Category: Web/Tech

Layout-o-matic is a tool that generates CSS code for layouts with up to three columns.

Citrus Moon has free tiles, backgrounds and other graphics. Unlike most of these collections, this site permits “commerical use of these patterns”:http://www.citrusmoon.net/about.html without payment and allows use of patterns if they have been colored or resized. The site also contains “tips”:http://www.citrusmoon.net/tips.html about how to make your own tiles.

This color tool called “Color Toy” from defencemechanism.com has the easiest to use mechanism for finding coordinating colors of any tool I have seen yet. (via “Sugarfused”:http://www.sugarfused.com )

Listamatic

The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple list using samples from Eric Meyer, ProjectSeven, SimpleBits and others.

QuickColor is a Flash utility for finding complementary color schemes. (via J-Walk).

In Filters that Fight Back, Paul Graham suggests

One intriguing idea is to literally fight back: to make filters disable spammers’ servers by automatically following all the links in each incoming email. We may be driven to this in order to achieve accurate filtering anyway. Why wait?

And the battle continues.

Web Album Generator produced albums suitable for online applications or for bunning to CD. The output files include CSS and XHTML. (via Life of a one-man IT department.)

All My FAQs is a selfhelp web technology resource. It has lots of pointers and essays.

This site with web design postcards suggests:

Elegant, flexible designs, easier maintenance and lower bandwidth costs. Don’t you wish you were here? Look through these postcards for coding, design and content tips for your own sites, and if one of the sites you visit regularly doesn’t measure up, why not show them you care by emailing them the URL of an applicable card?

(via Growing Leaves)

There is a new Google operator which allows search by synonyms. As an example, search for “movable type ~help” and you’ll also get results containing “guide”, “tutorial”, and so on. Via Winged …

Google has a page with tips on how to refine your search which includes the new operator.