Great Free Stuff For Web Design
Designing a website doesn’t have to be quite as hard as it used to. There are a number of freely available resources for people building sites. There’s a new IBM developerWorks article that gives links to a bunch of good ones. From the article:
Web developers can find many free resources, although some are freer than others. If you design a Web site or Web application, whether static or with all the dynamic Ajax goodness you can conjure up, you might find resources to lighten your load and spice up your content. From free icons to Web layouts and templates to on-line Web page tools, this article demonstrates that a Web architect can also get help these days at little or no cost.
We’ve discussed CSS galleries before, but there are some other nice resources the article mentions, including Creative Commons content, Open graphics, design tools, and even complete web templates. In particular I’ve found the Color Scheme Generator to be very useful, since I have enough trouble getting my clothes to match, let alone a whole web page.
