Useful site – favikon.com...

Favicons are tiny images that show up next to a web site’s name in your browsers’ favorites/bookmarks. They make it easy to find a bookmarked site with just a glance amongst possibly hundreds of bookmarks/favorites as well as making a site just that little bit easier to remember. Favikon.com is a web site where you can create your own favicon from an existing image. This is useful if...

New Poll...

Last week’s poll is now finished, thanks everyone who voted. This week’s poll is asking about your web design experience. This helps me decide what kind of posts to make on this site, depending on your experience with web design. I’m trying to determine whether most of you are seasoned web designers or relatively new to it. To vote please visit the front page of this site here. ...

Lanterns template...

The latest free template is a dark moody template using two columns. Preview the template by clicking on the image or Download straight from...

Free re-design for a non profit...

Portland Designs is offering a free re-design to a non profit group as a way of building up their portfolio. If you are interested head over to their...

Download some butterflies...

Snap2objects – a design tips and freebies blog has made available 93 butterfly photos and vector artwork to download and use in your web design projects. The pack consist on transparent .png isolated objects, silhouettes, bw and color vector traced vector files – in .eps and .svg of each theme and also a .txt with the attributions. The art work is licensed under a Creative Commons...

Need a web site designed for free?...

Please note this is no longer available unfortunately Mitch Bryson is asking for submissions from companies or individuals who would like a small web site designed (for free). There is only one spot available and the condition is that the design process will be blogged about from start to finish by the designer. This is a good opportunity to get started with that site you have been thinking about...

Free small banners...

I created these while experimenting with some text effects. Feel free to download and use on your own site. I’m not sure how useful the current words are on these but if I get enough requests for other words or sizes etc I’ll make...

Web Design Styles History...

I’ve been seeing many articles pop up on the internet trying to define the web 2.0 style design, or current design trends (see here, here, here and there are lots more no doubt). This made me think about past web design trends, which these days seem rather outdated but were popular in their time. (This article is based around my own experience) Around 13 years ago is when I first discovered...

Free metallic CSS menu...

The above is a screenshot of this free CSS menu which you can download here. It’s made up of some pretty simple CSS and html and 2 images. I’ve tested it in Firefox and IE 6, if you come across problems in other browsers let me know. It’s main limitation in that you must keep the wording of each menu button to around 17 characters otherwise it doesn’t look right. Feel...

What kind of templates would you like to see here?...

At the moment I offer free html templates on this site but I know that these days people are moving towards content management systems and blogs so I was wondering: what kind of templates would you like to see on this site? 1) Continue with plain html templates? 2) Create free wordpress themes? 3) Create custom unique wordpress themes? 4) Other cms templates? Let me know in the comments area or...

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