Icon search, proposal writing, sketching, browser testing and more

Posted on March 29, 2010
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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.

Icon Finder

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.”

Proposable - web based proposal builder

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.

Printable Sketch Templates for Web Design

4. A Zoomable jQuery Image Gallery Called jPhotoGrid

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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.

jquery photo gallery grid

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.

geograhical database

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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2 Responses to “Icon search, proposal writing, sketching, browser testing and more”

  1. Blair Sissell
    Apr 26, 2010
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    Can I link up to this, from my web page? I’m planning to gather as many sources of information as I am able.


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