50 Best Free Tools to Create Perfect Color Combinations

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50 Best Free Tools To Create Perfect Color Combinations

December 17, 2009
A good color combination has the tendency to communicate with the users and let them perceive the design in the correct way. That is the basic reason why you need to pick the right color for your design. So, here we are bringing 50 varieties of useful and valuable color tools that would help you choosing the right color palettes for your designs.

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21 Free Web Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier

From SmashingApps

http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/11/30/21-free-web-apps-that-can-make-your-lives-easier.html

This is one of the useful list of its kind where you can find the must have online web apps that may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work. I hope web designers and developers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 21 Free Web Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

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Free and Useful Web Tools for Web Design Class

Smashing Apps has a great list of 21 Free and Useful Web Tools for Web Designers

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Amaya

W3C’s Editor/Browser http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.

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Public Domain Photos and Wallpapers

This is a place for free public domain photos and desktop wallpapers. Large collection of High Resolution photos and wallpapers, Thousands of high quality public domain pictures, easy to search.

All photos on Photos8.com are public domain. You may use these images for any purpose, [...]

100 Design Inspiration Resources

Go to the article at Mashable.com for all of the 100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration.

Not always as simple as it sounds, whether you’ve been designing for years or only weeks. Below is a collection of 100 great web resources to find inspiration and direction on your next project, whether it be online or in print.

These range from galleries of graphic and web design to online magazines and a few unconventional sources of inspiration. Keep reading to see our recommendations and then share your favorite sources of inspiration in the comments.

I have copied the list, but not the full article, go directly to the source for EVERYTHING including great pix!  This text list is here for class in the event the article disappears.

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960 Grid System

The 960 Grid System was created by Nathan Smith as a way to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels.

The 960.gs (or any CSS framework) was primarily developed for rapid prototyping, cutting down on repetitive and tedious tasks, but is also more than suited to be used [...]