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Web Design: Popular Tools for the Modern Web Designer

Web Design: Popular Tools for the Modern Web Designer

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Popular Design Magazines & RSS Feeds

The first logical tool would be RSS feeds and magazine subscriptions. Web design and development blogs are some of the most popular communities on the web. They offer useful tutorials, tips, tricks, and articles relating to the latest and greatest web design trends.

Color Matching for Designs

Free Icon Resources

Icons have become a signature part of the new web. Designs today consist of social media icons, comment and user profile icons, and many other interface buttons and widgets. The most notable set is the infamous famfamfam collection which has been done to death by now.

CSS3 Made Simple

With the recent support for CSS3 properties coming to most major browsers we've seen an influx in interesting design concepts. Web designers have become much more crafty in utilizing these new selectors.

Collaboration Tools for Designers

Collaboration and teamwork are just as important in the business world as they are anywhere else. Web designers especially must communicate with many different groups - clients, developers, and even other artists to name just a few.

Web Design & CSS Inspiration Galleries

One of the worst situations to be in as a designer is stuck in a creative rut. Staring at a blank page in Photoshop, frozen and unable to choose a first move. Web inspiration galleries started popping up for just this scenario and have been extremely influential in my own design works.

Testing your Design with Browsershots

An annoying little pain during the design and development stages of creating a website is consistency amongst all browsers. This has always been a problem in web development and although there are some useful pieces of code and style to help out, it's an uphill battle.

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