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Designers dive right in to this collection that is positively overflowing with vintage styled design goodies just waiting to be added into your next design project. From PS brushes to patterns to icons and so much more, this post has got it all! Literally! Well, not literally, but close. So get your toolbox open and ready to add in some design resources that take you back a few decades in style. Enjoy!

If you’re a freelance graphic designer (or any profession for that matter) and do not have contracts or standard terms and conditions that you provide your clients to sign prior to starting a project… well let’s just say you’re silly. You WILL at some point need it to protect your business, as for the reason I am writing this is due to a recent incident in which my contract protected me. Read more...

This is a great site for website designers and theme designers. It has a color wizard and color wheel. The interface is excellent. You will get lots of ideas on picking up right colors for you website.

FREE stock photos and images - search and download free high resolution photographs of animals, agriculture, architecture, backgrounds, concepts, nature, transport, travel and destinations, business and industry - free for commercial and personal use.

text2PNG.com provide webmasters with the ability to convert their website headlines and navigations to PNG images automaticlly. The process is very simple and automated, it works by adding a small JavaScript file and selecting which tags to replace. The purpose of this script is to ease editing graphical headlines and navigations.

Pixel2life is the largest tutorial search engine on the internet catering to graphic designers and programmers. From Photoshop to Poser to C++, we have it all in the fastest and friendliest search tool around.

A great online tool to generate animated GIF banners with plain text. IT has many fonts and basic animation features.

META tags are HTML Tags that describe the contents of a web page. The primary purpose of Meta tags is to help catalog and categorize the contents of a web page. If your pages do not contain them then they may not get categorized the way you‘d like by the search engines. Here‘s an easy to way to generate your META tags. Fill in the form and hit ‘submit‘. Paste the results in the header of your HTML page, between the

and closingtag.

Prefetch Links Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with Fasterfox's unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing. # Tweak Network Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay. # Page Load Timer A millisecond accurate page load timer tests the effectiveness of your settings.

A great collection of .htaccess tricks. A great resources for webmasters or site admins. Stupid htaccess Tricks, covers just about every htaccess “trick” in the book, and is easily the site’s most popular offering. In addition to this htaccess article, you may also want to explore the rapidly expanding htaccess tag archive.

SoundManager 2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It's a Javascript library which wraps and extends Flash's sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform audio functionality to Javascript

Fotor photo editor, you can resize your photos, crop them, adjust the lighting curve, rotate them, adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness, adjust the tone and colors, or just straighten a crooked shot! But wait! That's just in the basic edits module. You can also add a photo effect, photo frame, clip art, text, or use our unique color splash, mosaic, and tilt shift tools!

Choose the background and see it in action immediately. This is one of the best demo sites I have seen. WHat's more the backgrounds are completely free and huge number of backgrounds are available. Even better --- You can customize the background images. Two thumbs up to this site.

A Great XML Editor with following features * DTD/XML Schema/RELAX NG validation * XSLT * XPath * Pretty-printing * Syntax highlighting * Folding * Tag completion * Tag locking * Tag-free editing * Spelling and style check * Built-in support for XHTML, XSL, DocBook and TEI * Lossless import and export of Microsoft Word documents (Windows only)

List of some great articles rewritten by Martin Fowler on software design and software architecture.

• Popular:
  | The New Methodology | Is Design Dead? | Continuous Integration | Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern |
• Enterprise Application Architecture:
  | Consumer-Driven Contracts: A Service Evolution Pattern | Mocks Aren't Stubs |Richardson Maturity Model | Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern | Developing Patterns in Enterprise Software | Errant Architectures | Domain Logic and SQL | Evolutionary Database Design | Agilists and Architects: Allies not Adversaries |The LMAX Architecture |

CSS Flavor is a website focused on providing its audience with a vide range database of well designed CSS based & standard compliant websites from around the world.

GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.

Free Programming Resources is a directory of links to free programmer resources including free programming tutorials, free online programming books, free compilers, free programming tools, free source code, programming libraries, game programming resources, graphics resources and security tools.