ALT-2 Online Resources for Web Designers
Web design is an art that requires an everyday research over the new techniques and technologies. As web designers we need to know everything from the upcoming CSS 3 and HTML 5 to the best websites that will help us through our designing experience.
Here are some of the best sites that provide amazingly useful resources for web designers:
•www.dafont.com: More than a million free downloadable fonts, they are sorted in different ways: By style, author, popularity or alphabetical listing. You can also try the font with your own text before downloading it. So if you need a free medieval font, this is the perfect site.
•www.bluevertigo.com.ar: If you need an image, a texture or even a social network icon BlueVertigo.com.ar is an on line web directory where you can find sites that provide free image stock, Photoshop brushes, textures, vector logos, 3D art and even sound effects. Scroll through the website and you will find a thousand resources for designers.•www.lipsum.com: “Simple dummy text”. Lorem Ipsum is not meant to be readable text but it has a normal distribution of letters (as opposed to using “asdf asdf asdf”), therefore it only works as “space filler” in order to put some content in the website that does not distract your client while he is looking at your design.In this website you can get as many paragraphs, sentences, words or bytes of it as you wish.•www.w3.org: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international organization that since October, 1994 is creating Web standards and developing guidelines and protocols for the Web. It also serves as an open forum.
Following these standards (such as web accessibility (WAI) and web Internationalization) will help you to improve your websites’ SEO.•www.templatemonster.com: Sometimes we lack inspiration and looking at other designs can bring that spark back to us. This website has loads of wonderful templates.Scripts for web: Regarding this, I have two favorites:
•www.hotscripts.com: Since 1998, the perfect place to find PHP, Javascript, ASP and even HTML 5 and CSS3 scripts. You can also read interesting articles about web design.
•www.css-tricks.com: Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful. I am sorry about the redundancy, but there is no better word to describe this blog. It has amazing examples of everything that you can do with CSS (including CSS3). Just for fun, check thisbutton makerand this interestingstarburst.
