Tools & Resources (86 entries)
- Great Collection of Free Social Media Icon Sets
- August 28, 2010
| 3 Comments
- A large collection of attribution free sets of mixed social media icons.
- Supercharge Your Website Maintenance with Xenu's Link Sleuth
- July 25, 2010
| 4 Comments
- A collection of tips and tricks about extending Xenu's Link Sleuth to do more than check for broken links.
- Design Pattern Collections
- July 23, 2010
| 4 Comments
- A nice collection of sites that specialize in showcasing types of design elements.
- Instant Placeholder Image Generator
- February 14, 2010
| 9 Comments
- Easily create placeholder images for mockups or HTML templates with the Dummy Image Generator.
- Round Up of Low Cost Usability Tools
- December 30, 2009
| 8 Comments
- A very useful guide to more than 20 web-based usability tools.
- Popular Home Page Designs Deconstructed
- November 23, 2009
| 25 Comments
- Interesting feedback on sites like TechCrunch and CNN done via the Notable visual feedback tool.
- Firefox Add-ons for Designers
- August 22, 2009
| 22 Comments
- A roundup of 19 Firefox add-ons geared towards web designers.
- Mega Drop-Down Menu Design Showcase
- August 08, 2009
| 11 Comments
- A collection of 20+ examples of the best mega drop-down menu design.
- Typography-Based Layout Contest
- May 22, 2009
| 4 Comments
- Smashing Magazine is running a contest for the best typographic web layouts.
- 9 Free Tools to Analyze and Improve Your Website
- October 12, 2008
| 21 Comments
- A list of useful free online web site marketing tools to help you to monitor and improve the performance of your web site.
- Useful Collection of Web Site Checklists
- September 28, 2008
| 16 Comments
- A great collection of web site checklists covering over 400 specific items through 23 topics, including web site development, SEO, usability, and accessibility.
- Web Site Navigation Design Showcase
- August 24, 2008
| 14 Comments
- A collection of over 70 examples of great web site navigation design.
- Login Form Showcase: 65+ Examples of Login Form Design
- June 23, 2008
| 16 Comments
- A showcase of more than 65 examples of web site login form design. Discover the best practices for login form layout, labeling and design.
- A Better Way to Create Information Architectures, Wireframes and Prototypes
- May 30, 2008
| 12 Comments
- Oversite is a full-featured, easy-to-use application for creating web site IAs, web page mockups and web application prototypes. Check it out.
- Footer Design Showcase: 75+ Creative Footer Designs
- May 12, 2008
| 21 Comments
- A collection of creative, engaging and useful web site footer designs to fire your imagination.
- Online Charting Tool for RSS Feeds
- March 20, 2008
| 4 Comments
- Feed Analysis is a charting tool to show information about your site's RSS activity (FeedBurner only).
- Get More Traffic: 18 Social Media Sites for Web Designers
- March 07, 2008
| 26 Comments
- A collection of over 18 social media sites for web designers to submit articles to in order to get links and drive traffic.
- Home Page Carousel Showcase: 40+ Carousel Designs
- February 22, 2008
| 11 Comments
- A collection of over 40 home page carousel designs showing common themes and different approaches taken by designers.
- Review of Wordze: a Keyword Research Tool
- February 07, 2008
| 4 Comments
- A paid review of the search engine keyword research tool Wordze.
- Dummy Text Generator
- February 05, 2008
| 14 Comments
- Dummy Text Generator is a free online tool for generating dummy text for web pages and designs.
- Pricing Table Showcase: Design Patterns for Sign-Up Pages
- January 16, 2008
| 8 Comments
- A showcase of pricing tables on sign-up pages with best practice implications from their different implementations.
- Write Better: Online Readability Testing Tools Compared
- December 26, 2007
| 1 Comment
- A comparison of 12 online tools for testing content readability. Includes readability analysis of sample text for each tool.
- Cheap Alternative for Web Site Usability Testing
- November 21, 2007
| 3 Comments
- UserTesting.com is a service that conducts remote usability testing at very affordable prices.
- Book on User-Centered Web Design Available Online for Free
- November 20, 2007
| 2 Comments
- Access by Design book on designing web sites with a goal of universal usability is available online for free.
- Flash Video Player Design Showcase
- November 18, 2007
| 8 Comments
- A collection of 50+ examples of the best designed Flash video players.
- Working with Clients
- October 25, 2007
| 6 Comments
- A huge collection of articles about working with clients on web projects -- from signing contracts to dealing with difficult clients.
- Customer Reference Checklist / Questionnaire
- October 15, 2007
| 1 Comment
- A comprehensive customer reference questionnaire for use in product vendor customer reference checks.
- Review of Web Site Development Tool Design Dot Fly Publishing
- October 14, 2007
| 3 Comments
- Designer dot Fly Publishing is a browser-based WYSIWYG application for creating simple web sites without using code.
- Tools to Compare Fonts Online
- October 08, 2007
| 7 Comments
- Review of several online tools for testing and comparing font settings for web pages.
- Design Patterns: 50 Registration / Sign Up Forms
- September 12, 2007
| 5 Comments
- A showcase of sign-up forms which combine functionality and usability with pleasing visual design.
- Great 'Web 2.0' Idea — Content Monitr
- July 23, 2007
| 7 Comments
- My idea for a really useful web app is for one that monitors the age of the content on your site and tells you when it's out of date.
- Review of Inspyder InSite — a Web Site Spelling and Link Checker
- July 01, 2007
| 8 Comments
- Review of Inspyder InSite, a link and spell checking tool for webmasters.
- How Customer-Focused is Your Web Site?
- June 12, 2007
| 13 Comments
- The Customer Focus Calculator is a useful and fun tool for measuring whether your web page copy is focused on your customer or yourself.
- Top 15 Smashing Magazine Articles
- May 24, 2007
| 2 Comments
- The most popular articles from Smashing Magazine -- a great online source for web design resources, techniques and tools.
- Online Image Editors Compared
- April 18, 2007
| 27 Comments
- A comparison of leading online image editors that require no software download in order to use them.
- Pull-quote Design Showcase
- April 08, 2007
| 5 Comments
- Add emphasis and liven up your content with pull quotes. A selection of designs to inspire you!
- Save Ink by Cleaning Up Web Pages Before Printing Them
- March 22, 2007
| 5 Comments
- Save ink and paper when printing web pages by removing any elements from the page that you don't want to print out.
- Easy Way to Display Well-Formatted Code on a Web Page
- March 08, 2007
| 3 Comments
- Quick Highlighter is an online tool for presenting code on a web page.
- Save Time and Effort With the Testimonial Generator
- February 08, 2007
| 4 Comments
- Create customer testimonials in a flash with the testimonial generator!
- Download Free Fonts from Urban Fonts
- February 07, 2007
| 5 Comments
- Urban fonts is a new free font download site that is cleanly designed and easy to use.
- Is Your Site More Popular with Men or Women?
- January 10, 2007
| 4 Comments
- Microsoft's Demographics Prediction tool helps you to learn more about the demographics of your web site's visitors.
- Create 'Mini-Web Sites' to Embed into Your Site
- January 08, 2007
| 5 Comments
- Leafletter is a nifty service that enables you to embed multi-page mini web-site widgets into your web pages.
- Aardvark Firefox Extension Available for FF2.0
- January 03, 2007
- Aardvark is a useful developer extension that has been upgraded to work with Firefox 2.0
- Enterprise Search for Free?
- December 18, 2006
| 2 Comments
- IBM and Yahoo! are offering an enterprise search product to rival Google's for free.
- Add Thumbnail Previews to Your Links for Free
- November 19, 2006
| 8 Comments
- Add thumbnail image previews to your links with this free service.
- Online Tool to Format Code for Putting into Blog Posts
- November 04, 2006
| 4 Comments
- Online tool to generate nicely formatted code for putting into blog posts.
- Crazy Egg Review: A New Way to Do Web Analytics
- September 25, 2006
| 9 Comments
- Crazy Egg is a new twist on web analytics that enables you to very easily test how a web page is working and interpret the results.
- More Useful Firefox Extensions for Web Designers
- September 11, 2006
- Some more useful Firefox extensions for web designers and developers.
- Quick Reference Guide to Movable Type Date Formats
- August 21, 2006
- A quick-reference guide to date formats used in Movable Type.
- Calendar and Date Picker Design Showcase
- August 03, 2006
| 7 Comments
- A gallery of well-designed online calendars and date pickers. Get your inspiration here!
- Typography for Headlines
- June 27, 2006
| 40 Comments
- A selection of web site article headlines that have interesting and creative typography.
- Comparison of Services to Create Online Polls
- June 05, 2006
| 12 Comments
- A review of several of the leading services to create online polls.
- Free Instant Domain Name Appraisal
- May 21, 2006
| 3 Comments
- LeapFish is a free online domain name appraisal service.
- Validate Your Web Site and More With One Tool
- May 20, 2006
| 4 Comments
- Total Validator combines web page validation, broken link checking and browser compatibility checking into a single tool
- Blog Comment Form Design Showcase
- April 24, 2006
| 15 Comments
- A collection of blog comment forms showcasing interesting and creative design.
- Track Visitor Behavior on Your Site for Free
- April 19, 2006
| 6 Comments
- ClickTracks has released a free version of their popular web analytics tool.
- Blog Comment Design Showcase
- April 06, 2006
| 36 Comments
- A showcase of blog comments that have outstanding designs. Get your dose of inspiration here!
- Aardvark Firefox Extension Available for FF1.5
- March 28, 2006
| 4 Comments
- The Aardvark Firefox extension is an essential tool for web developers. It now works with FF1.5.
- Link Checking Software Review: Web Link Validator
- March 03, 2006
| 6 Comments
- Create Easy Web Slide Shows for Free
- February 14, 2006
| 1 Comment
- RockYou enables you to easily create web slide shows for free.
- Blogbeat: Hosted Web Analytics for Blogs
- January 25, 2006
- Blogbeat is a hosted web analytics service for blogs.
- Download Free Icons from IconBuffet
- December 03, 2005
| 10 Comments
- IconBuffet offers a free download of a set of icons each month.
- Cheap Stock Photography: Fotolia
- November 20, 2005
| 2 Comments
- Fotolia sells high quality, very cheap royalty free stock photography with prices starting at $1.
- Get Your Site Rated by the 'Experts' for Free
- November 14, 2005
| 4 Comments
- Sitescore is an automated online tool for rating your web site according to a range of web design best practices.
- Cheap Stock Photography: Big Stock Photo
- November 13, 2005
- Big Stock Photo provides royalty free stock photography at exceptionally cheap rates.
- New Yahoo! Maps Service
- November 03, 2005
- Yahoo! has launched a new mapping service using both Flash and AJAX that comes with an excellent API.
- Track Outgoing Link Popularity on Your Site
- October 13, 2005
- Review of MyBlogLog - a service for bloggers to track and display outgoing link popularity.
- Create Online Graphs With Flash
- July 28, 2005
- A review of Fusion Charts - a product for creating online graphs using Flash.
- iTunes 4.9: Podcasting Software for the Masses
- June 30, 2005
| 2 Comments
- iTunes 4.9 makes podcasting suitable for mass consumption. Is it time to throw away your radio? Not yet, but maybe soon.
- Free Online Keyword Analysis SEO Tool
- June 01, 2005
- NicheBOT is an free online tool that can help to make your SEO keyword analysis more effective and less time consuming.
- My Favorite Firefox Extensions
- May 30, 2005
- Firefox has loads of extensions to help you get more out of the web. Here are my favorites.
- Project Management with Excel
- March 14, 2005
| 5 Comments
- Can't afford Microsoft Project? There are Excel alternatives that might suit your needs.
- Add Images to Delicious
- March 02, 2005
| 1 Comment
- Delicious is great. Delicious with images is, well, delicious.
- Form Checking Script
- January 19, 2005
- Screen Capture Software Review
- January 06, 2005
| 3 Comments
- Thoughts on the excellent MWSnap screen capture software.
- Online Bookmark Manager Review: Delicious
- December 20, 2004
| 1 Comment
- Thoughts on the social bookmarking tool Delicious.
- Web Design and Related Email Newsletters
- October 28, 2004
- My pick of web design and web-related email newsletters.
- Web Site Checking Tool
- October 23, 2004
- A really useful tool to help you to maintain your web site.
- A Couple of New Web Tools
- October 09, 2004
- Tools for Communicating with Clients and Developers
- July 15, 2004
| 2 Comments
- A run down of useful and free tools for web designers to work better with clients.
- An Email Search Tool: Plugin for Outlook
- May 15, 2004
- Screen Capture and Magnifier Tool
- April 29, 2004
- Email Newsletter Software Review
- December 26, 2003
- Color Pickers and Color Scheme Pickers
- December 21, 2003
| 1 Comment
- A collection of my favorite color picker and color scheme tools.
- Text Field Spell Checker for Internet Explorer
- December 12, 2003
- Tabbed Browsing for Internet Explorer
- December 08, 2003
