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    • CommentAuthorrefueled
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2007 edited by Christopher on the 08th April 2007 at 09:56:52 EDT
     
    Tutorials:

    http://w3schools.com/
    http://www.pixel2life.com/
    http://www.htmlgoodies.com/


    Software:
    http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/ Freeware Directory maintained by a usenet group
    http://www.gimp.org/ (photoshop replacement)
    http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html Notepad 2
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla FTP program
    http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm Best screen capture utility
    http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm Resize your images
    http://www.axiomx.com/PixelToolbox/index.htm Create icons, wallpaper tiles and cursors
    http://www.nvu.com WYSIWYG HTML Editor
    http://www.amabilis.com/ 3d modeling software


    Fonts:

    http://www.dafont.com/
    http://www.1001fonts.com/
    http://www.urbanfonts.com/
    http://simplythebest.net/fonts/
    http://www.fontface.com/main.html
    http://www.acidfonts.com/


    Icons:

    http://famfamfam.com/
    http://www.iconbazaar.com/
    http://www.iconaholic.com/downloads.html
    http://www.aspneticons.com/
    http://www.yellowicon.com/
    http://interfacelift.com
    http://ajaxload.info/

    Pixel Patterns:

    http://www.squidfingers.com/
    http://www.k10k.net/pixelpatterns/

    Color Resources:

    http://genometri.com/color/gc_palettes.htm
    http://www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html
    http://www.colorschemer.com/schemes/
    http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html online color scheme generator


    Design Portals (when you need inspiration)

    http://coolhomepages.com/
    http://moluv.com/
    http://www.linkdup.com/
    http://www.thefwa.com/

    Royalty FREE images:

    http://www.sxc.hu/
    http://www.morguefile.com/
    http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
    http://www.stockvault.net/
    http://yotophoto.com/
    http://www.openstockphotography.org/
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      CommentAuthormdizzle
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2007
     
    I feel like this should be a page here. It's a lot of good information for any web designer.
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2007 edited by gnome on the 28th January 2007 at 17:27:11 EST
     
    Sweet Stuff for a USB Drive - daily cup of tech
    Portable Programs - wikipedia
    Portable games - wikipedia
    Blender - 3d modeling software
    Notepad + + - text-editor
    Free Templates Providers - they have a fair sized list of other free template providers

    I now Sticky this, because it is a useful list of links..
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      CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2007 edited by Sean on the 19th May 2007 at 21:35:44 EDT
     
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      CommentAuthorSyuk
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2007
     
    Here is a good one, Nice Forms (uses JS)

    Demonstrations [badboy.ro]

    Article and Commentary [badboy.ro]
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      CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2007
     
    The links section is now live on www.attackr.com so if you have more suggestions, we can add them to the list.
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2007
     
    notepad ++ is not on the attackr list.
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      CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2007
     
    refresh the link gnome bakie
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2007
     
    yay
    • CommentAuthorrefueled
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2007
     
    Paint.NET 3 - image editor

    More Design Portals:
    Screenspire
    Inspiration King
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      CommentAuthoricyone
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2007 edited by icyone on the 31st January 2008 at 16:01:15 EST
     
    7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio
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    Posted By: refueledPaint.NET 3- image editor


    Version 3.0 is out? Wow, I didn't even know that. I'm still using 2.70 tongue
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      CommentAuthorJeremyD
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2007 edited by JeremyD on the 01st February 2007 at 20:57:54 EST
     
    Podcast
    101 Web Design Show
    a podcast done by two hilarious guys. They're two web designer friends that seem to have differing opinions on everything. Topics include flash sites, fluid v. fixed width, and other controversial issues in the web design "world".
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      CommentAuthorsthaugen
    • CommentTimeFeb 1st 2007
     
    1 more design portal:

    Screenalicio.us
    • CommentAuthorwfiedler
    • CommentTimeFeb 2nd 2007
     
    If not already mentioned. Sometimes you only need this site:

    Web Developer's Handbook
    • CommentAuthorDotsona
    • CommentTimeFeb 2nd 2007 edited by Dotsona on the 02nd February 2007 at 04:45:57 EST
     
    Posted By: JeremyDPodcast
    101 Web Design Show
    a podcast done by two hilarious guys. They're two web designer friends that seem to have differing opinions on everything. Topics include flash sites, fluid v. fixed width, and other controversial issues in the web design "world".


    Yes! I love that pod cast as well, they are so funny, everyone should check it out.
    • CommentAuthorrefueled
    • CommentTimeFeb 12th 2007
     
    Wink - Free Tutorial and Presentation creation software
    • CommentAuthorcallmereal
    • CommentTimeFeb 12th 2007
     
    Designfruit - Great high res. Photoshop brush sets and vectors.

    Call Me Real - Great resources of all kinds. From brushes to templates to useless facts.
    • CommentAuthorrefueled
    • CommentTimeFeb 15th 2007
     
    Good Resource: Mandarin Design
    • CommentAuthorrefueled
    • CommentTimeFeb 16th 2007
     
    Logo and graphics generator: Cool Text
    This site also has a good pixel badge generator: Pixel Badge Generator
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    • CommentAuthorrefueled
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2007
     
    All the cheat sheets you'll ever need:

    http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/
    • CommentAuthorSaad
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2007
     
    Trout Gif Optimizer

    A very excellent free tool that can optimize gif's with almost no quality loss. I optimized the header images on my site by 70%, and it looks the same.
    • CommentAuthorDraicone
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2007
     
    Here's one for the PHP DBAs, as opposed to coding it from hand, my gtools.org site provides an MD5 hash generator :)

    Any thoughts on a color picker?
    • CommentAuthorEcko
    • CommentTimeFeb 25th 2007
     
    Useful and time saving CSS layout generators.
    CSS Creator
    CSS 1-3 layout generator
    And in my opinion, the best, Layout-O-Matic
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      CommentAuthorChristopher
    • CommentTimeFeb 28th 2007 edited by Christopher on the 28th February 2007 at 07:08:34 EST
     
    E - Text Editor (Think of TextMate for Mac but on Windows)

    edit: it's only a 30 day trial by the way, sorry I forgot this was a thread for free resources
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      CommentAuthorarwen54
    • CommentTimeMar 1st 2007 edited by arwen54 on the 01st March 2007 at 12:40:47 EST
     
    Don't bother downloading standalone versions of IE to test your designs...

    here's an online IERenderer
    • CommentAuthorDraicone
    • CommentTimeMar 2nd 2007
     
    And from my tools site, a simple little color picker.
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    online Safari screenshot renderer - quite fast.
    an IE version - though not as quick as IE renderer.
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    Back to the top, and with a link to the YUI: CSS Grid Builder.
    • CommentAuthorrefueled
    • CommentTimeMar 3rd 2007 edited by refueled on the 03rd March 2007 at 20:07:37 EST
     
    now thats a good link.
    • CommentAuthorrefueled
    • CommentTimeMar 16th 2007
     
    Time to bump this up again.

    http://designerspub.net/ --> New Design Portal that just launched a few days ago.
    • CommentAuthoroleman
    • CommentTimeMar 18th 2007
     
    A link to add to the list for a source of 'free software' is this link.
    http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/

    The usenet group alt.comp.freeware has been compiling this list since about 2002.
    The extensive list of programs (in all categories) listed there are all completely free, contain no spyware, malware, etc.
    I am not afiliated with this list although I was in on the creation of the pages at it's inception.

    hope this helps someone out.
    oleman
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeMar 18th 2007
     
    oleman: poof! it's been added.
    • CommentAuthorrefueled
    • CommentTimeMar 18th 2007 edited by refueled on the 18th March 2007 at 14:41:12 EDT
     
    @gnome: You know, that was my original post you edited? If I was mean I could remove the link.
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeMar 18th 2007
     
    @refueled: I know. Perhaps tomorrow I will grab all the links and drop them into your original post, in an orderly fashion.
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    colourlovers.com < the best site for colour pallettes!
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      CommentAuthorNickyD
    • CommentTimeMar 29th 2007
     

    I just came across this royalty free stock photography page.  They offer

    new images throughout the day that you can use on your personal web sites.


    http://www.123rf.com/freeimages.php

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    Web Thumb which is a really simple tool to generate screenshots of websites. They also have an extremely easy to use API which, quite obviously, requires you to register to get full access to it (and your required API key). Web Thumb is what powers our screenshots now as well smile
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      CommentAuthorsofaspud
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2007 edited by gnome on the 01st April 2007 at 11:19:35 EDT
     
    http://www.demonoid.com/

    Just kidding wink

    rel="nofollow" added by Gnome
    • CommentAuthorrefueled
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2007
     
    @sofaspud: if your just kidding, I would take the link down before someone else does. wink
    • CommentAuthorwfiedler
    • CommentTimeApr 2nd 2007
     
    Harmonious Color Schemes

    Try this: GenoPal online

    Perhaps useful.

    Cheers
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    can we sticky this thread?
    bakie
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      CommentAuthoricyone
    • CommentTimeApr 8th 2007
     
    • CommentAuthorshonari
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2007
     
    firefox web developer add-on this addon is mad i just found out about it so bear with me. it breaks down any website into its html coding, CSS and other scripts you can think of. so if you ever stumble up on website and wonder how did hey do that get firefox web developer add-on
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    ClickHeat: ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones.
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      CommentAuthoricyone
    • CommentTimeApr 15th 2007
     
    That is pretty interesting Christopher. thanks
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    Yep it is rather good, think of Crazy Egg but with all the source code available totally freely to do whatever you like with it.

    I love all these Open Source / free alternatives to the popular paid software, and next up theres something similar to Basecamp, but once again its totally free and full source code is provided...

    active Collab: activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool.
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeApr 15th 2007
     
    I use thisOpen Stock Photography Colour Search to pick out colours I need.
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      CommentAuthorjrochman
    • CommentTimeApr 15th 2007
     
    This is useful for cross browser compatibility.

    Standalone Internet Explorer

    It allows you to run all the versions of IE on the same computer.

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