The ultimate top list of top lists for web designers

Personally I’m a big fan of top lists on the internet. I like them on all kinds of subjects, being the best movies of 2006 or best swimming shorts for this summer, I read them all. But I have to say the most usefull for me are usually the top lists involving web design and programming. So being such a fan of top lists I decided to make my own. It’s a top list on top lists, ha, thats funny right? To keep it simple it’s not a top list on all top lists but just those I’ve found for web designing.

16 Websites for web design inspiration

A while backSixRevisions wrote “Where to Go to Find Design Inspiration“, where he listed some of his favorite places to peruse when he’s looking for design inspiration. At the end, he posed the following question to the readers: “Where do you go for design inspiration?”, and asked that you contribute suggestions. This is a list of places that readers have recommended. Some I haven’t heard of, and several I’ve added to my own favorites list.

25 Web 2.0 Generators

The majority of these tools are generators that create all sorts of useful graphics. These tools are ordened in groups, being: Background, badgesm buttonsm, domain, favicon, gradients, logos and rounded corners.

10 Excellent services to get feedback on your design work

Everybody wants to receive feedback from friends about their hard work, but sometimes we also need opinions coming from complete strangers, maybe some rough critiques about aspects we might have overlooked. This way we could get some ideas on how to upgrade the work. Here are 10 excellent feedback services you should start using right now.

10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques

More and more applications these days are migrating to the Web. Without platform constraints or installation requirements, the software-as-a-service model looks very attractive. Web application interface design is, at its core, Web design; however, its focus is mainly on function. To compete with desktop applications, Web apps must offer simple, intuitive and responsive user interfaces that let their users get things done with less effort and time.

Here you’ll find a collection of 10 useful interface design techniques and best practices used in many successful web-applications.

14 CSS Tools to Save you Time

As a web designer/developer you must continue to find ways to reduce the time it takes to design/develop websites. This is very important to improve your productivity and to maximize your profits. The CSS Tools listed, which are categorized by function, are there to save you time designing websites.

Top 50 Supercool free icon sets

A collection of 50 cool icon sets. There is no end for a designers media collection and this could sure be helpful…

30 Best solutions for image galleries, slideshows and lightboxes

There are literally hundreds of solutions for web-based galleries out there. Smashing Magazine has selected 30 scripts of impressive slideshows, lightboxes and galleries you can use for effective presentations of your images. Most of them don’t have any technical requirements, so you can use them right away. Let’s take a look.

Top 90 free Flash tutorials

The illusionary effects of Flash technology has doyened a new paradigm in the world of multimedia. The most indebted would be the websites that have come a long way from the days of static graphics to the era of awe-inspiring Flash animation. Whether standalone movies, interactive demos, or cool animations, Flash works have added elegance and interactivity to the web pages. Now almost every site or advertisements feature enlivening works of Flash to allure potential customers.

39 Photoshop button tutorials you should have in your arsenal

Your website navigation plays an integral role in keeping your site easy to use and navigate. Button tutorials are useful because you can take the techniques you like from a tutorial and use them to make your own custom buttons to match the site your working on.

47 Excellent Ajax CSS forms

Forms needs a solid visual structure, a profound hierarchy of form elements (Fields and Labels), powerful techniques and Functionality (AJAX) to make the form look and work creatively. There is a great bunch of creative, outstanding and individually designed from scratch forms.

13 Awesome Javascript css menu’s

Forms needs a solid visual structure, a profound hierarchy of form elements (Fields and Labels), powerful techniques and Functionality (AJAX) to make the form look and work creatively. There is a great bunch of creative, outstanding and individually designed from scratch forms.

31 Unmistakable free brand fonts

This is a list of over 30+ FREE unmistakable “brand name” font faces covering everything from Yahoo to Kit Kat. Be sure to read all licensing information for each font if you have any questions about the “pseudo-legalese”.

22 Picasa Gallery Templates

There are lots of great free templates for Google’s very popular imagebrowser Picasa available. With these templates you will be able to create beautifull image galleries within seconds, without any knowledge of HTML, CSS or Javascript. This is web publising for digital photographers made easy; or how to create a photo gallery in 5 seconds. Because there are lot’s of Picasa gallery templates around and not all of them are as good looking as the ones below, here’s a selection of the 22 very best free Picase photo and image web gallery templates.

12 Standard Screen Patterns

Theresa Neil shares a set of principles and patterns she’s have been using for RIA design. While her book takes a much more consumer web site orientation, these concepts are central to enterprise application and web productivity application design and more broad than those discussed in the book.

Best AJAX frameworks & tools

Ajax is one of the most important web 2.0 elements. But other than that, it is the basic tool used for rich backend interfaces. You may have seen the simple but powerful gMail webmail , microsoft live or some other popular websites which are all based on ajax technologies. Ajax is not a language, but its just a combination of different languages/technologies.  Ajax is a combination of XML and javascript from which javascript always acts as an action object while xml is always response or sometimes also request text. Ajax is always used to get heavy datasets without reload page in a browser. In simple words, you’ll stay in browser as you may have seen in gmail, no matter if you open , compose or delete an email you always remains on same page. That’s the true ajax.

Anyways here is a short list of best methods and frameworks which can be used to make your web application better with ajax.

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