15 Useful Resources for Designers and Developers
Today we are happy to present you a fresh set of web designer and developer useful resources. Below we list the websites providing freebies like fonts, icons and ornaments, usable apps and handy tools that facilitate designer work. See if you find anything you've been missing for a long time!
Less Framework is a CSS grid which becomes handy when you are developing a responsive web design. The grid is represented in 4 layouts and has 3 sets of typography presets.
This is a tool useful for web designers testing their website on different screen resolutions. Resize your browser in just one click.
This tool serves to add some pretty cool look to your website. It produces the shadows coded with CSS. There are 8 shadow styles which come with the option to tune opacity, blur and position handlers.
This pretty app serves to visualize images in text and other symbols or styles. The usual pictures acquire new look and become the work of art. It's fun playing with the presets choosing the characters to use, their quantity, font scale, font family, etc.
This scale and rhythm tool is designed to help selecting a harmonious set of typeface sizes. Pull the shifter along the scale, choose headers, body, rhythm and layout presets in the boxes to see how the page text characteristics change. Tune it and get the code!
The application lets you create wireframes and prototypes to give your clients a realistic image of the flow and functionality of the website being developed.
Onotate is a useful tool to create presentations of your design concepts and annotating them. The concept types include new website interface, print design concept, iphone or ipad artwork. Upload your concept, share it and discuss and get approval for it.
Moto CMS is an instrument for creating manageable Flash websites. It features the most flexible and feature-rich Flash CMS, which design and animation capabilities have no limits. Creating neat, functional and SEO-friendly Flash websites made easy.
This is a Javascript library will let you put the new HTML5 audio element to use. Small yet very powerful!
The biggest online collection of vintage vector ornaments. The ornaments come from XIXth century sources. 85 vector ornaments and 30 border brushes for Illustrator are available for free.
MotionCAPTCHA is a plugin requiring users to sketch the shape they see in the canvas in order to submit a form. An interesting idea instead of hitting the buttons, yeah!
The Google+ Cheat Sheet is an illustration, which will help you to take the best of Google+. It shows tips on the common syntax and hotkeys. Just take a look at it.
A freebie resource, where you can download lots of free PSDs. A new PSD every day.
A bunch of free social fries icons. Like'em? Get the pack.
A new Sheep Sans fontface and a form for your custom text preview. Download 2 free font files.
Enjoy!
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