Web Design and Web Development Help

This edition of the Squeezy Links is jammed packed with Showcases, Tools and Resources, and Blogs.

Showcases

Foliostars - Foliostars is a CSS and flash gallery showcasing the best portfolios from around the world. We make our selection focusing on design quality and W3C standards compliance. We hope this gallery will become a place of inspiration for designers as well as a database of talented professionals.

VirbShowcase - VirbShowcase was created for the sole purpose of showing off the so many beautifully-designed VIRB profiles that can be found on the social networking website, Virb.com.

Use Typography - Use Typography is mainly focused on showcasing websites that have good typography. Its purpose is to inspire and encourage good typography principles in web design.

Tools and Resources

DinPattern - For reasons I can no longer remember, I started getting heavily into pattern design. It was fun to do, and kept me out of trouble. As my library of patterns grew, I decided to build a bit of a home for them, and DinPattern was born.

Vector Stock - VectorStock™ is an ever expanding Royalty-free vector stock art collection. Our collection represents some of the worlds most talented vector illustrators and graphic designers. There are no subscription fees, no extra costs, just low cost premium quality vector files. Many of the vector files are unique to VectorStock™.

colr.org - It’s a tool to let people fiddle around with colors.

RSS FWD - RssFwd is a free web based service that allows you to subscribe to any RSS content via your email address. The service polls RSS feeds and converts them into HTML formatted emails, delivered directly to your inbox, when you want them and how you want them.

Devlisting - Web developer resources. Pin the good items, unpin the bad ones. Easy as that!

Concrete5 - concrete5 is a building material for websites. Written in PHP, using a MySQL database, and running on your live webserver, c5 makes editing websites a breeze.

Blueprint CSS - Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

Blogs

Usability Post - The aim of The Usability Post is to provide relevant resources, tips and insights into good design in order to help you make great products.

Yoast - You will find everything you need to optimize your website or WordPress blog here, from plugins to code examples. And we will also help to analyze whether your improvements are paying off!

ImJustCreative - A site dedicated to all things creative. Not just visual creativity, but also less tangible aspects of being creative.

Sean Neill - The online home of Sean Neill