Xara Photo and Graphic ...

If you are a user of Xara Xtreme you may be aware that it has had a major makeover recently and the product has been renamed from Xara Xtreme to the somewhat less catchy “Xara Photo and Graphic Designer 6” (not to be confused with Xara Web Designer 6 or Xara Designer Pro...

Help Desk Software...

Unless your web site is purely a personal one, chances are you will have questions and comments from visitors. Until a site reaches a certain volume this can be handled manually via email by one person. However as more and more questions, comments, complaints, orders etc come in it...

Create gradients fast w...

Gradcolor is a website with the one and only purpose of creating gradients fast. You can then use the image generated as backgrounds for web sites, headings or whatever you like. Choose the image size, pick your two (or even three) colours and a gradient image is generated. You can...

Colour resources for we...

ColorCombos.com colourlovers.com ColorToy 2.0, a color scheme generator ...

Firefox extensions for ...

When creating or running a website, Firefox combined with some good extensions can be a great time saver. Below is a list of some Firefox extensions that are particularly useful for the webmaster. FireShot – Take better screenshots of a page in it’s entirety, not just the...

Feng-GUI – Feng S...

Feng Gui is a useful free service to which you can upload a screenshot of your web site for a computer generated analysis of where human eyes are most likely to look within the first 5 seconds of arriving on the site. This is very useful if you need to make sure your products are...

The best blog coaching ...

I wrote about Yaro Starak’s blog coaching program a few days ago. Yaro just informed me that his Blog Mastermind coaching program currently charges in Australian dollars rather then US dollars. Since the US dollar is anywhere from 5% to 10% stronger than the Aussie dollar as I...

PSD to HTML...

Many people (myself included) find it much easier to come up with a design concept in Photoshop than to actually do the coding that is involved to turn that design into a HTML web page. I personally find the task time consuming, frustrating at worst and boring at best. I know...

Web Design Blogs...

Other web design blogs. There are many more out there so feel free to add to this list as I’m always looking to add more sites to my feed reader. Smashing Magazine – A favourite of many designers. Modern Life – Easy to read, lots of eyecandy, all the things I like in...

Useful site – fav...

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...