Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

If you are looking for web 2.0 badges for your site, or need to create some simple buttons, visit Web20Badges. You’ll find some pre-made web 2.0 badges and a generator that allows you to create various round badges and buttons. You can customize colors, font, font size and the angle of the text.

There is hardly a designer, who doesn’t have designs and graphics he or she didn’t use for a project, but doesn’t quite know what to do with. These designs and graphics can be put to good use and even make money for the designer and provide a great free or low cost option for anyone who needs high quality images: At Graphic Leftovers visitors can shop designs by price, or by selecting from categories like vector graphics, backgrounds, templates and more.

Many web designers already have a vast collections of free icons at hand, but let’s face it – you can never have enough! IconDock offers 320 mini icons in different colors for e-mail, homepage, print, file types, users, e-commerce and more.

Using a personalized Favicon on your blog or webiste is a great way to enhance your brand. Favicons show up in browser tabs, favorite lists, RSS feeds and social networks all over the web. Create a favicon (with the .ico extension) from any image with this free favicon generator from html-kit.com.

GIMP is a great program and if you want to make it even greater, you can download some free GIMP brushes at Noupe. Some of these brushes are simply stunning and once you install them, you will be tempted to use them in every single design you make. (Photoshop Brushes are now Fully Compatible with Gimp 2.4 and up.)

DesignPacks may not offer a huge selection of images, but the ones that are available are high quality and grouped in convenient design packs. Choose from themes like money, flowers, concrete or wood. The images can be used for personal and commercial web design projects.

A webmaster is always on the hunt for good images to use for free. At Morgue File you can find thousands of images of almost anything you can think of. The quality of the images varies but generally their editors don’t accept photographic disasters, so you won’t be wasting your time with low res and/or poorly lit images. Currently pix can be used freely for personal and commercial use.

Nobody denies that Adobe Photoshop is a great program but it’s pretty expensive. There are other graphics editing programs and one of them, the open source GIMP is sometimes called “Photoshop killer” because it is a real alternative to Photoshop.

Extract colors from photos and create color schemes based on photos for use in your artwork and designs at ColorSuckr.com.

There are several services for creating free favicons, but this one works well: Go to GenFavicon, upload your image, edit it and download your favicon with the .ico extension, or as a jpg. You can also choose from different sizes: 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128.