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We are adding a few photographs of designs we like, a range of topics from architecture to plants. You are welcome to use these images for your own projects, blogs, websites etc under a creative commons 3.0 licence - please give attribution to design counts - http://www.designcounts.co.uk

Architectural features

Architectural features - gates

 

Widgets what are they and how to use them. The answer as always is on another website so go to WidgetBox and learn more, I am considering using them on some of my websites as they can help your visitors add your site to their social bookmarking site. I have just come across Add This site where you can use their social bookmark widget to allow users to add to bookmark. Try it with the button below:

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Not sure how useful it is (above) you may find Overture and Wordtracker better.

Interesting article on using CSS to create rounded corners without using images / graphics - Nifty Corners on html.it (what a cool domain name!)

List is a list of websites I want to remember to visit again, that I may use the applications provided or just look cool. Hope you find them useful as well.

PunBB - discussion forum software, and you can see it used on the Solucija forum supporting the sNews Content Management System. I like the look of sNews and may well try it out on this website in the near future! If only there was more hrs in the day.

I need to create, or learn to create my own web templates and start contributing to the community, until I get the time I usually look around the net and pick up the odd free or open source web template. In this process I noticed Zymic and I am impressed with the tutorials and layout of this resource centre.

Useful articles on web design

Cool URIs don't change by By Tim Berners-Lee on the W3.org site part of the QA section and a gold mine of information.

Places I need to remember to look at again!

BrainJar.com - use of CSS and more

SSH is always useful to a web developer, do you know how to use it? then check out wiki article and openSSH for documentation and software.

Websites I like the design of include

Pod Consulting - http://www.podconsulting.com/

Web design and development

http://www.firedandinspired.com/

http://twopooches.com/

Web hosting

http://www.hostdepartment.com/ - Host department

http://www.serverfly.com/

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/ - Yahoo web hosting

Design Companies

Rat Art


Bookmarked


Books

UK Store

Websites Developed

Dogs for fun - jigsaw puzzles, pictures, shop.

Pictures of Scotland for just that, pictures can be used under a Creative Commons 2.5 Scotland Licence.

Scotland travel on travel accommodation and info on Scotland.


Reference links

sitemaps.org to learn about using sitemaps protcol on your website - the sitemaps faq page is a good place to start.

ICANN - Domain Names

Apache 2.2 docs online

Table-less CSS forms

css-discuss - discussion list on css (website design)

css menus and how to make them and the cool Ruthsarian blog.

validator

css style sheet validator

Open Designs for web templates

Free and paid website templates by Andreas

Css Template Heaven where templates are only $7 each - I love the tree design.

CSS Resources web resources

Your HTML Source - example and how to use html and CSS

Tizag Tutorials on html and php - simple and easy to understand tutorials

PHP Builder for everything you wanted to know about PHP and a very active forum.

A List of PHP websites on the UK php.net site.

Ruby on Rails

Websites on Design

The Design Museum

The UK Design Council

Stopdesign - Using Background-Image to Replace Text

Zen Garden for inspiration

Search Engines

Search Engine Watch - forum and resources

Web wiz guide is an excellent site and if you want an in-page forum you may find their forum software hits the spot. The only downside is that the forum is ASP driven.

Learn about optimising your web pages with meta data - articles in webmasterworld forum - building the perfect page - part 1 and part II

Other

One web day - celebrate web online life

Helium where you get paid to write, I also like the look of the multi column site.

Technet - Microsoft