creativity | css galleries & showcases | color tools | color schemes, palettes | color patterns | fashion: colors selection | color theory | royalty free photos
css daily reading | web design daily reading | css layouts | css navigation menus | css techniques | css-web-tools & services
html-web-tools & services | accessibility checkers | miscellaneous tools | ajax applications | DOM | fonts | typography | CMS | blogging |
specifications | usability & accessibility | add a link (free) | seo tools | seo references | howtogetthingsdone | freelancers resources

 // creativity
  • [ uncontrol ]
  • Be Creative!
  • BIT-101 Lab
  • Creativity techniques and creative tools for problem solving
  • Design Directory | made by designers for designers
  • Design Snack
  • Designologue
  • Dislexicon v0.3
  • e-CREATIVE AWARDS
  • gapingvoid: how to be creative (latest version)
  • glenmurphy.com
  • How to pitch an idea
  • OneLook Reverse Dictionary
  • Portfolio Exhibition (The Best of Portfolio Design)
  • Processing
  • Robert Penner's Experiments
  • screenspire.com | full( )screen inspiration
  • Sodaplay constructor
  • Speak Up > Word it
  • The Designer's Lunchbox
  • The definitive collection of idea generation methods
  • The Exploration of Computation
  • wellvetted.com - inspirational gathering
  • Words List - Extelligence
 // css galleries & showcases
  • A.Budd :: Well Designed CSS Sites
  • CSS Beauty
  • CSS Blast (ru)
  • CSS Design (ru)
  • CSS Design (swe)
  • CSS Drive
  • CSS Reboot
  • CSS Vault
  • CSS Zen Garden
  • Design Shack - Inspirational CSS and Blog Design
  • Design Snack
  • Devil's Details
  • doblepixel
  • Pajatti.net (ch)
  • Styleboost
  • unmatchedstyle
  • Web Standards Awards
  • CSS Import
  • CSS Table Gallery
  • CSS Tableless Web Sites
  • css thesis: sites, that's all
  • Open Source Web design (oswd)
  • screenspire.com | full( )screen inspiration
  • Stylegala - design | css | standards
  • Web Creme | Web design inspiration
  • W3 Compliant Sites
  • wow factor
 // color tools
  • Defence Mechanism > Color Toy
  • Color converter (RGB/CMYK/HSV)
  • Color Palette Creator v1.6
  • Color Palette Generator [1]
  • Color Palette Generator [2]
  • 100 Random Colors - Need a Color?
  • 4096 Color Wheel
  • Chromatic Wheel
  • Color Blender
  • ColorLab
  • Colormix
  • Color Mixers
  • Color Scheme 1, Color Scheme 2
  • Color Schemer Online v.2
  • Color Shades: Colors and Lighter Hexadecimal Codes and Swatches
  • Color synthAxis
  • ColorWhore
  • ColorWrite 1.1
  • Colour Contrast Analyser
  • Colour exploration tools
  • ColourMod :: DHTML Color Picker/Selector
  • Colour Scheme Chooser
  • Easy RGB
  • Eye Dropper Color Mixer
  • Infohound Color Schemer
  • Kolur.com Color Inspiration
  • Online image photo editor
  • RedAlt v1.0
  • Sessions.edu Color Calculator
  • Triadic Color Harmony
  • Triplecode Munsell Palette
  • Unsafe Colormatch
  • Web Color Theory
  • Web Color Visualizer
 // color theory
  • 16 Lessons in Color Theory
  • An Introduction to Using Patterns
  • Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design
  • Color Theory: A brief tutorial
  • Colour Theory
  • Color Theory Articles
  • Color Theory Overview & Tutorial: Color, Creativity, Code
  • Colour Harmony: Secrets of Web Color Revealed
  • Design Psychology
  // fashion: colors selection
  • Behr | Color Smart
  • Benjamin Moore: Personal Color Viewer
  • Dulux paint colour range & advice about choosing paint colours
  • Color palettes and color schemes at Sherwin-Williams
  • Pantone's top ten fashion colors for fall 2005
  • PANTONE Universe - Fashion ColorView
 // color schemes, palettes
  • CSS Color Chart
  • color combinations
  • ColorCombos
  • ColorMatch 5K
  • COLOURlovers
  • Colr.org
  • Return of Design - Web Color Schemes
 // royalty free photos
  • AboutPixel.de
  • PhotoCase.de
  • 9x13.de
  • DesignPacks.com
  • Patterns: pattern4u
  • PictureQuest
  • Pixel Perfect Digital
  • Pixsy - photos and videos from blogs and social networks
  • StockVault
  • stock.xchng
  • License-free images: a forum thread
  • Royalty Free Images Search Engine
  • Royalty free images @ Blue Vertigo
  • WallpaperStock
  • Where To Find Great Free Photographs
 
// css daily reading
  • 456bereastreet.com
  • Asterisk*: Where web design lives
  • A List Apart
  • BlueRobot
  • BrainJar.coms
  • design.Principles
  • meyerweb.com: css / edge
  • htmldog
  • Mandarin Design
  • mezzoblue
  • PositionIsEverything.net
  • StopDesign
  • Stylegala - design | css | standards
  • Zeldman Jeffrey
 // css in German
  • webdev:webdesign [pf-wiki]
  • CSS - ein Tutorial
  • bs-Markup
  • cssHilfe
  • Intensivstation
  • css4you
  • Andreas Kalt
  • Manuel Bieh
  • Carsten Protsch
  • DesignerInAction
  • einfachfüralle
  • Seybold Jand-Andresen
  • Meiert.com
  • hessendrescher.de
  • Vorsprung durch Standards
  • Jendryschik.de
  • Bjoernsworld.de
  • mediaevent
  • stichpunkt.de
  • Vladimir Simovic
  • css.fractatulum.net
  • uckan.info
  // web design daily reading
  • A List Apart: Web magazine for people who make websites
  • Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
  • Brain Bliss
  • DesignInFlight
  • Digital Web Magazine
  • Graphics.com: The shared resource for creative design
  • Layers Magazine
  • Poynter Online - Design / Graphics
  • Web Developer's Journal
  • Webmascon - Russian "A List Apart"
  • [kak) (ru) - a journal about graphic design
 // css layouts
  • 195 Manually selected Style Sheet Resources
  • An Overview of Current CSS Layout Techniques
  • Changingman layout | And all that Malarkey
  • CSS Page Layout Templates
  • Ruthsarian Layouts
  • Bluerobot Layout Reservoir
  • Glish CSS Layout techniques
  • Layout-o-matic
  • Little Boxes
  • Nemesis Project: CSS table-less design templates
  • Three Column Layouts @ css-discuss
  • Web Builders’ Toolkit
  • Website Layouts Cookbook
  • XHTML/CSS - 3 column layouts - Netscape 4 compatible
  // css navigation menus
  • ALA // Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style
  • ALA // Sliding Doors
  • ALA // Taming Lists
  • Alsacreations, menus galleries in CSS and XHTML
  • aPlus:: ADxMenu
  • BrainJar
  • Bulletproof Slants
  • cssbasednavigation
  • CSSVault
  • CSS Tab Designer
  • Deluxe CSS Dropdowns and Flyouts
  • Free Menu Designs V 1.1*
  • Hybrid CSS Dropdowns
  • Intelligent Menus
  • Inverted Sliding Doors Tabs
  • Javascript Menus. DeLuxe Menus
  • List-o-Matic
  • Listamatic 1, Listamatic 2
  • Navigation Matrix Reloaded
  • Simplebits: Mini-Tab Shapes 2
  • SilverOrange CSS Tabs
  • Simplebits Navigation Tabs: Simplified CSS Tabs, Mini-Tab Shapes, CSS Mini Tabs (the UN-tab, tab), Accessible Image-Tab Rollovers
  • Suckerfish Dropdowns
  • The CSS Playground
  • Veerle's 2 level horizontal navigation
  • wg:CSS Tabs
  • wg:Inline Mini Tabs
// css techniques
  • Adam's Radio & Checkbox Customisation Method
  • Airtight Corners
  • Annotating images with CSS
  • Bullet-Proof Rounded Corners
  • Comments: Behind the Scenes
  • Content with Style: A CSS Framework
  • Constants in CSS - several ways how to simulate
  • Create compatible HTML email
  • Creating a Pullquote with Javascript and CSS
  • CSS: 2-col tableless layout
  • CSS Destroy: CSS Experiments (offline)
  • CSS Diagrams
  • CSS Bar Graphs
  • CSS Drop Shadows
  • CSS element hover effect
  • CSS footerStick
  • CSS Hacks @ Stylegala
  • CSS Iframe Mimics
  • CSS Image Maps
  • CSS Image Pop UP Technique
  • CSS image replacement for submit buttons
  • CSS Image Text Wrap Tutorial
  • CSS-Only Forms That Don't Suck
  • CSS-Only Table-less Forms
  • CSS Page Layouts: Samples
  • CSS Photo-Caption Zoom
  • cssQuery()
  • cssQuery Version 2
  • CSS Remote Rollover Demo
  • CSS Scale Image Html Tutorial
  • CSS submit buttons
  • CSS Switching
  • CSS sliding photo-gallery
  • CSS Teaser Box
  • CSS tests @ Brunildo.org
  • CSS: the white-space property
  • CSS Tables
  • CSS Visited Links: Ticked-off visited links Reloaded
  • CSS Zoom layout
  • Creating a Star Rater using CSS
  • Customized borders and corners in flexible layouts
  • Deluxe CSS Dropdowns and Flyouts
  • Dynamic Text Replacement // ALA
  • Eric's Universal Child Selector
  • footerStickAlt: A more robust method of positioning a footer
  • Format Footnotes with Javascript & CSS
  • Footnotes revisited: CSS Sidenotes
  • Forms with CSS: trimming form fields
  • Free Form for All - The Subtraction Good Form 0.1
  • Image (Replacement) Maps
  • Making a CSS-based layout start to finish
  • Language specific styling: quotation marks
  • Malarkey Image Replacement
  • NiceForms
  • Quirks mode and strict mode
  • Revised image replacement
  • Scalable Inline (siir)
  • Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR)
  • Sortable Table Demos (WebFX)
  • Sort Table / Javascript, DHTML, CSS
  • The CSS and XHTML Lab
  • The CSS Cheat Sheet
  • The Fade Anything Technique
  • The Form Assembly Garden
  • The ThrashBox - Rounded Corner for All
  • Thierry Image Placement
  • Unordered List Rollover Gallery
  • Using Background-Image to Replace Text
  • yDSF - Robust CSS Drop Shadows
  • Zebra Tables
  • Zebra: Alter Table Row Background Colors Using JavaScript
  // css-web-tools & services
  • CSS Centricle
  • CssCreator -> Page Layout
  • CSS Formatter and Optimiser
  • CSS Multi-element Rollover Generator
  • CSS Optimizer
  • CSS Rounded Box Generator
  • CSS Syntax Checker for BBEdit and TextWrangler
  • Iconico CSS Scrollbar Generator
  • korhoen typeviewer
  • List-u-Like
  • Nifty Corners: rounded corners without images
  • Online CSS Compressor (offline)
  • Round Corner Stone/Icon
  • SelectOracle
  • Xylescope
  • W3C Core Styles
  • W3C CSS Validator
 
// html-web-tools & services
  • HTML Character Entities
  • Special Characters in HTML
  • A Simple Character Entity Chart
  • Doctor HTML v6
  • HTML Help: CSS, HTML Checks
  • HTML Tidy
  • WDG HTML Validator
  • W3C HTML Validator
  // accessibility checkers
  • Accessible Data Tables
  • Accessibility Valet Demonstrator
  • Bobby Online Service
  • OCAWA Web Accessibility Expert
  • UI Site check
  • WAVE 3.5 Accessibility Tool
  • Web-based Site Usability Checker
  • WebXACT Quality & Accessibility Check
  // miscellaneous tools
  • Acrobot Abbreviation and Acronym Generator
  • 10 Tips That Every PHP Newbie Should Know
  • 10 Tips That Every PHP Newbie Should Know [ Part 2 ]
  • 9 Javascript(s) you better not miss!
  • 300 Images From 1800 Sites (arrows, posts, comments, bullets, print etc.)
  • 9 useful tools for web design
  • Advanced Email Link Generator
  • Approximate Conversion from Points to Pixels
  • 80x15 Brilliant Button Maker
  • 80x15 Button Maker and Generator - Blog Flux
  • 80by15
  • 80x15 Buttons Gallery
  • Browsercam - Check how your web-site looks in different browsers
  • BrowserShots
  • Bullet Madness
  • Drunkey Love Icons
  • E-mail: E-Mail Icon Generator
  • E-mail: Online Email Protector
  • E-Mail: Mask Email Image Generator
  • EffectsPack - Prototype/Effects based javascript effects
  • FaganFinder URLInfo
  • famfamfam.com: Icons
  • FavIcon Generator [1]
  • FavIcon Generator [2]
  • Favourite Favicons
  • Favourite Javascripts for Designers
  • Flickr Badge Maker
  • htaccess code generator - disable hotlinking
  • iCapture - see through the eyes of a Mac browser
  • ieCapture v. 0.0.4 alpha
  • Image Embellisher
  • JavaScript Toolbox - Reusable Libraries And Objects
  • Link checker
  • Load time check
  • Online Image Splitter
  • Polaroid-o-nizer
  • Rapid Web Development and Testing with Mozilla Firefox
  • Screen size simulator
  • Semantics extractor
  • SimpleViewer v1.7
  • slayeroffice tools
  • Sparkline Generator Web Application
  • Textarea tools
  • The Amazing Rolloverer
  • The Box Office 0.4
  • Toys - dhtml and javascript libraries, demos and applications
  • Web Developer Extension for Mozilla and Firefox
  • Web Page Analyzer
  • Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer
  // ajax applications
  • AjaxAC - Open-source PHP framework for creating AJAX / JavaScript applications
  • Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
  • AJAX - Devmo
  • AjaxPatterns.Org
  • ajax instant messanger
  • Ajax Mistakes
  • Ajax Multiple Text Applicator 0.1
  • Ajax on Rails
  • Ajax Resources: There and Back Again
  • Ajax Toolbox
  • AJAX: Usable Interactivity with Remote Scripting [JavaScript & DHTML Tutorials]
  • Ajax Working Examples & XMLHttpRequest
  • Behaviour is the missing link for your ajax apps
  • Dynamic Ajax Tables
  • Ajax Feed TV
  • How to Develop Web Applications with Ajax
  • Prototype JavaScript Framework
  • Rico - Demos: Javascript + Ajax for Rich Internet Applications
  • Sajax: Simple Ajax Toolkit
  • Step by Step to AJAX
  • Top 10 Ajax Applications
  • What is Ajax?
  // DOM
  • Accessible DOM DropDown Menu
  • DOM Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style @ nickrigby.com
  • DOM-Scripted Lists, Revisited
  • DOM: Dockable Comments: Intelligent DOM Scripting
  • DOM: Dom-Drag-Crop
  • DOM: Mouseover DOM Inspector
  • DOMSlides
  • Dynamic thumbnails and preview images with DOM, CSS and PHP
  • FreeStyle Menus - TwinHelix
  • Gecko DOM Reference
  // fonts
  • 25 Best Quality License-Free Fonts
  • 100 Seriously Free Fonts
  • Desert Island Fonts: Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, Final Round
  • Essential Fonts For Designers | 300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have
  • fontleech
  • Font Browser
  • Font guide for webmasters
  • Font Type Navigator
  • Fontsmack (a repository of sIFR fonts)
  • praegnanz.de - Free Professional Fonts
  • Identifont - Identify a font (german)
  • Minifonts.com
  • Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts
  • Pixelfonts: Style-Force Semplice Pixelfonts
  • Search Free Fonts
  • SimplyTheBest: Fonts
  • Truly Free Stock
  • Typetester
  • WhatTheFont?!
  // typography
  • A practical guide to web typography
  • Favorite Fonts of 2004
  • Five simple steps to better typography
  • The Next Big Thing in Online Type
  • The non-typographer's guide to practical typeface selection
  • Thinking With Type
  • Typolinks
  • Typography Resources
  // CMS
  • CMSwire.com
  • CMS: opensourceCMS.com
  • CMS Matrix
  // blogging
  • blo.gs
  • BlogBuddy
  • Blogdex
  • Bloghop
  • Blogger.com
  • Blogger.com Templates :: A template for my blog
  • Bloglet
  • BlogRolling
  • Blogshares
  • Blog Tips - ProBlogger: Helping Bloggers Earn Money
  • Blogwise
  • CorporateBlogging.Info
  • DayPop - The hot topics in the weblogging community
  • Quick Online Tips: Free Essential Tools for Blogger
  • Google Adsense Optimizer
  • Google AdSense Stop Words
  • Google Adsenselogger, Open Source PHP Adsense Tracker
  • Google AdSense Optimization Webinar
  • Movable Type Style Generator
  • MT Plugin Directory
  • Myelin: Blogging EcoSystem
  • Pheedo
  • pMachine How-to
  • Ping-O-Matic!
  • Popdex
  • Technorati - Blog & Internet Search
  • Textpattern and Textpattern Resources
  • Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool?
  • Weblogs Compendium
 
// specifications
  • All CSS Properties Listed Alphabetically
  • CSS Panic Guide
  • CSS Pod Guide @ Westciv
  • CSS Reference @ Stylegala
  • CSS Reference @ W3Schools
  • Cascading Style Sheets - level 1 (CSS1)
  • Cascading Style Sheets - level 2 (CSS2)
  • Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1. CSS 2.1 Specification
  • Cheat Sheet Roundup - Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers
  • CSS Property Index
  • CSS Reference
  • Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification
  • Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Specification
  • Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Specification
  • HTML 4.01 Specifications
  • ISO-HTML Specification
  • JavaScript Core Guide 1.5
  • XHTML 1.0 Specifications
  • XHTML 2.0 - W3C Working Draft
  • XML / HTML References
  • W3C Technical Reports and Publications
  • Project Cool: Web Development Basics
  • Textile Reference
  • Understanding XML
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines1.0
  • Westciv Complete CSS Guide
  • ZVON.org - The Guide to the XML Galaxy
  // usability & accessibility
  • Access Matters
  • All You Need For Accessibility - Tutorials, Tools, Books, Validators, etc: part 1, part 2
  • Colorblind Barrier Free
  • Creating Passionate Users: Featuritis vs. the Happy User Peak
  • Dan Tobias' Web Tips
  • Ergonomic Guidelines for Interface Design
  • "Eye for information"
  • Eyetools Research Blog
  • Eyetools Eyetracking Analysis
  • Introduction to Eyetracking: Seeing Through Your Users' Eyes
  • Eyetrack III - What You Most Need to Know
  • Influence of Training and Exposure on the Usage of Breadcrumb Navigation
  • Microsoft Usability Homepage
  • Navigation blindness: How to deal with the fact that people tend to ignore navigation tool
  • Siteusability.com
  • Skills for Access
  • Required size limits for various connection speeds
  • The Interaction Designer's Coffee Break
  • UITest.com: User Interface Test Resources List
  • usabilityfirst.com
  • usablenet.com
  • Usability Views
  • useit.com
  • User Interface Design
  • Web Accessibility Toolbar
  • webusability - accessibility & usability services
  • What is Web Accessibility?
  • Why accessibility?
  // add a link (free)
  • Google Search Engine Crawler
  • ExactSeek Search Engine Crawler
  • Feed Shark
  • Search AllinOne MetaSearch!
  • Yahoo Search Engine Crawler
  • Searchengine Channel
  • Top Directories with free web site submission
  • A list of link submission directories
  // seo references
  • Database of Web Robots, Overview
  • Google Ranking Factors
  • How to Find a Great Domain Name
  • Searchengine Watch
  • Search Engine Optimization Forum
  • Search Engines Overview
  • Search Engine Visibility - Do You Measure Up?
  • Tools You Might Have Missed
  • The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
  • What People Search For
  • Great Site Ranking in Google The Secrets Out
  • How To Get Slashdotted
 // seo tools
  • 99 Free SEO Tools
  • Basics of search engine optimisation
  • DevToolz
  • Dogpile
  • icon interactive Link Popularity Tool
  • Google's PageRank - Calculator
  • Keyword Density Analyzer
  • Marketleap Search Engine Marketing Tools
  • NicheBot - Keyword Database (Wordtracker keywords)
  • Overture Keyword Selector Tool
  • Page Rank Checker
  • Page Rank Update List History - PageRank - PR
  • Poodle Predictor
  • SearchBliss
  • SEO Chat
  • SEO Scanner - Pros' SEO Tool
  • SEO Tool for Yahoo Search Engine
  • SiteOMetrics
  • Spider emulator
  • The Pages Indexed, Backlinks Domain, Pagerank, Allinanchor, Keyword Density
  • This is how a search engine robot sees your web-site
  • Yahoo! & Google Search Comparison
  // howtogetthingsdone
  • Josh Kaufman: Inside My Bald Head
  • lifehack
  • Problems in life | Getting things to work | Being Efficient | And More... - LifeHut
  • to-done.com
  // freelancers
  • Bid Start Scripting Services - custom freelance programming and design work
  • Freelance-Help.com
  • Scriptlance.com
  • simplyhired
  • Must-see resources for freelancers
  • Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer
  • The Ten Commandments of Freelancing
  • Top Tips For Freelancers