Tiled background generator
Here’s an online tiled background generator. You choose colour, background texture and pattern and when you’re happy with your design, save it to your computer.
Archive for November, 2008
Turn an image into a site using CSS
This very basic tutorial shows you how to slice an image and turn it into a CSS website
Free link checker
Get 1,000 free link checks (searches for broken links) from LinkTiger
From the site:
Get emails when broken links are found. Scans even CSS, PDF, Flash, & MS Office files. View Pages with broken links highlighted. All from an easy to use dashboard interface
Website wireframe website planner
Jumpchart is an online colaborative website wireframe planning tool. As they put it: “Wireframes are great, but Jumpcharts are better. A Jumpchart is shareable, exportable as clean CSS, and automatically generates its own sitemap.”
From the site:
- Helps keep website content organized
- Clarifies content approval
- Export clean CSS/XHTML
- Easy collaboration
- Simple site-wide edits
- Site map view
- Quickly mockup forms and HTML
10 ways to get design approval
If you are a professional web designer here are 10 great tips on how to get your clients to sign off on your design. Some of these are good tips for all types of freelancers.
MYSQL Database manager
If you use MySQL databases and need to manage them but are not a fan of PHPMyAdmin, MySQL Sidu might be for you.
From the site:
MySQL Sidu is a FREE MySQL client working via web browser. MySQL Sidu is simple and easy database tool to use! Sidu stands for Select Insert Delete Update. Sidu can do more jobs than these and looks like MySQL front-end software GUI rather than web page.
Typography
A nice blog about…(surely I don’t have to say)
A nice source of design inspiration. Also has some good links to hand picked freebies such as fonts and all things related.
