The Web Design Card Catalog (Part II: Icons, Pictures & CMS)
In Part I of the Web Design Card Catalog we looked at the basics of web design functionality. To learn web design you need to first learn HTML, CSS, and a scripting language or two. Once you get that down you should move on to the artistic side of things. Here are some of my favorite sites, tools & tutorials:
Blogs, Bulletin Boards & Forums:
- An Open Source CMS
- Blogging Platforms for Small Businesses, Enterprises & Publishers
- Home of SMF: Free PHP and MySQL forum software
- Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web.
- vBulletin is a powerful, scalable and fully customizable forums package for your web site. Medium to Large Websites.
- The Open Source blogging platform that this blog is using.
- 20 WordPress Themes
Graphics & Look:
- Color Cop is a tool used to pick colors for your websites.
- Visual representations of colors and their corresponding hexadecimal codes.
- I tend to be very anti-Flash, but I like this effect.
- A site dedicated to the creative aspects of design.
- Creating Drop Shadows
- Rounded Corners
- Some finally designed icons.
- A collection of icons to be used with websites.
- A list of places to get free icons.
- Tutorials for The Gimp
- More Gimp Tutorials.
- An Icon search engine.
- Identify HTML-color code from any pixel of the screen with single-click and auto paste it to the clipboard
- Even more Gimp resources
- Logo design & webmaster resources
- A powerful (and more importantly free) Powerpoint replacement.
- Gradients for logs or backgrounds.
- Huge collection of free website icons
- Icons pack