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Thursday, 22 March 2012

Useful Websites -A Designer Must Bookmark

You can find all types of Resources from these sites

The must have bookmark of all stock resources on the net.


Self explanitory.




Find, create and exchange your pallets of favourite colors.




My favourite stock site, you may notice I use this site for most of my images on this site.


 Download All You Want!!!

Graphics GFX Sources More Than You Need!!!

Download  Free Fonts


http://www.dafont.com
Free fonts for your customized layouts



A lot of inspiration can be found here along with a lot of free resources. Bit hard to navigate though.



Show Cases:

Command Shift 3

Have you heard of hot or not? This is like that but for web designs, you choose the best website of 2. Great for inspiration.

Showcase Point

Showcases Flash & CSS sites with several options of sorting.

Zeniltuo

Large database of all the inspiration sites out there.

The FWA

Mainly shows off flash websites but is always of high quality. Great inspiration here.

CSS Mania

Another showcase site.

CSS Remix

A very good gallery of CSS websites.

Best Web Gallery

A very good selection of designs.

ScreenFluent

A very good selection of Web designs.

W3C Sites

Excellent selection of valid W3C sites.

CSS Beauty

A good gallery and it also has very interesting articles on the development of websites with news.

Edu Style

The schools and universities have also right to a gallery css, this one is particularly remarkable.

Get ideas and resources for develop your blog/website

Problogger

Tips on blogging in general. Must have for any blogger.

Pro Blog Design

Tips on improving your blogs design. Only quality articles here.

WP designer

The blog of reference for all the WordPress developers.

Ajax Rain

One of largest Ajax bookshops on the Web.

CSS3.info

The site of future standards – CSS3.

CSS Earth

Site referring the best articles on the development of CSS on the Web.


Flash Resources

Labs Adobe

New technologies and development from Adobe.

Christophe Coenraets

Blog of a Flex developer.

Adobe AIR Tutorials

The site of for tutorials on AIR.

Mike Chambers

The blog of Mike Chambers based on programming and technology.

The Blog Flash

Blog for Action Script 3 and Flex.

Jean Phi Blog

One of the largest French flashers. Has some great work, but the French part may be a problem for some


Typography:

Swiss Legacy

A blog focused on typography, swiss design and the grid.

I Love Typography

Speaks for itself. A must know.

Design & Typo

The blog of the famous Peter Gabor, posts cool inspiration pieces (in English too).

The Typographer

The site on typography for the French.

Slanted

Large German site on typography.


Animation/Video

Stage6

YouTube of animation (2d and 3d). Great quality.

Fubiz

A great blog which posts creative daily inspirational pieces of design. Bookmark this one for sure.

Motiono Grapher

International reference for all who are in the motion business.

Video Copilot

Tutorials of creating special video effects.

Graphics/ Motion

Italian Blog of Motion, the articles are of great quality and are updated very regularly.

FX Guide

Great Community site of Video and Motion, do not miss this one!

Works Motion

The site of John Dickinson, great inspiration here.

Web2.0:

NetVibes

The web comes to you. News aggregator plus!

Del.Ico.Us

A tool for bookmaking and social media attention, must have!

Twitter

Get updates on what your friends, co workers, etc are doing.

FaceBook

A website where you can pass your life.

Flickr

The social site of photography – a great number of people are present there with new photographs to discover each day.

Orkut

The social site of photography – a great number of people are present there with new photographs to discover each day.




Relax Yourself...

Places for just browsing – Areas that most designers are interested in. (ie. Fashion, Music, Design)

Vinyl misuses

A magazine about toys.. Must check this site out, some really cool designs.

Discobelle

Excellent site of music, showcases music videos, parties, etc.

Hype Beast

Magazine for fashion design and culture.

Lense

A French reference for all those who wish to know some more about photography.

PopRave Blog

Underground culture of the clothes industry.


Various sites that really inspires you....

North X East

Articles for bloggers.

Ads Of The World

Web site which publishes all of the worlds ads. Great inspiration here.

LogoPond

Logo Design Inspiration

Logo Design Love

A blog focused totally on Logo Design. Regular articles and resources.

Boing Boing

A genearl directory of wonderful things.

Business of Design Online

Pretty much anything to help a design business grow online.

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