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10 Best Wireframing Tools For Designers

Nikita Porwal — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:44:29 +0000

If you have designed a website ever then you know the painful task of gathering feedback on page layout and navigation. Because any web design requires proper planning and communication for completing the project successfully. This is what is just offered by any reliable wireframing process, a fast and easy method to plan the layout and time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to the clients. With the help of wireframing tools you can illustrate the structure of the website layout and give an idea of how the end project will be. Further it becomes easier to do any alterations suggested. So, it is always a great idea to start a designing project with prominent wireframe tools. While there are many free wireframing tools for designer, yet it is worth shedding few dollars to get exciting features of the paid version. But locating some prominent wireframing tools can be a daunting task, with that in mind Honeytechblog brings you top 10 wireframing tools for designer that are available to make your work easier and faster!

10 Best Wireframing Tools For Designers

1. Omnigraffle

For web designer and developer working on a Mac, Omnigraffle is an award-winning yet simple to use tool that produces graphics, diagrams, flow charts, organization chart, page layouts and fast mockups of your website quickly using drag-and-drop WYSIWYG interface. The latest edition Omnigraffle 5 not only create amazing wireframes and mockups, but also offers a new layout engine, which means your design process will be more varied and faster than ever before.

Interesting features of Omnigraffle Wireframing Tool

New Layout Engine
Bézier Lines
Bézier Shapes
Mini Inspectors
Style Tray
Stencil Search
Outline View
Multiple Page Documents
Diagram Styles
Improved Import/Export: PDF, PICT, OmniOutliner
Graphing Tools
Smart Guides
Auto Layout

2. Axure

Axure RP enables application designers to create wireframes, flow diagrams, prototypes, and specifications for applications and web sites. It provides the features you need to get started quickly whether working alone or collaborating with your team. You will extremely find it easy to create layout with drag and drop feature. Further even the basic links and advanced interactions are explained on the tool without programming. You will find an interactive HTML prototype created with the documentation in MS Word format.

Interesting features of Axure Wireframing Tool

Design efficiently.
Experience your design early to test ideas.
Engage stakeholders to gather valuable feedback.
Automate specifications avoiding tedious documentation.
Enable design collaboration.

3. Balsamiq

Balsamiq Mockups is an Adobe AIR application for generating wireframes features hand-drawn, sketch-like interface elements library. The wireframes made with it look very much like a draft that is you can make simple mock-ups that also looks simple. Using Balsamiq Mockups experience like you are drawing, but it’s digital, so you are free to tweak and rearrange controls easily, and impressively the end result is cool. With 75 pre-built controls to select from, you could design anything from a super-simple dialog box to a full-fledged application, from a simple website to a complicated web apps.

Interesting features of Balsamiq Wireframing Tool

Fast, intuitive user interface
Seventy-Five Ready-to-Use Controls
Shortcuts Everywhere
Property Inspectors: Always Nearby, Never in Your Way
Linking Mockups Together
Unlimited Undo and Redo
Open, Portable Data
Fully Integrated in the way you work

4. Pencil

The Pencil Project is a free addon for Firefox. They have a unique mission to build a free and open source tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use. There are interesting features like built-in stencils that make web design easier and more professional. You can further personalize your tool bar with the capacity to install user-defined stencils and speed up the design process. You will soon find more cool features coming to the Pencil Projects.

Interesting features of Pencil Wireframing Tool

Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping
Multi-page document with background page
Inter-page linkings!
On-screen text editing with rich-text supports
Exporting to HTML, PNG, Openoffice.org document, Word document and PDF.
Undo/redo supports
Installing user-defined stencils and templates
Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating…
Cross-platforms
Adding external objects
Personal Collection
Clipart Browser

5. HotGloo

Hot Gloo is the online wireframe application presently in free beta that focuses on creating mockups as true to the final product as possible. You are further allowed to drag and drop elements, scale, link, name and rename them. Editing, commenting and sharing the developing process with client is very simple. Where other tools concentrates on simulating the creation of a mockup by hand and the ‘rough’ flexibility that comes with it, HotGloo aims to create a framework as clear and precise as possible.

Interesting features of HotGloo Wireframing Tool

Smooth the planning process
Get a clearer picture of site information
Provide a precise framework for designers & coders
Build up a more intense project relationship with clients
Improve the communication process

6. iRise Pro

iRise enterprise visualization gives companies a powerful way to fully experience business software before development. With iRise Pro stakeholders can see and interact with proposed applications early in the process to ensure the right systems get built. iRise is an essential strategy to accelerate delivery of business critical software with lower cost and risk. It also helps to create a high fidelity version of the simulation.

Interesting features of iRise Pro Wireframing Tool

Real-time, team-based collaboration
Self-guided stakeholder
Powerful comments management
iConnect™ API
iBloc™ API
Facilitates multi-user usability tests
Check-in/Check-out for disconnected authoring
Secure access to critical intellectual property through LDAP
Centralized administration

7. Microsoft Visio 2007

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 drawing and diagramming software makes it easy for IT and business professionals to visualize, explore, and communicate complex information. Go from complicated text and tables that are hard to understand to Visio diagrams that communicate information at a glance. Instead of static pictures, create data-connected Visio diagrams that display data, are easy to refresh, and dramatically increase your productivity.

Interesting features of Microsoft Visio 2007 Wireframing Tool

Visualize, explore, and communicate your systems, resources, processes, and the data behind them.
Be more productive by integrating diagrams with information across sources.
Visualize and act on complex information by displaying data in diagrams.
Create diagrams faster by letting Visio connect shapes for you.
Communicate complex information with new templates and shapes.
Effectively convey information with professional-looking diagrams.
Communicate using diagrams and share them with a broad audience.

8. iPlotz

iPlotz allows you to rapidly create clickable, navigable mockups and wireframes for prototyping websites and software applications. You can also invite others to comment on the designs, and once ready, you can then manage the tasks for developers and designers to build the project. Check out the iPlotz review by Readwriteweb

Interesting Features of iPlotz Wireframing Tool

Drag-and-drop functionality,
Focuses on Web site wireframes.
Allows users to import other media – like specific images
text editing – change size, justification, and formatting of a whole text block.
Simple sketch tool
User Friendly

9. MockupScreens

Mockup Screens does more than just letting you to create mockups of your pages. It allows you to sketch screen mockups of your application and manage them in scenarios. Users can experiment interactively with clients and quickly visualize scenarios of applications before the coding or design is started. It can prove really useful if you use this application during presentation or meet to explain how your site will perform.

Interesting features of MockupScreens Wireframing Tool

Fast Screen Drawing
Creating Storyboards And Scenarios
Standard Set Of Screen Elements
Additional Elements For Web Applications
Additional “combined” elements
Ease Of Use
Slideshow Or HTML Presentation
Exporting Screens As Images
Screen Annotations With Icons And Comments
Simulate User Interaction

10. Pidoco

Pidoco is a real time collaborative online platform to create interactive web and software prototypes, and to test, discuss and optimize them. As a completely web based wireframing tool, it let users to create fully clickable wireframes or prototypes, and its remote access means that a team of designers could further work on and share your project from various locations.

Interesting features of Pidoco Wireframing Tool

Several people can work on wireframes at the same time.
Clickable wireframes
Easy remote usability testing
Fast and easy Prototyping
No Software Installation

The price may vary depending on the one tool to other, but yes there are trial versions available for each wireframe tool mentioned above, so make sure you try them out first. Also let us know your favourite wireframing mockup types tools and if we missed them out. You can get in touch with us via Twitter, Facebook and RSS!

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5 Reasons why Sitemaps and Mockups are useful to Web Designers

Indu — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:48:20 +0000

Identifying the purpose of the website, and communicating the best design to clients has always been a challenging task for web designers. They have to be technically skilled; and their job involves a whole lot more than just creative skills unlike the job of print designers.

A website is predominantly the most important marketing tool for a startup or any other online business. Besides designing an aesthetically pleasing website, a web designer is expected to design a functional and conversion effective website. It is always best to apply some of the best practices for designing websites. One such practice is mapping out the website structure and content by designing simple online sitemaps and web mockups.

You can now draw sitemaps and link them to your webpage mockups, so your clients can visualize and explore the entire website design even before a single line of code is written. Look up for a good online sitemap creator, or try Creately for free! Creately is an online collaborative diagramming software, perfect for distributed project teams to collaborate and iterate on Sitemaps, Web Mockups, Flowcharts or just about anything visual.

With the practice of designing sitemaps, web mockups and wireframes beforehand, planning your site can be made amazingly easy! Here are 5 reasons why sitemaps and web mockups are useful to Web Designers!

1) Illustrate Website Structure and Content

Developing a sitemap is probably one of the first steps that should be undertaken by web designers to illustrate the hierarchical structure of your website plan and its various sections. By doing this, the web designer can share the conceptual structure of the site, and help the clients visualize how the site has been broken up from the main page into other linking pages.

2) Effective Project Communication

A Sitemap is the best organizing tool which helps the designer communicate the main areas of the site, and the different page types within the site. Now, share your sitemap and encourage comments during a project discussion to get effective feedback from your clients and team members. This would bring about productive project communication by bridging the gap between clients and designers!

3) Visualize Design Layout

Designers can mark the pages with special functionality – pages that need to be loaded securely can be marked differently to the pages that features video content and so on. The sitemap should also include the pages, where each page links to webpage mockups. So the clients can now visualize the structure together with the design layout!

4) Smiling Customers!

Engage clients in your project discussions and give them greater visibility of the project. Review and revisit the sitemap and the web mockups as your understanding of the project improves. New pages, updated structure and simple changes to the page will keep the designs up-to date and ensure less confusion in your project team. Having the site built on valuable user feedback and managing their expectations, you’ll have nothing less than happy and satisfied clients!

5) Save Time and Money

As you know World Wide Web is dynamic in nature, web designers have to understand that the overall design is likely to change over time. Thus, before the coding begins, detailed planning of the site is essential! Share the sitemaps and mockups with your team and clients by inviting them to review and comment. Incorporate these comments to arrive at the agreed structure and design layouts, and stay focused to avoid hours of rework. Quickly iterate over your Mockups to reduce project turnaround times, and settle down with the complete, up-to-date design document before writing a single line of HTML code.

As a web designer, by using Sitemaps and web mockups in each of your website design projects, you’ll give your clients the best possible satisfaction in working with you and your team!

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10 Video Editing and Creativity Tools for your Work

Vivek Parmar — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:27:04 +0000

On web you can find plenty of free online video editing software which allows you to save a good amount of money and you can easily edit videos from them without paying anything extra from your pocket. If we look into the market, video editing emerged as a new profession and most of them will be looking to fetch more from it.

Frankly speaking there is no way to describe the best video editing software because it all depends on the user how efficient the user is and will be able to handle complex interface while editing or might prefer a simpler interface. In this article I’m going to list the top 10 video editing software to help you in editing. So here comes the much awaited list:

01. Roxio Creator

Roxio creator is more than a video editing software, it is an complete digital media guide which includes various media features such as burning and copying, DVD Creation and Playback, Video Capture, Music Rip, Photo Editing and Organizing, Disc Label Creating and several more.

02. Microsoft Movie Maker

By default it comes with windows and already installed on your computers. Movie Maker has a drag and drop feature which helps you in creating and editing movie easier. With lots of add-ons and upgrades available on the website makes it best video editing software program available easily.

03. Adobe Premiere Pro

Abobe (name is enough to describe it) Premiere Pro software offers a start-to-finish video solution. This software provide video editing tools for video creation, editing and sharing. Using Adobe premiere Pro you can work virtually with any video format. Adobe Premiere Pro is compatible with PCs and Macs, making it a flexible editing solution for professionals

04. Pinnacle Studio

Pinnacle Studio is one of the effective video editing package and the best around in the market. This video editing software supports HD editing, as well as standard definition with a Blu-ray burner, you can use Pinnacle Ultimate to edit and author true HD movies and you can also be use it for theme editing.

05. Sony Vegas

Sony Vegas one of the top-of-line editing software that includes HD video editing, audio editing and with little bit of knowledge and some creativity your DVDs will look as good as anything (just like that you had picked it from the nearest video store). This software will offer a great usability and also include professional Blu-Ray Disc authoring program, drag-and-drop interface, multi-media capabilities.

06. Power Director

This is one of the powerful editing and authoring tool for video editing in the market. This program provides users a full solution for video creating, editing and sharing. With this software you can import various file formats and with sharing options you can share it on YouTube, Flickr and Blu-ray Discs.

07. Corel VideoStudio

It’s all about playing with your videos. It is a time-saving Movie Wizard to create some cool fun movies within minutes.

08. Nero

One of the most popular tool among windows users. This tool offers good editing options and allows a smooth drag and drop transitions, special effects and text in the videos.

09. AVS Video Editor

AVS Video Editor is a user friendly video editing software and to use this you don’t need any special video editing skill.

10. Magix Movie Edit

This tool can handle multi-cam editing for two live video channels at the same time. It is compatible with all portable devices like Sony PSPs, iPods and Cell Phones.

These are some of the best video editing software and trust me these software do a pretty good job of video editing, and one more thing to be kept in mind that video editing is an skill and software is the medium only. In the end a suggestion to all of you, only pick up the right video editing software which fits according to your expectations don’t go for all the software outlined above.

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Top 10 Sites to Download Free Fonts

Vivek Parmar — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:00:41 +0000

As a designer and a computer freak I know that time to time I need more and more number of fonts and always in search of getting unique fonts because fonts are the most important part of any graphic designing projects and sometimes it becomes hard to find the perfect font. For finding the perfect font you have to spend number of hours on the web and sometimes get frustrated.

Choosing a right font is necessary because it can make or break your design and the selection criteria includes a good readability and visibility of that font. So to help you out we have selected the top websites to download high quality font for you.

01. FontCubes

At font cubes you will find the quality of fonts out there and frankly speaking they are really very impressive and help you to make your design and art work more impressive. You can also display the text of your choice in color and size.

02. UrbanFonts

This site contains over 8000 free fonts and they are distributed into different categories which can be alphabetically browsed. You can also preview the selected font here and easily customize its color, background, casing options, etc.

03. 1001FreeFonts

As their name signifies they mention 1001 fonts but they have more than 10,000 free fonts which can be downloaded easily

04. DaFont

This is the ultimate and best known site for free fonts and mostly used site for free fonts. You can easily navigate to the fonts categories so that you can easily choose a category and select the required font style from it.

05. SearchFreeFonts

This site contains both free fonts as well as premium fonts. This site had more than 13,000 fonts and all are easily categorized into categories. This site also contains article on how to install fonts and a very handy guide on designing, organizing and managing your fonts.

06. HighFonts

From this site you can download the font faster because on this site you don’t have to navigate to other pages. Just click on the image and the download will begin. One of the disadvantage of this site is that you cannot preview the font here.

07. AbstractFonts

Its offers 1,000+ fonts with lots of information contained on the page. You can see this information by clicking on the font and you can also search for fonts categories here.

08. Fontica

It offers thousands of free fonts which can be downloaded easily.

09. Font Squirrel

This is one of the best website from which provides fonts for commercial use.

10. FreePremiumFonts

This website has the finest, high quality free fonts available for instant download. These premium fonts were selected by popular votes and arranges alphabetically in popular categories.

Note: Just make sure to read the license agreements carefully before using them as they can change from time to time.

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Find The Most Popular Ads On CreativeAdAwards.com

himanshuyadav — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:00:17 +0000

If you like to know the best ads ever made then you should route to CreativeAdAwards.com. It is an awesome website having a nice collection of all the popular and meaningful ads created in recent years. From the archive of ads, you can get those ads which gave best result to the companies in the competitive business scenario.

Note: These ads are not TV ads or video ads. These are picture ads and most of them are internet ads for various products.

According to this site “All the collected ads follow the concept of SIMPLE (Simple, Involving, Memorable, Purchase Intention, Linkage with brand, Enjoyable)”

For other advertisers, it’s like an classroom to learn the things. It’s none less than the inspiration for new advertisers.

With easy to use interface you can find the ads quickly. All the ads are divided into many categories. You can find ads on automobile, business and finance, clothing & footwear, education, electronics & technology, entertainment, food & drinks and many more.

Also you can find ads according to country and region. Click on the “Location” link given at the top. Now click on the country on the World’s map to see the country specific ads. There is a link for popular ads and top rated ads in the right sidebar.

You can view the ads in full size. It displays all the basic information of ads such as agency, client, published date and descriptions of the ads. After sign up, you can able to rate the ads and comment on it.

Check out CreativeAdAwards to see the World’s most creative and sophisticated ads ever made.

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10 Wonderful Collection Of jQuery Slideshow Tutorials

Nikita Porwal — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:24:11 +0000

Looking great means, your site will be visited more. Java-scripts a precise means aimed at making your website look great. And to achieve that, jQuery is all set to make your dream into reality by serving you with swift and crisp JavaScript Library that eases HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. It is completely designed to rewrite the way a JavaScript is written. Today any website, be it small or large scale requires slideshow to showcase your pictures/images to your readers. Although you will find lot of ways to incorporate slideshows in your website, but implementing jQuery slideshow is extremely easy and fun. Learn how to implement a jQuery slideshow with a HTML code and then you can make use of the top 10 collection of jQuery slideshow techniques for your existing or next website.

1. Galleria

Galleria jQuery Plugin

You can’t just miss out on Galleria when looking for excellent jQuery Sliding show techniques and tutorials. Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS.

Interesting Features of Galleria

Unobtrusive javascript
Degrades gracefully if the browser doesn’t support javascript or CSS
Lightweight (4k packed)
Displays the thumbnail when the actual image is loaded
CSS powered – create your own gallery style
Super fast image browsing since the images are preloaded one at a time in the background
Can scale thumbnails and crop to fit in thumbnail container
Can be used with custom thumbnails and more

2. Image Scroller

Building a jQuery Image Scroller

Image scrollers employ the jQuery’s brilliant animation qualities and by and large incorporate loads of fun with code. Obviously there isn’t anything new about Image scrollers; but new versions of the same keeps popping up most of the time. Mainly these new developments are a result of the user initiation that is for example, for the current displayed image to swerve over a button to be pressed or any other specific action will be required. The new Scroller is completely different and this is designed to be autonomous that it starts scrolling once the loading of the page is done.

Interesting Features of Image Scroller

Autonomous Scrolling;
Widget is totally cross- browser.
Interaction to enable an option to change the direction of the animation.

3. Gallerific

A jQuery plugin for rendering rich, fast-performing photo galleries

Galleriffic is a jQuery plugin that provides a rich, post-back free experience optimized to handle high volumes of photos while conserving bandwidth.

Interesting Features Of Gallerific

Smart image preloading after the page is loaded
Thumbnail navigation (with pagination)
jQuery.history plugin integration to support bookmark-friendly URLs per-image
Slideshow (with optional auto-updating url bookmarks)
Keyboard navigation
Events that allow for adding your own custom transition effects
API for controlling the gallery with custom controls
Support for image captions
Flexible configuration
Graceful degradation when JavaScript is not available

4. Flickr Gallery

Open Source Flickr Photo Gallery Using jQuery

An amazing open source image gallery designed specifically to aid the concepts of jQuery, is the Flickrgallery, it even allows one to easily pullout the photos from the Flickr photoset directly. This plug-in makes the dynamic image gallery a reality. Some time users face lightbox issues when working on same page, so you can first learn how to resolve jQuery, Prototype, and lightbox issues to make them work on same page.

Interesting Features Of Flickr Gallery

Pulls out images from the Flickr photoset easily.
Compatibility to provide Light- box effect to small images.
Easy to add or remove images from Flickr
Thumbnail navigation with superb scrolling bar

5. Resizable Image Grid

Create a Resizable Image Grid with jQuery

Dragging and sliding your images are no longer confined to your desktop applications like the Picasa or similar apps. You can make your image grid dream come true even on your web page, hats-off to the resizable image grid.

Interesting Features Of Resizable Image Grid

Dragging & Sliding of Images on the web.
Fun working with em unit

6. SlideViewer

jQuery Image Slider

Sorting or arranging the images and the photos on display on your webpage has become such an Easy task. Thanks to the jQuery intelligent option SlideViewer.

Interesting Features Of SlideViewer

Listing of images.
Creates of dynamic links, for easy accessing.
Clicking next, the image will smoothly slide over to the next position.
Option to customize animation, time for transition.

7. Supersized

Full Screen Background/Slideshow jQuery Plugin

The image transition or the sliding is all taken to new heights. jQuery’s commitment in the web designing stream is further been imposed strongly by these full screen Image gallery, It’s completely hypnotizes you, Cos it makes you feel that you are almost running a desktop application.

Interesting Features Of Supersized:

Image ratio is maintained while resizing to suit the browser.
Navigation key permits Pause, play, forward & back options.
Images are cycled around as slide shows.

8. GalleryView

Content-gallery plugin

A complete in-house solution from jQuery is their very own formula for successful Content-gallery visualization java script is the GalleryView. It serves a complete visual glory of animated view of the gallery. If you are working with WordPress then know to add featured content slider into WordPress using jQuery. Also note that if you are using jQuery 1.4.x, please update to GalleryView 2.1. A minor bug fix has been implemented for the new version of jQuery.

Interesting Features Of GalleryView

Any HTML content can be displayed using this vibrant java Apps.
Timing of the animation can be employed using timers plug-in.

9. PikaChoose

PikaChoose jQuery Image Gallery

Pikachoose is a lightweight Jquery plugin that allows easy presentation of photos with options for slideshows, navigation buttons, and auto play. Pikachoose is designed to be easily installed, easy to setup, and well… all around easy. Creating an image gallery shouldn’t be a complex thing. I’ve created a new plugin that I’m packaging with PikaChoose called SliderJS.

Interesting Features of Pikachoose

Easy navigation and auto play
Easy to install and set up
Thumbnail navigation with superb scrolling bar

10. Image Flow

Image Flow jQuery Plugin

The Apple bug has also successfully bitten our JQuery genius. A more of an inspiration on the likes of Apple’s Cover flow, this Java based scripts serves the very same effect completely flawless. Keyboard or mouse Scroll or dragging all possible in this amazing tool.

Interesting Features Of Image Flow

Navigation possible with Keyboard or mouse Scroll or dragging.
A free Application for any site.
Just 11 KB (uncompressed mode) means it leaves a very small foot print.

You might also be interesting reading our Top 50 Design and Web development Resources that help you understand the concept of jQuery in a better way. We would love to hear you in case you use some of the best jQuery slideshow techniques and tutorials apart from mentioned above. Meanwhile you can add us on Facebook and Twitter for more updates!

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20 Useful Collections Of CSS3 Cheat Sheet, Tips And Resources

Nikita Porwal — Mon, 10 May 2010 10:05:18 +0000

Mastering multiple programming languages and frameworks is no easy tasks for any evolving or growing web developer and designer. Although mastering the art could prove really productive. That is why we have lot of web design resources and tutorials been created for one to understand the concept better. One important feature in the list is “Cheat Sheets” which are very practical helpers for anyone willing to code with these standards. CSS3 is latest in the industry with many exciting new features and functions that help you improve in the field. So having some handful CSS3 Cheat Sheet is very significant for your next project. Here we at honeytechblog have compiled a list of Top 20 collections of CSS3 cheat sheet to help you with CSS3. The cheat sheet comes in landscape and portrait type and is designed to be printed on an A4 (standard) sheet of paper. You can post it on your wall or tape it to your desk for quick reference.

1. CSS3 Cheat Sheet

2. 5 Techniques To Acquaint You With CSS3

3. CSS3 Background

4. CSS3 Please

5. CSS3 Gradient Generator

6. CSS3 Click Chart

7. CSS3 Generator

8. Compatible Tables For CSS3

9. CSS3 Preview

10. CSS3 Color Names

11. CSS3 Wrapping

12. CSS 3 Cheat Sheet

13. CSS3 Selectors Test

14. CSS3 Transforms

15. Power Of CSS3

16. CSS3 Generator Widgetpad

17. CSS Contents And Browser Compatibility

18. Firefox 3.5 For Developers

19. CSS Current Work

20. Most Practical CSS Cheat Sheet

Do let us know if you have more CSS3 cheat sheets and resources via comment.

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20 Stunning Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

Nikita Porwal — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:29:33 +0000

Learning is always fun especially when you are playing around with Photoshop. That’s because with Photoshop offers one of the most robust graphics editing experience and there is lot of room for designers to experiment new techniques. Here when we speak about techniques, Photoshop text effects is really important while you want to learn Photoshop basics or on an advanced level. Whether you are designing a website, a banner or a logo, text effect needs to be carefully done because that helps in highlighting the important point of your design. But, before trying out Photoshop text effects, you must first understand the basis of Typography so that you can create something amazing with even the simplest form of text to any blank canvas, look at some of the best examples of creative art Typography. While there are thousands of Photoshop tutorials out there, but few are top-notch in terms of presentation, step-by-step instructions and of course the outcome. So we at honeytechblog in this post will share 20 best Photoshop text effects tutorials that are easy to understand at the same time awe-inspiring.

20 Stunning Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

1. Reflective Liquid Type

2. Old School Type – Line Gradients

3. 3D Text Scene

4. Bee Movie Text Effect

5. Bubble Text Effect

6. Candy Coated Text Effect

7. Color To 3D Text Effect

8. Deep Grunge Text Effect

9. Fire With Glossy Reflection

10. Glowing Text Effect

11. Gold Text Effect

12. Grass Text Effect

13. Ice Text Effect

14. Mafia Text Effect

15. Milk Typography Effect

16. Neon Text Effect

17. Richly Ornate Typography Illustration

18. Spectacular Style Text

19. Steam Powered Typographic Treatment

20. Text In Stitches

Bonus – Water Text Effect

Do you have any favorite effects, or have you seen some other text effect tutorials on the web that you prefer using, please feel free to share them in the comments.

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10 Exciting New Features Of Photoshop CS5 For Designers

Nikita Porwal — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:43:32 +0000

Its great to share with you guys that we are invited for the launch of Adobe creative suite 5. There is lot of buzz around the web for this fantastic upcoming product from Adobe. Adobe Creative Suite 5 (Adobe CS5) is going to launch, which is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made by Adobe Systems. Web designers are super excited about this launch as its productive and creative features will greatly speed up designer’s workflow. Designers and photographer are also thrilled with the announcement made by Adobe, that it would give Flash CS5 the features to allow devs to build Flash-based applications and then export them to the App Store’s .ipa standard. This will effectively allow developers to build iPhone apps in nothing but CS5.

Of course Photoshop CS5 will come with several groundbreaking fresh features like new automated patching tools, warping tool, advanced edge detection in masking, improved color picker and eye dropper and lot more. The release date of Adobe Photoshop CS5 is April 12, 2010 and here are some top 15 features of Photoshop CS5 for designers. This is by no means the all-inclusive collection, yet the most profound ones.

1. Content Aware Fill

Content aware fill is fully automated image “Patching” tool and promises to make revolution in photo retouching. Basically it allows you to alter or create reality in photographs as easily as selecting an area and running the feature. Gone will be the days when photojournalists are caught with embarrassing patterns created by improperly using the stamp tool. The below given video explains clearly how it works.

2. Better Edge Detection And Masking

Photoshop CS5 feature offers better edge detection and masking results in less time—even with the trickiest images, like hair. It further let users adjust parameters like feathering and contrast in just one step while previewing the result before applying. Don’t miss out on “Smart Radius” that offers advanced edge detection to create complex selections very quickly.

3. Painting

Have an image you’d like to turn into a painting using natural brushes and strokes? Or how about the urge to create digital paintings from scratch? Painting tool of CS5 offers you to change the size of your brush with the horizontal and vertical movements of your mouse. You are also allowed to change the page size with this amplified tool.

4. Layer And Preferences

This tool helps you save custom layer and closing dialog box option as default. You just need to click on “Make default” button once you are done with creating custom layer style in CS5 and that will be your default option for all new layer you create henceforth. Same trick can be applied for closing dialog box also.

5. Straighten and Multilayer Opacity

When you need to straighten your photo with CS5 all you need is to draw a horizon line, click Straighten button and your image would turn straight with specified line. Further you can also adjust multiple layers simultaneously as easy as selecting layers you desire to adjust and moving opacity slider. Another amazing thing about CS5 is that it now allows you to save 16-bit files as a JPG in a single step without first downsampling.

6. Upgraded Spot Healing Tool

Upgraded spot healing tool works the same way as the content aware fill. It makes much easier to remove unwanted objects and any scratches or damaged regions from photos. For example, you can remove wires from urban photo in seconds. Previously this feature was available in some Photoshop plugins but apparently Adobe developers improved the algorithm a lot.

7. Puppet Wrap Tool

Puppet wrap tool was one of the most wanted features and now it has been added to Photoshop CS5. It allows you to create a skeleton kind of shape by assigning joints on object and wrap image around it. This is being taken from Adobe After Effects program.

8. Dueling Paint

Adobe Photoshop CS5 provides an alternative to either use a special tool to interpret a photograph into a painting or to use a “from scratch” tool and create absolutely new objects. You can convert your photo into a hand drawn painting with much more realistic results. And Wet paint is a new Photoshop CS5 feature that lets you mix up colors with brush in the same way you do it in a real world, ‘wet’ paints can be smudged, smeared and blended. The new brush tools aim to match that found within Corel’s Painter application.

9. PatchMatch

PatchMatch is a Randomized Correspondence Algorithm for Structural Image Editing quickly finding approximate nearest neighbor matches between image patches. Algorithm offers substantial performance improvements over the previous state of the art (20-100x), enabling its use in interactive editing tools. The key insights driving the algorithm are that some good patch matches can be found via random sampling, and that natural coherence in the imagery allows propagating such matches quickly to surrounding areas.

10. Lot More New Features

There are lot more new features waiting on the launch, check out the sneak peak of Photoshop CS5 technology below:

Know more interesting upcoming features of Photoshop CS5 at CS5.org

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50 Inspiring Book Cover Designs

Nikita Porwal — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:58:12 +0000

There is a huge effort involved in writing a book, be it any kind. But whether the book will lead the market or not largely depends on the book cover design. Because people do judge a book by its front and back cover most of the time. In fact, a book cover’s design could be the influential factor in how the book could perform in the marketing stage, and a tasteless bland cover design would certainly not do you any kind. So one need to go for a professionally crafted book cover design and should be designed by an expert graphic designer who actually knows the book business.

Only an expert designer can make your book stand out from the crowd. Before concluding on any graphic designer or illustrator make sure you discuss lot of important things such as theme, direction and audiences you wish to target, so that he/she can understand your perspective on this better. Of course, there are many hidden aspects on which designers need to work on and those could be time-consuming as well. Some of the books available on the market are really inspiring, so we at honeytechblog did a search on Top 50 inspiring book cover designs which are designed in an excellent way.

1. American Nerd by Benjamin Nugent

2. Brute Souls Happy Beasts And Evolution by Rod Preece

3. Can They Do That by Lewis Maltby

4. Clown Girl by Monica Drake

5. Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg

6. Customs of the Kingdoms of India by Marco Polo

7. Day in Day Out by Terezia Mora

8. Death in the Andes by Morio Vargas Llosa

9. Doctrines and Visions by Noam Chomsky

10. The Error World by Simon Garfield

11. Forgetting Things by Sigmund Freud

12. Freakonomics by Steven d. Levitt

13. Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang

14. In Defence of English Cooking by George Orwell

15. Keep Your Head Down by Doug Anderson

16. King Arthur in the East Riding by Simon Armitage

17. Missing Men by Joyce Johnson

18. Moral Relativism by Steven Lukes

19. Never Trust a Thin Cook by Eric Dregni Dregni

20. On Shopping by India Knight

21. On Seeing and Noticing by Alain de Bottom

22. Payback by Margaret Atwood

23. Peace by Richard Bausch

24. Salt by Jeremy Page

25. Sedaris by Kevin Kopelson

26. Send Me by Patrick Ryan

27. Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley

29. The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells

29. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F.Scott Fitzgerald

30. The Economics of Innocent Fraud by John Kenneth Galbraith

31. The Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell

32. The Lumberman’s Frontier by Thomas R. Cox

33. The Open Road by Pico Iyer

34. The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi

35. The Queen in Hell Close by Sue Townsend

36. The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn

37. The Sky Below by Stacey D’Erasmo

38. The Snobs by Muriel Spark

39. The Weight of Nothing by Steven Gillis

40. Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo

41. Two Stars by Paul Theroux

42. We Meet by Kenneth Patchen

43. We Saw The Light by Daniel Kane

44. What is All This by Stephen Dixon

45. When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale

46. Where I Was by James Kelman

47. Who is Conrad Hirst by Kevin Wignall

48. Why Look at Animals by John Berger

49. Wonderful World by Javier Calvo

50. Yummy by Lusy Cousins

We hope you found the above stuff inspiring and you might also like Top 50 Inspirational Web Designer’s Portfolios. Also do let us know, which of the book cover you found interesting via comment. You can add Honeytechblog on Facebook and follow us on twitter as well!

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RapidWeaver – Excellent Tool To Design Beautiful Websites In Minutes

Nikita Porwal — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:35:07 +0000

Are you looking to create a blog to display your work? Or just out of passion do you want to share your thoughts? Website sounds like a cool option to share anything these days, but then do you really have the time to spend hours on learning the codes and graphics? Not everybody, so for the people looking for a quick and smart answer towards creating a website we have RapidWeaver as a solution.

RapidWeaver is a next-generation web design applications to assist you easily create professional good-looking websites in minutes. It is a template-based website creation tool, from Realmac Software, and is exclusive to Mac OS X. You might have come across tons documentation before starting a blog or a website. But with RapidWeaver all you need to do is to download the application and start playing with it.

Interesting Features of RapidWeaver:

Offers clean, beautiful code that adheres to modern web standards.
Drag and Drop technology
CSS / HTML / PHP code inline editing
Powerful (and numerous) plug-ins
iPhoto Integration and Automatic Navigation building
FTP & Mac Publishing
Side by side, text and code
Lots of nice templates along with Flash Based Slideshows
Blogging with RSS Feeds and excellent Podcasting
Photo, Movie Albums and styled text
New version is compatible with Snow Leopard.
Scale & Rotate Images
Smart Publishing

How does RapidWeaver Work?

Well, working for this excellent app is very easy. You can choose following types when working on any new website project – Blog, Contact Form, File Sharing, HTML Code, iFrame, Movie Album, Offsite Page, Photo Album, QuickTime, Styled Text. For example, if you need to create a blog, all you need to do is click on “Add” button on the main page and select “Blog” as your option. Next give title for your blog by selecting “Save” option on file menu. To further change other elements of your blog such as caption, header, footer or other, you should open General Tab of the setup menu, where the options are available.

Advance option such as external links or other services such as Google Analytics can be added with the help of Setup menu. Next the very important part comes, which is adding content. If you want to add some text content, just type it in the top area of the right panel. The toolbar that divides this area from the Themes one offers you with buttons for altering the font, alignment, style, or the color of the text. It further comprises of a drop-down menu that is actually a shortcuts for adding titles, new paragraphs or subscripts.

Then you can choose from many themes that suits your blog best. Do a preview check before finalizing the theme. Further when you need to add images, you can use the excellent drag-and-drop technology and pull it from your desktop. Then of course you will be eager to know how does the website look with content and images, so click “Publish” and there you go.

Conclusion

Overall, it is very much possible to create a website in 15minutes with RapidWeaver, which is beyond doubt amazing. And the best thing is you don’t have to be a HTML and coding guru to build your own blog here. Just by providing some standard forms and valid server detail you can complete the task. This user-friendly editor is well-suited not only to newcomers to Web design, but is also brilliant for small business owners who don’t wish to spend a lot of time learning the tricks of Web design and development, in fact, even children can give it a try.

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Top 10 Reliable Free Batch Image Resizer and Processor

Nikita Porwal — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:19:06 +0000

The most practical and fast solution is what we look for in anything we do today. Because we have less time and resources, so we need make the best of what is available. But at times we tend to lose quality in urge of getting done things faster and land up in something we may not really like. Hence if you get reliability, steadiness and quicker way of performing act, it would be great. Same applies to any kind of softwares available, you use them to save time and at the same time it should produce satisfied results, without compromising on quality.

Especially if you happen to be a web designer or developer, then dealing with converting images to various sizes could be of headache. Converting them to different sizes is a necessary and the result should be best at the end. So doing it hand by hand is of course not feasible for hundreds of thousands of images. Here using batch image processor can help doing hours of work in few clicks and in almost no time. With most of the batch image resizer and processor you resize, rotate, and convert pictures easily. They offer compatibly with most formats such as JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF and more others.

On the other hand, such software also helps in our day to day life when it comes to sharing photos over social networks or others. High resolution pics could consume lot of your time to send it over emails. So, here at honeytechblog we have listed Top 10 reliable batch image resizer and processor that can resize and process image files, along with supported formats, and dramatically reduce internet transfer times, enabling you to quickly and easily prepare your image collections to be published on the web.

1. ImageBatch

ImageBatch is a free lightweight batch converter for images, based on LibGD graphic library. Currently supported image formats are JPEG, PNG and GIF. With ImageBatch you can resize, crop, rotate, flip your images and draw watermarks on them. Watermarks could be based on user text or user image. ImageBatch is expected to work under any Windows platform, starting from Windows 95. Installation is not required and supports Windows for now. It is really easy to use – you just choose working directory, filetypes, setup operation setttings and press “Start” then. After that, execution process could be stopped at any time, using “Stop” button of progress dialog.

2. Fotosizer

Fotosizer is a freeware batch image resizer tool. It resizes your photos in just 3 easy steps – 1. Photo selection, 2. select resize settings, then 3. Start the resize! With Fotosizer, you can shrink JPEG image files, along with other supported formats, and considerably reduce internet transfer times, enabling you to quickly and easily prepare your image collections to be published on the web. It also helps you unlock the photos from your digital camera. Use Fotosizer to batch resize your photos making it easier and faster to email to friends, upload to photo sharing websites or upload to websites that offer photo printing services. Resize quickly and easily using a preset list of sizes including iPod, iPhone.

3. Phatch

Phatch is open source and works on Linux, Mac Os X and Windows. Phatch is a user friendly, cross-platform Photo Batch Processor and Exif Renamer with a nice graphical user interface. Phatch handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply shadows, perspective, rounded corners, and 35 further actions in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually. The website carry a extensive documentation and also allows users to install specific extensions, so that any users beginner to advanced will find the software easy to use and extend.

4. FixPicture

FixPicture is amazing online image editing application, which is one of the fastest ways to resize, crop, rotate, and convert your images and pictures. You also manipulate your pictures by giving grayscale, blur, sharpen, emboss, normalize and other effects. The tool has two versions Flash and HTML and there is no registration required as well. You can upload your image directly from the URL or a hard drive. This one supports over 400 file format: pictures (jpeg, tiff, png, gif, bmp, tga, and more RAW files (crw, nef, raf, cr2, dng, and more.

5. Irfanview

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative tool designed converting and batch processing images that goes well with Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, Windows 7. This is extremely simple tool for beginners and also for powerful experts. Some of the exciting features would include, supports almost all file format, file search, toolbar skin option, Cut/crop, IPTC editing, Lossless JPG rotation, loads of plugins, Capturing, hotkeys and much more worth giving a look.

6. Resize2mail

Resize 2 mail is an online resize website utility developed for digital camera owners, webmasters, people travelling or anybody who quickly wants to resize a digital image for email or publishing on a web site. To resize your image is now as simple as one, two three, and no need to open an image editor for this! Select the image you would like to resize with Browse option, select the size you would like your new image to be, and finally click on okay and wait for the next page to show up. Save the resized image on your PC and email it to friend, family, colleague or office.

7. ImageConverter .EXE

Image converter.exe is a free image converter works on Windows. This is a fast and flexible image conversion program, which allows support for converting to over 15 formats. It features over 20 effects which can be applied in any conversion process, and even in batch mode. It makes the application out of box as it offer Image Conversion Wizard, which helps with a step-by-step dialog that allows you to select files, set conversion properties (JPG to BMP), apply effects, and set how the converted files will be named. To make the process simpler, Image Converter .EXE includes the MediaView Extension from SoftTech InterCorp, form which converting between image types and apply effects can be done by simply right-clicking them. Convert and Rotate 120 selected files right from Windows Explorer.

8. Dosize

Dosize is an online utility that is very helpful for users who upload photos to the Internet or email. Many sites and email programs do have file size necessity that your photos might not meet. So on Dosize, you can resize, shrink and email all your pics under one roof. The application allows image resize up to 10 pictures at a stretch. It is simple to work with, select picture, select preferred resizing option and click ok. Then it will ask for email id where you pics need to be sent. It supports only JPG format and there is no registration required. It one of the best free online utility to resize, shrink and email your photo images.

9. FastStone

FastStone Photo Resizer is an image converter and renaming tool that intends to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag and Drop mouse operation is well supported. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. You can also check our review on FastStone.

10. PIXresizer

The reduced files are saved in a different folder, so your original images are not altered at all. PIXresizer offers several different resizing methods to choose from and can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit. In addition, it can convert between image formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF), rotate images, convert to grayscale and resize multiple images in batch mode. A great companion for webmasters and digital photographers.

These are some of the best photo resizing and processing software available on the web and I’m sure there are lot more. So, if you have any of your favorite reliable free batch image resizer and processor, then do share it with us via comment. Meanwhile, you can follow us on twitter and key in your email on our RSS feeds to get every post update on our site!

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Top 50 examples of Creative Art Typography

Honey Singh — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:26:53 +0000

Typography is one of the art of designing blended with the variation of shapes, styles and illustrations. This art of typography involve unlimited creations together with different color schemes, contrast value , font selection and backgrounds. In this article you will find 50 helpful and creative examples of inspirational typographical arts.

This is the showcase of top 50 examples of Creative Art Typography including different traditional arts, calligraphy and illustrations for enhancing your creation levels:

1.Fairytale

2.Suicide Typography

3.In library books we lie

4.Public space poster 2

5.LOVE IS

5.Tears of Hate

7.The Gift v2

8.Wash Your Hands

9.The Zebra Eye

10.Typography Poster

11.Orgasmica

12.Don’t Let Them Own Your Speech

13.FFFFOUND

14.Workaholic

15.Eduardo Recife at Eclectic Cow

16.The Outlet

17.Explosive

18.Strawbery Fields Forever – Blind Salida

19.Black Hole Sun – Blind Salida

20.Learn to F me right

21.Real Artists Don’t Make Wallpapers

22.I Know HTML

23.Poster series of LUBALIN

24.Typeface : Lollop

25.World

26.Free Me

27.Not the point

28.Happiness 01

29.The Only Time

30.Go to SCHOOL

31.White Hand

32.Steven Paul Jobs

33.Set The World On Fire

34. Acquisition

35.NPM – Skate Photo Magazine

36.TT2 – Type Research

37.Typography

38.Font Self-Portrait

39.Alex Trochut

40.Tyler Stout

41.N e v e r

42.Chocolate calligraphy

43. Unravel

44.LOVE

45. ARAB Stroke Calligraphy

46.Death by Typography

47.What is stopping you?

48.Jimi Hendrix

49.Slavocracy

50.Beauty

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Top 50 Design and Web development Resources

Nikita Porwal — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:40:05 +0000

Today, web design and development is the most happening field, and with the growing popularity more and more people are opting for it. Designing is not only about creating websites, but it includes a board set of knowledge encompassing technical know-how, interpersonal communications, and most important the talent for design. The work usually comprise of visual design with knowledge of appropriate platform and in other areas. While it is not difficult to locate tutorials for such platform, it could be tricky to pick few that can be followed forever. Whether you are a novice in web design and development or a pro, you certainly need resources that can be helpful. With that in mind honeytechblog has created a list of Top 50 Design and Web development Resources (including resources from previous posts) that are excellent for learning different stages of design.

Top 10 Flash Resources

11.Flash.tutsplus – This is a blog/Flash site made to house and showcase some of the best Flash, ActionScript and Flex tutorials around. You get tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain in a friendly, approachable manner.

12.Entheosweb.com- apart from great tutorials you also get web design resources including templates, background images, galleries, Flash games etc. Nice group of people letting you know everything about flash.

13.Learnflash– Whether you are beginner, intermediate or advance learner of Flash, learnflash has solution to all level. You can download free tutorials and learn via watching videos.

14.W3schools – w3schools is well known for all the design and development tutorials. It gives you an excellent step-by-step guide to Flash. You can’t miss on this if you want to pro flash.

15.Adobe.com – This Adobe tutorial is especially designed for advanced learners who wish to know high-end ActionScrip. Check out the latest ActionScript 3 resources to get started with or migrate your existing projects to the current version of ActionScript.

16.Flashperfection – This is another excellent tutorial to master Flash. Check out the menu to learn anything about Flash. 3D Tutorial is also available here.

17.Tutorialized – Anything you need to learn about design and development can be found with tutorialized. Do participate in forums for queries regarding any development platform.

18.Knowflash – Easy to understand tutorials for flash are available with Knowflash. You will find video tutorials for you to learn the simple way.

19.Entheosweb – This site is maintained by an enthusiastic group of people mastering in Flash. Learn cool Flash effects and basic Flash concepts with these simple Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8.0 tutorials.

20.Gotoandlearn – It’s a superb guide dedicated only to Flash platform. You learn with all latest and easy techniques with gotoandlearn.

Top 10 jQuery/JavaScript Resources

21.Docs.jquery- A smart group of people are responsible for maintaining the site, in turn offering you solution to all jQuery question. Check this site for anything you need regarding jQuery.

22.W3schools – Many believe JavaScript is a difficult language to learn altogether, but you must check out w3schools to learn it the easiest way.

23.Webdesignerwall – This is a must check out jQuery tutorials for designers. This article contains 10 visual tutorials intended for web designers and newbies on how to apply Javascript effects with jQuery.

24.15daysofjquery – You can have complete understand of basics regarding jQuery. Get ready for some easy to use script with 15daysofjquery.

25.Learningjquery – Learning jQuery is a multi-author weblog providing jQuery tutorials, demos, and announcements. They have tutorials for all skill levels, and each entry is categorized by level of difficulty.

26.Codylindley – One of the best sites designed for jQuery. The site’s focal point is a blog that reflects on Web development, Web standards, CSS, XHTML, CMS’s, site optimization, PHP, MySQL, Macromedia Flash, accessibility, information architecture, visual design, interaction design, and information design.

27.Remysharp – Remy offers brilliant guild to jQuery. Apart from jQuery lessons you can also read few interesting blogs posted there.

28.Sohtanaka – Sohtanaka is a passionate Web Designer and Front-End Developer seasoned in working in the fast-paced, ever-changing web environment. You will enjoy learning through the process as it is well-maintained site.

29.Dustindiaz – This is a bright looking site designed by Dustin who expertise in JavaScript and let you know some of the outstanding tips on it.

30.Net.tutsplus – this site offers tutorials and articles on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how your design knowledge. They cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, PHP and Ruby on Rails.

Top 10 HTML/CSS Resources

31.Yourhtmlsource – This site has excellent HTML tutorials and well-researched links on all aspects of web design, equally suited to beginners and advanced webmasters.

32.W3schools – Again as mentioned earlier this source can be of great help if you desiring to learn HTLM.

33.Htmldog – I’m sure you know this site. The idea of HTLM Dog is to take the somewhat convoluted official specs for XHTML and CSS and present them in a much more readable fashion.

33.W3- This short tutorial is meant for people who want to start using CSS and have never written a CSS style sheet before.

34.Htmlcsstutorials – A nice site designed with easy navigation to offer you knowledge about XHTML and tips on CSS. You get complete reference for html CSS with examples.

35.Html – HTML.net provides guidance and help about designing and developing websites.

36.Tizag – This can be a stepping stone to the budding webmaster and a handy reference to the veteran developer. Tizag is always changing its tutorials and references to incorporate the latest in web design.

37.Boogiejack – This is an HTML help site featuring standards-based HTML tutorials, CSS tutorials and other website design help and resources.

38.Htmlgoodies – This site has group of lessons set up to be covered over a week’s time, one tutorial per day. HTMLGoodies is your resource for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, ASP and other web development topics.

39.Echoecho- You can use this tutorial either as a complete introduction or as an A-Z reference to HTML. If you’re completely new to HTML you should start with the section that covers HTML Basics.

40Css-tricks – You can locate hand-full of video and text tutorials with CSS-trick. Don’t forget to sign up with their RSS to get some smart tricks on CSS.

Top 10 Web Design Forums Resources

41.Digitalpoint – This is a place designed to discuss about website design and get help with, Photoshop, Flash, JQuery, HTML, CSS, DHTML, etc.

42.Sitepoint – You have great source of information on all platform related to design and development

43.Designerstalk – Anything to discuss about graphics, illustration, programming and more

44.Smashingmagazine – Discussions about current trends and recent developments: design reviews, showcases and interesting or unusual designs are all possible here.

45.Webmaster-talk – A cool place to discuss your knowledge on various platform and get help from the experts

46.Webdesignforums – This is more like a tutorial offering posts with great information.

47.Webdesignerforum- Get help and advice on planning your web design project. This is also a great source for news from the world of design & development and other exciting events.

48.Webdevforums- Web designers and web development professionals get your fundamental web master tools and information here. This is your source for basic website builder knowledge.

49.Webdesignchat – Discuss about your web designing problems, techniques, softwares, websites, latest tricks etc

50.Webdesignforum – You can discuss tips on web design including the use of popular web design software. And get help on any issues related to various platforms.

We have listed some of the best and most useful sites for you to get help on everything associated to web design and development. Please feel free to share the one you love!

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