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You are looking for all sorts of guides and resources on how to design a better website. You want to know more about CSS. You need cheap and affordable stock photo images. You've got questions about domain names and web hosting. You need free icons for your website. You need more information on typography and fonts.
You've come to the right place. I list all of these resources for you to design a great site at minimal cost.. If you like my lens, please rank it for me
When you decide that you are frustrated with spending too much trying to design a site and need a real pro, then come talk to me :)
Email me at sachistudio AT gmail.com.
Thank you.
Dean Hua | Managing Principal & Chief Web Evangelist | www.sachistudio.com
Icon Resources
- Icon Buffet
- Resources for those looking for icons
- Fam Fam Fam
- Great place for more free icons
- Iconize Me
- Get your own icon of yourself for $50. These 3 designers do great work.
Color Resources
- Colour Lovers
- a place to view, rate and review some lovely colours & palettes. the idea is to create a place of color inspiration where a designer of any sort can see new and lovely colours... find out what colors are hot, what work well in other uses... and simply make some love with colour.
- Color Picker
- Is a RBG to Hex Converter. Put in the Hex value and it will spew out the color.
- Color Combos
- This site was built to help web developers quickly select and test color combinations.
The heart of the site is the Combo Tester, which allows web developers to see how different color combinations work together on the screen. - Color Schemer Chooser
- An awesome color scheme tool. You just insert the hex or rgb codes from or into Adobe Photoshop or any other image editing software and voila you are on your way to a great color scheme!
Great Stock Photography
For a low price
These are stock photo websites that you can purchase for a very low rate.
- I Stock Photo
- Probably the premier stock photo image for the lowest price. You can typically purchase stock images from $1-$3.
- Stock Xchng
- The leading FREE stock photography website. It's all free.
- Big Stock Photo
- Low cost royalty free stock photos. You can purchase images for $1-$2.
- Fotolia
- Prices start at $1
Typography and Fonts
Resources on fonts and web typography
- Web Typography
- A practical guide to web typography. Explains many areas of web typography
- 25 Best Licensed Free Fonts
- This blog entry shows the 25 best license free fonts out there.
- Typetester
- A great Ajax tool to help you compare and see in real time your typography decisions. Lots of great links in this one.
- Type Now
- A Total of 6178 Free Fonts and numerous resources. You'll be busy all day on this site :)
Domain & Web Hosting Resources
- Go Daddy
- Probably the best place to buy cheap domains and get solid support as well.
- A Small Orange Web Hosting
- Great web hosting at affordable prices. You can get cheap hosting anywhere but these guys offer the quickest support out there. If web designers love these guys, then you will too. I host my sites with these guys. Nuff said.
CSS & HTML Resources
- Exploding Boy
- Get some free cool CSS Navigation Menus.
- CSS Mania
- See some of the coolest CSS designed sites out there. It's always up todate.
- CSS Beauty
- A showcase on CSS designed sites. It's also a blog full of resources.
- CSS Cribsheet
- ou will no doubt come across many quirky layout issues when building a site with CSS. You'll end up banging your head against a wall time and again. This is an attempt to make the design process easier, and provide a quick reference to check when you run into trouble.
- CSS Cheat Sheet
- The ultimage 1 page cheetsheet on CSS. It'll give you a handy list of various Selectors, Pseudo-selectors, syntax and more.
- HTML Dog
- A good practice guide to XHTML, HTML, & CSS
- Lorelle's Cheatsheet
- This is the ultimate cheatsheet on CSS, HTML, PHP, Java, and more.
Online Web Design Forums
If you ever have questions about html, design, and other web design issues, these forums are of great help.
- Sitepoint
- It's the premeire hangout for those wanting to learn everything on web design. This website includes forums, articles, blog entries, and more.
- Designer Stalk
- This is purely an online forum on webdesign. Also great as well.
About Sachi Studio Quotable Quotes on Design.
Sachi Studio provides web design services for two markets;a) Solo Service Professionals. This can include consultants, business coaches, virtual assistants, realtors, or any other type of solo entrepreneur
b) Small Business Entreprises. These are the small upstart companies that need web development and a strong online presence.
---------Quotable Quotes on Web Design----------------
1-- You are always one click away from your website visitor clicking to the competition.
2-- Don't do overkill by providing too much information on the homepage. The homepage is to provide some basic information. Most people make the mistake of overselling your business on the homepage. Don't oversell!
3-- Website design is based on 3 principles: Content, Form, & Function. One without the other is not enough. But all thee combined will make for good solid design.
4-- A good color scheme will always spiffy up your site. Color can be so subjective and can affect the mood that your website visitor will be in. Go to the color scheme resource box above for more information.
5-- We judge a book by its cover. If its nice, we open up the book to read. We judge a good website by its header. If its well designed and informative, we keep clicking through the site. Spend time on designing a header that will attract attention. Make it memorable.
Webcopy writing resources
Good website design also includes great webcopy writing.
- Attack of the Zombie Copy
- A great article on why most webcopy is boring and how to spiff up your own webcopy. They call it Zombie Copy, but I call it Happy Talk. End result is still the same-- boring copy.
- Copyscape
- Copyscape is a great tool to help you find out if someone out there is copying your great copy.
