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Get great functionality through a minimalist interface with this CSS3 generator at CSS3Generator.com. Get help with rounded corners, transitions, box sizing, columns, RGBA and more.

If you’re wondering where Apple’s designers got their inspiration from, take a look at the the appliance company Braun’s 1970′s designs. White housing, minimalistic design, clarity. If you take the time to watch the video with Dieter Rams, former Braun’s head designer, you’ll see a couple of other designs from the 50′s to the 70′s that still look great today. Good design, like good music, never loses its appeal. Use Google translate to read this interview with Rams. He talks about receiving a letter from Jonathan Ive (Apple designer) and a little bit about Apple’s and Braun’s design principles. More on focus.de/digital

Get the open-source PHP CAPTCHA script “Secureimage” at PHPcaptcha.org. Generate complex images and CAPTCHA codes with a script that can be easily added into existing forms on your website to provide protection from spam bots. All you need to run it is PHP and GD support within PHP. The Securimage script generates the CAPTCHA images and validates the typed code. Audible codes can be streamed to the browser with Flash for the vision impaired. It requires no configuration after downloading. PHP 4 and PHP 5 versions available for download.

The printables designs on OhHappyDay may be ideal if you need some outside of the box marketing or design inspiration. How can you adapt these tangible project ideas to your own projects? Choose from photo props, ideas for greeting card designs and more.

If you have a project that requires pictures of traffic signs with accurate colors and proportions, why not go straight to the source at the Federal Highway Administration’s website instead of just googling for traffic sign pictures. You’ll get diagrams of all traffic signs along with measurements, arrows used, spacing, borders, letter styles and design guidelines.

If you need to find errors within your HTML or you simply want clean up your code, the online version of HTML Tidy can help. Simply add your URL, copy and paste your HTML code, or up load your file. Then define a few settings like your output and character encoding and this free web tool will do the rest.

Besides explanations about your messy code, HTML Tidy will clean up characters not allowed with your encoding, incomplete tags, redundant tags, unknown tags, invalid character codes and so on. The output is ready to be copied and pasted. One thing the tool is lacking is line numbering, which would make it easier to identify where your errors are.

A great place to look for web design inspiration is to look at trends in other aspects of everyday life. Trendhunter has dozens of categories, including a WTF section within each one for your enjoyment and inspiration to get your web design juices flowing again. You’ll find the latest trends in fashion, funerals and tributes for example.

If these examples won’t do it for you, maybe Cedric Laquieze’s floral skeleton sculptures will get you to stop for a second and behold:

Using border radius for rounded corners, box and text shadows and other styles is a snap with the CSS3 Generator. Not only does it give you a preview and the option to copy or download the code snippet, it also shows you which browsers and mobile devices your generated code is compatible with. Use this tool also for gradients, CSS Transition, CSS Transform, CSS Animation and @font-face properties.

Get 1000 well designed royalty free icons in 16×16 and 32×32 in png format at PC.de. This selection includes monochromatic (including black and white) as well as multicolor icons. You’ll get icons for social media sites, blog related, feeds, web page tools, mobile apps, settings and more.

There are dozens of QR barcode creators available, but the one on QRStuff.com is one of the more versatile ones, letting you create the barcode in color and select from 14 different data types. After creating your QR barcode, you’ll be able to print it (PNG or raster PDF), get analytics (when you register), email it, or use it to create t-shirts and other products via the Zazzle print-on-demand website.

The site offers paid options to create the barcode in high resolution, batch processing, save your codes and more. Click here for more info on QR barcodes.