Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

As a designer you can never have to many social media icon options. Dawg House Designs Studio has prepared a beautiful set of 3D social media icons. The 3D Social Media Icon Pack comes with 20 icons which include your favorite social media websites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Twitter, LastFM, DesignBump and a whole lot more!

For an elegant site, elegant social media icons are a natural extension. Cheth Studios has designed a very stylish and elegant set of social media icons you can use for free.

If you’re fed up with having to search site after site for free icons, you may like Find Icons. You simply type in your keywords and FindIcons will display icons from within its database matching your criteria.

It currently has over 280,000 icons available and users can tag icons, favorite them and create user sets. FindIcons also offers an integrated format converter (incl. jpg, gif, ico, bmp, psd, tiff) and a stand-alone converter for your local files. You can search by color, background color, size and more.

Get a free and powerful editing tool and photo manager with professional features that works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once at Splashup.com. You can save your work in progress and upload your images to all the top photo sharing websites. It’s supposed to run in all browsers and you can edit your images from anywhere. Features include layers, layer effects, filters, brushes and more.

A beautiful collection of wallpapers with bird motives can be found at funspill.com. Different kinds of brightly colored exotic birds in beautiful photographs are collected from sources all over the web, mainly flickr.com, with Creative Commons licenses.

By Keven Law on flickr.com

Experiment with different colors and images with the easy to work background designer tool at BGPatterns. Scale, rotate and change the opacity of the images, as well as the overall background texture and color. The tool works in ‘real time’ and there is no need to refresh the page with each change. You can choose from BGPattern images, or download your own.

Browse through thousands of pre-colored seamless pattern backgrounds at PatternCooler. All artwork on this site can be used freely for web and graphic design projects, blogs, Twitter, scrapbooking, MySpace profiles, mobile phone wallpapers etc. The site offers some great retro and modern designs:

Find beautifully done realistic paper and cover textures at DesiznTech. These textures are scanned from real papers, then edited in Photoshop for color balance and effect. You get old paper texture, notebook cover texture, grunge paper texture and even textures with an old gummy price sticker on it. The torn spiral bound papers, wrinkled and three hole punched ones are also very realistic and fun to work with.

For all textures click here.

Choose from dozens of different ‘styles’ (like alligator, acrobatic and bubble) of ASCII text you’d like generated at network-science.de. You can also choose the width of the final result, a mirror image and alignment. Here are some examples of what this ASCII generator can do:

Free online storage that you can access with your mobile phone is available at SnapDrive. You currently get 5GB to store your files and you don’t even have to log in to use this service. Free accounts have a limit of how long the files will be hosted for free. SnapDrive hosts most file extensions.