Other Useful Sites
The following sites are all ones that I've used in the past to find tips on web design, get images, seek advice, and more. I've tried to limit them to the less ad driven sites though occasionaly I can't avoid it. Am I the only one who find all those ads randomly thrown in your face annoying? Feel free to send me suggested sites of your own, though be aware I'll only add ones that meet my criteria
Web Design
- A List Apart (ALA)
- I primarily turn there for style questions, though it covers code, content, culture, design, process, and user science.
- CSS Play
- Stu does a lot of cool things only using CSS.
- Elated
- Loaded with tutorials, hints, tricks, and more.
- Highslide JS
- Torstein Honsi's great free (not commercial use) javascript which I use alot.
- Open Source Web Design
- Hundreds of free open source design templates. Useful for disecting and learning CSS.
- StuNicholls.com
- Stu's other site where he explores more than just CSS
Firefox Add Ons
- Web Developer
- Allows you to view and modify CSS elements of a page without using a thrid part editor.
- Fire Bug
- Very similar to Web Developer, but will also let you verify javascript.
- MeasureIt
- A useful tool for finding the size of elements on a page.
- ColorZilla
- Like a color but don't know its hexadecimal value? Use this tool's ink dropper to see what it is.
- Screengrab
- Capture images of a screen in total or in pieces. Uesful for pulling parts of pages in to a graphics editor.
PHP
- Coming Soon!
Javascript
- Coming Soon!
Flash
- MonkeyFlash
- A great site for finding flash tutorials
Images
- Fotolia
- This site is useful for find royalty free images. However they are not free, and they make you buy a minimum of 10 tokens for $10. Images start at 1 token and go up from there.
- iPhotoStock
- Very similar to Fotolia, with a more complex purchasing scale. They have some of the same images so I usually check both to compare costs.
Free Tools
- IcoFX
- An easy to use icon editor.
- Easy Thumbnails
- Don't have Photoshop or Fireworks? Use this tool to resize images in batches.