Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category

15 Categories of Textures

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Are you looking for textures? Currently you can find 857 textures in 15 categories such as wood, stone, marble, cloud, nature, water, fabric, organic, skin and fur, metal, technical, maps, paint, misc, and bump. Not all the textures in this library are free. If you want to use texture as your website or blog background, then you have come to the right place.

Flower Maker Tool

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

I have taken 5 minutes to play around with the flower maker tools by click and drag in the white space to add the petals to my flower. Have you seen the ugly flower as per picture? This is a flower that I have made just now. :) Ugly, right? :P Anyway, this is very interesting tool.

TypeTester Make Web Designer’s Life Easier

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Wow! Cool tool for web designer! TypeTester (http://typetester.maratz.com) is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated. You can choose the typeface from the list or specific your own, size, tracking, leading, alignment, word space and so on.

Daily Color Scheme

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Daily Color Scheme (http://beta.dailycolorscheme.com) is very useful to me when I want to design website or blog theme because sometimes I will get blur about the best colors to be matched together. Daily Color Scheme is your daily color resource. You can download a new scheme every day, and you will find lots of schemes in the archive. This website has clearly tell you how to download the color scheme which you can import in your design programs like Photoshop, Illustrator or TopStyle.

Background Image Maker

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Previously I have posted Stripe Generator 2.0, so Background Image Maker (http://lab.rails2u.com/bgmaker) is something similar to Stripe Generator 2.0, but Background Image Maker allows you to create Slash, Dot, Stripe and Gradation background, while Stripe 2.0 allows you to create stripe background only. with the assistance of these online tools, now we do not need to spend lots of time to create pattern to use in our website or blog’s background.

Test Your Web Design In Different Browsers

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

browsershots.org is a free open-source online service which allows you to generate screenshots of how websites appear at 800×600 and 1024×768 resolution in six commonly used web browsers. You can see how is your website or blog looks like using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and others.

All you need to do is to type in a URL (website address), it will create screenshots for you. Your query is sent on queue, it will take from 3 -60 minutes to process your website. Once it is done though, there is a link that you can always come back to which show how your website looks like.

Online Tool – Generate Favicon

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

How do you generator favicon (16×16 icon)? Like what I have done previously, I use Photoshop to draw the image, and then I use IrfanView software to convert this image to .ico format. Actually you don’t need to follow my step, there is an online tool which allows you to create favicon from the image. Once you are done, you can download your icon in .ico format. That’s easy and save time.

In order to display the favicon in your website or blog, first you need to upload your icon to the server and enter the following code between and in your HTML. (change the url and icon name to your own)

<link href=”http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico” rel=”shortcut icon” />

(Please visit http://www.rw-designer.com/online_icon_maker.php)