Colors matter a lot in a web designer’s line of work. They know that their clients will be heavily looking forward to how awesome their website is going to look so they have to come up with the best color schemes. To generate those color schemes they need color pickers, color scheme generators etc. I’ve compiled here a list of 10 of the best color pickers and generators that I’m sure they’ll love.
Looking for Icons? Can’t find the one you want? here’s a great website called “Icon Finder” that lets you find icons easily. 
The interface is like a search engine, giving you access to over 122,117 icons & 290 icon sets with regular updates. For example, let’s search for Twitter Icons. Type it in and you’ll see all the available icons.
Choose the one that you like and click on it. It will on the spot show you whose the designer, the license information, size and if there’s an full set for it. Simple but useful service for all Icon hunters.
Live Banner Maker is a great way to make banners online, absolutely free.
The steps involved in the process are basic and simple:
Before one proceeds to make a banner, a free signup is required.
After you set up a free account and login using that account, the first step towards banner making is to choose the banner size:
As can be seen above, the user can either set a custom size or choose from a list of predefined sizes. The second step requires adding a background to the banner:
Of course without adding any special effects to your banner, the result would not stand out from the crowd; hence the fourths step lets the user add certain effects to the banner being created:
The fifth and final step is where the user gets to download/save his/her banner.
With its easy to understand interface, Live Banner Maker is one of the most user-friendly ways to create your own banners. Visit the homepage here and take Live Banner Maker out for a test drive.
We all like to customize our desktops to reflect our tastes. We do this by putting a picture of our favorite bands as the wallpaper, using our favorite color as the operating system color scheme, and with the newest softwares available we can even dock our favorite programs fancily right on our desktops.
Custom icons are another great way to make using computers fun. Having a mini T-Rex where the Recycle Bin should be is one example of custom icons. For people who use custom icons and change from one set of icons to the next rather frequently, 365icon is surely a mouthwatering delight. They provide some of the highest quality free icons available on the internet.
I always got stuck when editing a home made video, adding those special effects with music etc looked like a hell of a job. Not anymore, here’s a website that lets you edit your videos with all the required elements. Presenting Masher, where you can create online videos, mash up pictures and music.
You can upload your pictures, music and videos and then edit them in their online Studio. There are lots of pre-given effects, music files, skins and even videos which you can use to either experiment or use them in your stuff. The Timeline is also very easy to use (see screenshot below):
The first one is the Skins bar where you can add skins like a LCD TV, Marquee lights or even a breaking news scene. After that, add a effect, like Rain, stars or whatever you prefer. It also gives you the ability to add text. So do check it out if you’re looking to edit your home videos in a professional way.
IxEdit is a JavaScript-based interaction design tool for the web. With IxEdit, designers can practice DOM-scripting without coding to change, add, move, or transform elements dynamically on your web pages. Especially, IxEdit must be useful to try various interactions rapidly in the prototyping phase of your web application.
With features like Editing directly from the browser, J-query powered smart code, saving data using local hub etc, designers can benefit greatly.
Looking to get your HTML Slicing job done? Can’t find a good company? Here’s a service that lets you compare the best slicing services. SliceJobs provides a fast, high quality list of website coders and slicers, based upon your personal needs! You can choose your options for example, getting your Photoshop or Illustrator work sliced in HTML/CSS in certain pages and in a specific time frame, selecting
And compatibility with browsers etc. You’ll notice whenever you check an option, it updates the page automatically with the list of companies (including where they’re from and a quote) live. Slicejobs is basically focused on web designers, programmers or even entrepreneurs who are looking to either get the work done or list their companies to get some good work.
If you are someone who provide slicing services then you can enter your profile and rates all for free. Do check it out.
An excellent website called “Texture Vault” is something you need to bookmark if you’re (usually) downloading royalty free textures and backgrounds. As they call it, it’s a “Market place for Royalty free textures”. A brilliant thing about Texture vault is that you can choose from hundreds of quality texture backgrounds and images. There are some options, depending on your quality needs:
1- You can either download a texture for free but it will be of Medium quality, suitalbe for websites, blogs and low resolution print designs, with dimensions as 600×400 (px) and the following print Size:
2- The high quality which will cost you $2 per image, suitable for website backgrounds, print designs etc, Dimensions: 1800×1200 (px), print size:
3- And the maximum quality, costing you $4 per image, suitable for high resolution print designs, posters etc Dimensions: 3072 x 2048 (px) and print size:
Confronted an amazing online tool that let’s you extract colors in hex form and let you use it in your artwork, designs or any thing else you need them too. It’s called Color Suckr, with an simple interface, all you need to do is enter the image url and click get colours. It will automatically extract the colors used in the picture and get you the exact code you need.
Another cool thing about this service is that it also comes with a firefox addon, simply right click any image on a webpage and choose ‘Extract Image Colors’ from the menu to go straight to the ColorSuckr website with the image.
Check it out here.
Hi guys,
I know, we can’t match everyone’s taste (for the moment) – We basically try to focus more on your recommended topics, softwares, tutorials etc but in the end, there’s “always” something that a group don’t appreciate. So, I would very much like “You” guys to recommend us stuff that you want to see, your suggestions play a big part in whatever we are doing.
Feel free to email me at MoinAnjum [@] gmail [dot] com for your suggestions and how we can improve everything we’re already doing.
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MoiN
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