Free Web Designing Tools To Enhance Your Web Designing Skills

One of the most likable things about internet is that if you search, you would find a free service that can pose as good alternative to the stuff you need to buy. Here are few free tools which would enhance your web designing skills

OSWD – Open source web design contains some excellent  open source templates.

WordPress Templates – Here’s tons of free templates that can be used with WordPress, or “regular” sites with a little modification.

Layouts 4 Free – This websitehas a number of good web page templates for free download.

Open ClipArt Library – This contains collections of submitted clip arts. All the submissions are in the public domain.

Cool Styles – This page has lots of code to produce really cool effects and styles using CSS.

Color Pix – This  is a downloadable program will tell you the hex codes of color on your screen.

CSS School – Everything you need to know about CSS.

Color Picker – My favorite online “color picker”.

Hex Mixer -Quickly choose and specify web-safe colors with Hex Mixer.

I Like Your Colors – It will visit the site you like and give you the colors used on that site.

Crazy Dad Color Picker – An online application that lets you choose a color and then it visits Flickr.com and finds public domain photos that match the color you selected. This is a great tool for locating images to compliment the design of your website.

NVU

An easy to use WYSIWYG WEB PAGE editor and a very good alternative to FrontPage and Dreamweaver. I have used this before WordPress days and it has surely improved with time.

Gimp – It is simply called free photoshop.

VCW VicMan’s Photo Editor - This comes with a wide range of essential features for both novice users and professional designers. You can refine your digital photos and draw artwork naturally.

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