:22:06 +0000

Fill up on web. Tasty, tasty web.

mmmmmmm delish

Pattern Tap : Interface Collection for Design Inspiration

Retro retro who’s got the retro

DJ — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:39:33 +0000

A list member needed a retro cowgirl. The links came in. Some nice stuffs here

http://www.retroart.com/ : Retro clipart
http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-clip-art-and-design-on-cd-rom.html : Dover Publications clipart.
http://designmeltdown.com/chapters/Retro/Part3.aspx : Design Meltdown’s page on retro styles

So this will also be an ongoing link love page. If you have a retro art/font/design/clipart link, post a comment!

Web Developers Field Guide - Your Ultimate Resource

DJ — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:33:57 +0000

Web Developers Field Guide - Your Ultimate Resource

Someone I follow on Twitter posted up this. great resource… see! You need to twitter!

Aviary - Creation on the fly

DJ — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:31:59 +0000

Aviary - Creation on the fly

Sweet looking tool. Comes to me via a tweet by Chris Brogan.

You would be amazed by the number of new and useful links that come thru twitter people that you follow. I follow a number of marketing tweeple, some top web designers/standards people, technology gurus, a few famous people, along with some friends, and although it does suck time out of my day when I allow it, it is more productive than my previous second life addiction. Try it.

Picnik : Editing photos online

DJ — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:23:34 +0000

This site could be a blessing for those web designers who have clients that send HUGE photos to be included on a web site, or who insist on resizing that 4000+px wide photo in their CMS editor by using those resize handles. You know how that makes the pic look, and then they wonder why the page, even on broadband takes so long to load. Must be something that you did. Always is ya know. Send them here, tell them the max width for a photo that you need, and have them play. Give them some lovin.

Picnik - edit photos the easy way, online in your browser

The Webmasters Turbo Kit

DJ — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:01:21 +0000

If you can read this and just block out the annoying RED and BLACK site design and the huge side adverts… you can have a good reference to give to clients, and perhaps even use yourself. Promote how you can do this for them.

The Webmasters Turbo Kit: 50-Plus Tips and Resources to Improve Your Sites Speed and Performance - Inside CRM

NETTUTS

DJ — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:06:34 +0000

to accompany their psdtuts web site. This freelance site is full of great ideas on how to take your business to a new level. Quit complaining and get to DOING.

A New Sister Site - NETTUTS - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog