It is always surprising how many fresh, innovative and always useful tools and resources appear from week-to-week from within the web design community. In this weeks design news round-up we take a look at four more cool and free new apps that may help you with your next web project.
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A Round-Up of Inspirational Photography
It has been a while since we last compiled a good and inspiring collection of professional photography, making this round-up well and truly overdue. We have selected a varied batch of inspirational photography articles featuring high speed images, macro shots, documentary photographs, underwater snaps and much more.
Autumn Colours in Photography
Autumn Colours in Photography →
Brilliant Bokeh Photography
35 Jaw-Dropping Examples of High Speed Photography
35 Jaw-Dropping Examples of High Speed Photography →
75 Beautiful Examples Of Documentary Photography
75 Beautiful Examples Of Documentary Photography →
Mindblowing Macro Photography
Mindblowing Macro Photography →
Collection of Expressive Photography
Collection of Expressive Photography →
Unbelievable Underwater Photography
Unbelievable Underwater Photography →
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).
Three Cool and Fresh Design Tools
In today’s news round-up we have a small, yet cool, selection of useful tools, apps and resources for web designers. First up, we have a wonderfully useful jQuery plugin Quovolver) for displaying quotes in a stylish way, next up we have a small, yet very handy app for generating a grid (Gridulator) and finally a fun time-killing bookmarklet that can destroy everything on a web page.
Quovolver – a simple jQuery plugin for revolving quotes
Quovolver is a simple extension for jQuery that takes a group of quotes and displays them on your page in an elegant way.
Quovolver – a simple jQuery plugin for revolving quotes
Gridulator – Make pixel grids, lickety-split
Tell Gridulator your layout width and the number of columns you want, and it’ll spit back all the possible grids that have nice, round integers. Just the thing for pixel-based design folk. There are inline previews, courtesy of the canvas element, and when you’re all set Gridulator can crank out full-size PNGs for you, ready for use in your CSS, Photoshop docs, or what have you.
Gridulator – Make pixel grids, lickety-split
Hello, want to kill some time?
Hello, want to kill some time?
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).
5 New CSS and HTML Web Templates
One of the most sought after resources for a web designer are high quality and, preferably, free CSS/XHTML/HTML web templates. And this exactly what we have for you in today news round-up: 5 New High Quality CSS and HTML Templates.
Schizo Octopus Website Template
This template has a fixed layout one page portfolio template with two columns with the download containing the Photoshop Files, XHML/CSS Coded template and also includes documentation.
Free for personal or commercial use. No need to credit.
Schizo Octopus Website Template
CSS Heaven 2
CSS Heaven 2 is a free CSS Template suitable for small business websites and blogs.
This template is released under GPL License.
CSS Heaven 2
Euphoria
Euphoria has been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
Euphoria
Template 6
This template could be used as a corporate website & blog, it contains: Two template pages , valid HTML & CSS and all of the PSD files.
Template 6
SilverBlog
SilverBlog is a minimal template suitable for blog designs that has been built with HTML5 and CSS.
It has been released under GNU GPL license.
SilverBlog
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).
Instant Messaging Choices
Everybody uses instant messaging in some form or other. Whether it be via a web-based app like Facebook, Twitter or Gtalk, or with a standalone application like Trillian, Skype or Miranda IM – Everybody has a favorite. A question was recently posted on Answers asking what is there favorite IM client… so what is your favorite and why?
You can leave your answer in the comment section below, or you can leave your answer on the original question on Answers here: What is your instant messaging client of choice?
This question was originally asked by David Baker.
Here are the best answers so far:
From Csgs:
From Neil Monroe:
So, what is is your instant messaging client of choice?
Thanks to everyone who asked a question, but most importantly thanks to everyone that took the time and effort to offer helpful and useful answers.