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I have stumble upon a site called Textorizer (http://textorizer.whatfettle.com). Do you know what textorizer is? Textorizer takes a raster image in a format such as png, jpeg or gif, detects edges using a Sobel convolution filter and replaces them with supplied lines of text. The output from textorizer is in SVG, which can be viewed directly in the Firefox 1.5 browser or using the Adobe SVG Plugin. It is a C extension to PHP, and released under the W3C software license. Sound great right?

This is a link that I found for 20 popular CSS Online Tools and Generators. According to the owner of the blog, all these tools are selected due to the design and popularity. These CSS tools and generators are actually quite useful for me as I’m very interested in web design. With the help of these tools, I can design a website in a short time without having too much trouble in exploring and learning CSS.

Sometimes I need to do some basic photo editing, I prefer to use FotoFlexer instead of Photoshop because my old laptop will run quite slow when I open Photoshop as it occupy lots of computer memory.

FotoFlexer allows you to do basic photo editing online and it supports remove blemishes, change skin and hair color, morph photos, background changing and more. It also supports integration with photo sites like photobucket, flickr, picasa, facebook and myspace. You can check it out their extensive integration here.

This is a link of 100 (legal) sources for free stock images which you can use for your creation. I remembered when I design website or blog last time, I want to use a lot of image to design my website or blog, but I don’t know where to find “legal” images, now I only know where I can find the free images. Please don’t simply use the images from the internet, some of them might be having a copyright.

When I free, I will search the good articles from the internet, as long as it is benefit to me or you guy, I will posting it up. This is another good article titled 10 tips for budding web programmers and designers which I think it is perfectly suit to my needs. I need to read more articles like this to enhance my knowledge.

curvycorners.net is a free JavaScript program that will create on-the-fly rounded corners for any HTML DIV element, that look as good as any graphically created corners. It is very simple to use, I can simply added rounded corners to my DIVs in second, no image editing is required. It support all major browsers and support Windows and Mac platform.

CleanCSS.com is a powerful CSS optimizer and formatter. Basically, it takes your CSS code and makes it cleaner and more concise. I have processed the URL of my blog’s CSS, the following result showed the CSS code that I have to change it for optimization.

Optimised number: Changed “0px” to “0″
Optimised font-weight: Changed “bold” to “700″
Optimised color: Changed “#BBBBBB” to “#BBB”
Optimised shorthand notation (padding): Changed “1em 0 0 0″ to “1em 0 0″
Optimised shorthand notation (padding): Changed “0.9em 1.2em 0.9em 1.2em” to “0.9em 1.2em”
Optimised font-weight: Changed “normal” to “400″

Why optimize? Two reasons: It helps you get smaller CSS file sizes and better written code.