The Most Awesome Resource List – 4 Webmasters
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BADGES
Web 2.0 Badges – A set of free badges to download and use in your own designs.
Fresh Badge – Quickly generate your own badge.
adClustr – Starburst badges.
Deziner Folio – A collection of different badges.
BittBox – Free vector badges.
Official Seal Generator – An alternative to the typical badge.
Photoshop Tutorial – A quick lesson on making your own badge.
Glossy Photoshop Tutorial – Create a glossy badge with this tutorial.
BUTTONS
My Cool Button – A nice online tool that will help you to quickly create the button that you want.
Adam Kalsey’s Button Maker – Simple tool to make your own buttons.
Button Maker from Blog Flux – Create your own custom button.
Brilliant Button Maker – A similar button maker to the previous 2.
CSS Buttons – Choose the text, border, and background.
Buttonator – A paid option for creating buttons.
RSS Button Maker – The name pretty much says it all.
Button Boost – A little bit different than some of the other button generators.
ButtonGenerator.com – Create buttons for navigation menus.
Crystal Button – Slick web buttons made easy.
Chicklet Creator – Create buttons that allow visitors to subscribe in their feed reader of choice.
ROUNDED CORNERS
Rounded corners are a staple in web 2.0 design. Here are some tools and scripts that will help you to quickly create your own rounded corners.
LOGOS
Each of these tools will create a simple web 2.0 style logo.
ICONS
A web 2.0 site can’t ignore icons. Here are some free collections of icons to use in your own projects.
UtomBox – A great collection of web 2.0 icons.
Feed Icons – The standard RSS icon.
Map Icon Factory – Create your own map icon.
Perishable Press – A nice collection of RSS icons.
Snap2Objects – Vector RSS icons.
31 Sources of Quality, Free Icons
GRADIENT IMAGES
Another common element of web 2.0 is gradient images. Here are a few tools to help you.
GRSites Gradient Generator – use this generator to create a gradient background, the possibilities are endless and it’s super easy to use.
Online Gradient Image Maker (OGIM)
SPEECH BUBBLES
Speech bubbles are commonly used for styling comments or blockquotes.
MySpace Speech Bubble Generator
BACKGROUND IMAGES
Background Image Maker – Create background images with choices like transparency and gradients.
Stripe Generator 2.0 – If you’re looking to add a striped background to an element on your page, you can use this tool to customize the look you want.
Stripe Designer – Easily create striped images.
Tartan Maker – Create a tartan background image.
Texture Generator – Creates textured images that you can use as a background.
All Free Backgrounds – Choose the background you want.
COLORS
The Colors of Web 2.0 – Are you looking to match the color of a popular web 2.0 site?
Web 2.0 Color Pallete – Popular web 2.o colors.
Color Schemer Gallery – Having problems choosing a color scheme? Find one you like in this gallery.
COLOURlovers – More samples of color combinations.
Website Color Picker – Test color combinations quickly.
I Like Your Colors – Get the colors used by a particular site.
NAVIGATION
CSS Menu Generator – Easily create attractive CSS menus.
Listamatic – Collection of CSS menus.
List-O-Matic – Create your own CSS menus.
List-U-Like – Another tool to create your own navigation bars.
Tabs Generator – Create tabbed images for navigation.
Flash Buttons – Create navigation menus with flash buttons
CSS Play – An extensive collection of CSS menus.
Exploding Boy – Tabbed CSS navigation menus.
CSS Navigation Menu Generator – A tool to help you create your own menu.
FAVICONS
Favicon Generator – Create your own favicon from an image on your computer.
Favicon from Pics – Create a favicon from a photo.
Favicon Editor – Upload a photo, create a favicon.
Favicon.cc – Another option for favicons.
Photoshop Tutorial – Creating a favicon with Photoshop.
CHARTS
PHP/SWF Charts – Create attractive charts.
amCharts – Flash charts.
OTHER
Avatar Maker – Create and edit an avatar.
Shrink Pictures – Create an avatar from your photo.
ScaleNine – Collection of skins and themes created for Flex and Adobe AIR.
VectorMagic – Converts bitmap images to vector art.
Templatr – Create a layout.
PsycHo – Blog template generator.
Web 2.0 Generator – Creates layouts.
Typetester – Compare fonts on-screen.
BlogPoll – Create a free poll for your blog.
RSSxl – Convert an HTML page to RSS.
Meta Tag Generator – Easily create meta tags for your pages.
URL Rewrite – Create search engine-friendly URLs for dynamic pages.
.htacces generator – Quickly create an .htaccess file.
Thumbnail Generator – Create thumbnails for a large amount of images.
Reflection.js – Adds reflections to your photos.
Drop Shadow – Improve your images with a drop shadow.
CSS Sprite Generator – From Website Performance.
Vecteezy – Stupid name. Cool vectors.
Brusheezy – Photoshop brushes.
PSBrushes.net – More Photoshop brushes.
deviantART – Photoshop brushes at deviantART
Free PSD Resources- Site List
Sketchbook Scribble Brushes by ~InvisibleSnow on deviantART
cool brushes by ~XxMortanixX on deviantART
Urban Scrawl Photoshop Brushes by ~InvisibleSnow on deviantART
This is a dynamic Flash website template, it is possible to change the appearance of the gallery by selecting from the choice of four included which can be set easily from the admin panel. There are plenty of other useful settings such as width of small and big photos, management of comments to the pictures, etc…
