Techno Trousers - Because Web Design is a Kick in the Pants!

Need to tweak a photo but don’t have access to Photoshop right now? Check out this free online drawing/image editing tool. Sumo paint is like having Photoshop online. By the way, you’ll want to check out the killer gallery of images created and edited online using Sumo.

Sumo Paint is a full featured photo editing / painting application, which works right in your favorite web browser! The application can be used in Windows, Macintosh or Linux operating systems. The only requirement is the Flash Player (which usually comes preinstalled in any OS). Continue reading Free Image Editing and Drawing Tool

Flipping Typical is a way to explore the popular typefaces you have on your computer. You can type in the text you wish to view and see it in a number of different fonts that you have installed on your computer. I use the font viewer when I need to match a logo font or to get a fast view of some copy in different fonts.

Click Here to View the Fonts on Your Computer

Click Here for More Info About the Font Viewer

Never fails when someone wants to help you get your “foot in the door” with something you can do “while you are watching TV or something”. If you are a creative professional, you’ve can definitely relate. Enjoy!

Many of us have image intensive websites, fortunately there are also jQuery plugins like Lazy Load. This interesting plugin will delay the loading of image and will also provide a smooth fade in effect as well.

Check out the Fade In Image Effect

Learn How to Use LazyLoader

As mentioned,

It delays loading of images in (long) web pages. Images outside of viewport (visible part of web page) wont be loaded before user scrolls to them. This is opposite of image preloading.

Using lazy load on long web pages containing many large images makes the page load faster. Browser will be in ready state after loading visible images. In some cases it can also help to reduce server load.

Really nice icons, but what I really like about them is the fact I can use them in my commercial web design projects.

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These web icons were designed by wefunction for Woo Themes are are completely free and feature rich as stated on their website:

Since icons are such a huge element in modern day web design, we decided to partner with one of the best icon designers we’ve come across to bring you a fantastic new web icon set.

We’ve worked with Liam McKay before on theme designs (5 to be exact) and we’ve always just admired his icon design work from afar. That however changes with the new WooFunction Web Icon Set which Liam recently completed for us.

The WooFunction Icon Set includes 178 amazing web-related icons in a sophisticated and glossy design style. All 178 icons are available as 32×32 pixel PNG files and we can assure you that they are indeed pixel-perfect. If you have an in-depth look at the individual icons, you’ll notice that Liam has spent a lot of time paying attention to the finer details, which means that this is a really classy icon set. Here; have a look for yourself: