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Call to action buttons are very important design elements for websites who offers products or services. The main purpose of call to action button is to attract visitor's eye with important information that leads to the useful result (most popular buttons are Sign Up Now, Download Now, Buy This Now etc.) that requires user to take an action. Call to action button should be very attractive and grab a visitor's attention very quickly. When designing effective call to action buttons you should consider choosing right color, location, size and free space around the button. Effective button must be outstanding and captivating to attract your potential clients. Here you will see 30 well designed and effective call to action buttons examples and quick tutorial on how to create your own call to action button. Hope you will find this showcase useful and inspirational.
http://webdesignfan.com/showcase-of-call-to-action-buttons-and-quick-tutorial/
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Create Your Own @font-face Kits by uploading the fonts you want to use.
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
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Wibiya web toolbar is free & perfect for blogs, e-commerce sites, small businesses & others by providing access to innovative & useful web applications
http://www.wibiya.com/
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http://code.google.com/webfonts
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Knowledge management and competitive research community for user experience design on the web.
http://konigi.com/tools/graph-paper
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http://colorfilter.wickline.org/
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ietester is an application that allows to test on multiple ie versions at the same time in the same application
http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage
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Top rated CSS web design resource. A unique web designer and web developer resource website.
http://www.corkdump.com/
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IE Collection contains multiple standalone versions of IE, which can be used at the same time.
http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm
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When it comes to design, there's a plethora of free web-based tools to help you accomplish tasks such as color palette selection, creating unique fonts, editing images, and testing typography. In this article, you'll find a bunch of handy online utilities for designers.
http://sixrevisions.com/graphics-design/12-useful-web-tools-for-designers/
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The advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.
http://24ways.org/2008/absolute-columns
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Simply put, usability is making your website easy for your visitors to find the information they need when they need it. A common misconception about
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/10-usability-tips-for-web-designers/
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http://www.alistapart.com/articles/indefenseofreaders
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http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fluidgrids
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Doctype is a free question and answer site for web designers. You can ask questions about CSS, HTML, web design and email design.
http://doctype.com/
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http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/modern-sitemap-and-footer/
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CodeBurner makes valuable reference material for HTML and CSS available right in your browser.
http://tools.sitepoint.com/codeburner/
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IxEdit is an interaction design tool for the web which enables DOM-scripting without coding.
http://www.ixedit.com/
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The About page is where site users go to learn more about the site they're on.
http://sixrevisions.com/content-strategy/about-page-guidelines/
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DesignBump is a place for users to share, save, vote on, and discover the best design related links from around the web.
http://designbump.com/
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This guide discusses what negative space is and how to effectively use it to analyze and improve your designs.
http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/negative-space-in-webpage-layouts-a-guide/
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The Adobe® AIR® runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that run outside the browser on multiple operating
http://dzineblog.com/2010/05/30-useful-adobe-air-application-for-web-designer...
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The Man in Blue showcases the writing and Web design of Cameron Adams.
http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2005/08/29/
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Quickly sketch out your website and mobile application ideas.
http://www.uistencils.com/products/browser-sketch-pad
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Knowledge management and competitive research community for user experience design on the web.
http://konigi.com/tools/wireframe-magnets-diy-kit
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http://www.raincreativelab.com/paperbrowser/#downloads
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http://webdesign-sketchbook.com/whats-inside/
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The Moleskine Pocket Storyboard notebook is great for advertising creatives, graphic designers, filmmakers, and cartoonists. Each page consists of a
http://www.moleskine.com/catalogue/classic/hard_black_cover/storyboard_notebo...
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http://www.typechart.com/
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Periodically updated results of a cumulative survey of fonts in use on Windows, Mac and Unix family operating systems, including Linux.
http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-CombinedResultsFull.shtml
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http://www.codestyle.org/servlets/FontStack
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The archive is one of those often-overlooked parts of a website that doesn't get the attention it deserves. Too often it's thrown on a page that's no different from...
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/24/website-archives-best-practices-an...
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http://rajark.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/top-10-best-practices-for-front-end-we...
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Structure and navigation must support each other and integrate with search and across subsites. Complexity, inconsistency, hidden options, and clumsy UI mechanics prevent users from finding what they need.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ia-mistakes.html
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Theres no point in having an awesome website and an awesome product if your product comparison table is crap. It will throw people right off, and believe me I have seen some bad tables. Anyway here is a collection of the best product comparison tables handpicked by WebdesignDev.
http://www.webdesigndev.com/inspiration/25-clear-and-beautiful-comparison-tables
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This is a list of essential resources and tools and you must have and the To-Do list to become a successful web designer. If you’re new to web design, you may be thinking Where do I go now? What do I do now? Even if you aren't new to web design, with these resources, and my other guides which I will mention throughout this article, you can become a successful web designer.
http://www.webdesigndev.com/web-development/web-designer-must-have-resources
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Script & Style is a great place for designers and developers to learn about CSS, javascript, MooTools, jQuery, HTML, and Photoshop.
http://scriptandstyle.com/
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DevelopersNiche is a social bookmarking site for webdevelopers and designers. It is meant only and only for webdevelopment and web-designing related content. Any spam content will be promptly deleted and user will be removed and submitted url will be banned for ever..
http://www.developersniche.com/
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Designmoo is a community for discovering and sharing free PSDs, vectors, textures, patterns, fonts, and more.
http://designmoo.com/#about
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A simple method using valid CSS to keep your footer at the bottom of the screen on pages with little content.
http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/keeping-footers-at-the-bottom-of-the-page
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Otherwise known as resolution dependent layouts. Single website, different CSS files for rearranging a website to take advantage of the size available.
http://css-tricks.com/resolution-specific-stylesheets/
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http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2009/02/20/cross-browser-inline-block/
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If you’d like to connect with her, you can follow her on Twitter or at her Personal Website
http://www.noupe.com/design/12-tips-for-creating-a-great-portfolio-site.html
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As the mountain of digital content grows, all websites are looking for capabilities that help them to provide dynamic and even personalized online experiences, Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.
http://www.instantshift.com/2010/04/15/essential-guidelines-for-featured-cont...
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This post contains more than 100 cheatsheets and reference cards for topics such as CSS, HTML, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Color/Fonts/SEO, CMS, Softwares, Browsers and OS.
http://spyrestudios.com/mega-collection-of-cheatsheets-for-designer-developers/
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http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/
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Whether you have a blog or online business your website will need to have an About Me page. This is probably one of the most important pages on your website.
http://designreviver.com/inspiration/50-inspiring-and-unique-about-me-pages/
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http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/
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A podcast for those who design, develop and run websites.
http://boagworld.com/business-strategy/pre-launch-checklist
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Popular Adobe Dreamweaver alternatives according to our users includes Visual Studio, NetBeans, Coda, TextMate, Aptana and more. Find free and open source alternatives to popular software and apps at AlternativeTo.
http://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-dreamweaver/
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Related Posts You may be interested in the following related posts: 50 Powerful Time-Savers For Web Designers 50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tools and Tutorials 45...
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/07/26/50-useful-tools-and-resources-for-...
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In viewing a website, the first thing that we notice is, of course, the header. It is actually the portion that catches the viewer's notice first before the content most especially for random searches or viewing. In one of our previous post, we have showcased several cool and interesting footers for websites. As a follow-up to this post, we have come up with a collection of the footer's counterpart in web layout. Here is A Showcase of Effective Headers in Web Design that you can look into for new ideas on successful headers. Check out these items and be inspired in creating your own outstanding header!!!
http://naldzgraphics.net/inspirations/a-showcase-of-effective-headers-in-web-...
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If you going to have a jazzy website design, then why not have the default error 404 page that your browser throws up? Why not have your own one. Many websites have made a custom error 404 page. Here is a collection of some of the ones I like best.
http://www.webdesigndev.com/roundups/the-best-of-error-404-pages
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http://feedbackroulette.com/
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