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Your Redesign Toolbox
At some point in the near future, you’re going to punt the entire flippin’ design of your website/weblog. Maybe you’re tired of it, maybe you want to learn some new fangled technology, but you’re going to wholesale nuke your site and start fresh.
After twelve seconds of feeling liberated, you’re going to panic… where to start?
The following is a list of miscellaneous tools that will help you begin:
CSS / Layout:
- CSS Vault: All sorts of CSS starting points
- Mezzoblue’s CSS Zen Garden: All sorts of CSS wizardry
- Mezzoblue’s CSS Crib Sheet: Aspirin for CSS Headaches
- Cascading Style Sheet Optimizer: Tighten Up that CSS
- CSS Positioning: Nitty gritty positioning details
- Web Page Layout Gallery: More basic starting points for CSS layouts
- Little Boxes: Even more CSS layout starting points
Color / Style:
- 4096 Color Wheel: Pick the perfect color palette
- ColorMatch Remix: Slightly more useful color palette selection tool
- Get The Look: 520 Styles To Start With
- Squidfingers Patterns: More art to start
Tweaks / Tools / Images:
- Button Maker: MORE ANNOYING BUTTONS PLZ
- Listamatic: Tame your lists
- Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms: User interaction matters
- iStockPhoto: Stock photography
- morgueFile: Stock photography (really)
Fonts:
- Font Browser: Handy web-based font browser
- Veer Typefaces: Flont it
- Fontleech: Font blog
I’ve collected this small list from frequent jaunts to del.icio.us. If you’ve got a killer site chock full of brilliant ideas, send it.
# May 4, 2004
