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74 Great Web Apps for Web Designers we have forgotten about

March 30, 2008, Topic: Nostalgia, Web 2.0 Apps, Comments: 11 Comments.

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, Topic: Analytics, Web 2.0 Apps, Comments: 7 Comments.

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 […]

Top 12 CSS Frameworks and How to Understand Them

March 28, 2008, Topic: CSS, CSS Framework, Comments: 34 Comments.

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 […]

Top 20 Free Adobe Air Apps for Designers and Developers

March 23, 2008, Topic: Web 2.0 Apps, Comments: 1 Comment.

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)

March 20, 2008, Topic: Wordpress Hacks, Wordpress Plugins, Comments: 16 Comments.

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…)

March 16, 2008, Topic: Ajax, Cheat Sheets, Code Snippets, Wordpress, Comments: 12 Comments.

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, Topic: Wordpress, Wordpress Hacks, Wordpress Tips, Wordpress Tutorials, Comments: 65 Comments.

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 […]

Top 40 Free Icon Resources for Web Designers (Updated) - Speckyboy

March 4, 2008, Topic: Free Icons, Link Load, Comments: 28 Comments.

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).

25 of the Funniest Web Designer Links for your Mondays

March 2, 2008, Topic: Humour, Comments: 4 Comments.

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 […]