Links
Here I’ll list links that I often use. I haven’t thought of a good organisational system yet, however I’m sure that will come as the list grows. Hopefully other designers may find some of these resources useful.
Links
Browser Compatibility
Colours
Photo Galleries & Slideshows
- Monoslideshow (Flash)
- Slideshow Pro (Flash)
- SimpleViewer (Flash)
- Smooth Gallery (JavaScript)
File Management
- Windows Grep – Advanced searching in files for text strings that you specify.
Tutorials
- Adobe Photoshop
- PSDTUTS
Design Business Links
- Hourly Rate Calculator for designers – very useful.
- Article: A guide to pricing for designers
- Freelance Forms – From Designers Toolbox, another great resource to get you up and running with legal documents
Vector Graphics
- Vecteezy – Free as in beer.
- Arsenal – Professional design weaponry (Royalty Free).
- Dingbats can also be a great source of vector graphics:
- DaFont
- Font Font – Free
- Urban Fonts
Design Awards
Creative Inspiration
Developer Links
Ornaments, fleurons, and “frilly bits”
Online printers worth recommending
- Save trees by printing green:
- GreenerPrinter (CA, USA)
- Green Printer (Canada / USA)
Font foundries
- Fountain
- KLIM
- OurType
- Typotheque
- FontFont
- Lineto
- MVB
- Letterhead
- Enschede
- Samuels Type
- Playtype
- Textaxis
- Suomi
- Emtype
- H&FJ (Favourite)
- Storm Type
- Font Bureau
- BP Foundry
- Schwartzco
- House Industries (Favourite)
- Process Type Foundry
- Parachute
- Fontsmith
- Feliciano Type Foundry
- KLIM
- Type Together
- Fontpartners
- OurType
- Sudtipos (Favourite)
- Type Trust
- Prime Type
- Dalton Maag
- Fabrizio Schiavi
- Characters
- Typotheque
- Suitcase Type Foundry
- Optimo
Version Control
- WinMerge (Open Source (GPL) visual text file differencing and merging tool for Windows)
Australian Domain Registrars & Hosts (.com.au)
- Net Logistics (hosting + domains)
- Aust Domains (domains)
- Smarty Host (domains)
- Cheap Domains (domains)
- MacVTech (hosting)
Web design elements
- Web Browser Elements – PSD’s of form elements and browser windows to FireFox, IE and Safari with Windows and Mac versions.