Amaya

Amaya is a web editor with some staying power – its roots go back to the mid-90s, when the internet was a mere toddler. But this editor is no stick-in-the-mud. Being an open source application written by W3C (the web’s standards body) Amaya is being reworked continuously. Naturally enough it is up-to-scratch with the latest web standards. It also supports XHTML, MathML and SVG out-of-the-box, as well as the latest versions of HTML and CSS.

Like many HTML editors, Amaya opts for a split-screen view, with a WYSIWYG pane showing your web page, and a text pane showing the code that builds it. It also displays a nested tree structure of all the elements of your web page, making it easy to navigate, and aiding your understanding of how it all fits together. As you enter code, Amaya checks it for syntax and other errors, and immediately flags up problems – a very helpful feature. The main drawback of this cross-platform HTML editor is the lack of pre-packaged templates – you have to knock your code up from scratch. That makes it less than ideal for beginners. But if you want a solid up-to-date tool, and know your way around HTML, it’s perfect.

Kompozer

Another long-in-the-tooth HTML editor, Kompozer is in fact a repackaged free version of open source utility Nvu. As such, it’s another tool with a fairly heavy feature-set, with both HTML and  WYSIWYG editing modes, that you can flip between. Its text editor does an admirable job at formatting and validating HTML and JavaScript as well as CSS. It even parses the CSS, to load up the class selectors, letting you drop styles onto the HTML page with ease. Also well-implemented are the table and form management features. These allow you to simply snap tables and tricky UI features onto your web page.

The ability to preview using the Gecko engine (used by Mozilla Firefox) is real bonus. But some will find the lack of support for CSS column layouts irritating –  as the workarounds to get columns working can be tedious. XML and PHP support is also minimal, and the interface in general is a little bare. Put those considerations to one side, though, and if your meat-and-bread is HTML and CSS, then this is a good free editor. Kompozer is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linus systems.

Bluefish

If you are one of the increasing numbers of web designers using Linux to develop websites, Bluefish may be the HTML editor of choice for you. Developed first-and-foremost for Linux, Bluefish provides an very much enhanced HTML editor environment. In fact, it has all the features you’d expect from a programmer’s IDE – formatting, spell-checking and auto-complete come as standard, for example. You also get the sort of project management features that software developers are familiar with.

Bluefish has excellent all-round support for a number of web languages apart from HTML –  including PHP, CSS, XHTML and XML. What you don’t get, however, is a WYSIWYG screen for editing your web pages. Some may consider that a curse; but plenty of web designers will see it as a blessing. Visual code editors can produce notoriously bloated and messy HTML. And Bluefish has a good dollop of documentation – plus wizards and dialogue boxes – to support your coding efforts, so you’re far from being left on your own. Recently Bluefish has been made available for Windows and Mac OS X. So now all of us can try out this slick ‘coders’ HTML-editing tool.

SeaMonkey Composer

SeaMonkey Composer actually comes as part of the overall SeaMonkey suite, which includes a web browse and chat client – and is a descendant of Mozilla’s Composer (as is KompoZer of course). What you get with SeaMonkey’s take on HTML editing is an easy-to-use, graphically-orientated experience. So most editing is done through its WYSIWYG screen elements, letting you blend text and graphics, mess about with colors and styles (using CSS) and insert tables.

There is no support for form types of elements (such as buttons and check boxes), and XML is left off the list too. That said, if you want to knock up HTML web pages quickly, without being an expert in HTML, then SeaMonkey Composer is ideal. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and most Unix versions, including Linux.

Aptana

Aptana is one of those rare things – both an open source tool and a commercial package – thanks to its dual licensing policy. That means that those of us looking for a cutting edge HTML editor – which is also free – get to have our cake and eat it. As well as a very decent HTML editor, you get native CSS, JavaScript and PHP editing support too. All of the editors come with syntax-based formatting, assisted entry features (such as auto-complete and code snippets) and the HTML editor has a nice tidy-up tool.

While Aptana does lack a proper WYSIWYG editor, it does have a WYSIWYG previewer, which can be run from the code editor, to get a feel for how the page is going. But what Aptana does have is support for top-notch development tools – Ruby on Rails, and Adobe AIR – via plug-ins That is something that takes it several blocks away from your average HTML editor. Aptana is based on the Eclipse web development platform, and runs on Mac OS X, Linus and recent versions of Windows.

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However, learning the theory of good typography is one thing, but actually applying it to a new design is another. Thankfully, designers can make use of lots of great (and free) tools, which will not only guide them towards good typography application, but in most cases also produce some ready-made pieces of code, or any kind of other results that are ready to be used.

What follows is a list of such tools – ones that will help you to introduce great typography to your designs.

CSS Type Set

This is a handy CSS tool that lets you input some example text, and then tweak it using a friendly user interface. In the end, you get the CSS code the modifications you’ve made.

flipping typical

This tool displays nice font previews for the phrase you’ve input. This is helpful when you want to check what your text looks like in different fonts at the same time.

FontStruct

This tool lets you design your own fonts. This is something you might find valuable if you want to present a truly custom look no one else has.

FontBurner

FontBurner is a tool that enables you to include custom fonts on your site. By custom I mean fonts that are not generally meant to be used on websites. FontBurner makes it simple because you only have to download your chosen font, upload it to your site, and then use a piece of CSS code to apply it to any text.

HTML-Ipsum

This is an HTML edition of the standard Lorem Ipsum tool. The idea is simple. It’s a dummy text generator, but this time it provides an HTML output. So you can generate paragraphs, lists, forms, tables, navigation menus, and more.

Typetester

This tools is a kind of combination of CSS Type Set and flipping typical. It lets you choose three different fonts, set various CSS parameters of them, and then compare the results visually.

WhatTheFont

This is one of the old-school tools for web designers. There’s probably no better place if you want to find out what the name of an interesting font you’ve seen is.

CSS Compressor

At some times CSS code can become really big and cluttered, which causes your website to take a lot more time to load. CSS Comprossor takes CSS code and compresses it to the smallest possible size while retaining all the settings.

CSS Layout Generator

This is a really handy tool if you don’t want to spend time on creating your CSS layout manually. Using a simple user interface you can create any standard layout (for example: single column, two columns, and so on). HTML5 supported.

css3 drop shadow generator

Different kinds of shadows are getting popular in modern CSS3 designs. This simple generator lets you create some cool shadows without the need of constructing the code manually.

PrimerCSS

This is a very clever tool. What it actually does is it takes any HTML code you input, looks for every CSS class and ID used inside of it, and presents you with a generated CSS code for all the classes and IDs.

ProCSSor

This tool takes your CSS code and prettifies it. It’s a strictly visual thing, but it’s still very cool. You can choose from many different presets when it comes to the code’s layout and presentation.

PXtoEM

A simple PX to EM converter. Translating PX values to EM is something you often have to do when converting your new design from Photoshop to HTML and CSS. This is a frustrating task if you’re doing it without any tool to help you.

CSS3 Generator

CSS3 has introduced a lot of new possibilities for web designers. For instance, now you can use things like: shadows, rounded corners, @Font Face, transitions, and more. CSS3 Generator gives you the possibility to have all those things generated instead of having to craft the code manually.

This concludes our list of 14 great tools for improving your typography. Now it’s your turn to share and let us know if you know of some cool typography tools that deserve to be included on this list.

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Unfortunately, this powerful software is pretty expensive and not everyone may allow himself to buy a license. Under these circumstances, what should a common Internet user do when he must modify some images? Is the use of Photoshop mandatory?

Fortunately, many designers & developers have observed this and have created amazing pieces of software or online applications that simply may replace Photoshop. Some of them aren’t very powerful while others are real competitors of the Adobe product.

Here is a compilation of the best online applications that may help any individual to make the fine adjustments needed for his images and some artists have managed to make good works. There is a great chance to be easily noticed by a huge company when someone has done an impressive work with a decent application. Definitely, there are many other applications that enhance photos, but it’s impossible not to neglect some, therefore if you know one that is really powerful, please share it with us.

1. Adobe Photoshop

Adobe is one of the most important brands all over the world. They released an online version similar to Photoshop, apparently a competitor but it’s in fact pretty similar to a movie teaser. The cool interface of this application will make a lot of users curios and it may conduct to an increased number of sales. Pretty smart, isn’t it?

2. Phoenix

Aviary is another famous online entity and they launched a tool to modify images called Phoenix. This image editor has a clean interface that allows the making of pretty serious improvements in a very easy way.

3. Splash Up

Splash up is a very powerful tool, but it has almost nothing original; the entire structure is based on the design of Photoshop. If you can ignore this, then check it, Splash up can guarantee miracles in the proper hands.

4. Picknik

This online presence has many visitors and lots of fans but in April it is quite probable that Picnik will become history. By visiting it, you will see the message that informs about this fact. Anyway, you may modify your images here, surely it isn’t super powerful but could be an alternative for small adjustments.

5. Pixlr

It looks very professional and really does its job very well. All that can be achieved in Photoshop (at the basic and medium level) may be obtained with it.

6. Queeky

This application is doing the same as Pixlr, therefore it is better to bookmark the both of them.

7. Big huge labs

There is no person who hasn’t imagined himself on a magazine cover or a poster. Big huge labs allows your dreams to be sketched; the pallet of possibilities is very high and clear, it’s a good source of fun.

8. Be funky

By using this picture, the own perspective is replaced by multiple presets, unfortunately some of them are requiring the upgrade to premium account.

9. Fix picture

This impresses due to the elegant interface, it doesn’t offer amazing effects or super adjustments but instead it lets the user crop and resize the images very well, in a very handy modality. Nice idea, it doesn’t replace the entire Photoshop power, but all is done very professionally.

10. Fotoflexer

It is a very clean image editor for different situations, from retouch and distortions to adding shapes, fonts and other advanced options. It’s powerful and very nice to use.

11. Pizap

Pizap can’t be used for very serious projects, but when it’s just about fun and small modifications it’s recommended.

12. Citrify

Citrify is another place where cool effects and professional adjustments may be done. The apart feature is that fun is added by using stickers even if the graphical interface looks very serious.

13. Tuxpi

Do you want something fast, funny, having multiple options and simple to work with? Then Tuxpi is what you really need. Clearly, you shouldn’t be a photo expert to enhance your pics here.

14. Drpic

Drpic is another image editor that is doing just what an editor must do: simple adjustment and effects, everything very quickly and easily to manipulate.

15. Pic magick

The same as the precedent one, there are enough effects and adjustments that allow a very good manipulation of any picture but it can’t replace the greatness of Adobe Photoshop.

16. Dumpr

This application is very comical and I recommend it when you are sad, it’s impossible to remain upset.

17. Festisite

All of us want to be famous and worldwide appreciated but only very few are famous. A sign of reconnaissance of a nation for an important citizen is to create a banknote with his face. The application lets you visualize how banknote with your face would look.

18. Makeovr

This application isn’t created to dramatically improve a picture but it’s useful as an exercise of imagination, you may change the “face” of your friends or favorite actors.

19. Tilt shift maker

Tilt effect is very appreciated amongst photographers and here you may obtain a beautiful result.

20. All my magic

The last, but not the least, simple and nice are its main features.

Disclaimer: the order of the presentation doesn’t reflect the value or the appreciation of these. I tried to offer a large vision over these image editors, from the most complex to the ones that are created mostly for fun. All you have to do is to test each one of these and select the best ones for you.

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Thankfully, other designers have developed strategies to help solve your, as well as their similar problems. Here are threegrowing websites that designers are discovering and embracing. From platforms for sharing ideas with like-minded peers to inspiration warehouses, these sites are great resources with multiple uses for any designer.

Dribbble

Dribbble.com is a self-described “show and tell for designers.” The site gives designers the opportunity to share screenshots of designs they’re working on, anything from print, websites, applications, and more, and receive feedback from others on the site.

Users are organized into three categories, “players,” “spectators,” and “prospects.” Players are Dribbble memberswho can post designs and comment. Spectators are members who simply want to follow other users and find inspiration. They cannot comment. Prospects are players in the making, and must receive an invite from a player to become a player. This is the small sites way of gradually growing, and keeping exclusive and high quality.

Overall, Dribbble is a fun way to get feedback of real value, and to explore and find inspiration.

Lost Type

Can’t find the right font? You might find a great new one on LostType.com. The site was originally created to distribute a single font, but quickly developed into a site for many designers to offer their fonts. The site has an interesting model: site visitors can pay whatever amount they want for each font. If they want to pay $100 for the font or $0, they can. All the sales go directly to the font creator.

Currently, the site has 40 fonts, and this number isalways increasing. Each font is uniquely shown with a little billboard type ad. Additionally, on the site’s blog, users can find real-life applicationsofLost Type fonts, like in in-store signage or brochures. What great inspiration!

Serifs & Sans

SerifsandSans.com is a design blog supported on the Tumblr platform. Each day, several new posts of original and inspiring designs are added to the site. The posts are aggregated from designers’ personal sites and agencies across the world. Anything from graphics on a t-shirt, printed layouts, birthday and greeting cards, posters, branding and identities, fonts and lettering, and much more can be found on the blog. Easy navigation and tons of quality posts make finding inspiration easy!

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Ironically enough, these are not the only two areas of concern for a website design firm, hindering them chase their dreams the way they want. There are many more issues of generic to very specific nature, and addressing each one of them is quite imperative if one wishes to achieve the landmark of desired success. Some of the prime areas of concern for a web design firm might include:

Pricing Issues

Pricing comes important not only in web designing business, but in any form and type of business. In order to appear attractive to your potential clients, you need to sound reasonable enough to justify the price you might demand with your expertise. To attract new clients as well as to sustain the older ones, overpricing should be avoided at all costs.

Documentation and Contracts

Proceeding merely upon word of mouth might not be the wisest of the ideas in web designing domain. This is all for very practical reasons. Requirements of clients can be highly variable in this domain and if all what a client needs is not documented well enough, things can go pretty confusing, which can hurt either of the stakeholders. That is why, web designing ought to be done very formally, aided by all the documentation one needs and contracts signed duly by all the stakeholders involved.

Time Management

Time management…Yet another requisite very much imperative, not only specific to web designing, but for all sorts of businesses. However, its significance in web design domain magnifies extraordinarily. A web design firm can never be successful in meeting deadlines unless they are apt with time management region. They must know how much time to allocate different parts of a project to be able to make sure all ends well within due time.

Cash Flow Management

Without a consistent cash flow supporting any website design firm, things can never proceed smoothly enough towards completion of a task, since everybody part of the team needs to be paid to keep motivated and working. Additionally, there are some projects that need some initial investment. To manage issues like these, a web designing firm should have some reserve cash to keep their cash flow working seamlessly.

Customer Communication

Clientele is the base of any business. A web design company cannot think of surviving long enough without being able to communicate well with their clients. They should be flexible and patient enough even to take harsh comments and criticism from clients. This not only helps them retain their clients, but also opens learning opportunities for them to rectify their mistakes and move to the next level.

Value Addition

Without you offering the incentive of a bit extra, competitors around your are going to do so, leaving you ripped of potential business opportunities. Make sure you lure clients not only with the best of what you have got, but with adding some more value to your services.

Conclusion

One has to put their best efforts and planning in becoming the best. Following the tips above, your web design company can yield significant improvement and commence its journey towards the top.

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Although this may be an extreme example, there are things out there that actually try and look nice, but simply can’t hit the nail on the head. PC’s fall into this category for some people. Regardless if you’re a Microsoft or Apple user, it’s undeniable that Apple has that aesthetic appeal that so many businesses are missing in their products and on their websites. Consider some of the things designers can learn from the Apple masters:

Top 5 Design Tips You Can Learn from Apple

1. Simplicity – Apple is extremely simple. From their IPods to IPads to computers, there is nothing more than an Apple on all of their products. They look sophisticated and understated, and that is what people generally want out of their technology. However even more importantly, Apple keeps their website understated. The homepage is nothing more than a large photo with the name of their newest Apple product. The headers are no more than one word so they’re clear and easy to understand, and there are a few videos that nicely line the bottom. This makes it easy for users to navigate the website and feel less overwhelmed. After all, they are about to spend a lot of money (hopefully).
2. Welcoming – You want to make sure that your website is welcoming. Apple has several photos of happy-looking employees and phrases such as “Now starting at $199. It has fun written all over it.” This brings in a sense of friendliness to a buyer and makes them feel like people are there to help. It may sound cheesy on the surface, but this stuff actually works.
3. Interaction – Apple has several slideshows and an array of videos on all of their webpages. This helps keep people on the page longer because they are more interested in the material, and in many cases it helps people understand the different things the company has to offer. You do not want to be overbearing with too many videos or slideshows, but done in the right doses will make a different.
4. Contrast – Apple’s website is full of contrast when it comes to product photos. They frequently contrast black with white when showcasing their products, which helps make the photo look more appealing. They also make sure the photo takes up a good portion of the page and is photo-shopped to perfection. If there needs to be content on the page, then Apple makes readers scroll down to find it. Compromising the size and quality of the picture simply isn’t an option.
5. Footers – Designers are always talking about footers, and Apple seems to do this correctly as well. Their footers make it much easier to navigate around the site and keep users feeling in control. The most important thing: These footers are on just about every page. While some websites offer this nice navigation tool on the homepage only, Apple gives users this opportunity no matter where they are in the site.

While a great product is necessary if you want your business to succeed, it all starts with the look and feel of your product and your website. If you’re looking to get your business looking nicer, following the example of one of the most successful companies in America isn’t a bad idea.

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This article is focused on providing some useful information on undertaking a meaningful web design approach and result oriented SEO strategy to improve your business prospects in this highly competitive virtual world.

Determination of Goals

Any task cannot be undertaken successfully enough if it lacks determining goals and objectives. For majority of businesses, the prime purpose is to increase sales and revenue, which means their goals, should be some (or all) of these:

• Grabbing attention from as many web surfers as possible. This also means taking into consideration all the SEO aspects to receive increased inflow of customers from search engines.
• Helping users easily access the information they need in getting convinced to buy your product/service, requiring a website to host convenient and state-of-the-art means for improved navigation.
• Making users do what you want them to do, assisted by precise, attractive, and prominent call to action buttons, making it easier for users.
• Brining in fresh business while retaining the previous. This means appropriate online marketing by means of fresh, relative, and informative content through online reviews, blogs, and social media.

Understanding the Targeted Market

Dreaming of required online success is not possible without developing a better understanding of your targeted audience. Irrespective of the fact whether you are targeting a small niche or focusing on a large demographic of consumers, segmenting them appropriately to cater their individual needs can help in the most appropriate manner. Web designs which do not consider the targeted market they are addressing, simply fail to generate the desired results.

Professional Approach

Virtual world not only helps gather millions of customers together, but it also hosts countless competitors as well, which means half-baked attempts will not be able to offer the desired results. Make sure to get the expertise of highly professional website developing and designing firm comprising of topnotch website designer and developers who have all the knowledge and expertise needed to support the success of any online venture.

Appropriate Content

Fresh, relevant, and highly informative content breathes in real life into any website. Old and copied content not only fails to impress users resulting in lack of conversions, but also makes a site open to various levels of penalties from Google (or any other search engine). Statistics reveal that websites furnished regularly with fresh and unique content are greatly approved and promoted by search engines as well as users, thus increasing the chances of more online revenue.

Monitoring Your Progress

One of the reasons for potential failure of websites is not paying attention to monitoring the proceedings. Make sure your website relies on appropriate website analytics, so that the online progress of a business (through the website of course!) can be measured exactly. This will help a website to identify the shortcomings and undertake rectifying actions.

Conclusion

Success does not come easy, particularly in a place as competitive as virtual world. Therefore, not following a comprehensive strategy like this might leave you stranded much quicker than you could ever think of, so heed to all the information herein.

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For those who are unfamiliar, Pinterest is a virtual pinboard where you can organize your interests (hence the name). Many people use this website to plan weddings or decorate their homes. It’s a great place to pin up images, videos, and different patterns that you may find interesting. You can mix and match, so the website allows you to see visually the ideas that come into your head. Below is an example of someone who used Pinterestto store all of their recipes:

Now comes the social aspect of the site. You can look at other individual’s boards and “repin” images or videos you see to your board. Everything that is pinned on the site has the option of commenting or adding a caption, so you can see exactly what someone is thinking when they choose to pin something on a certain board. You are allowed to create as many boards as you wish; all of which are laid out clearly in a profile section (sounding like a social network yet?). Below is an example of a Pinterest profile:

As you can see, Diana has seven different boards and 38 pins. There is also the option of “liking” a board or a pin and mentioning the board or pin on other social networks (okay, now it should start sounding familiar). Because it works so similarly to other social giants such as Facebook and Twitter, it’s easy to use and has quickly become popular with around 7.2 million unique visitors according to Site Analytics.

If you’re wondering how your business can benefit from the popular Pinterest phenomena, look no further. Below lists five ways your business can use Pinterest to its advantage:

Top 4 Ways Your Business Can Benefit from Pinterest

1. You can connect links with images to help improve your SEO

The website allows you to connect images/infographics/videos with a link to where it was originally found. The way it works is this: If someone pins a picture of your product or an infographic you created, they will be linking back to your website; thus making it easier to find the website that was responsible for the image. These links will count as inbound links back to your site and will help boost your SEO. You will also be getting credit for your work, which simply gives you another outlet to get your brand name out there for everyone to see. It works well even if you do not have a Pinterest account; however you will have a better chance of someone finding your work and repining it if you have an account to showcase it.

2. It’s easy to connect with past customers and clients on a new level.

You can setup your Pinterest account using Facebook or Twitter. This will help you get the ball rolling when it comes to connections. Everyone you already know using Pinterest will be notified that you have joined, so they will be able to start repining your work. After all, if they are past customers and clients they are probably a fan of what you create. This is a great way to get the ball rolling and get your work publicized through this new medium. This is also a great way to connect with your clients on a different level. They may be able to visual better what they need done through a site such as Pinterest, so it’s beneficial to have a presence on the site.

3. It’s simple to manage.

This is one of the few social networking sites that doesn’trequire constant maintenance. While Twitter and Facebook require constant managing of comments and sharing information, Pinterest is fine being left alone for a few days. As long as you make sure that your pins are characterized with appropriate keywords, users should be able to find your board with no problem. They can also find your images on other individual’s boards at any time. In other words, it isn’t like Twitter where one tweet is gone in 5 minutes because it’s pushed to the bottom. Your pin could be there for much longer, so it’s no rush to check the site.

4. The site is very niche specific, so you’ll be attracting the right eyes.

People use the site to create what they enjoy or visualize a project they have in the works. This means that most boards have a common theme and point toward one industry. This means that if someone pins your images/video/infographic, they’re probably someone who values what you do and might possible want to learn more.

The one thing that intimidates many businesses is the one thing that makes Pinterest so unique—the visuals. Web design companies or companies who specialize in graphics or visual effects have tons of material to begin creating their boards, but other industries aren’t so sure.

The truth is, you do not have to be a company that focuses on images or videos. Virtually any company can create an infographic explaining a study they recently conducted, a video explaining step by step how to do something, or a cool image that embodies the meaning of the company. In other words, the visuals can be simply representations—they do not have to be the main focus of your business.

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Introducing ShopHTML.com

ShopHTML.com specializes in converting design files into clean, valid and cross-browser compatible XHTML and CSS code. They avoid tables and make sure that your website loads fast and looks great in all browsers. Apart from PSD to HTML services, they implement your markup into WordPress, Joomla or Drupal.

Why work with them

•  W3C Validation. They offer W3C compliant PSD to XHTML conversion services.
•  Cross Browser Compatibility. The markup they provide is correctly dispayed in Internet Explorer 7+, Firefox 3.6+, Chrome, Opera 11 and Safari 5. They can also test your page on mobile devices per your request.
•   Quality Assurance. They thoroughly test every single page and make sure that each and every detail is displayed correctly.
•   Non Disclosure Agreement. They guarantee that any information sent to them will remain confidential.
•   Amazing prices. Though their prices are one of the lowest in the industry, the quality of their work is excellent.

Check out some examples of their work and what their clients have to say.

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