Seasoned graphic designers wouldn't dream of sending a print project to press without first approving an accurate proof. Your client's email marketing campaign should be no different. You need to be sure you know what your design looks like on the different email clients your readers might be using.
Proof Your Email Designs in Different Email Clients from Creative Techs
Every web designer has a need to create invoices and track payments that have been received or have not yet been paid. Fortunately, there are a number of tools that can streamline this process, and we’ll look at 20 options here. There is a good deal of variety in terms of features and pricing. Some are better suited for organizations that have several employees, while others may be a good fit for a freelancer. Some of these tools will simply help you to create attractive invoices and other will extend further into the area of accounting software.
20 Invoicing Tools for Web Designers from Six Revisions
Fawnt is a font resource for designers, developers, and anyone that appreciates the web's highest quality fonts.
Credit card icons are an essential part of every online-shop. They are often used to indicate available payment conditions and purchasing options. The clearer they are presented in the online-shop, the easier it is for potential customers to figure out if they actually can pay online in this shop. Therefore when it comes to the design of an online-shop there is no way to get around using some credit card icons.
Free Credit Card Icons For Online-Shops from Smashing Magazine
Navigation menus are the most important element one should pay attention when designing a website. Web-developers can create user-friendly horizontal or vertical navigation menus using CSS. Javascript makes it possible to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible navigation to any website.
Multilevel Drop Down Navigation Menus: Examples and Tutorials from Noupe
A comprehensive Lightbox roundup! From Wikipedia:
Lightbox, and the newer Lightbox 2, is a JavaScript application used to display large images using modal dialogs. The script has gained widespread popularity due to its simple yet elegant style and easy implementation. Lightbox uses the Prototype Javascript Framework and script.aculo.us for its animations and positioning.
The Lightbox Clones Matrix by Ozh
I wrote an article a few weeks back about javascript frameworks (Top 10 Javascript Frameworks - Which do you prefer?), and the general consensus was that jQuery was the best. I like scriptalicious and Prototype, but I have been looking at MooTools recently, and I like what I see. Here is the best of what I have found.
41 of the Best MooTools Ajax Example Downloads from Speckyboy
Web design-related forums are a place where you interact with other designers, exchange ideas or discuss your first drafts. When you have a problem, you can post the issue, and then receive feedback on possible design or coding solutions from community members. This interaction is a great way to establish contacts and build relationships. Forums are used for networking and marketing purposes. They are practical places to solve problems and can serve as a form of social diversion.
Professional Web Design Forums from Smashing Magazine
If you’re interested in analyzing and optimizing your page layout - here’s some extremely useful tools that you can use to help.
7 Incredibly Useful Tools for Evaluating a Web Design from Six Revisions
Lots of form elements to play with, for your web design mockups!
OS Form Elements from Designer's Toolbox
This is sweet.
FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop.
FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.
You create ‘FontStructions’ using the ‘FontStructor’ font editor.
Once you're done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.
You can keep your creations to yourself, but we encourage users to share their "FontStructions". Explore the Gallery of fonts made by other FontStruct users and download them or even copy them and make your own variations.
You can also use the FontStruct widget to show your FontStructions on your own website or blog.
FontStruct by FontShop
Top 20 Free Vector Resources for Designers from Speckyboy
With so many browser out there in the wild, working as a Web Developer certainly is not an easy job these days. Thankfully, over the last years, decent tools have been developed by bright people that make developing and debugging of code easier for the developer. But sometimes, it is not easy to keep track which tools are at a Developer’s disposal (and which are actually usable). The following article seeks to list the best tools available and quickly describing how to activate/install/use them.
Collection of Web Developer Tools, per Browser from Klaus Komenda
Registering as a member will allow you to access Font Cubes's unique font management system that were made for designer's uses. By registering, you could keep track on your favourite fonts by fontmarking them and asside of that, you could also use the system to keep track of font you have used in your project. If you're a font author, feel free to signup and publish your work to other users. You could also use our site feature to collect donation on your font work.
Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned veteran these tools, tutorials, lists and other resources are great sites for any web designer. Organized into helpful categories (design inspiration, CSS resources, web design guides, color tools, free fonts and more) this collection not only has useful resources but also categorized links to other lists with 100s more.
42 Must-Bookmark Resources for Web Designers - Inspiration, Design, Color, Fonts and More from [Re] Encoded
It seems like every other page online is about…designing pages online. But, this is one of those topics which you might want to tackle through a comprehensive resource, like a book, especially if you’re a beginner. Here are 20 ebooks and whitepapers covering that very subject.
20 Free Ebooks and Whitepapers for Better Web Design from Mashable
A nice list of Blueprint CSS Framework resources has been compiled by Lee Honeycutt. If you don't know what Blueprint is, check out my previous post.
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