Web Savvy: Tips, Tricks, Bookmarks

Hundreds of Web Design Tools

haily — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:43:51 +0000

You will find here hundreds of links to web design tools sorted by category and popularity. The site stores your favorites so you can reference them later. There are such categories on the site: color, css, fonts, html, icons, images, inspiration, tutorials, and widgets. Moreover, you can even add your own links.

Color matching sphere (Great for people that need color schemes)

haily — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:43:43 +0000

It matches colors that fit well together. This will be really helpful for you when designing anything. Just picking a color that you would like to use, and you will get colors that go good with it. It’s easy as ABC.

53 CSS-Techniques

haily — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:19:38 +0000

CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites. Thanks to all developers who contributed to accessible and usable css-based design over the last few years.

I’m neither a CSS guru nor a fan of this technology. Though it can be very useful sometimes I believe that there are many sites which are just fine with table based coding.

Bad Web Designers

haily — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:17:36 +0000

Bad boys are in every business. Unfortunately web design industry is not an exception. How to detected a bad web designer? The article suggests some tips on what should you look for when you buy a website design service or working with a web designer?

Web Design: Impresses

haily — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:13:17 +0000

Sometimes it’s just amazing to see, which level of usability, legibility and visual appeal can be achieved using some basic design techniques. In fact, some talented web-developers manage to deliver powerful, functional and gorgeous web-design in “look-and-feel”-style. Let’s take a look at their masterpieces.

Great collection and great websites. I wish I could design this way some day. As for now I just admire these designs and think over how to achieve similar results.

The Floating City of the Year 2000 (from 1979)

haily — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:12:31 +0000

The Sea City 2000 shows some great paleo-future technology such as the dish-shaped antenna that “beams microwave energy, generated by solar cells, to a receiver on the nearby coast.” The bottom right corner shows a Buckminster Fuller design for a floating community. His design includes shops, schools and homes for 5,000 people.

20 of the best Free Photoshop Plugins and Filters …

haily — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:06:50 +0000

Plugins and filters extend Photoshop by providing new functionality and effects that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to achieve or by simplifying a process – here we round up the best Freebies.

Out of doubt – it’s a useful list.