When designing a website or a simple mockup, one of the many frustrating things is to create image place holders for various sizes and attributes. LoremPix solves that issue by letting you create custom place holders for almost any size of image. Simply look up the syntax of the placeholder on LoremPix, choose the height [...]
If you are a web or graphic designer and you really want to put your design through lots of tests, Spur is the tool to use. It is a free web service that allows you to critique a design by displaying it in various modes. You can view it in grey scale, in high contrast, [...]
RandomText is probably the most feature-rich tool for designers to create dummy text. Partly because it allows you to geenrate dummy text in both Gibberish and the Lorem Ipsum format. You can use a slider bar to indicate the desired number of words and number of elements you need in your text such as h1,h2. [...]
Fluid grids offer great flexibility in design and can certainly help with the prototyping portion of a web design. While designers can certainly code up their own fluid grids, much valuable time can be saved if they used Fluid Grid Calculator instead. Fluid Grid Calculator is a website that generates the code for fluid grids. [...]
A beautiful background can be a major contribution to a website’s overall appeal. This is why web designers often keep background generators in their bookmarks. Another background generator a web designer would want is Japonizer. Japonizer is a free and simple background generation tool. The tool lets you select an image from various patterns and [...]
Icongal is a comprehensive gallery of free and licensed icons you can use. While there are already several icon galleries online, this one stands out with its speedy website matched with a sleek interface that lets you find the icons you need in seconds. Instead of browsing icons traditionally through categories, you can find icons [...]
If you are just starting out designing your website, the first thing you should think about is the width of the website and the type of layout that can fit within it. Gridcalc is an app that lets you calculate different layouts or grid combinations that are possible for your desired width. To start, just [...]