Icon search, proposal writing, sketching, browser testing and more
1. Icon Finder
Icon Finder is an impressive database of free icons with an intuitive search and browse interface. Icons are categorised by sets which helps to maintain a consistent theme when designing a website interface. There is a massive set of social media icons as well as many others. A very useful resource.
2. Proposable: A web based proposal builder with tracking
This is just brilliant. The sales process of winning new work is a delicate process. Many creative agencies are small boutique operations of a a few designers playing a bunch of different roles. This helps to make the sales role a little more turn-key, consistent and measurable.
“Proposable makes generating professional-level proposals a cinch,” says Gube, “and it has reporting features to analyze the performance of your proposals. It was created for salespeople, but as a designer, being a salesperson is a huge part of the gig, whether you’re freelancing or pitching a design idea to your managers.”
3. Free Printable Sketch Templates for Website Interface Design
We all do it. When we start a fresh website interface design project, we start sketching out our ideas. Which is an important step which ultimately saves time. However there are elements of sketching an interface that are usually the same each time. These free templates help streamline the interface sketching process, saving even more time adding value to your project.
4. A Zoomable jQuery Image Gallery Called jPhotoGrid
It's another jquery image gallery, but this one is a little different and kinda neat. It takes a list of images and turns it into a grid where individual images are zoomed to the fore with a click. Good for catalogue type websites or portoflio websites. You can see a demo of the gallery in action.
5. Free Geographical Database Of All Countries (Over 8 Million Places): GeoNames
Marvelous! More and more websites are integrating web apps. One of the most common requirements of a web form is geographical location data. This nifty database provides us with every country, place and city plus additional statistical information about each location such as timezones, populations and capitals.
The data comes in tab-delimited + utf-8 formatted text files and can be downloaded as a whole or per country.
6. Browser Shots: a cross platform browser compatibility tester
This provides a simple was to quickly check how a website will render in various web browsers and their versions.
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Apr 26, 2010
Can I link up to this, from my web page? I’m planning to gather as many sources of information as I am able.
Apr 26, 2010
Hi Blair, feel free to link to this article.