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creativity
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- Be Creative!
- BIT-101 Lab
- Book Covers Gallery
- Creativity techniques and creative tools for problem solving
- Design Directory | made by designers for designers
- Design Link Database
- Design Snack
- Designologue
- Digitalrefueler
- Dislexicon v0.3
- e-CREATIVE AWARDS
- gapingvoid: how to be creative (latest version)
- glenmurphy.com
- How to pitch an idea
- Internet Vibes
- Linkdup
- LOUNGE72 - Design portal & ezine
- Netdiver
- OneLook Reverse Dictionary
- PixelMakers
- Portfolio Exhibition (The Best of Portfolio Design)
- plasticpilots
- Processing
- screenspire.com | full( )screen inspiration
- Sodaplay constructor
- Speak Up > Word it
- The Designer’s Lunchbox
- The definitive collection of idea generation methods (currently offline)
- The Exploration of Computation
- Uninspired? Unplug yourself ~ Authentic Boredom
- When You Can't Get Started Writing
- wellvetted.com - inspirational gathering
- Words List - Extelligence
css: selected showcases
- A.Budd :: Well Designed CSS Sites
- Best Web Gallery
- Calendar & Date Picker Design Showcase
- Comment Design Showcase
- CSS Beauty
- CSS Bloom
- CSS Heaven | Gallery
- CSS Remix
- CSS Table Gallery
- CSStux
- CSS Zen Garden
- Dark Eye
- Design Shack - Inspirational CSS and Blog Design
- finewebsites.org
- Heading Style Gallery
- InspirationKing
- light on dark
- Screenalicious
- Stylegala - design | css | standards
- The 35 sexiest designed websites you have forgotten
- The Horizontal Way
- tom.ma | screenblog
- Typography for Headlines
- W3 Compliant Sites
- Well-Designed Weblogs Volume 2 | mono
css galleries & showcases
- Artnetz.de
- CSS Allstar
- CSS Blast
- CSS Design
- CSS Design
- CSS Drive
- CSSelite
- CSSHilfe Galerie
- CSS Import
- CSS-Mania
- CSS Nightingale
- CSS Princess
- CSS Reboot
- CSS smooth operator
- CSS Tableless Web Sites
- CSS Thesis
- CSS Vault
- CSS Zen Garden Shot
- Design Snack
- Devil’s Details
- Doblepixel
- Frog Family Standards
- gallerize.
- Liquid Designs
- Lovely Blogs - showcasing the best looking blogs on the web
- Open Source Web design (oswd)
- Pajatti.net
- PiepMatzel
- Pixelgangster
- Proestilo
- Showcase.gr
- Styleboost
- StyleReactor.net
- Unmatchedstyle
- Web Standards Awards
- screenspire.com | full( )screen inspiration
- Web Creme | Web design inspiration
- Wow factor
color tools
- Accessibility Color Wheel
- Defence Mechanism > Color Toy
- Color converter (RGB/CMYK/HSV)
- Color Palette Creator v1.6
- Color Palette Generator [1]
- Color Palette Generator [2]
- 100 Random Colors - Need a Color?
- 4096 Color Wheel
- Chromatic Wheel
- Color Blender
- colordb - the color database
- ColorLab
- Colormix
- Color Mixers
- Color Scheme 1, Color Scheme 2
- Color Schemer Online v.2
- Color Shades: Colors and Lighter Hexadecimal Codes and Swatches
- Color synthAxis
- Color Tool 2.0.1 Alpha
- ColorWhore
- ColorWrite 1.1
- Colour Contrast Analyser
- Colour exploration tools
- ColourMod :: DHTML Color Picker/Selector
- Colour Scheme Chooser
- Easy RGB
- Eye Dropper Color Mixer
- Find matching colors for your web page
- Infohound Color Schemer
- Kolur.com Color Inspiration
- Online color chart picker
- Online image editors
- RedAlt v1.0
- Sessions.edu Color Calculator
- Triadic Color Harmony
- Triplecode Munsell Palette
- Unsafe Colormatch
- Web Color Theory (offline)
- Web Color Visualizer
color schemes, palettes
- CSS Color Chart
- color combinations
- ColorCombos
- ColorMatch 5K
- COLOURlovers
- Colr.org
- Return of Design - Web Color Schemes
- Steel Dolphin Color Scheme tool
- tile machine 1.0
- Web 2.0 Colour Palette
color patterns
- Cornoncob! - Perfect Pixel Patterns!
- Kaliber10000 | Patterns
- Squidfingers | Patterns
- Pattern-Bomb
- The Inspiration Gallery
- Color Patterns @ Bluevertigo
fashion: colors selection
- Behr | Color Smart
- Benjamin Moore: Personal Color Viewer
- Dulux paint colour range & advice about choosing paint colours
- Color palettes and color schemes at Sherwin-Williams
- Pantone’s top ten fashion colors for fall 2005
- PANTONE Universe - Fashion ColorView
- Sherwin-Williams® Color Trends 2006
color theory
- 16 Lessons in Color Theory
- An Introduction to Using Patterns
- Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design
- Color Codes Matching Chart HTML (Pantone, CMYK, RGB Hex)
- Color Theory: A brief tutorial
- Colour Theory
- Color Theory Articles
- Color Theory Overview & Tutorial: Color, Creativity, Code
- Colour Harmony: Secrets of Web Color Revealed
- Design Psychology
royalty free photos
- AboutPixel.de
- PhotoCase.de
- 9×13.de
- freerangestock.com
- DesignPacks.com
- Image * After
- morguefile.com
- Patterns: pattern4u
- PictureQuest
- Pixel Perfect Digital
- Pixsy - photos and videos from blogs and social networks
- StockVault
- stock.xchng
- License-free images: a forum thread
- Royalty Free Images Search Engine
- Royalty free images @ Blue Vertigo
- Texture King: Free Stock Textures
- WallpaperStock
- Where To Find Great Free Photographs
css daily reading
- 456bereastreet.com
- Asterisk*: Where web design lives
- A List Apart
- BlueRobot
- BrainJar.coms
- Dynamic Drive CSS Library
- design.Principles
- meyerweb.com: css / edge
- htmldog
- mezzoblue
- Netdiver
- PositionIsEverything.net
- StopDesign
- Stylegala - design | css | standards
- the css and web standards news compilation site
- Web Design Times
- Zeldman Jeffrey
css in German
- #css {faq:de;}
- webdev:webdesign [pf-wiki]
- CSS - ein Tutorial
- bs-Markup
- cssHilfe
- Intensivstation
- css4you
- Dr. Web Magazin*
- Andreas Kalt
- Manuel Bieh
- Carsten Protsch
- DesignerInAction
- einfachfà¼ralle
- Seybold Jand-Andresen
- Meiert.com
- hessendrescher.de
- Vorsprung durch Standards
- Jendryschik.de
- Bjoernsworld.de
- mediaevent
- stichpunkt.de
- Vladimir Simovic
- css.fractatulum.net
- uckan.info
- webdevbits
- Webstandards in Germany
web design daily reading
- A List Apart: Web magazine for people who make websites
- Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
- Brain Bliss
- Creationflux
- Creative Behaviour
- Design In Flight
- Design Interact
- Design Melt Down
- Devlounge
- Digital Web Magazine
- fadtastic
- Graphics.com: The shared resource for creative design
- Hiveminds Magazine
- Layers Magazine
- Mandarin Design
- PingMag
- Poynter Online - Design / Graphics
- Treehouse
- UIE Brain Sparks
- Usability.gov
- UXmatters
- UXmagazine
- Vitamin
- Web Developer’s Journal
- Webmascon - Russian “A List Apart”
- [kak) - a journal about graphic design
css theory
css layouts
- 195 Manually selected Style Sheet Resources
- An Overview of Current CSS Layout Techniques
- Building a Multiple Column Website
- Changingman layout | And all that Malarkey
- CSS 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-columns Layouts
- CSS Layout Tutorial
- CSS Page Layout Templates
- Dynamic Resolution Dependent Layouts
- In search of the One True Layout
- Ruthsarian Layouts
- Bluerobot Layout Reservoir
- Glish CSS Layout techniques
- Layout-o-matic
- Little Boxes
- Mollio CSS/HTML Templates
- Nemesis Project: CSS table-less design templates
- On having layout - the concept of hasLayout in IE/Win
- Simple 2 column CSS layout
- Three Column Layouts @ css-discuss
- Understanding any order columns
- Variable Fixed-Width Layout
- Web Builders' Toolkit
- Website Layouts Cookbook
- XHTML/CSS - 3 column layouts - Netscape 4 compatible
css navigation menus
- 13styles.com :: Navigation menus online
- 37 Navigation Techniques
- 14 Free Vertical CSS Menus
- ALA // Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style
- ALA // Sliding Doors
- ALA // Taming Lists
- Alsacreations, menus galleries in CSS and XHTML
- aPlus:: ADxMenu
- BrainJar
- Bulletproof Slants
- cssbasednavigation
- CSS / DHTML Hybrid Navigation Bar
- CSS Double Lists
- CSS Menu Generator
- cssMenus - Horizontal and Vertical 4 Level Deep List Menu
- CSSVault
- CSS Tab Designer
- CSS Tabbed Arrows
- Deluxe CSS Dropdowns and Flyouts
- Free Menu Designs V 1.1*
- Hybrid CSS Dropdowns
- Intelligent Menus
- Inverted Sliding Doors Tabs
- Javascript Menus. DeLuxe Menus
- List-o-Matic
- Listamatic 1, Listamatic 2
- Navigation Matrix Reloaded
- Script-Free Pure-CSS Menu
- Simplebits: Mini-Tab Shapes 2
- SilverOrange CSS Tabs
- Simplebits Navigation Tabs: Simplified CSS Tabs, Mini-Tab Shapes, CSS Mini Tabs (the UN-tab, tab), Accessible Image-Tab Rollovers
- Suckerfish Dropdowns
- Tab Styled Accordion
- Tabtastic
- The CSS Playground
- Tree Navigation Menu: Destroydrop Javascripts Tree
- Veerle’s 2 level horizontal navigation
- wg:CSS Tabs
- wg:Inline Mini Tabs
css techniques
- 0° CSS Shadow Technique
- Adam’s Radio & Checkbox Customisation Method
- Airtight Corners
- Annotating images with CSS
- Bar CSS Graphs
- Beautifully Numbered Lists with CSS
- Bullet-Proof Rounded Corners
- Collapsing tables: am example
- Comments: Behind the Scenes
- Content with Style: A CSS Framework
- Constants in CSS - several ways how to simulate
- Content Injection in Flash with XHTML and sIFR
- Create compatible HTML email
- Creating a Pullquote with Javascript and CSS
- Creating Badges and Stars
- CSS: 2-col tableless layout
- CSS Auto-height and margin-collapsing
- CSS Bar Graphs
- CSS box model: understanding
- CSS Browser Selector
- CSS Code Visual Grouping Techniques
- CSS Colors: Take Control Using PHP
- CSS Cursors
- CSS Curves
- CSS Destroy: CSS Experiments
- CSS Diagrams
- CSS Docking boxes (dbx)
- CSS Drop Shadows
- CSS Drop Shadows: How-To
- CSS Drop Shadows II: Fuzzy Shadows
- CSS element hover effect
- CSS event:Selectors
- CSS Flexible Box With Four Custom Corners
- CSS Frames
- CSS footerStick
- CSS Graphs Helper for Ruby on Rails
- CSS Hacks @ Stylegala
- CSS Iframe Mimics
- CSS Image Blocking
- CSS Image Maps
- CSS Image Pop UP Technique
- CSS Image preloading technique
- CSS image replacement for submit buttons
- CSS Image Text Wrap Tutorial
- CSS Link Thumbnails
- CSS Map Pop
- CSS-Only Forms That Don’t Suck
- CSS-Only Table-less Forms
- CSS Optimization: Make Your Sites Load Faster
- CSS Page Layouts: Samples
- CSS Photo-Caption Zoom
- CSS Positioning in Ten Steps
- cssQuery()
- cssQuery Version 2
- CSS Remote Rollover Demo
- CSS Scale Image Html Tutorial
- CSS Smart Corners
- CSS Spanky Corners
- CSS submit buttons
- CSS Switching
- CSS sliding photo-gallery
- CSS Teaser Box
- CSS tests @ Brunildo.org
- CSS Tinderbox
- CSS tricks for custom bullets
- CSS: the white-space property
- CSS Tables
- CSS Tables with Style
- CSS Visited Links: Ticked-off visited links Reloaded
- CSS Zoom layout
- CSS Zooming
- Creating a nearly perfect block hover effect
- Creating a Star Rater using CSS
- Customized borders and corners in flexible layouts
- Definitive Solution to Image Replacement
- Deluxe CSS Dropdowns and Flyouts
- Displaying percennofollowes
- Div thinking cap
- Dynamic Pie Chart with CSS
- Dynamic Text Replacement // ALA
- Dynamic Text Replacement (PHP & CSS, P+C DTR) with word-wrapping
- Eric’s Universal Child Selector
- Faruk’s Animated CSS Enhancements
- Flagging Links
- footerStickAlt: A more robust method of positioning a footer
- Format Footnotes with Javascript & CSS
- Footnotes revisited: CSS Sidenotes
- Form Help without Popups
- Forms: Prettier and Accessible
- Forms Markup and CSS
- Form: Awesome Simple, Semantic CSS Form
- Forms with CSS: trimming form fields
- Free Form for All - The Subtraction Good Form 0.1
- Handy CSS Debugging Snippet
- Hierarchical Sitemap with Dashed Lines
- How the CSS Table Gallery works
- How to Create a Block Hover Effect for a List of Links
- How to make team CSS coding and maintenance easier
- Image (Replacement) Maps
- Image Cross Fader Redux
- Image map for detailed information
- Image floats, without the text wrap
- Inner borders CSS Problem
- Let visitors decide whether or not they will open links in a new window
- Making a CSS-based layout start to finish
- Language specific styling: quotation marks
- Malarkey Image Replacement
- More Rounded Corners with CSS
- Naughty or Nice? CSS Background Images
- NiceForms
- Pandora’s Box (Model) of CSS Hacks And Other Good Intentions
- PDF, DOC, ZIP Links Labeling
- Proper vertical centering without tables
- Quirks mode and strict mode
- qTip: turn the title attribute into customizable, floating DIV’s
- Replicating a Tree table
- Resizable Underlines
- Revised image replacement
- Scalable Inline (siir)
- Scooch: Accessible, Web Standards Based Slide Show and Gallery
- Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR)
- sIFR: Two Color sIFR Take Two
- sIFR Font Embedder
- sIFR: Examples
- sIFR Beauty
- Semantic horizontal Forms
- Simple, accessible external links
- Simple, accessible “more” links
- Simple CSS Bars
- Simple CSS Image Switcher
- simultaneous cross platform/browser css styling
- Single Image Multi Replacement
- Slideous - A Slide Show System
- Smart ‘back to top’ link
- Sortable Table Demos (WebFX)
- Sort Table / Javascript, DHTML, CSS
- Standardista Table Sorting
- Styled images with caption
- Styling abbreviations and acronyms
- Super Stripes
- Tables: Advanced CSS Tutorial
- Table centering
- Tables with Style
- Ten more CSS tricks you may not know
- Text-wrapping around images with PHP
- The CSS and XHTML Lab
- The CSS Cheat Sheet
- The Fade Anything Technique
- The Form Assembly Garden
- The ThrashBox - Rounded Corner for All
- Thierry Image Placement
- Timeout your Mouseovers
- Turning CSS Lists into CSS Trees
- Two Techniques for CSS Transparency
- Understanding CSS Specificity
- Unobtrusive Sidenotes
- Unordered List Rollover Gallery
- Using Background-Image to Replace Text
- Vertical-Align Revealed
- Vertical Centering in CSS
- Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS
- yDSF - Robust CSS Drop Shadows
- Zebra Tables
- Zebra Tables: Improved
- Zebra Tables: Stripe your tables the OO way
- Zebra Stripes: Splintered Striper
- Zebra: Alter Table Row Background Colors Using JavaScript
- EinschlieàŸen von Floats ohne zusätzliches Markup
css: software & Firefox Extensions
- 50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing
- Colorzilla
- CSSVista
- Firebug
- Firefox extensions I couldn’t live without
- How to create Firefox extensions
- MeasureIt
- Palette Grabber Firefox Extension
- Professor X Firefox Extension
- QrONE CSS Designer
- Rapid Web Development and Testing with Mozilla Firefox
- Web Developer Extension for Mozilla and Firefox
- X-Ray Firefox Extension
css-web-tools & services
- An easy XHTML list maker
- CSS Centricle
- CssCreator -> Page Layout
- CSS Editors for Linux
- CSS Formatter and Optimiser
- CSS Grid Calculator
- Clean CSS
- Create CSS Forms Online: JotForm
- CSS Multi-element Rollover Generator
- CSS Optimizer
- CSS Rounded Box Generator
- CSS Syntax Checker for BBEdit and TextWrangler
- Iconico CSS Scrollbar Generator
- CSSTidy
- Em Calculator
- Icey CSS Compressor
- List-u-Like
- Nifty Corners: rounded corners without images
- Nifty Corners Cube
- Online CSS Compressor 1
- Online CSS Compressor 2
- Online CSS Editor
- Online CSS Optimizer / Optimiser
- PrettyPrinter for CSS, PHP, Java, C++, C, Perl, JavaScript
- Round Corner Stone/Icon
- SelectOracle
- Xylescope
- Wufoo Form Builder
- W3C Core Styles
- W3C CSS Validator
html-web-tools & services
- HTML Character Entities
- Special Characters in HTML
- A Simple Character Entity Chart
- Doctor HTML v6
- HTML / XHTML / WML / XML Validator
- HTML Help: CSS, HTML Checks
- HTML Tidy
- WDG HTML Validator
- W3C HTML Validator
accessibility checkers
- Accessible Data Tables
- Accessibility Valet Demonstrator
- Bobby Online Service
- Colour Blindness Simulator, Colour Contrast Check, Online Accessibility Check
- Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar
- GrayBit v0.5: Grayscale Renditions of your pages
- OCAWA Web Accessibility Expert
- UI Site check
- TAW: Web Accessibility Test
- Total Validator
- Truwex accessibility Validation Tool
- WAVE 3.5 Accessibility Tool
- Web-based Site Usability Checker
- WebbIE
- WebXACT Quality & Accessibility Check
miscellaneous tools
- .htaccess code generator - disable hotlinking
- .htaccess Cheatsheet
- Acrobot Abbreviation and Acronym Generator
- 10 Tips That Every PHP Newbie Should Know
- 10 Tips That Every PHP Newbie Should Know [ Part 2 ]
- 300 Images From 1800 Sites (arrows, posts, comments, bullets, print etc.)
- 9 useful tools for web design
- Advanced Email Link Generator
- Approximate Conversion from Points to Pixels
- 80×15 Brilliant Button Maker