21 Stimulating Color Palette Tools For Designers I’m always excited about the possibilities of a new design. At the very beginning, I never really know where it will end up, and I love that feeling. The whole process of choosing colors and creating a color palette for a site is usually one of my first (and favorite) steps. Even if I have the chosen colors from the client, I still use a series of color scheme tools to put together the final palette. It’s one of my design inspiration triggers. So, here are 21 inspiration-stimulating online color palette tools that I could play around with for hours: 1. kuler This may be one of the most used tools, and it is also one of my favorites. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 9. 11. 12. Not enough? 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Ad Innovations Status: Fully released Availability: Global Share this page: What it does AdWords Campaign Experiments (ACE) is a tool that allows you to accurately test and measure changes to your keywords, bids, ad groups, ads, placements and more. Currently, the most common way to measure the impact of these types of changes is to do a simple before-and-after analysis. With ACE you can test and measure changes in real-time by running your experimental campaign alongside your original campaign. Why you'd use it If you use ACE, you'll be able to see how changes to keywords, bids, ad groups and placements affect your campaign performance. To find out more about AdWords Campaign Experiments, please visit the Help Center for videos and FAQs
User Interface Design Framework | Huge GUI elements library for Illustrator | 260 free vectors icons Graphic styles Library 200 graphic styles to change buttons, headers or blocks in 1 click Minimal Vector Icons 260 Vector Icons for creatingWireframes and Webdesign GUI Elements Library Hundreds of vector elementsfor designing Interfaces James Lai Creative - Professional Design, Usability and Programming Free Professional PSD Template: BlueMasters - Smashing Magazine Advertisement In this post we release a yet another freebie: BlueMasters, a free PSD template, designed by Wendell Fernandes1 and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is free to use in private and commerical projects. BlueMasters is a dark, sexy, custom theme that has a solid, professional look and a very simple structure. Download the theme for free! The theme is released for free. Template / Pages The templates set consists of 5 pages that provide multiple page template design options: HomeAbout UsPortfolioBlog PostsBlog Post SelectionContact “Home” page template “About Us” page template “Portfolio” page template “Blog” page template “Contact Us” page template Behind the design As always, here are some insights from the designers: BlueMasters was created to help designers get started with a nice, solid and clean design. Thank you, Wendell. It's done.
Dynamic Drive- FavIcon Generator Use this online tool to easily create a favicon (favorites icon) for your site. A favicon is a small, 16x16 image that is shown inside the browser's location bar and bookmark menu when your site is called up. It is a good way to brand your site and increase it's prominence in your visitor's bookmark menu. More information on favicon After you've created a neat favicon, it's time to add it to your site. Upload the generated file ("favicon.ico") to your site. Also see- Favicon Editor Also check out our Favicon Editor to create the 16x16 icon image from scratch!
Pro Blog Design Images enhance the visual impact of a blog and make it more likely a post will be read. One good photo can grab a reader’s attention and drive them to the article. A post without any graphs, drawing, or photos can look daunting. Even if it’s well written, the wall of text might not appeal to anyone. A good image is often a must-have for a great post. But sometimes the images available for publishing are poor quality, or just don’t suit quite right. With the tricks below, you can use Photoshop to fix up your images in minutes. Strong Focus for Killer Portraits [View Tutorial] Create A Photo Within A Photo using Photoshop [View Tutorial] Enhance Your Image with Selective Color Adjustments [View Tutorial] The effect of Tilt-shift camera lens [View Tutorial] Easily Smooth And Soften Skin In A Photo [View Tutorial] Add A Realistic Water Reflection [View Tutorial] How to Create a Fantastically Formal Photo Effect [View Tutorial] Photo Retouch using Photoshop Techniques [View Tutorial] [View Tutorial]
The first truly honest privacy policy The FTC has called for a Do Not Track list and simplified Web privacy policies. How about an honest privacy policy instead? Teaser: It’s been a hell of a year for consumer privacy, or the lack thereof. It’s been a hell of a year for consumer privacy, or the lack thereof. From Facebook leaking personally identifiable information to advertisers, to data brokers harvesting reams of user information on social nets, to Google’s Wi-Fi slurping, 2010 may be remembered as the year the privacy chickens came home to roost -- and quickly got roasted. Now Congress is debating new privacy laws and the FTC has weighed in with proposals for a No Tracking List to thwart nosy Web advertisers. 25 raisons pourquoi les gens vont quitter votre site en 10 secondes | Alekseo Qu’est-ce qui motive les gens appuyer sur le bouton «en arrière» lors de la visite de votre site? Pourquoi s’en vont-ils si vite et quelles démarches peut-on entreprendre dans ce cas-là pour les retenir? Ci-dessous je voudrais vous proposer la traduction d’un excellent article de Chris Lake dans son blog Econsultancy.com. Alors, voici 25 raisons qui feront Chris Lake quitter votre site lors des premières 10 secondes de sa visite. Ayant bien réfléchi, j’ai compris qu’il existe beaucoup plus de facteurs négatifs qu’il ne semble du premier regard. Il n’est pas facile de créer au visiteur des conditions confortables, chaque site web a ses particularités. Musique sur le site Elle me rend fou. Fenêtres pop-up (fenêtres surgissantes) Vieille technique, mais toujours actuelle. Pages de pub interstitielles Je ne visite plus Forbes (www.forbes.com) pour son amour pour les pages interstitielles. Paging (navigation par pages) Chargement lent de pages Ne me faites pas attendre ! Mauvaise navigation Flash
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