Design Inspiration

Freelance Switch recently posted 34 Places to Get Design Inspiration - Online and Off. Some may say looking at other people's designs can hamper creativity, but if inspiration is already lacking, then these sites may offer an idea that spurs one in the right direction. It's a comprehensive list, with everything from logos to icons to art to fashion to just inventive ideas to get your mind ticking.

Web Design Tools

TLBox.com has an array of tools for both web designers and programmers. Just as any mechanic would want to have tools ready at hand, these can all be added to a Toolbox Add-on for Mozilla Firefox. That way anything you might need is easily accessible in your menu bar, just a click away. There are numerous topics to peruse, from CSS to Color Schemes, even widgets and some inspiration. So take a look and see if there are any new web tools that could be of use to you, sometimes the best things in life are free.

Coding, Design, and Webmaster Development

There are a lot of helpful resources online that specialize in Coding, Design, and Website Development. And some of the community based websites are great places to get your feet wet or discuss ongoing issues in this line of work. AvengeX.com, for example, is set around web design, development and web applications, with its main purpose being to help people learn about backend web programming. They even offer a wide selection of web development tutorials on PHP and MySQL, the most widely used solution today.

Adobe Photoshop Masters

If you use Adobe Photoshop, you know how much fun and challenging it can be. The possibilities for digital creations are limitless, which is evident in the work of 10 Photoshop Masters. These artists and designers push the feature packed software to its limits, and have created some of the most stunning visual works of art and design around.

Great Free Tutorials

Tutorials are a great way to learn new techniques, enhance your skills, and maybe even be inspired to try something different. Good-Tutorials.com is the perfect place for that, offering tutorials on a range of subjects, including Photoshop, Flash, CSS, HTML, and programming languages like PHP and Ruby. If you have ever had a cursory interest in any of those topics, (and there are more available on the site), take a look and see if there are any new tips worth learning today.

Color Schemed Websites

Tutorial Blog has a great series of posts with color themed websites. In light of warming weather, why not take a look at the intriguing orange websites this season. There is inspiration galore, and you might even find an interesting piece of code under the hood. Either way these are some top notch sites with some great design elements.

Free Icons

Icons are a great visual tool to incorporate in web design. While they are usually used for visual identification of computer software files, they can also be used as interesting design elements. Sometimes file downloads, highlighted text, or even logos have iconic visual identities to help separate them from the rest of the web page. In regards to the look and feel of the icons themselves, here are 100s of Free Icons available from the Wikimedia Commons.