Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

Joomla is among the Top 3 CMS and the number of available extensions for it is impressive. For a simple image gallery to your Joomla site, visit Joomla.org. The image gallery extension doesn’t have lots of bells and whistles, but you can have as many galleries as you like within each content item and it also features a lightbox pop-up.

Reflection gives image a unique flair. You can add reflections with your graphic design program, or you can use NeonDragon’s Reflection.js. This tiny script (less than 5KB) works with all popular browsers and lets you add reflections to any image on your website, like photos, logos, or any other graphic. The site also sports a “reflect-o-matic” so you can try it on your own pictures.

To get statistic on all kinds of facts from around the world, check out the CIA’s World Fact Book. The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. The continuously updated site also includes pictures, flags, maps and time zones.

Check for example statistics of the US: you get info on age, ethnicity, education, mobile cellular use, internet domains, transportation, comparisons to other countries, income, public debt, imports and exports, HIV/AIDS, natural resources and hazards and more.

If you’re targeting visitors from other countries, this site is a great resource to get started collecting basic world market information.

Another great set of free social media icons! Pink Moustache offers this free social icons vector set, which consists of 16 popular icons, available in both vector and PNG (64×64 pixels) format.

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.