When I’m re-drawing logo’s for clients, or even checking out some web sites for inspiration, I often get a font that I think “What Is That?”. I often eliminate the usuall suspects (Arial, Tahoma, Impact, Times New Roman etc.) but then I’m left with over 2000 choices. To speed the process up, I use a great tool that’s free on the net. Identifont.com is the website I use. Now I know there are plenty of Font identification websites out there, but I find this particular one suits my needs as I believe it will suit others.
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Are you looking for a good source of stock photography for that next project? DeviantArt is a great site for aspiring and accomplished artists and they also offer stock photography in their resources section. This is fantastic and can yeild some results that are hard to find in other places. Check out the link below, and find some usefull stock images. As usual, read the terms deemed by the artists and follow their wishes. Don’t rip them off. Enjoy.
Deviant Art Stock Photos
Thoses guys over at Six Revisions are giving away 5 Premium Liscences of FlashEFF (an advanced Flash effects component) valued at US$199. Just head on over to the the link below and cast your vote. Read through the terms and conditions and comment the right way “vote: web design tool” and not like the second comment off the bat 
Competition closes 9th of March 2009 so get in quick.
Six Revisions Competition
When designing websites, you need to be able to test browser compatability across the major operating systems and their corresponding browsers. Browsershots.org will help with this. Simply submit the web address and select which browsers over Linux, Windows, MacOs and BSD and snapshots of the site working in each selected browser. The service can take up to an hour to recieve the data, so bookmark the page that presents itself and come back a little later.
http://browsershots.org
Today we have 10 free Rounded Square icons similiar to the iPhone style buttons. Has the glassy web 2.0 style to them. As I develop new icons/vectors I will post them here for everyone to enjoy.
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Here we have created 10 Free Rss Feed Vector Icons for Illustrator CS3. As an added bonus, I have also included a Subscribe icon with Email & Rss icons, so really we have 11 icons for you.
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Every web developer out there loves the balance of colour within the site’s they develop. When you need some inspiration or similiar colours, try the Colour Scheme Designer. With a multitude of options and varieties, you are sure to find this useful at one point or another. Check out the link below.
Source: Colour Scheme Designer
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