15 Popular Web Designing Tips and Tools

Why hire a web design consultant when you can yourself design a web site. I recently went about looking for popular Web Designing Tips & Tools and after a brief look around, here are a few professional web design tips to create your own award winning web design…

• Essential bookmarks for web designers and web developers
  An excellent source of a list of references, which make the life of web developers easier. Very Comprehensive.
• Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
  Legibility Problems, Flash, Browser Incompatibility, Cumbersome Forms and so on! Do not miss the other web design mistake lists at the page bottom
• Ten more CSS tricks you may not know
  And while you learn and use these css tips on your site, I am sure you will want to know what the first 10 tips were…so that is next
• Ten CSS tricks you may not know
  The first part of successful css tricks – amazing is all I can say
• 9 Javascripts you better not miss
  Presents 9 Javascript examples that author has found very useful while designing professional websites.
• 10 Tips That Every PHP Newbie Should Know
  Become a PHP programmer even sooner! If you like it try Part 2 also
• 300 Images From 1800 Sites
  Find images for arrows, posts, comments, mail, bullets, print, carts and bags
• How To Nail A Sexy Layout
  Skeletize, Visualize, and Nakedize
• Eight things I wish I’d known when I started
  Provides a strong start for budding designers
• 100 Random Colors – Need a Color?
  A random color generator – get a new colour scheme for your site

Well I started with 10, but missed out on 5 other popular tools, so here they are too.

• Typetester
  See how different fonts look on a website
• Cascading Style Cheatsheet
  Most Useful CSS Properties with Examples
• Essential Fonts For Designers
  300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have
• Cheat Sheet Roundup
  Over 30 Cheatsheets for developers.
• Color Scheme Generator 2
• See more color schemes in real time.

Update : There seem to be many more popular tools, maybe I can extend the 15 list a little more!

• Nifty Corners
  Rounded corners without images
• Little Boxes
• Decide your box layout – get the css.
• Listamatic
  Shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple list.
• CSS Drop Shadows
  Techniques to build flexible CSS drop shadows without image-editing softwares (and Part 2)
• CSS Zen Garden
  The beauty in CSS design
• Online CSS Optimizer
  A web tool for reducing the file size of cascading style sheets.