Posted by Rasti | Mar 21st, 2009
Drupal is a powerful content management system, meaning you can power many different types of websites with it without knowing any coding languages. Drupal is a free, open source, modular framework and content management system (CMS) written in PHP. Drupal allows the system administrator to create and organize content, customize the presentation, automate administrative tasks, and manage site visitors and contributors.
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Posted by Rasti | Mar 20th, 2009
This very nice set of RSS icons has 28 pieces of RSS symbols in various shapes and colors. Downloaded .zip package contains 16×16 and 32×32 pix sized icons of .ico, .icns, tif, .png and .psd file types. These RSS icons are free for any use.
Website: http://icojoy.com/articles/23/
Posted by Rasti | Mar 19th, 2009
Stockvault.net is a stock photo sharing website where designers and photographers can meet to share their images. You don’t have to sign up to be able to download images, but Stockvault likes you to do so anyway, just so you can gain access to their special features. All images on the Stockvault site are free for personal and non-commercial usage.
Website: http://stockvault.net/
Posted by Rasti | Mar 18th, 2009
Imagine the situation: You’re designing/coding some web for one of your customers. You have an abstraction of the layout including pictures and other graphics but you’d need present your visualization to the customer. But what text you will use to represent real look of the page? Will you write some fairy tale to fulfil blocks of text or just simply write “Hello World” many times? No,...
Posted by Rasti | Mar 17th, 2009
As everyone knows, validity of source code plays important role in a web development. Improperly nested elements, unclosed tags, unrecognized parameters may affect web page’s display in some browsers. But this is not one and only negative influence of source code errors. Another important consequence of invalid (X)HTML or CSS source code is degradation in the eyes of search crawlers. Most search engine...
Posted by Rasti | Mar 16th, 2009
I know from my own experience that sometimes it’s good to be inspired by something. Occasionally I can’t make decision what color’s combination would be the best to fit a web design. In these cases it’s usefull to have some reference or suggestions of colors which harmonize one another.
The Color Combo web site offers many color combinations, color palettes and color schemes which could...
Posted by Rasti | Mar 15th, 2009
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
Blueprint should be put in your site’s CSS directory, linked and is ready to use in a second! This very logical framework saves you a lot of time while developing design. And...
Posted by Rasti | Mar 14th, 2009
More than 8000 free fonts! This cool collection offers many interesting fonts for web developers and designers. They are alphabetically categorized to facilitate navigation. Every font is shown by its name which is mouse “hoverable” to see whole alphabet designed by “hovered” font.
Any font is linked to its deeper description and larger preview. Downloads are packaged into the .zip file...
Posted by Rasti | Mar 13th, 2009
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more....
Posted by Rasti | Mar 12th, 2009
FusionCharts is a flash charting component that can be used to render data-driven & animated charts for your web applications and presentations.
It is a cross-browser and cross-platform solution that can be used with ASP.NET, ASP, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, simple HTML pages or even PowerPoint Presentations to deliver interactive and powerful flash charts. You do NOT need to know anything about...