Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Friday January 30, 2009 18:05

Design Banners with No Design Skills

BannerSnack is a flash based tool that will help you build decent looking banners with a point and click interface.
Although the banners won’t look as good as something done by a graphic designer – they look a lot better than every other banner generator we have seen and used.
The app is free but they will [...]

Saturday January 10, 2009 18:22

Turn Your Photos into Amazing Miniatures

Tilt-Shift minature photos are fake model photos and using TiltShiftMaker, you can turn any photo into a faux model.
The effect is really amazing (we have embedded one below) and it can be created in seconds using this website.
Check It Out

Monday December 8, 2008 04:02

2008 iDezy Awards

Nominate your fav app, site, tool or script of 2008 and win an All Access Pass to Animoto or one of 5 GoDaddy gift Cards!
Calling all bloggers, designers, podcasters, twitterers, marketers and all other web workers – we need your nominations!  Need ideas? Browse back through our archives!
Nominate Now

Tuesday November 11, 2008 16:24

Sell Photos Online with ClusterShot

ClusterShot is a simple marketplace to sell your photos.  Currently there isn’t a huge collection available for sale, but the quality seems to be very good.
Another bonus is the ability to keep you photos in your own gallery or portfolio and simply link to their checkout.
Check it Out

Wednesday November 5, 2008 17:43

Free Instant Thumbnails

Finally, a utility that offers free and instant Thumbnail creation.  Thumbizy is simple, free and will generate a thumbnail of any site, in various sizes in an instant.
There are plenty of Thumbnail creating services out there, but this is the first one we have seen that doesn’t put you into a queue or put ugly [...]

Thursday October 30, 2008 20:05

Convert a PSD to XHTML Automatically

This neat little online tool will convert any PSD into CSS/XHTML automatically.
PSD2CSS is free and takes just seconds to convert any PSD.  You simply have to make sure you name certain layers correctly according to their documentation.  The whole process is done online and requires no download.
Check it Out

Wednesday October 22, 2008 04:04

Freebie – Validation Icons

If your site is standards based and passes the grade when it comes to validation then you should chuck a free validation icon from ValidationIcons.com on your site.
To find out if your website is up to scratch head on over to http://validator.w3.org/ to get your site validated against current standards.
Check it out

Sunday October 19, 2008 17:36

Corkdump – User Submitted Goodness

CorkDump is a simple, free yet very useful resource of user submitted links relating to web development and design.
The links seem to be ordred based on popularity (the number of times a resource has been submitted) and because everything is edited, CorkDump is free from spam.
The site can also be customized by changing the order [...]

Monday October 6, 2008 23:56

Design: RightBanners.com

Banner design can be expensive – or of poor quality.  RightBanners looks completely different offering cheap and high quality banner designs.  We dig the easy to use order process and the 4 incredible 4 hour turn around.
Prices start from just $36 and go up depending on quanity, animation etc.  Make sure you take a look [...]