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 - 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.