Archive for the ‘Designing Tools’ Category

Create professional-looking DHTML (Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language) menus for your Website, without writing a single line of code. (No HTML knowledge required.) You will make great-looking, professional DHTML menus for your Website in seconds flat! Make professional-looking drop-down or sidestep menus.

You can completely customize the colors, fonts, borders, alignment, padding, and much more. It’s so easy to make your DHTML menu match the look and feel of your Website. And best of all, it’s FREE!

Click here to download coffecup dhtml menu builder.

Have you ever tried to build a flash website? It’s so complicated for beginners and you need years to be good at designing and coding actionscript. Here’s a cool solution to spend the lost years. Wix, which allow you to build a free flash website in a second with usefull interface. Have you still reading?? just click to try..what are you waiting for?

Free online css layout generator from Guidefordesign Team .With this online tool you can;

create header, footer, menu blocks,
create 3 column, 2 column css + html core,
create fixed or full width css core,
preview how it looks like before getting css code..

Click here to try our free css generator…

Here are the most usefull Top 5 online image manipulating tools for manipulating & Sharing at social sites. With these tools you can crop, edit, resize your images and more for free.

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With archive.org’s time machine tool you may see how your site looks like before , how it changed.. Funny stuff You may see lot’s of websites also..

Colorcombos.com make easy to choose color combinations for your website. 

The heart of the site is the Combo Tester which allows web developers to see how different color combinations work together on the screen.

If you are looking for Color Combination ideas, check out the Combo Library . The library contains hundreds of color swatches, along with their color hex values

If you are not so related with designing and you need banners you may try online banner making tools; it’s not that professional looking but enough to present what ever you want. Here is the list;

 bannercreator.nu: choice for ads width&height, usefull color palet, placing text elements with coordinates.. 
animationonline.com: 7 templates to use… I think users need more templates but usefull…
3D banner maker : Usefull if you need 3D banners or text effects.
Flashbannernow : Make your own flash banner.
Onlinebannergenerator.com : With template & clipart options, create your gif banners in minutes.
Bannersketch.com : Too much template options ( good for unique banners ).
Bannerfans.com : With many configuration options, cool..

What is your color strategy when designing web sites?  I recomend you to use color wheel to match the colors and to get the most perfect color harmony. Here are the best online color wheel applications to match the colors;

With Neteffect  , You will understand  the basics in  color combinations. Basic colour theory concepts like split complementary, triadic colour schemes, Analogous Color Scheme, Monochromatic Color Scheme etc.

Color scheme designer ; This is a decent version of the original Color Scheme wheel.

New and unique way to create joomla, drupal, wordpress, blogspot templates.. So what’s artisteer? As written in home page;

Artisteer is the first and only Web design automation product that instantly creates fantastic looking, unique website templates and blog themes.

With Artisteer YOU immediately become a Web design expert, editing and slicing graphics, coding XHTML and CSS, and creating Web Design Templates, Joomla templates, Drupal themes, Wordpress themes, DotNetNuke skins, and Blogger templates (Beta) – all in minutes, without Photoshop or Dreamweaver, and no technical skills.

I can say that artisteer is a revolutionary software on designing  joomla, drupal, wordpress themes and templates. It’s very easy to create and export themes. If you are a skilled coder, you may change the styles, php codes after exporting. For more information please visit artisteer official page.

Gimp

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

 Simple to use, phoshop like menus… visit for more information gimp.org