resources
web editors
utilities
sites for web designer/developers
A partial list...
- A List Apart
- Digital Web Magazine
- Evolt
- k10k
- meyerweb.com
- Netdiver
- Sitepoint
- Webmonkey
- Web Page Design for Designers
- Yourtotalsite.com
More to come...
sites of inspiration
A partial list...
- Cool Home Pages
- Cool Web Designs
- styleboost
- Netdiver
- The Best Designs
- nolimit media
- linkdup
- The Webby Awards
- CSS Vault
- CSS Zen Garden
- CSS Beauty
More to come...
grids & layout
- Five simple steps to designing grid systems
By Mark Boulton. - Design and the Divine Proportion
As above. - Layout tips
Visual hierarchy, logical order, alignment, etc. - Designing for Clarity
Contrast, colour, effective text etc. - Page Design Basics
By Peter L. Kantor. - Layout and design resources
From Web Page Design for Designers - Site design (Web Style Guide)
Design themes, site elements, etc. - Page design (Web Style Guide)
Hierarchy, grids, headers and footers etc. - Layout articles
At A List Apart
colour tools
- Photoshop-like Colour Picker
This color picker mimics Photoshop color picker by layering transparent images. - Colour Code Generator
Colour chart that allows you to test colours as a background and copy hecodes. - More Crayons
A site describing the old 216 "web safe" colour palette and the need for "more crayons". Colour selection tools based on new palette as well. - 4096 Colour Wheel
For choosing colours from the "web smart" colour palette. - Color Blender
From Eric Meyer. - Color Schemer Online
As the title suggests. - ColorMatch Redux
Web tool for creating colour schemes. - Colour Contrast Analyser
From Juicy Studio. Analyze the contrast between two colours.
typography & font resources
- Five simple steps to better typography
By Mark Boulton. - Typography
From the Web Style Guide. - Typography articles
At A List Apart. - TypeTester
An excellent tool that let's you compare screen type styles for your CSS use. - dafont.com
Free fonts fro you to download. - Common web fonts
Table of most used web-fonts on Windows and their most common variants. - Identifont
Identify a font from a sample by answering a series of simple questions. - My Fonts
Find fonts, try fonts, buy fonts. - Chank
Hip fonts for the discerning web designer. Some freebies. - Silkscreen: The Font
A small bitmap font for free.
css resources
- W3Schools
Tutorials and examples. - Complete CSS Guide
From Westciv. - The Layout Reservoir
From bluerobot.com. - CSS Layout Techniques
From glish.com. - project seven
Examples, tutorials, support. - CSS Tips at SimpleBits
Dan Cedarholm's site. - Little Boxes
More CSS layout techniques - CSS Property Index
By Brian Wilson (no not THAT Brian Wilson) - CSS Pointers Group
Articles, examples, experiments, tools, etc. - Rich In Style
CSS Guides, free stylesheets, bug reports, example pages, etc.
stock photography
- stock.xchng
Free stock imagery. - iStockphoto
Almost free stock imagery. - getty images
Professional royalty-free and rights-managed imagery. - Veer
More professional libraries.
mail lists & newsletters
- WebDesign-l
The list is intended as a forum for those involved in creating the Web. - css-discuss
A mailing list devoted to talking about CSS and ways to use it in the real world; in other words, practical uses and applications. - SIGIA-l
Information architetcure special interest group. - thelist from evolt.org
Become a part of the evolt.org community by joining "thelist", evolt.org's primary discussion list for designers, developers, and web managers working to make the web a better place for all. - InfoDesign Newsletter
Subscribe in the left side bar. - Sitepoint Newsletters
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