Monthly Archive:
March, 2008

74 Great Web Apps for Web Designers we have forgotten about

The amount of Web Based Apps available are phenomenal, some we forget about…some we are glad we forgot about…others are handy to bookmark for another day… Anyway here are 74 Great Web Apps for Web Designers we have forgotten about.

Top 5 Web Analytics Apps that are better than Googles Analytics
March 29, 2008 - 27 Comments.
Web Apps

I have now had speckyboy.com online for 5 months now, at the beginning I was tracking website visitors and all relevant stats through my web hosts own Analytical Tool as well as using Google Analytics. What I noticed was that the accuracy between the two was staggering (not just 100s of a difference but some days 1000s). Why was that? I have no idea, I really don’t. So I started using other Web Based Services (Clicky, Crazy Egg and Click [...]

Top 12 CSS Frameworks and How to Understand Them
March 28, 2008 - 124 Comments.
CSS, Popular

Most designers would have heard of the term ‘CSS Frameworks’, for those who don’t know or aren’t sure, here is a brief description from: Wikipedia: A CSS framework is a library that is meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of a webpage using the Cascading Style Sheets language. Just like programming and scripting language libraries, CSS frameworks package a number of ready-made options for designing and outlaying a webpage. . Sounds great doesn’t it, something that is going [...]

Top 20 Free Adobe Air Apps for Designers and Developers
March 23, 2008 - 11 Comments.
Web Apps

Adobe AIR is a very versatile development environment, developed with Flash, HTML or JavaScript code to create desktop applications (apps). It is very light light and easy to use. You need to download Adobe Air so that these apps can run on your desktop, heres the link: Download Adobe Air.

30 Free Resources for Photoblogging and Image Galleries (WordPress)

If you are wanting to create a photoblog, or even just to display your family and personal images on your blog you will find solutions here. From the intricate to the simplest solutions. The range and variety are vast, below I have listed the best 30 to hopefully narrow your search.

The Best Cheat Sheets for Web Designers and Developers (From CSS, Ajax, Perl, Vbscript…)

It is pretty hard to remember all the Internet Scripting Languages, luckily we have Cheat Sheets. Below are all the best Cheat Sheets for (almost) every web script available, or at least the popular scripts. Including: CSS, Ajax, HTML, XHTML, ActioScript, PHP… and the list goes on. Hope these help.

63 Essential WordPress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files and Cheats
March 8, 2008 - 189 Comments.
Popular, Wordpress

This is a fairly comprehensive list of the Best WordPress Tutorials, Hacks, Help Files and Cheat Sheets (call it what you like).They are written to make life easier, to help us expand WordPresses functionality, to give us a better understanding of WordPress and how powerful a tool it is. Make sure you thank all the authors of these Tutorials, Hacks, Help Files and Cheat Sheets…

Top 40 Free Icon Resources for Web Designers (Updated) – Speckyboy
March 4, 2008 - 70 Comments.
Free Icons

This is a complete revision of a previous article (Top 25 Free Icon Resources for Web Designers) I wrote a while back. Some links have died, so they have been removed, others have been added (recommended by a few comments and a lot of emails). Fam Fam Fam and Brand Spanking New are still number 1 & 2, the rest have changed with 15 new entries. If anyone knows of any excellent Web Design Icons leave a comment with the [...]

25 of the Funniest Web Designer Links for your Mondays
March 2, 2008 - 6 Comments.
Humour

This is going to be a change for me, I usually try and find the best resources on the internet, but for this article I am going to show you the lighter side of designing. It is Monday and we are feeling a little bit sluggish after the weekend, so hopefully these links below will ease you into your working week (perhaps even smile). 25 of the Funniest Web Designer Links for your Mondays How will I begin my Monday? [...]