Web Tips and Tricks

Success Stories

See: Successful Re-Design Projects

Blogs/Websites to Watch

• The Shifted Librarian

General Web Design Resources

• Style Gala
• Return of Design
• A List Apart
• Web Designer Tools - Has a great color scheme generator
• Essential Fonts for Designers
• 4096 Color Wheel

Cool Things You Can Copy for Your Own Site

• Listmatic, one list, many optioms.
• Layout-o-matic
• Little Boxes
• CSS Page Layouts
• Free Web Templates
• CSS Templates
• Free Menu Designs
• Ruthsarian Layouts
• Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style - from A List Apart
• CSS Rounded Box Generator

CSS

• The CSS Playground
• Position is Everything - great list of articles on the subject
• Real World Style
• CSS Directory
• Cascading Style Cheatsheet
• CSS Property Index
• CSS Panic Guide
• CSS Zen Garden
• CSS, Accessibility and Standards Links - "Links that will save you from an aneurism."

PHP

• php.net - official documentation with user notes
• PHP Tutorial - educational resource for beginners
• Hostmatrix - A free web host with a user community that helps users learn PHP. I used it to learn web design and PHP. The more involved in the discussion board you are, the more free hosting resources you are allowed.
• PHP MySQL Hosting - Web Hosting Company which supports all version of PHP in accordance to the requirements of the the clients.
• Tizag.com - extensive yet beginner-friendly code tutorials and libraries
• W3Schools.com - simple, easy-to-understand tutorials and code libraries

Javascript

• Unobtrusive Javascript - best practices and tutorial

Image Repositories

• BigFoto
• Flickr
• Image*After
• morgueFile
• Open Clip Art Library
• Open Photo
• PixelPerfect Digital
• Stock Exchange
• iStockphoto ($1 royalty-free)
• Royalty Free Stock Photos - $.99 or subscriptions available

Image Generators

• Image Chef
• Graffiti Creator
• Wordle
• Spell with Flickr
• Generator Blog
• Image Mosaic Generator
• Shape Collage