Web and Graphic Design HQ

Sending files to other people, or having them for download on your website, can create issues that you might not even be aware of.
For example, I was sent a document file today in Microsoft Publisher (.pub) format. This file was sent to a group of about 20 people (local Rotary club contacts).
Now, whilst I have […]

If DaFont isn’t enough with 1000’s of fonts… try Fonts 500 — The Web’s Top 500 Free Fonts… all free and with a nice preview. 100 per page… easy to navigate and download what you like. Enjoy!

A great useful online file sending tool is totally FREE to use, and it’s called You Send It — www.yousendit.com.

There are probably paid services that have better (even YouSendIt has high-powered paid plans) — but we use this service all the time and love it!
We use this service to send files up to 100Mb in […]

Wikipedia is the place!
Browsing through the content of this site, you’ll find lots of photo links. Many of the photos that have been uploaded are put into the public domain, or given a free-to-use licence. And some of these images are very high resolution, so they’re great for printing needs.
One to keep in your resource […]

We have lots of royalty free stock sites we go to… here are two of my favorites, and they both contain bucketloads of free stock photography images:

Stock.Xchng: www.sxc.hu — billed as “the leading free stock photography website”
morgueFile: www.morguefile.com — contains high resolution digital free stock photography for either corporate or public use.

Unlike traditional stock photo […]

One very handy resource we use regularly to download free fonts is DaFont.com — last time I looked there were over 7,300 fonts on the website for download.
You can always see the latest fonts, but even better, there are 70 categories of fonts:

Fancy: Cartoon, Comic, Groovy, Old School, Curly, Western, Eroded, Distorted, Destroy, Horror, Fire, […]

Adobe Labs’ Kuler (http://kuler.adobe.com) online software is a fantastic resource to play with color themes.
There are hundreds of themes already on the site (view by newest or by most popular). You can create themes based on a number of different color theory “rules” — such as an analogous theme, a complementary theme or a monochromatic […]