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psd2css online converts your fantastic, creative, artistic, no holds barred web page designs into strict XHTML compliant CSS web pages automatically. Use Photoshop or The Gimp to express yourself and create the most professional, aesthetically perfect and functional designs you can think of, then upload your .psd designs, download your .html file and images. It’s [...]

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Accommodating the Color Blind Online
Web sites with good balance and color schemes have the usability and appearance. Similarities in hues and brightness harmonize colors and create attractive color schemes. However, they’re not “user-friendly” for the visually impaired. Nearly one in 12 visitors to your site will have some form of color-blindness. Most commonly, [...]

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The open source model has, over the last 20 years, proven that collaborative development is one of the best ways to incorporate the newest ideas and latest concepts into design.
In fact, the open source model, which began with programmers, has been so successful that it is currently being applied in government, media, education and private [...]

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Online Image Editing

Project Draw
Project Draw is an online sketch tool from the makers of AutoCAD and Revit.
Resizr Resizr allows users to upload a picutre (currently .jpg format only) and have it resized for them. The site also has a Firefox plugin.
Splashup
Splashup is a Photoshop-esque Flash based online image editing tool. Very easy to use and [...]

Faviki is a social bookmarking tool which allows you to tag webpages you want to remember with Wikipedia terms. This means that everybody uses the same names for tags from the world’s largest collection of knowledge.

Everything you want in one window.
Zenbe includes a calendar, task lists, an address book, even your Facebook friends, at a glance.
All your email addresses in one place.
Zenbe lets you send, search, organize, and share your email from Gmail, AOL, Yahoo! Mail, or any email address.
Ad-free email.
Zenbe is free, but we don’t show ads with your [...]

A Four Billion Dollar Pie
Zadby is an online marketplace where advertisers, marketers, and brand managers can connect with freelance video producers to create innovative product placement videos tailored for sites like YouTube, AOL, and MySpace.
What’s a product placement, you ask? It’s a movie, TV show, or computer game where a company has paid for their [...]

BRITT LOVETT + TALIA LESAK (hello) believe that FOOD and DRINK keep us alive – spiritually as well as physically. We started this website because we ourselves wanted to get back into the kitchen – we wanted to cook more for our families and friends and we wanted our friends [...]

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10 PROFITABLE PRE ESTABLISHED TURNKEY BUSINESS WEBSITES
US $139.95 (0 Bid)

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Skydeck turns your phone bill into a map of your relationships with friends, colleagues, and customers - your true social network. We show you who called you, whom you need to call, and who never calls back. And since we also keep track of how much you’re spending, you’ll never get a surprise bill again.
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Lifetick is about helping you develop purpose in your own life. Humans tend to feel happiness and contentment when we have a reason for our being i.e. a sense of purpose. The working toward and achieving of goals has long been regarded as a fantastic way to gain that purpose. Ultimately, it comes down to [...]

LaterThis lets you save and manage all the links you’d like to have a second look at, but don’t have time for now.
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Dating and Social Networking Site - Photo Website NR
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Zecter is the simple way to share, protect, and track files that matter
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Green Web Template. Web Design. Graphic, Website
US $49.99 (0 Bid)

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A while back I wrote "Where to Go to Find Design Inspiration ", where I listed some of my favorite places to peruse when I’m looking for design inspiration. At the end, I posed the following question to the readers: "Where do you go for design inspiration?", and asked that you contribute suggestions. [...]

If you’re interested in expanding your understanding of Ajax techniques and practices, check out these 25 hand-picked Ajax articles and tutorials that outline various methods and concepts involved in the development of Ajax-based applications.
read the whole article here - It’s great!

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While large scale social sites like Flickr, Digg, Youtube and Myspace have predominated the web-o-sphere over the past few years there still is a need for narrow content verticals in this arena. This list will give you links to 40 open source resources to get you started building your own social bookmarking, networking, filesharing or [...]

When it comes to design of modern web-applications, Ajax is considered as a standard approach. Interactive solutions for lightboxes, form validation, navigation, search, tooltips and tables are developed using Ajax libraries and nifty Ajax scripts. Ajax is useful and powerful . However, when using Ajax, one should keep in mind its drawbacks in terms of [...]

AdSense for Search is now powered by Google Custom Search. Yesterday, Google officially announced the availability of AdSense for Search for use in combination with the powerful Google Custom Search service, something not possible until now and potentially very welcome to both small and large professional web publishers looking for further ways to optimize their [...]

I found this very useful post that I thought you all might like to know about.  The site itself is worth checking out.
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Directories of Free Open Source Web Design Templates

OSWD - is a collection of web designs submitted by the community that anyone can download free of charge. Currently has 2080 free designs.
OpenWebDesign - [...]

BADGES
Web 2.0 Badges - A set of free badges to download and use in your own designs.
Fresh Badge - Quickly generate your own badge.
adClustr - Starburst badges.
Deziner Folio - A collection of different badges.
BittBox - Free vector badges.
Official Seal Generator - An alternative to the typical badge.
Photoshop Tutorial - A [...]

Your corporate identity is very important when starting out. Here are dozens of stunning logos to inspire you and your graphic designer when creating your business’ face to the world.

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You can use these buttons freely for personal or commercial use. A link back to http://www.Designshrine.net is not necessary but deeply appreciated.
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VINTAGE SINGER TEMPLATES 4 BUTTONHOLERS 160506 &160743
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You can use these buttons freely for personal or commercial use. A link back to http://www.Designshrine.net is not necessary but deeply appreciated.
You can download the actual sized images (800×600) clicking HERE .

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I found this great list of resources that would help any blogger or web maven out. I’ll be reading them all week!

How To Talk To Bloggers
52 Post Ideas To Help You Stay Inspired Throughout The Year
90 SEO Wordpress Themes
Good Advertising Deals At A Sharp Looking Blog
Wordpress Tips Part 1
Wordpress Tips Part 2
The Only Definition [...]

Here is a super-fantastic list of Applications I found at the Unofficial Web Applications List website while stumblingUpon… I plan to devour this list this weekend some time. Check out the source here.

Cownter: Allows website visitors to see how many people are currently looking at different pages within a website. When a [...]

This is isn’t the newest list in the world, but I still refer to it ALL THE TIME. Don’t forget to check out the source’s site, it’s chock full of great info!
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Here are 15 handy web developer tools. Some are very well known others not so, however, one thing they [...]

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There are tens of millions of sites to visit. Not forgetting telegraph.co.uk, here are the only ones you actually need. Compiled by David Baker
TECHNOLOGY
1 Google
www.google.com

Haven’t found what you’re looking for? Use our website guide to [...]

Free Stock Photos
Websites where you can find and download free stock photography. Be sure to review usage restrictions, though, as many of these sites require that you give credit, a link back, etc.

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Free Resources for IT people: CSS Tab generators, Mobile phone applications, Business slogan generator, stunning CSS free templates, mobile video search tools and many other fantastic free resources and applications to bling your website or mobile. Let’s get started…
Daily Colorscheme
An every-day color resource, we bring you daily-fresh color schemes that are downloadable for use [...]

Publish your recorded video lecture next to your PowerPoint original slides while keeping everything in sync, compare and convert images, download videos, and browse your image library like you have never done before. All in this week Sharewood Picnic and more.

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Here my selected visual communication tools for this week:

Vcasmo: Combine PowerPoint files with [...]

“An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design…”read more | digg story

Here are some of my favorite patterns found on ColourLovers.com:

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For those who don’t know, I’m also the guy behind Best Web Gallery and N.Design Studio. In 2006, I started Best Web Gallery as a gallery site where I feature the best CSS and Flash sites. I’m glad that I started the project because it gives me the opportunity to keep my design [...]

I was surfing the web looking for what’s out there in terms of competition to Design Shrine and I stumbled upon a really cool site that sold templates. They have a web 2.0 category, Oscommerce, logos, etc. Their site is clean, fresh and easy to use. But when I found the FREE [...]

by John Jorgensen on December 18, 2007 in Customer Experience
 

Visiting Web 2.0 sites at work doesn’t have to mean you’re wasting time on Facebook.
Here is a list of five Web 2.0 startups whose sites actually help you increase productivity at the office.
1) Remember the Milk - RTM for short, this site is a [...]