DummyImage: Quick Dummy Image Generator “When we want to setup a layout for our next website project, it is quite handy to have a tool that quickly generates placeholder images. DummyImage is a simple online dummy image generator that provides a quickest and easiest way. All you need to do is add desired width x height to the end of URL “http://dummyimage.com/”.”

Drawter: Draw CSS Code For Website “Drawter is a unique tool geared to help web designers in creating websites. It is an app based on javascript and jQuery library that literally lets you draw website’s CSS code. Just choose a tag such as h1, h2 or div and draw it out; Drawter will automatically generate the HTML and/or CSS code behind it. “You can either work in the draw mode or edit mode and set various page details like page title, page doctype and ...

Colors are powerful tools and an important thing all designers should understand when creating websites.

25 Creative E-Commerce Website Designs “E-Commerce sites are often considered to be boring and unattractive, however, that is not always the case. This post showcases 25 e-commerce sites that demonstrate creativity in the design. It may be the layout, graphics, design style or site structure, but all of them break the mould of the typical e-commerce site. For more inspiration from e-commerce sites, see our gallery CartFrenzy.”

Create a Shiny Psdtuts+ Folder Icon in Photoshop “Icon design is an essential element in any designer’s tool chest. No matter how simple or how complex your design is, a nice looking icon will almost always help to spruce things up. In this Photoshop tutorial we will demonstrate some easy steps to help you to produce your own shiny Psdtuts+ icon in Photoshop. These steps can be easily modified to produce a family of icons for your website.”

The ingredients of a recipe for the success and growth of a website.

clientsfromhell: I asked a client if he had any content to populate the site we were developing. He replied, “No. It just has to look like a populated website so that it can be perceived as one”

Using many plugins can affect a website's performance, and thus, you must be highly selective in choosing the plugins you install. In this article, we share with you the WordPress plugins that we use on our sites.

Vandelay Design bring us another great roundup of textured web designs: Textured Websites: Showcase of Light Textures in Web Design “Texture is obviously a common design element that is being used on a lot of modern websites. However, texture doesn’t always have to be a part of the design that stands out immediately to visitors. Light textures can also be used to subtly improve the design of the site. In this post we’ll feature 25 sites that use texture without ...

Looking for a place to create a free website?  There are plenty of resources that allow you to create you own website, blog, wiki, or social community without having to know any programming language.  These free website creation sites allow you to easily create a site, customize the design, add content, and use a custom [...]