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Template Kingdom is now sharing some free web design tools and resources — we are sure that both novice and amateur designers will be inspired by this collection and will try something out of the box.

Exotic Color tools —

• Color Lovers : Collection of more than 39,000 colors and 16,000 palettes

• Check Color Contrast : Good source to determine contrast of foreground and background colors

• Color Combo : Test Color Combination… pull colors from any websites simply entering URL

• Color Mod : Source of flexible DHTML Dynamic Color Pickers

Online Photo-shop Tutorials —

• Pixel 2 Life

• Photo-shop Tutorial Blog

• Deviant Art

• Good Tutorials

• Fadedpixel

• Planet Photoshop
  

• Free Photoshop

Typography —

• The Anatomy of Web Fonts

• Type Tester

• Typography for Headlines

• 25 Best Free Quality Fonts

Validators —

• HTML and XHTML Validator

• CSS Validator

Effective Web Standards —

• 456 Berea Street

• Jessey Net

• Mezzoblue

• Guild of Accessible Web Designers

• Web-standard Workshop

• Web Standard Project

• CSS and Web Standards News

Design Inspiration —

• Design Side
• CSS Vault
• The FWA: Favorite Website Awards
• CSS Reboot
• CSS Zen Garden
• HOW Magazine
• Web Standard Awards
• 35 Sexiest Designed Websites
• Web Pages That Suck
• Screen Spires
• Design Shack
• CSS Beauty
• CSS Import
• W3C Sites
• Resisting Fascist Design
• Web Cream

Source of information: —

Helpful Web-design Resources

Dear Website Owners / Webmasters,

Here is a cool list of icon sets, which is absolutely free to download and use for your website.

• http://www.vistaicons.com/
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/25/20-free-and-fresh-icon-sets/
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/06/35-really-incredible-free-icon-sets/
• http://www.outlawdesignblog.com/2008/22-free-icon-sets-we-love/
• http://dryicons.com/free-icons/

And do not forget to check out this great archive!

http://www.iconarchive.com/

No strings attached.

Enjoy!

Seth Godin has recently mentioned a cool idea about getting high quality images for your website, brochure and / or presentations. He recommends use of Flickr and looking for Creative Commons Commercial License in advanced search option!

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/03/where-to-find-g.html

It is great to see how a community of photographers are gifting away their photographs!

Someone said it – Best things in life are free!