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I had the pleasure of meeting with a user experience expert yesterday, Carl Heaton from Web Courses Bangkok. Carl showed me a great tool for website owners called UserFly (affiliate link). Userfly allows you to test the usability of your website as each visitor goes to your site. You start by adding a small JavaScript [...]

As we continue our series on Online Generators, we begin to focus more on sites that can provide more than just single components of a site. Today’s entry touches on an area that interests most of us … the ability to create your own Wordpress Theme online.

These online button generators allow you to create click-able buttons (not web badges) and download them for inclusion onto your website. The criteria for these sites was that they could create a Web 2.0 looking button and allow you to save it to you own computer. However, many of these tools have gone beyond this and provide additional tools as well.

With many web design projects, it is seemingly the items with the most subtle results that can require the most effort. This is certainly true with backgrounds.

You have probably seen some cool effects like stripes or other background patterns that seem to set off the design of a web page perfectly. Well now these professional, subtle looking effects can easily be implemented into your own pages with a minimal amount of effort thanks to the efforts of a few programmers.

The following is a list of online background pattern generators that will create a background pattern for you to download and use in your web design. We hope you find these useful.

In another one of our projects, we had a design that required a white content area with the area behind it filled with a pattern. Unfortunately, the background pattern was something that the client was not happy with at all. In the interest of time, they asked us if we could find something nice and [...]

Finding a tool that let’s you polish up your photos for the web is not an easy task. Some photo editing tools are so feature packed, they become a little too difficult to use for the average computer user. So we went searching for online photo editing tools to see what was available and we’ve [...]

We’ve just run across this wonderful new tool from COLOURlovers. Getting the perfect color or color scheme for your web site, or graphic can be difficult. The most difficult part is remembering those cryptic hex codes or RGB codes for your favorite color. So the folks at COLOURlovers created a color picker tool. But the [...]

I can’t tell you how many times I have been designing a web site and come to a point where I say to myself, “I wish I had a really cool looking button for this section.” So I start up Adobe Photoshop, of which my skills are somewhat lacking, and I attempt to create a [...]


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