Posts Tagged ‘links’

Favorite Tweets for the week..

// July 27th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Cool Links, Design Resources, For Geeks, Social Network, Twitter, Useful, webmaster


Here are some this weeks favorite tweets:

Tweet70 Tutorials Using Photoshop To Design A Website: http://ow.ly/hC9L

Tweet 10 Usability Lessons from Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think: http://ow.ly/hCan

Tweet First impressions of Typekit: http://ow.ly/hC9Y

Tweet 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world (please watch in HD and full screen): http://bit.ly/9O3yd

Tweet Wesley Yendrys Awesome Photos: http://bit.ly/14XByW

Tweet 50 New Beautiful Blog Designs: http://bit.ly/lqZEU
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“WHITE MAGIK” – Free Social Networking Icon Set

// May 31st, 2009 // Comments Off // Blogging, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, Facebook, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, Icons, RSS Feeds, Rss Feed Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, Useful, free, icon sets, web tools, webdesign, webmaster


“WHITE MAGIK” – Free Social Networking Icon Set

New set of icons “WHITE MAGIK” in .PNG format. But please link us back if you use it to chethstudios.blogspot.com.White Magik is perfect for white minimalistic sites and can be used with image hover for excellent looks!


So cute!




50+ Links for Twitter Backgrounds & Twitter Resources

// May 31st, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Blogging, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, Graphic Design, Graphics, Social Network, Twitter, Wallpapers, web tools, webdesign


 A unique Twitter background will help you stand out from the crowd, impress your visitors, and enhance your brand. There are a variety of places that offer free Twitter backgrounds. 

Here are 20+ links for Twitter Backgrounds. 

 

Free Twitter Backgrounds PSD Layered Files – 4 different free twitter backgrounds- PSD zipped files. which can be easily customized with no restrictions. These 4 backgrounds are designed using free textures from textureking and the Twitter Birds are from Productive dreams and SmashMag The rest credits are present on the zipped file.

Zidalgo Twitter Theme Pack 001 by Deluxive


Twitter CSS by AimanStudio – It’s so easy to use Twitter CSS, make sure that you read the info guide that into the .zip file before using this CSS.

Fantastic Twitter Backgrounds by Design-Maker



Follow me on Twitter by ~ kano89
– This wallpaper pack included wallpapers in WIDESCREEN and FULLSCREEN resolutions


twitterbackgroundimages.com


100+ Incredible Twitter Backgrounds


TwitterPatterns.com


tweetstyle.com


LimeShot.com


prettytweet.com

MyTweetSpace


Handpicked Twitter Backgrounds from DeviantArt


Visit Rosaura Ochoa’s photostream on Flickr for more unique and beautiful Twitter backgrounds.


Visit themoonwell’s photostream on Flickr for more colors of this design and more Twitter backgrounds.


freetwitterskins.com


twitterimage.com


sweettweet.net


TwitterBackgrounds
 

Stamps

Twitter Resource Lists

Twitter Widgets

  • BeTwittered - a Google widget for Twitter. Post updates without leaving your Google home page. A full Twitter client with tabbed message views, configurable refresh rate, avatars, fonts, etc.
  • Twitter Gadget - another Google widget to update your Twitter status and view your Twitter friends from your Google homepage.
  • Twidget - a free Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X that allows you to update your Twitter status.
  • Twitterflex - another free Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X which allows you to follow friends and update your own status.

Wallpaper and Icons  for Twitter

Twitter Utilities

  • Twitter Search searches Twitter conversations for keywords, hashtags, or @ replies to any user.
  • Twitterfeed posts your blog RSS feed to twitter.
  • Twitturly - a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about on Twitter.
  • twInfluence - a service measuring the combined influence of twitterers and their followers.
  • Twitter BlackList a list of known Twitter spammers.
  • TwitPic for sharing your photos o Twitter.
  • FriendOrFollow Who are you following that’s not following you back? Who’s following you that you’re not following back? Find out!
  • Qwitter a notification service when someone stops following you.
  • TwitStat - Real time Twitter Analytics
  • Twitter Grader - vanity booster or crasher (depending on the grade your profile gets :)
  • Twellow - the directory of Twitter users
  • Tweetstats graphs your Twitter usage (tweets per hour, day of the week, month, whom you tweet with, your preferred Twitter client, etc.)

Just for Fun

  • cursebird.com/ - Find out what foul mouthed followers are getting up to. Not for the easily offended.
  • popacular.com/gigatweet/ - Counting the number of Tweets. Pointless but fun to watch the counter count.
  • divvoted.com/ Vote for great websites via Twitter.
  • foamee.com/ - Owe someone a beer? Give it to them via Twitter.
  • wasoverheard.com/ - Provides an anonymous way to tweet things which you have recently overheard.
  • twistori.com/ - FunTwitter based tool from Amy Hoy. Find tweets based on Love Hate Think Believe Feel Wish feelings on Twitter.

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Fun with Twitter: Twittereader.com & Twitterbuttons.com

// May 18th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Icons, RSS Feeds, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, free, web tools, webmaster


TwitteReader.com

Check out TwitteReader, a new and free service which turns Twitter into something resembling Google Reader. 

Once you’ve plugged in your username and password, it presents the latest tweets as individual feed items, which you can cruise through either by reading the short snippets (a la Google Reader) or expanding them out to full posts with a click.

Just like Google Reader and Gmail, you can move up and down the list with the same J and K keyboard shortcuts. You can also star items, which adds them to your Twitter favorites list. The application keeps track of what you’ve read and what you haven’t, which, depending on how many people you’re following, could be useful. If a system like Google Reader’s trends were to be applied to this you could see which people’s updates you’re not reading and cut them out of your followers list.

Of course the obvious must be stated here–you can simply take the RSS feed of your friends provided by Twitter and plug it into Google Reader to accomplish something quite similar. TwitteReader’s killer feature, however, is that it lets you post and reply to messages from each post, just like you would in Twitter.

 

Twitterbuttons.com

http://www.twitterbuttons.com

http://www.twitterbuttons.com

 

http://www.twitterbuttons.com


Check out Twitterbuttons.com!




Great Big List of Freelance Sites

// May 18th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Graphic Design, SEO, The Best of.., Useful, webdesign, webmaster


Here is a good list of freelance sites.

Many people wanted to make money online but have limited knowledge on what to do and where to start. Making money online by doing some freelance services from the comfort of your home is pretty easy and is available for everyone. Freelance jobs are not only for people who have special skills. You can start making money by offering services like writing, data entry, transcription, or any other jobs that doesn’t require high technical skills like programming and design. Listed below are the most active and highly populated freelance sites. This lists of freelance sites would help you start your online moneymaking experience.

The following is a small list of good freelance sites.

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  1. Elance.com – so far the largest online marketplace for free lancers and service buyers
  2. Aquent.com – offers marketing organizations a wide range of services including consulting, studio solutions, project management, and translation/localization.
  3. Adveres.com – another cool marketplace for freelancers.
  4. Bidradar - recently merged with governmentbids.com and published mostly government-owned jobs for freelancers.
  5. CGI Lance – largest marketplace for CGI scripts.
  6. CTITjobs.net – most projects are programming and web design and even technical support for IT-related problems.
  7. Codelance.com – custom software development and webhosting for companies outsourcing offshore.
  8. Coswap.com - offshore marketplace for web design jobs.
  9. Design Quote – a reputable marketplace for graphic and design jobs.
  10. Developreneurs.com – an online marketplace where buyers looking for web development services can receive bids from dozens of qualified service providers.
  11. Ework.com -delivers three outsourced value-added services— integration and implementation for eWork Enterprise 5, business process consulting to streamline contingent workforce business processes, and a comprehensive workforce staffing management service.
  12. Freelance Auction – almost all services are offered here.
  13. Freelance Auction Network – is designed to bring affordable high quality services to small business owners and provide freelance contractors from around the world a better way to market their services.
  14. Freelance.com – a good place for independent professionals, freelancers, and service buyers.
  15. Freelance Writers - the best site for non-fiction writers.
  16. Freelancefree.com – the first and best free freelance website.
  17. Freelancewriting.com - another great freelance site exclusively for writers.
  18. Freelancewebprojects.com – all services offered and requires all freelancing talents.
  19. Freelanceseek.com – available in 7 major European languages.
  20. Freelancewebprogramming.com – another freelance site for webmasters and programmers.
  21. Getafreelancer – this is my favorite freelance site so far. I am a member of this site and having some decent customers in SEO and writing.
  22. Guru.com – Use Guru.com’s free service to search for and find freelancers. Post your project. Get free quotes within hours. Outsource your contract work today.
  23. Hirecoders.com – not only a marketplace but also a general classified for job seekers and employers.
  24. Ifreelance.com – huge freelance site for talented people.
  25. Listbid.com – a very simple freelance site but has a bigger population.
  26. No Agencies Please – is a free freelance site concentrating on programming and design.
  27. NUJ Freelance Directory – the biggest freelance job board in UK.
  28. OutsourceToday.net- is the online market place where buyers can post their projects. Businesses and consultants such as freelance programmers, copywriters etc will bid for the work you outsource and you can select the best one that matches your requirement.
  29. Projectlance.com – one of the busiest freelance sites.
  30. PHPfreelancers.com – freelance for php programming.
  31. Programmingbid.com – dozens of programming jobs posted everyday.
  32. Project4hire.com – marketplace for designers, programmers, offshore companies, and more.
  33. Rentacoder.com – one of the biggest and reputable freelance sites.
  34. Scriptlance.com – big freelance sites with thousands of service providers from India.

There are other freelance sites and the list is growing daily but it is always better to join established freelance sites for a reliable service.




The Most Awesome Resource List – 4 Webmasters

// March 3rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Cool Links, Cool Websites, Design, Design Resources, Featured, Fonts, For Geeks, Free Logo Templates, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Icons, Rss Feed Icons, The Best of.., Tutorial, Useful, Wordpress, free, icon sets, web tools, webdesign, webmaster


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

mycoolbutton.com

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.

elegantthemes.com

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.

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RoundedCornr

Corner Shop

Spiffy Box

Canvas Corner

Spanky Corners

Sliding Doors Text Box

Smart Rounded Corners

Rounded Corners in CSS

News List

LOGOS

Each of these tools will create a simple web 2.0 style logo.

Logo Creatr

Web 2.0 Logo Creator

Web 2.0 Logo Creatr

Web 2.0 Logo Creator

Web 2.0 Stylr

ICONS

A web 2.0 site can’t ignore icons. Here are some free collections of icons to use in your own projects.

Web 2.0 icons

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.

Glass Style 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.

Gradient Image Maker

grsites.com

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.

Speech Bubbles from Will Mayo

Will Mayo

Bubblesnaps

CSS Play

XHTML Speech Bubbles

WigFlip

Fluid CSS Speech Bubbles

MySpace Speech Bubble Generator

Photoshop Tutorial

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.

elegantthemes.com

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

WooThemes - Finally a themes club that is here to stay

Free PSD Resources- Site List

photoshopfiles.com

officialpsds.com

psgalaxy.com

freepsd.com

designbum.net

deviantart.com

psdfreebee.com

toptut.com

downloadpsd.com

photoshopcandy.com


Sketchbook Scribble Brushes by ~InvisibleSnow on deviantART


cool brushes by ~XxMortanixX on deviantART


Urban Scrawl Photoshop Brushes by ~InvisibleSnow on deviantART




Designer Love – Cool WebSites for Designers

// January 4th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Blogging, Code, Cool Links, Cool Websites, Design, Design Resources, Featured, Flash, Fonts, For Geeks, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Icons, Photoshop, Rss Feed Icons, The Best of.., Useful, Wordpress, web tools, webdesign, webmaster


Here you’ll find a huge list of useful websites for web designers and bloggers..Enjoy! Add your own useful links in the comment section! Links and screenshots of some of coolest resource sites for designers and bloggers including Free fonts, Icons, Templates, CSS inspiration, Graphics, Hex color schemes, Vector graphics, Design blogs and Mags.

colourlovers

Find design inspiration with thousands of palettes and color schemes to fall in love with. Influence color trends by rating, commenting and sharing.

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Tools for successful blogging..

// December 28th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Affiliate Networking, Blogging, Cool Links, Design Resources, Headline, I recommend, The Best of.., Tutorial, Useful, web tools, webmaster


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Mybloglog.com – Get noticed on Mybloglog

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http://themeforest.net – Awesome Themes for your blog

Makeuseof.com posted more than 80 tools for successful blogging which included some really great resources here is a list of a few I thought were interesting..

  • BlogBackupOnline – remote and automatic daily back of your entire blog.
  • Feedblitz – email subscription service for your readers
  • Dotster: Buy A Domain, Get One Free! Use Coupon Code GETONEFREE
  • MyBloglog – social network forbloggers and blog readers. Not only lets you get to know your readers but also works as blog promo tool
  • Dead-Links – web based, site-wide broken link checker
  • Yahoo! Sponsored Search: connects businesses and customers online. Sign up and get a $25 credit.
  • Pingdom Tools allows you to test the loading speed of your website. Just type in the URL and hit Test Now.
  • Interested in starting an online store? Yahoo! makes it easy – 35% off for a limited time!
  • Webshotspro – free instant thumbnails for your blog
  • Plugoo- chat box for your blog that lets you communicate with your visitorsusing your main messenger application (supports MSN, Yahoo, GoogleTalk)
  • Google Webmasters Central -must-use tool for any serious blogger. Lets you ensure that yoursite/blog is easily crawled and indexed by Google, keeps you up-to-dateon crawling issues, broken links, number of indexed pages, website’spagerank and latest index dates
  • Yahoo – SiteExplorer – similar to above but for Yahoo
  • Problogger – blog that helps bloggers to monetize their blogs
  • Bloggerkit – easily add content-related Amazon products to your posts(or sidebar) and earn commissions from each generated sale
  • Advolcano- CPT (Cost Per Term) advertising solution. Here you aren’t gettingpaid for clicks or impressions but for displaying ads for specific timeperiod (month, quarter… etc)
  • Quantcast – open, website audience rating service for advertisers. Check it out and see what it says about your blog
  • Useit.com – Comprehensive list of 980+ Free WordPress 1.5 and 2.0 Themes
  • Shareasale.com – Find a sponsor for your web site. Get paid for your great content.
  • Yahoo! Web Hosting: Host your Wordpress website at Yahoo for cheap.




Blog Directories – Submit your blog!

// December 17th, 2008 // 13 Comments » // Blogging, Cool Links, Cool Websites, Design, Geeks, I recommend, web tools, webmaster


Submit Your Blog to these Sites

More –

blogarama - the blog directory Design Directory

TopOfBlogs Web Design & CSS (Blogs) - TOP.ORG Blog Ratings
Top Blogs Social Networking Blogs - Blog Catalog Blog Directory Blog Directory

Click the Read more link for the rest of the list!
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We don’t want no Fugly – 10 Free Wordpress Themes that Work!

// November 30th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Blogging, Headline, Magazine Theme, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Themes


Here is a list of themes that don’t look like much in their screenshots but are all great themes that you need to preview to really appreciate. So, Check them out already!

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YES! The best Webdesign Tools Online

// November 14th, 2008 // 6 Comments » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Cool Links, Cool Websites, Design, Design Resources, Fonts, Graphic Design, Graphics, Headline, I recommend, The Best of.., Useful, web tools, webdesign, webmaster


Cool Design Tools to make you a better and faster designer.

Feel free to add more in the comments.

  • CSS Type Set – Create custom CSS type styles with this tool.
  • CSS Superdouche – Strip unneeded content and redundant calls from your CSS, reducing its size and complexity.
  • Code Beautifier – Format and optimize your CSS code.
  • CSSFly – In-browser editing of (X)HTML and CSS.
  • CSS Drive CSS Compressor – Decrease your CSS file size and loading speed with this tool.

  • Clean CSS – Another CSS optimization tool for reducing your CSS file size.
  • EM Calculator – Converts your pixel-based sizes to em units for more scalable and accessible CSS design.
  • CSS Redundancy Checker – Eliminate unused CSS selectors automatically as well as check for redundancy in your CSS files.
  • GrayBit – Accessibility testing tool that displays a full-color Web page in grayscale.
  • ProtoShare – Create a clickable website prototype and get feedback, ideas and suggestions from your team members.
  • Most Sliced – A directory of image slicing services that includes reviews and ratings from users.
  • Inserit – A code-free CMS for Web designers.

  • LightCMS – A CMS for Web designers that lets you create websites your clients can manage themselves.
  • clickbooq – A website creation and portfolio management tool.
  • jumpchart – Website planning app that lets you export clean CSS/XHTML.

  • inblogit – A blogging tool for Web designers that can be integrated into any website design.
  • Reflect – A website platform and hosting service for Web designers that lets them and their clients create and manage websites.
  • Carbonmade – An online portfolio site for designers with free and paid plans.
  • ThemesPress – Automatically convert your template files into WordPress themes.

  • Feng GUI – Generates heatmaps for your website by simulating human vision during the first five seconds of viewing your website.
  • Text Generator – Generates lorem ipsum-like text.
  • webvanta – Free business website builder and hosting aimed at providing design professionals a quicker way to build websites.
  • Tuplix – Easy to use website authoring tool that works for new or existing websites.
  • FolioSnap – Website portfolio builder for creative professionals.
  • Frontfriend – CMS for designers that lets them build forms and templates and then lets their clients fill in their own information.
  • ScrnShots – Host, share and tag your screenshots.
  • flickrSLiDR – Create and embed a flickr slideshow on your website or blog.
  • websnapr 2.0 – Online tool for capturing thumbnail of websites.
  • StyleIgnite – Design snippets (CSS, HTML, and more) for contact forms, layouts, and more that you can use on your sites.
  • BgPatterns – Background pattern creation tool with live preview.

  • [ws] Color Scheme Generator 2 – An easy to use color scheme creator.
  • Cornershop – Get the CSS and images to put rounded corners on your website.
  • CSSround – Another tool to create rounded corners on your website.
  • Color Hunter – A color palette creation tool that lets you pull color palettes from images.
  • Web Graphics Maker – A free tool to create backgrounds, lines and bullets for your website.

  • Favicon Generator Tool – Free favicon creator from Dagon Design
  • Genfavicon – A free favicon generator.
  • QuickRibbon.com – Create custom ribbons with or without links for your site.
  • Glassy Buttons – Create custom glassy style buttons.
  • Website Ribbon Generator – Create free ribbons for your site with or without hyperlinks.
  • 4096 Color Wheel – A color scheme generator that shows you Web-safe, Web-smart and unsafe colors.
  • Web 2.0 Free Logo Generator – Create your own custom Web 2.0 logo.
  • colordb – Another color palette generator, though this one is much more in depth than most.
  • colorcombos.com – A huge library of color combinations.
  • ColorToy 2.0 – A Flash-based color palette generator.
  • Accessibility Color Wheel – Check the readability of your background and text color combinations. This tool will tell you if there is enough contrast between the two.
  • The Best Designs – A huge showcase of Web designs and designers.
  • Pattern Tap – Design gallery of different website elements (headers, 404 pages, and the like).
  • eduStyle – A Web design gallery specifically featuring academic websites.

  • finalcrit.com – Free portfolio site for designers.
  • Should Redesign? – Get feedback on whether or not a redesign is needed for your site.
  • Designflavr – Design galleries for all sorts of artwork, including Flash and CSS websites.
  • View – Showcase of website that can be sorted by color or other criteria.

  • InspirationKing – A searchable gallery of websites for inspiration.
  • DesignerSource – A website design gallery that is browsable by topic or color.
  • BestWebGallery – Tagged website design showcase.
  • StyleVault – Another Web design gallery that lets you rate designs.


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My Personal Favorite Design Blogs & Sites

Blogs about Design and Blogging

Top 25 Blogs About Blogging..

  1. Problogger
  2. Copyblogger
  3. John Chow
  4. Quick Online TipsDaily Blog Tips
  5. Lorelle on Wordpress
  6. Dosh DoshPerformancing
  7. Weblog Tools Collection
  8. Blog Herald
  9. Blogging Pro
  10. Successful-Blog
  11. JohnTP
  12. Engtech
  13. Bloggers Blog
  14. Andy Beard
  15. ChrisG
  16. Converstations
  17. The Wrong Advices
  18. Business Blog Wire
  19. Alister Cameron
  20. Blog About Your Blog
  21. Blogtrepreneur
  22. I Help You Blog
  23. Build A Better Blog




50+ Free Wood, Concrete & Paper Textures for Designers

// October 10th, 2008 // 4 Comments » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Graphic Design, Graphics, webdesign


Old paint texture texture wood

Cedar Wood Grain Maple Wood Grain

* Salmon Grunge * * Touch of Lace ~ Rainbow *

Here you’ll find over 50 links to Wood, paper and concrete textures. I love when designers use the wood and paper texture in their designs. I was thinking cardboard might look cool too. Like a will work for food sign? Haha! There are some really great free textures available on Flickr.com and Deviantart.com and if your looking for more textures you also might want to check out some of the Digital Scrapbooking website which I recently discovered to be a great resource for designers. You have to kinda search for the free downloads though because most of them charge for their stuff. If your a graphic designer I would definitely look into this niche market as a way to make some extra money or possibly a living. There are a lot of bored women online it seems that are willing to buy the graphics they need to make a digital scrapbook.

Click the “Read More” Link for the rest of the Textures…and for some links to free scrapbooking pages that I personally found to offer the most free content.

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Twitter App Crazy

// August 15th, 2008 // 4 Comments » // Apple, Applications, Blogging, Chat, Desktop Icons, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Graphics, I recommend, Icons, Ipod, Twitter, Useful, web tools


Here are some of the most popular Twitter apps and tools. I love my twitter. I like twitter because I can keep in touch with all my friends and family all at once and I don’t have to send out 10 text messages a day, I can send out one or two twitter posts and I’m good to go. :) Everyone who says I never call them or write them has now heard from me and everyone is happy…including me. I Love it. Here’s a whole list of Mobile Twitter apps..@ Mashable.com

h1 Twit Bin

Why go to Twitter when Twitter can come to you? Twitbin’s a Firefox extension that nestles all your friends’ tweets into a sidebar. It’s configurable too, and the tiny ad at the bottom of the sidebar is something I can live with. BTW, it works just as well in Flock.

h1 TwittyTunes

If you want to share what you’re listening to with the ease of Twitter, this is the browser plugin for you. It’s a sibling of the popular FoxyTunes extension, and supports dozens of players. So if you’re signed in to your Last.fm player, Twitty Tunes will let your Twitter friends know what you’re listening to. There’s even a social network devoted to the most recent TwittyTunes shout-outs, called Foxy Tunes Twitter DJ.

h1 Twitterment

This one appeals to the statisticians and the buzz crawlers. This charts the ‘zeitgeist’ of what’s being Tweeted about across the globe. You can even see comparisons of one key phrase versus another, and what day of the week key terms pop up most frequently. For instance, here’s one that compares beer and sex. Not surprisingly, beer starts getting popular around Friday.

h1 Flotzam

Flotzam started life as Flitterbook, a showcase mash-up of Flickr, Facebook and Twitter data – developed by Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin for MIX07. It’s available only to PC users as a downloadable .exe or as a screensaver, but it’s well worth having a nose around. For Mac OS X users, check out some of the dashboard widgets collected in the Twitter Fan Wiki.

h1 GPS Twit – update Twitter with your location for iPhone and Windows Mobile.

h1 Twitter-Sync (Yahoo Messenger Plugin) – Keeps your Yahoo! Messenger status and Twitter in synchronization. Update your Yahoo! Status to create a new tweet. Your new tweets update your Yahoo! status. Also keeps track of your twitter friends from the main messenger window with alerts, pop-ups + more…

h1 Twit4Live — A Messenger Plus! Live Script that adds twitter interaction to Windows Live Messenger

h1 Twitter Desktop – A How-To for making TwitterVision your desktop background, watch live tweets while working.(not an app)

h1 MadTwitter — a clon of Twitterrific for Windows which doesn’t require .NET — by Sacha Fuentes

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    WordPress Trackback Tutorial for newbs

    // May 4th, 2008 // No Comments » // Geeks, Tutorial, Useful, Wordpress


    I wrote in a Live Journal for 7 years so I didn’t have much exposure to the whole trackback link concept or at least that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

    Now I’m using word press to write my blog and I see “track back link” everywhere I turn and I wanted to know more about this little blogging mystery.

    So I searched and I found a WordPress Trackback Tutorial..so now I know and if your like me..you can too! :)




    What is a Diva Geek?

    // May 4th, 2008 // No Comments » // For Geeks, Geeks


    Lazy Saturday Poll: Am I a Geek or Not?

    Asking myself that same question is basically how I came up with the domain name for this blog “DivaGeek“.

    What is a diva geek anyway you might ask yourself..well let me explain..When your a girl it can be a little hard to be 100% geek 100% of the time because being a girl drives us to do girly things that true geeks wouldn’t get caught dead doing like going purse shopping, wearing pink lip gloss and if your a true Diva going to brunch and doing pilates.

    I personally don’t do pilates or go to brunch but that’s just because I’m lazy and I eat breakfast… I do however LOVE pink lipgloss.

    What I’m getting at is when your a girl in technology sometimes you just can’t fit into the mold of geek..we can’t help it if we’re a little diva and a little geek. I like to say I’m 25% diva and 75% geek or visa versa depending on my mood.