10 Things Every Web Designer Beginner Should Know

There are many aspects in term of doing web designs and each web designer
has its own style of workflow and coding and designing. Most of us learn from
experience some thru online tutorials. However, there are certain things in web
designing which is essential and can greatly help get the best output from their project.

You can read more about the 10 Essential Tips that Every Web Designer Should Know.

10 Useful Firefox Extensions to Supercharge Firebug

I have blog about Firebug on previously post and for those who have haven't use Firebug, it is a revolutionary Firefox extension that helps web developers and designers test and inspect front-end code. It provides us with many useful features such as a console panel for logging information, a DOM inspector, detailed information about page elements, and much more.

and now I will share to you the 10 Useful Firefox Extensions to Supercharge Firebug.

Free Tools for Monitoring Your Site’s Uptime

Creating a website is on is a bit hard task, maintaining a website on the other hand is more tedious in some ways. But thanks to Jacob Gube, he share 12 Excellent Free Tools for Monitoring Your Site's Uptime. Now this can help us maintain our websites very efficiently.

8 Layout Solutions To Improve Your Designs

From Flickr.com

As Web Designers, we are in constant search of methods to improve our web design workflow and these article from Smashing Magazine entitled "8 Layout Solutions To Improve Your Designs" are just a few of those worthy solutions to our projects.

New Tools for Web Designers

Hidden Pixels.com has share to us another set of tools for web designers can use. Check them out at HiddenPixel.com

Paint.NET Plugin Lets You Open Photoshop Files

If Paint.NET is your editor of choice and you find yourself needing to open .PSD Photoshop files, this plugin will help you introduce .PSD images into your Paint.NET workflow.

The plugin doesn't replicate all of the numerous functions of the .PSD file, just the ones that relate to functionality within Paint.NET. You can work with layers, load masks, and open a variety of color modes and profiles. Because of the limited integration with the .PSD file, the plugin is best suited for pulling a .PSD file into Paint.Net and converting it to be used in your Paint.NET workflow. Working with it in Paint.NET and then trying to bring it back into Photoshop is a bit dicier as far as compatibility goes and can have unexpected results. 

PSDPlugin is free and required Paint.NET 3.0+.

Download Paint.NET PSDPlugin

from Lifehacker by Jason Fitzpatrick

More and More CSS Resources for Web Designers

Still looking for CSS resources then here's another set of 84 Useful CSS Tips & Resources that you might wanna check out. The more the merrier. Have fun!

Linux for Graphic Designers?

When you talk about graphic designing it usually associated with operating systems like Mac OS X or Windows because those are the "the best" platforms that your use because of Adobe Photoshop and other top commercial design softwares and applications. Any mention of Linux? well it's hardly every heard that a designer would use a platform which is basically not really good for designers

But one blogger has change that perception. His name is Eckhard M. Jäger and he has a blog called Linux for Designers. the blog is all about designing using open source graphic deisign softwares like GIMP, Inkscape , Blender etc.

A collection of CSS Code Snippets for Web Designers & Developers

Who can resist anything free? There are plenty of CSS resource sites out on the net that offer free CSS Code Snippets. Why would you want to recreate code that has already been created. The time that you could save by using these already developed CSS codes could be better used surfing the net or going on a date. Check these sites offering free CSS codes.

Get it all here

Building HTML/CSS Sites: Use a Template

If you are developing HTML/CSS websites with occasionally a little bit of JavaScript, it can be very un-productive to write your basic codes over and over again. 

You better read this article for some time-solving solutions.