Programming Articles, Tutorials and Free Source Codes. Weekly Freebies: 15+ Useful Bookmarklets for Designers. Bookmarklets can be invaluable tools for both web designers and developers that like to experiment and troubleshoot in the browser.
Today we’ve gathered an awesome collection of free bookmarklets for everything from validating your HTML to rearranging elements on a page without code. Enjoy! What is the easiest way to find out the fonts used in a webpage? Firebug or Webkit Inspector? No, that’s too complicated. Syntaclet As a programmer it’s very common to be surfing the interwebs for various code snippets and examples.
Bookmarklets Collection This page has a bunch of bookmarklets created specifically for designers and developers. Web fonts are here, sparking an exciting new era in web design. Firebug Lite A small bookmarklet to easily install Firebug Lite on any web page. SpriteMe Background images make pages look good, but also make them slower.
Mobile Perf DOM Monster XRAY: look beneath the skin MRI: test your selectors FontFriend Design W3C Validate This Page Layout Grid Bookmarklet Liquid Page. Weekly Freebies: 20 Fantastic PSD Web Button Packs. Buttons add a ton of personality to your site, so much so that they can often define much of the impression of the aesthetic quality of the page.
One way to start off in the direction of a solid design is to grab some high quality button graphics. Below we’ve compiled 20 packs of free, layered PSD web buttons for your use. From downloads and uploads to navigation and social media, you’ll likely find just what you need here. Free button collection Web Social Media Button Simple web button psd 2 Button .psds. Weekly Freebies: 30 Vintage Victorian Design Resources. Weekly Freebies: 350+ Human Vector Silhouettes. Weekly Freebies: 350+ Human Vector Silhouettes by Joshua Johnson on 6th April 2011 with 3 Comments This week’s set of freebies contains 15 of our favorite sets of free human vector silhouettes.
Because they’re vector, you can of course use them on something as small as a web graphic or as large as a billboard. No matter what your project is, if you need a human silhouette, the 350 below should get you off to an awesome start! People Silhouettes (31 Vectors) Parkour silhouettes (5 Vectors) Tourists & Travellers (21 Vectors) Yoga Vector Silhouettes (8 Vectors) Weekly Freebies: 20 Fractal Brush Sets for Photoshop. Weekly Freebies: 20 Fractal Brush Sets for Photoshop by Joshua Johnson on 29th March 2011 with 2 Comments Today’s collection of free design resources includes twenty awesomely abstract fractal brush sets that collectively contain hundreds of brushes for you to add to your library.
Graphics like these instantly add life and character to your design and can be used to add texture in the background, a main focal point, or anything else you can dream up. Their natural beauty is easy to leverage! Fractal Brush Pack 02 (8 Brushes) Shad0ws Brush Set 11 (25 Brushes) Fractal Brush Pack I (11 Brushes) Xcell Brush Set 9 (100 Brushes) Weekly Freebies: 30 Seriously Useful Seamless Textures. Weekly Freebies: 10 WordPress Portfolio Themes That Aren’t Ugly.
In putting together this week’s freebie post I noticed two things.
First, everyone has a free WordPress portfolio theme roundup. Second, though the titles may boast 50 or more themes, most or even all of the selections are so ugly that no designer in his right mind would go near them. Consequently, I set out to find ten completely free WordPress portfolio themes that actually look like they were designed in this decade. Whether you’re a web designer or a photographer, these portfolio themes will give you a quick and easy way to show off your work in a professional manner.
Suburbia “Suburbia is a clean and flexible WordPress grid-based magazine theme designed in a modern and minimalist style. Sharpfolio “Sharpfolio is a WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio. Viewport F8 Lite Photoria SimpleFolio “SimpleFolio, designed by Omar E. Weekly Freebies: 12 Gorgeously Grungy Fonts. Who doesn’t love a good collection of free grunge fonts?
These twelve are some of my favorite free fonts around and can really add character to whatever project you’re working on. I downloaded each to build the custom previews below so I can attest to them all being perfectly functional. Browse through and download a few and leave a comment below letting us know which are your favorite! Also let us about any we missed that you particularly like. District Birth of a Hero Ginga Acid Reflux Boycott Inked God EpoXY histoRy Kingthings Printingkit.
Weekly Freebies: 150 Cloud Brushes for Photoshop. Weekly Freebies: 150 Cloud Brushes for Photoshop by Joshua Johnson on 1st March 2011 with 3 Comments For this week’s post we’ve rounded up fifteen cloud brush sets that collectively contain over 150 brushes to add to your Photoshop library.
Some are super realistic, others are more artistic so you can pull off any look you’re going for. Take a look and let us know what you think in the comments below! Ester Liquori (4 Brushes)