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Cheat Sheets for Web Designers

Cheat sheets (also known as reference cards, reference sheets, etc.) not only helps you remember things quickly, but can also serve as wall decoration for your workspace. In this post, you’ll find 28 excellent, useful cheat sheets in various file formats for Photoshop, Dreamweaver, colors, typography, and other web-design related topics all in one page with pictures of each cheat sheet. http://sixrevisions.com/resources/cheat_sheets_for_web_designers/
http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/21-best-icon-sets-for-designing-web-apps When designing a web application, it’s important to make sure the user interface is easy to use.

21 Best Icon Sets for Designing Web Apps | Web Design Ledger

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/18/9-common-usability-blunders/ By now, all good designers and developers realize the importance of usability for their work.

9 Common Usability Mistakes In Web Design | How-To | Smashing Magazine

Last week we presented 10 Web Design Trends For 2009 , our review of the most promising developments and techniques in web design that may become big in 2009. In the first part we covered embossing letters (“letterpress”), rich user interfaces, PNG transparency, big typography, carousels and media blocks.

More Web Design Trends For 2009 | Design Showcase

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/21/current-web-design-trends-for-2009/
http://devsnippets.com/article/reviews/10-brilliant-multi-level-navigation-menu-techniques.html

» 10 Brilliant Multi Level Navigation Menu Techniques

Web-developers can create user-friendly horizontal or vertical navigation menus using CSS.

The Most 10 Common Mistakes Web Designers Make | Noupe

Aug 03 2009 There are plenty of mistakes web designers (especially new ones) make when designing websites. Everything from poor design to simple oversight happen every day. http://www.noupe.com/design/ten-most-common-design-mistakes.html
http://sixrevisions.com/usabilityaccessibility/20-websites-to-help-you-master-user-interface-design/ As web technologies progress, websites and web applications are becoming more responsive, providing us with more ways and techniques to interact with the users . Form , more than ever, has been superseded by function . The following websites deal with interface design, user experience, user-centered design, usability, and everything in between – all with the goal of enhancing the user’s interface.

20 Websites to Help You Master User Interface Design - Six Revisions

Website builders have been gaining more popularity and traction lately, thanks to services such as Wix and Webnode. These online website creators allow you to create a full website, free of charge, directly in your browser without any prior knowledge of website development.

8 Free Design Platforms To Build Your Own Site | Webdesigner Depot ...

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/01/8-free-design-platforms-to-build-your-own-site/

Create a Clean Modern Website Design in Photoshop

http://line25.com/tutorials/create-a-clean-modern-website-design-in-photoshop Build a complete website design mockup for a fictional design studio, starting with the creation of the initial layout then moving on to designing the individual page elements. The result is a modern, crisp and clean webpage layout ready for coding.

How To Build Your Own Single Page Portfolio Website

http://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-build-your-own-single-page-portfolio-website A great looking portfolio site is crucial for any designer to instantly present their work to potential clients or employers. A simple, single page site can do this effectively by displaying three key features of large header with short introduction, examples of your work and methods of contact all in one, extremely browsable page. Let’s take a look at producing a single page portfolio concept in Photoshop, constructing the page in XHTML/CSS and adding some fancy functionality with jQuery.

The Codeless Website: Four Awesome Tools for Creating Cool, No-Tech Sites

Sometimes, even HTML is just too hard . In this postmodern world, we're all professionally fragmented jacks of all trades, and few of us have the patience (read: OCD) for learning enough CSS and Flash to allow us to keep up with the Jonses in terms of functional, sexy web design. Here are some cheat sheets, the Cliff Notes of site creation, if you will. Read on to discover four awesome, in-browser resources for creating your own beautiful corner of the web without the horror of code. Edicy: Sites in Seconds

How to Build a Web Site from Scratch with No Experience - Education - Lifehacker

I took one (bad) computer science class in college, and I'm not a web developer.

Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch - Nettuts+

Have you ever wanted to design a beautiful website but just didn’t know how? To be honest, a few years ago, that happened to me too. While browsing the web, I saw so many nice looking websites and wished I had the skills to create such designs.
When it comes to design, there’s a plethora of free web-based tools to help you accomplish tasks such as color palette selection, creating unique fonts, editing images, and testing typography.

12 Useful Web Tools for Designers - Six Revisions