Archive for the ‘Free Design Tools’ Category

Create Polls and Surveys for Your Website

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

You can visit  http://www.polldaddy.com/

Create your own or use a template.

Surveys and polls can now be embedded  into an email, so the recipient can submit their response directly from the email.

Complete Web Authoring System

Friday, September 25th, 2009

This website allows you to download the Nvu authoring software absolutely free.

It also includes 3 simple steps to build your first website.

Check it out at http://net2.com/nvu/

Free Web Design Tool

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

ASCII Character and HTML Symbol Codes

Can’t remember how to make a ©, ™ or ®? There are plenty of symbols and non-english letters that can only be written with these codes, this convenient chart makes it easy to find the one you need.

http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

Free Forms

Friday, July 17th, 2009

In the world of WYSIWYG form builders, Jotform stands out because of the additional features it offers. JotForm allows you to save multiple forms, share forms through email and provides extensive video tutorials on how to create, use and share forms.

http://jotform.com/

Free Customizable Contact Forms

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Create Customizable Contact Forms and Buttons.

Make perfect contact forms and serve them on your site beautifully. The customizable sticky contact button will match the theme of your website to become a part of it. Your visitors are now a single click away from you.

http://visitorcontact.com/

Free Fonts from 1001 Free Fonts

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

There is a wide choice of various fonts on this site, it has a large database. It enables you to search, then and then preview your choice before downloading it. You can download fonts for Windows and Mac OS X.

http://www.1001freefonts.com/

5 free photoshop plug-ins

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

The Works : Photoshop Plug-In Filters

This filter pack has been around the block, but it’s still good. The Works Photoshop Plug-In Filters give you a bunch of very simple effects that can be handy for web design. These simple filters or combination of filters can be used to create many awesome effects.

Deep Paint – pseudo-painting effects

Deep Paint offers a realistic painting experience for digital artists and graphic designers. Deep Paint integrates stroke-by-stroke artistic photo-cloning, fully editable brush and canvas settings, and paint functionality for realistic and stunning paint effects. Experience thickly textured oils, bold acrylics, and dramatic watercolors.

3D Shadow plug-in

This handy tool easily creates more realstice shadows, various types of 3D shadows from objects such as letters, numbers, shapes and so on. All settings are present in a single window – transparency level, perspective, shadow color and position, X/Y/Z angles, and some others. Even the seasoned designers are surprised by the simplicity of the plug-in and excellent results it generates. The text, processed with this tool immediately grabs the attention of the viewers. And the fact that 3D Shadow is a freeware makes it very popular among both amateurs and pros.

Luce Lighting Effects plugin

Luce is a very effective lighting effects plug-in for Photoshop. The volumetric light effects can be created for point or directional Light source. A downloadable manual is included which explains each functionality.

Seamless Workshop

Seamless Workshop helps you create seamless tiles from any image. Also, a “surrealistic modification” of a picture can be produced. It is a powerful tool for texture creators, and a must have for web designers trying to crate a background image for a website. An advanced tileable algorithm is used. The unique ‘Seamless Blur’ effect can be useful for any available tile-able pattern.

Free Vector Art

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

It looks like this site is relatively new, but I am always on the lookout for free vector art. There is already a nice selection of background elements, icons, and other design elements. Check out QVectors.com

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