Cool Websites and Tools [June 21st]

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href="http://weenudge.com">Wee Nudge – If you are a web designer, you will know very well that clients can be annoying. They can be really stubborn about requesting things that either don’t make much design sense or end up not being user friendly. Wee Nudge is a collection of web design articles for beginners that can help you teach your clients the value of certain web design elements. Read more: href="http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/weenudge-web-design-articles-for-beginners">Wee Nudge: A Collection Of Web Design Articles For Beginners To Teach Your Clients

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href="http://www.moat.com">Moat – There is a search engine for everything so why not ads as well? Moat is a search engine for advertisements that you can use to search for currently running ads for any brand. Simply type in the name of a brand and Moat will display a collection of ads that are running on various websites. Hovering your mouse over any ad will display it in full size. Read more: href="http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/moat-search-engine-for-advertisements">Moat: Search Engine For Advertisementscolspan="3">

 

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href="http://picasion.com">Picasion – Putting images together in a loop to create animations can easily be done through GIF files. If you are looking for an app that helps create GIF images, check out Picasion, a web app that helps you easily create GIF animations. You start by specifying the image files stored on your computer. Next you select the speed of the GIF. Read more: href="http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/picasion-gif-animations-from-photos">Picasion: Create GIF Animations From Photos Stored On Your Computercolspan="3">

 

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href="http://www.miksoft.net/momeco.php">Mobile Media Converter Online – A number of web apps convert YouTube videos into audio for you. But the conversion process takes a bit of time during which you are glued to your browser tab. Mobile Media Converter Online solves this problem in a very simple way. MMCO offers 4 audio output formats: MP3, OGG, AAC, and WMA. Read more: href="http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/mobile-media-converter-convert-youtube-clips-audio">Mobile Media Converter Online: Convert YouTube Clips Into Audiocolspan="3">

 

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href="http://www.newfreescreensavers.com/">NewFreeScreensavers – This is a directory of free downloadable screensavers. All the screensavers on their site are safe to download, install and run and are compatible with any version of Windows and Mac. You can browse screensavers by categories (Abstract, Animation, Nature, Sport, etc) or view the top voted/commented screensavers. Every screensaver has a short description of what it does, so that you know in advance what to expect when it runs on your desktop. Read more: href="http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/newfreescreensavers-directory-free-downloadable-screensavers-windows-mac/">NewFreeScreensavers: Directory Of Free Downloadable Screensavers [Windows & Mac]

 

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25 Inspiring Design Related Websites

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A while back we showcased here a list with 30 Inspiring Design Agency Websites and another one showing 45 Inspiring Design Agency Websites. Today we decided to gather a new list to show how some design agencies and studios are presenting themselves to the audience. The layout adopted by a design related website is important not only to get the users attention but also to showcase the identity of the place, the style of it. Here you will see different examples, from clean and minimal sites to colorful and illustrated ones, there are a lot of ways to go to present your agency/studio.

OwlConcept

The guys from OwlConcept are using HTML5, a big background image and interesting shapes and typo to represent their studio.

Sajak&Farki

Sajak&Farki are using a super clean design where you use the menu to navigate the website.

Twofold Creative

Twofold Creative is also using HTML5, using big background sliding images to present their work.

Tapp3 Media

Tapp3 Media website is strongly based in shapes and typography, also uses HTML5 and have a nice textured background.

Legwork Studio

These guys decided to take a more fun and personal style and are using hand drawn elements in a single page website to present their studio.

Image Mechanics

Image Mechanics is a studio devoted to iPhone and iPad apps development. The layout they are using to present their studio is pretty clean and minimal, also uses HTML5 and has a beautiful usage of colors and typography.

La Web Shop

Nice layout. Subtle textured background, beautiful icons and red elements to get user’s atenttion.

Paramore

Interesting contrast and typography. Horizontal navigation will take you around some of their articles.

Small Fortune

Nice use of texture, shapes and colors. The layout is clean and beautiful.

Zhng Design Studio

Beautiful clean and minimal single page layout. Really nice use of white space, typography and colors.

Kokokaka

Images to represent content, typography and a yellow sidebar to get user’s attention.

Upperdog

Simple and effective layout focusing on showing their services and ideas.

Knoed

Another site using a big background image and typography based layout.

FreeAssociation

Simple layout focusing on showing some of their work/colaborations.

Abstraktion

Beautiful dark layout using a nice color scheme/contrast and simple/effective typography.

3Degrees Design Agency

Nice combination of typography and illustration elements to show main services/believes.

exsite

Beautiful, simple, elegant. A good example that less is more. A lot of white spaces that you can navigate using the menu or scrolling horizontally.

Dynamit

Simple idea of showing images of works in a magazine style.

Glue Isobar

HTML5, good color combination, typography and shape. Good way to present a creative agency.

Favolla

Interesting use of typography, texture and illustrative elements.

ENGARDE

Clean textured layout based on beautiful images, icons and typography.

Hot Meteor

Nice colorful header to add some contrast to the white and typographic based layout.

Quiip

Simple, effective and pretty straight forward.

Dare

Clean and effective layout based on typography, images and typography.

El Passion

Another example of a simple and clean layout focusing on presenting the studios works/ideas.

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Cool Websites and Tools [June 22nd]

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href="http://chitterim.appspot.com">ChitterIM – Do you use Google Talk a lot? Did you know that you can actually use it for tweeting as well? Chitter.im is a GTalk Twitter bot that you can use to control your Twitter account from your Google Talk client, in Gmail or in the desktop application. With it, you can post tweets, receive timeline updates, and much more. Read more: href="http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/chitterim-google-talk-twitter-client">ChitterIM: Gtalk Twitter Bot

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href="http://spotlike.com">Spotlike – Every website or webpage has a Facebook Like button that you can click. Spotlike takes this feature to the real world by letting you print a QR code that will be linked to your Facebook page. Users can use their smartphones to scan the QR code and doing so will automatically take them to your Facebook page. Read more: href="http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/spotlike-qr-code-for-facebook-page">Spotlike: Get A Printable QR Code For Your Facebook Pagecolspan="3">

 

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href="http://pythex.appspot.com">Pythex – Regular Expressions or RegEx are a great way to query or parse data by matching strings of texts. It can save a lot of time in both software development and web development. Pythex is a web app that lets you test your Regular Expression statements online without worrying about setting up the required structure. Read more: href="http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/pythex-test-your-regular-expression-online">Pythex: Test Your Regular Expression Statements Onlinecolspan="3">

 

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href="http://cardnap.com">Cardnap – might turn out to be the site you check each time you decide to go shopping at a nearby department store. That’s because it’s a searchable repository of discounted gift cards for popular stores, both online and offline. That means you can find and purchase discounted gift cards for both Walmart and iTunes on this site. Read more: href="http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/cardnap-purchase-discounted-gift-cards">Cardnap: Purchase Discounted Gift Cards Online

 

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