Link : TypeTester

I googled it and found this nice set of seamless grid metal background and I like to share it with you.

If you’re looking for a nice background for your web template, this is a really nice one. Premium Pixels share their nice 16 metal patterns design in both dark and light, these metal grid patterns can use it in your projects personal use or commercial.

Link :
Dark Grid Metal
Light Grid Metal

The PSD files at 365psd are free for both personal and commercial use. That means any PSD you download can be reused in any project without worrying about licensing.

Link : 365psd

This tool is a grid generator, but the different from other tool is that you can generate as a file for Adobe photoshop or Illustrator.

Link : Grid Calculator

Webportio is a website that collects all the resources for webdesign such as navigation bar, buttons, boxes, forms, ribbons, icons and more…

I browsed their site and found that many files are good and well designed and it saved my time.

They claimed that the resources are for Firework but these resources are in .png file which also editable in Photoshop too.

All the files are free to use for commercial and noncommercial usage.

Webportio.com – free graphic resources

If you don’t have the iPad or can’t find one to test it. Just check out iPad Peek, this tool let you view your website on the iPad in both vertical and verizon view. Actually, this is not the real simulator, but better have nothing.

ipadpeek.com

Sales projections for the Apple iPad run anywhere from one to four million units in the first year. Like it or not, the iPhone OS, and Safari in particular, have become a force to be reckoned with for Web developers.

If you haven’t already, it’s time to dive in and familiarize yourself with the tools required to optimize websites and Web applications for this OS.

In this article will show you how to start develop web app for iPhone OS in three hit devices, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

Read the full article

This tutorial is from LINE25, they show you a process of designing web layout using grid base. You’ll learn from design your web layout using Adobe Photoshop, through to writing the HTML structure, styling up with CSS then adding clever functionality with the jQuery library.

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You just simply pick a color and this tool will show the darker and lighter colors of the color you pick.

I really like this color tool cause when I design a web layout, I love picking a lighter color or a darker color to match the color that was picked by my customer. This tool is just simple, but useful.

Link : http://0to255.com

New to web design? If yes this is the right tutorial for you.

In this tutorial, we’re going to be designing and coding a simple blog-style web-page. We’ll pay special attention to making our design flexible and accessible by using clean and simple XHTML and CSS. This tutorial is aimed at beginners, and anyone looking to improve the accessibility of their web designs.

Link : View the tutorial

Nice tools for all web designers who like to sketch their web design on paper. If you’re sketching your design on a plain paper, you may like these tools.

The tools are web design sketch template or you can call it a web browser with grid system, only in paper.

The guy at looks.gd collected web design sketch templates from multiple sources, you can choose the best one that you like. The files are in PDF format. You can print the PDF file on paper and draw your web layout on it.

Link : Free Web Design Sketch Template

Do you want a logo for for website? A good logo is distinctive, appropriate, practical, graphic and simple in form, and it conveys the owner’s intended message.

There are many tools that can help you make your own logo for your business, website or blog for download on the internet. If you don’t care about the quality of your logo.

A well-designed logo is probably one of the most important issues when it comes to design of corporate identity. The logo has to be describable, memorable, scalable and effective.

5 Principles Of Effective Logo Design

• Simple
• Memorable
• Timeless
• Versatile
• Appropriate

If you have no skill in logo design, there’s a place online that you can post your requirement and get your work done in just 24 hours. 48Hourslogo.com is a logo design contest website that you can get your logo in just 2 simple steps to submit your logo request and you see amazing logo designs within hours.

You just post your requirement of your logo design, the designers will submit their works for you to pick up the best one that you liked.

If you want a custom logo design online, I think, this is a good way to grab a logo for your website, you’ll get a professional looking logo, cheap and fast. Logo contest lets you set your own budget and get your logo from a designer who know how to design a good logo.

The lack of strategy and plan before they design a website is the biggest problem. Before launching a new website, 4 things that you should consider.

Good Content
Good content is the king, give the info that your visitors need.

Easy to Use Website and Usability
Your visitors love the websites that easy to use, find what they want, and do what you want them to do.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
This one is also an important thing, there’re million of websites on the internet. You should have well designed and structured web pages and use keywords in the text that you think your customers would search for.

Good Looking Website
Good looking website helps attractive your customer and about give credibility for your company. Nowadays, your website should ready for mobile device too.

Web design is an expertise of generating graphical presentation of information that is offering to an end-user on World Wide Web.

If you already have a website, you can search Google for web design tips that will help you improve you website, but if you’re looking for developing a good website, a professional web designer is beneficial for you as this is an expert you will be depend on for all the knowledge and expertise you need in custom web development company.

Web development company, Freshout is the one that suit your need and easy to work with.

• Web vector graphics with the Canvas tag and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• The Geolocation API
• HTML 5 Video
• The HTML 5 Database and Application Cache
• Web workers

Logo design is the illustration of the business. It is considered to be the tool which gives the first impression of a business. Good logo should be unique, eye catching and simple.

Actually, you can download a free software on the internet to create your own logo, but having a logo designed by a professional is a wise investment because the designers have the knowledge to create logos befitting the business.

If you’re looking for a professional in logo design, here is LogoBee, a multiple award-winning logo design company. They are established in 2000 with tons of satisfied customers.

LogoBee offers service in logo design and also web design. High quality logo design service for all types of businesses all over the world with affordable price and you can get initial logo design samples in 2 business days. A professional logo design will establish a professional image of your company and strengthen your brand.

I visited their website and found many of awesome works, and if you like to see their logo design samples, you can view on their sample page.

And also you can earn money with LogoBee with their logo design affiliate program, you will get paid $20 referral fee and referred clients will be motivated to use your coupon because they will also receive a $20 discount on their logo design purchase.

Logo is an important thing, logo design can helps in attracting customers to the business. All I can recommend you when you design a logo for your business or your website is keep it clean, simple and unique.

What to consider when designing a Website?

If you read this blog that mean you interest in creating a website or blog or you already have one. By now, most companies have a website. these are the basic thing to consider when designing a website or blog.

Web Design – Beautiful design, look professional are always good. I really the sites that look clean and simple, but good web design doesn’t mean only that your website look good. Web usability is one of an important thing too.

Web Usability – Web usability is about making your website in such a way that your site users can find what they’re looking for quickly and efficiently. A usable website can reap huge benefits on to your website and your business.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – If you want to be on top of search engine search result page, SEO is an answer. It is the ways of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines.

A good website design can help you increase your company credibility. In business, it is very essential that you can build a good reputation or credibility not only for yourself but, most of all, for your small business. Otherwise, if people do not trust you, you will not be able to improve your sales, and you cannot even maintain your customer base.

If you’re looking for a company that can help you design your website or your online project, I recommend NGKSoft web design company. NGKSoft is a New York based web design and development company that specializing in web design, web development and SEO services.

Web Design – Build good quality website for you, custom website design and brand identity.
Web Development – Develop website that meet your requirement with great skills in programming.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Services – Help your website to rank top in search engine such as Google, Yahoo or Bing.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) services – Create campaigns to promote your website on the search engine

You can see the full details of their services click here and you can read here the testimonials page, how people said about them.

If you’re a web designer, one of an important thing to consider when you design a website is a web usability. This is a useful and great article about web usability that I found on webdesignerdepot.com.

The article shows the usability of two websites of big companies like Apple and Microsoft, compare web usability of both of them side by side.

The article is a bit old (april 2009) but both Apple and Microsoft websites are not much changed and you’ll get the ideas on how to design a great web usability.

Link : Apple vs. Microsoft – A Website Usability Study

The articles were written by Chris Coyier from css-tricks and his friend Jason Lengstorf. These are very good articles and well explain, they show you from the basic idea to create a web app, how to design, database architecture, coding, UI, ajax, security, or even the bugs. There’re 9 processes in the series of creating a web app from scatch as list below.

The articles are good for all level of web developers not only for newbies.

Link : Creating a Web App from Scratch

Topics in the Tutorial Series

• Part 1 – Planning the App: Basic Idea and Design
• Part 2 – Planning the App: Database Architecture and Development Approach
• Part 3 – Designing the App: Workflow Map and Photoshop Design
• Part 4 – Designing the App: HTML and CSS
• Part 5 – Developing the App: User Interaction
• Part 6 – Developing the App: Adding AJAX Interactivity
• Part 7 – Developing the App: List Interaction
• Part 8 – Security & The Future
• Part 9 — Bugs, More Security, and Other Tweaks

This is useful for ensuring that important parts of a page’s user interface are visible by a wide audience. On the example page that you see when you first visit this site, there is a “donate now” button which falls within the 80% contour, meaning that 20% of users cannot see this button when they first visit the page. 20% is a significant number; knowing this fact would encourage the designer to move the button much higher in the page so it can be seen without scrolling.

Using this tool is easy, you just simply enter URL in the text box, then the web will load in the background and let you see how many percent of visitors can view any parts of web page.

Link : Google Browser Size

You’ll learn from this tutorial on how to create a web layout using Photoshop, convert to XHTML/CSS and then convert your files to WordPress theme.

I really like these tutorials even I knew how to design web layout using Photoshop and convert it to WordPress theme, some techniques are useful to me.

The tutorials are in three parts and you can download the video too.

Part 1: Photoshop Mockup (59:50 min)
Part 2: HTML/CSS Conversion (01:11:10 min)
Part 3: WordPress Theme (50:59 min)

Link : 30+ Podcasts for Web Designers, Developers and Freelancers

• Measure the screen objects in pixels using both mouse and keyboard control.
• Preview your design with skins and presets.
• Multi-screen support.
• Auto update.
• Quick Guides .
• Toggle guide color by pressing Spacebar.

Pixus was build on Adobe Air platform which means cross-platform compatibility among Windows/Mac OS X and Linux and this tool is available for free download.

Link : More info & Download

IETester, Browsershots and Adobe Browserlab offer you tools for checking your web design in multiple version of Internet Explorer, but Adobe Browserlab and Browsershots offer more options to let you test your web design. On Adobe Browserlab, you can test you design in Internet Explorer (Version 6, 7, 8), Safari on Mac, Firefox version on a PC and a Mac OSX.

W3C Tools for Validate CSS, HTML, dead link checker and mobile compatibility are also great to test your website or blog for errors and also HTML Tidy help clean you code for legible.

Down for everyone or just me? is a simple tool to check your website status when you see it down and you’re not sure that your website is down or your internet is down.

And all the developer toolbars work great for debug your web, validate codes and save your time.

1. IETester

Browser Compatibility Check for Internet Explorer Versions from 5.5 to 8. IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

2. Adobe BrowserLab

Adobe BrowserLab is a browser compatibility service that provides designers exact renderings of their pages on leading browsers. This tool offers you a tool for test your web site in all major web browser on both windows and Mac

3. Browsershots

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

4. Browser Chooser

Browser Chooser is a small tool acting as the default browser allowing you to choose what browser to open the link in. It gives you the flexibility to choose what browser to use for any given task.

5. HTML Tidy

HTML Tidy is a tool for checking and cleaning up HTML source files. It is especially useful for finding and correcting errors in deeply nested HTML, or for making grotesque code legible once more.

6. Down for everyone or just me?

Want to know your website is down because of your internet connection or because server down? This tool is for checking that.

7. W3C Link Checker

This Link Checker looks for issues in links, anchors and referenced objects in a Web page, or recursively on a whole Web site.

8. W3C Markup Validation Service

This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc.

9. W3C mobileOK Checker

This checker performs various tests on a Web Page to determine its level of mobile-friendliness. The tests are defined in the mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 specification. A Web Page is mobileOK when it passes all the tests.

10. Web Developer

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools such as CSS validate toool, browser resize tool and more. There is also Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar made by Microsoft

11. Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

12. Yahoo! YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool.

COLOURlover Desktop Color Finder

You can use the Desktop Color Finder to search our entire database of nearly 1 million named colors and more than 300,00 user created color palettes.

Kuler Desktop

Color inspiration: Browse and search color themes from kuler, an online application to create and share color harmonies.

Color Browser

Color Browser is intended as a way to organize favorite color palettes locally. Since it would be a pain to reproduce palettes you’ve created yourself in Adobe apps, or online with Kuler, or ColourLovers you can import ASE files into the application.

Boks is an AIR application (so it works on Windows, Mac and Linux) that provides a User Interface for Blueprint CSS’s framework. It’s been designed for those who think the Grid System is good but never really took the time to give it love.

It handles grid configuration, baseline rhythm pimpin’, CSS (with or without compression) and grid.png export, HTML layout and much more goodie-goodie!

This tool is a free download and If you have no idea how this tool work, they also provide video tutorials too.

Setting up your grid

Building a layout

Link : More Info and Download
Link : More Video Tutorials

If you want to build your own website in a fast way and you know a basic XHTML and CSS you can easily edit these templates. visit the link below for the full list.

Link : View all templaes

Link : View all templaes

Link : 30 Top Photoshop Tutorial Websites For Web Designers

You can change color of the button to your favorite color by just change the color of RGBA Hex color and you can also change the size of the button freely.

The buttons are beautiful and good for all web designers, you can view demo from this link.

Link : Beautiful CSS Web Buttons
View Demo

There’re available in image format (JPG high-quality, dark or white background), PDF format. You can download for free from the link below.

Link : Free HTML5 Code Cheat Sheet

This is a great tool for all web designers. IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

IETester is available for free download, try it yourself!

Link : IETester

CodeMyConcept offers a service that will help you convert your designs to standards compliant XHTML/CSS template or implement for many of CMS scripts like WordPress, Drupal, Magento, Joomla, Cubecart, OScommerce and more…

They have over 6 years in web development, so you can expect the high quality of work, fast turn-around times and you pay when you’re 100% satisfied. Your template will be good optimized and looks exactly the same as the original design.

The best XHTML & CSS at the best prices and fastest turn-around times!

Why Choose CodeMyConcept

• The final result looks exactly the same as the original design.
• Professional staff with over six years of experience in web development.
• Standard XHTML/CSS, hand coded, well optimized.
• Fast turn-around times at cheap price.
• Implement your designs to many scripts.
• You only pay after 100% satisfied.

What You Will Get

• The template with valid XHTML/CSS code and support all the major web browsers.
• Good search engine optimized (SEO) to help your websites or blogs get high rank in search result page on Google, Yahoo, Windows Live Search and more…
• Light-weight code with well optimized images to make your pages load fast and save the bandwitdth.
• Resizable Fonts: Texts on your template can be resized.

CodeMyConcept can implement your designs for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Pligg, Magento, Shopify, CubCart, Xcart, OScommerce and CMS made simple.

If you’re looking for a good place to convert your designs to high quality XHTML/CSS template. I recommend this site, because they are professional, cheap, fast turn-around times, you pay when you satisfied. Check out CodeMyConcept for more info.

Link : http://www.codemyconcept.com
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Spoonfeddesign.com post an article “Usability Analysis of Apple.com : Why is it so Good?” on their blog why is it so good? and what make it so good? They point what are the good of usability on apple.com that you can learn from their techniques. You can read more on their blog…

Link : Usability Analysis of Apple.com: Why is it so Good?

The article contains a copious variety of tutorials to help you learn and master the various techniques involved in creating beautiful web layouts. You don’t need to know much about Photoshop. The tutorials are well explained, easy to follow and you can download some layout at no cost.

Link : 40 Useful Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials

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Link : Download 1000+ Photoshop Pixel Pattern for Web’s Background

This video shows you a technique on how to create a gradient web background. The tutorial started with creating a gradient image in Photoshop, then shows you how to create a gradient web background in Dreamweaver CS3.

Link : 50 Must Read Web Development Books

Link : Read full story

Link : Photoshop Tutorial – Design a Professional Dark Header

Link : Download Window Resizer

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They have web navigation such as, sliding web navigation, drop down menu, fancy menu, expandable menu and more…

You can download and use in your web design project for free.

Link : Free 300+ Styles Web Navigation

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Web badges have various round or square corners and eye-catchy colours. Badges can be used to display a big ‘Beta’ message on your website or emphasize a price or a promotion.

Link : Web20Badges.com – Generate Web 2.0 Badge Online

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Their tool is easy to use, you can freely customize color, canvas size, pattern images and rotate your canvas 360 degree.

If you don’t have idea to create your own patterns, you can browse patterns that generated by another users by top rated patterns and recently created patterns.

Link : Generate Background Pattern Online

If you’re a designer these textures save you lots of time, they offer nice and free textures such as paper textures, paint textures, metal textures, canvas textures and more…

Link : Free Textures For Web Design, Paper Textures, Grunge Textures, Metal Textures, Abstract Textures and more…

The videos tutorials in showmedo.com are nice, free and comprehensive programming tutorials such as Java, C/C++ , Python, Ruby, basic programming,PHP, web development, graphic program like Gimp and more tutorials in video.

You can watch tutorials online, download or you can create video screencast by yourself and upload to share on showmedo.com.

Link : showmedo.com