25 Color Combination Tools for Designers
Color is difficult to get right. There’s a near infinite number of combinations out there, but only a few that will actually look right for your project. Because it’s so important to a design’s success, it’s worth taking a little time to work out your palette. There are a lot of online tools to help out with this. They all vary slightly to suit designers with different preferences on how they work. We’ve collected together 25 of the best here, with a quick overview on each to help you decide which to try. Website Color Match Color Match is a website tool that shows you how to do color matching and also giving guidance in choosing the best color. Toucan Color Palettes There are various tools available from Toucan Color Palettes, such as an image editor, color editor, audio editor, effect editor, vector editor and image markup. The Color Wizard Color Wizard is a very cool tool, you submit your own base color and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected. The Color Tool
30 Tips On How To Promote A Blog [Infographic]
A good friend of mine Emmanuel Fonte emails me Infographics when he thinks that I may want to add them to my blog, and this is one of those. A How To Promote a Blog Infographic, that is done well and I agree with, yes please. Thanks Manny. One of my favorite lines when teaching Internet Marketing has always been, If a Blog Post is written on a Blog and no one reads it, does it really exist? Click here to tweet this Not really. Here is bloggers dirty little secret… They do not write any better than you, well most of you anyway. The next logical question then is, can you please give me a condensed list of… 30 Tips on How To Promote A Blog Thanks to my friends at Launch Grow Joy, below is such a list. I Guarantee You, That if all you do is follow this simple Infographic you will increase your blog readership exponentially! Ok, so following this list is not so simple, after all there are 30 things that you need to do. Summary:
Plus de 50 textures pour webdesigners
Des textures pour webdesigners. Voici un échantillon. Elles sont gratuites pour la plupart. Ce qui veut dire aussi que certaines ne le sont pas :-).
Ourtuts - Web Design, Web Development and Photoshop Tutorials
In recent years, screen resolutions are getting both bigger (large monitors) and smaller (in the mobile sense), as such, a static or fixed web layout may no longer be deemed completely viable. Maybe its time to change. Liquid, fluid and elastic layouts, have as many supporters as fixed layouts, despite what ever your feelings are on these styles of layouts, having some knowledge on adapting a site to liquid or elastic would most definitely be a plus in your arsenal. In this article you will find a collection of starter and basic fluid/liquid and elastic layouts, CSS frameworks and some useful tools to help you with your next project. Tiny Fluid Grid Inspired by the 1kb Grid, the Tiny Fluid Grid is a super simple fluid layout generator. Gridinator – Fixed, Elastic and Fluid Layouts The concept for GRIDINATOR is to allow for easy creation of custom, grid-based layouts. CSS Layout Generator – Fixed and Fluid Layouts Variable Grid System PageColumn.com Layout Generators – Fixed and Liquid
20 Really Useful Cheatsheets for Web Designers
Whether you’re a Tokyo, San Francisco, or website design Toronto firm , it’s about time that web designers put away the old textbooks and endless technical manuals and used a better, more simple method of keeping track of information related to web design – some kind of reference that allows them to find what data they need quickly, without going through endless resources that wastes time and energy. I am not the only person to think so, which is why an enormous number of cheatsheets have been created by people who are eager to provide such lists for other designers to reference quickly. The problem is that there are so many, and a lot of them are not as complete or useful as they could be. That is why I went through hundreds to come up with a core list of 20 of the best, within five categories: usability, accessibility, CSS, typography and color. Usability 1. When you need a really quick reference for usability testing, this is a good one. 2. 3. 4. 5. Accessibility 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Color Theory Quick Reference Poster
It’s always good to be able to articulate design choices to your clients; why you put something where, why you chose the color scheme you did, etc. This knowledge is one of the biggest differences between a designer and a non-designer. But there is a lot to remember when it comes to the realm of graphic design – so much so that it’s pretty much impossible to remember everything from all the theories of graphic design, to web design best practices to Photoshop keyboard shortcuts. With that in mind, I decided it would be useful to have all of the basics of color theory contained in one place – specifically, a cool infographic-esque poster. *Edit: we now have an Elements of Design Quick Reference Poster as well as a Principles of Design Quick Reference poster too! The idea is that this graphic can be either printed out or used as a desktop wallpaper. The graphic contains info on: Hopefully this will be as useful to you as I’m hoping it will be to us here at Paper Leaf.
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