Written by: Simmon Pierre
10 Useful Tools for Quick CSS Development

CSS development is a major part of web design; however, it takes a significant amount of time and effort for a web designer to develop CSS from scratch. The good thing is, there are some great tools out there which make this tedious task much simpler. These CSS Development tools will help you in simplifying  the process and cut your workload in half.

Written by: Ludmila Pasol
10 Wireframe Tools To Fit Your Budget And Design Needs

Wireframes have become indispensable for professional web and software development projects. They help all parties involved—the client, managers, graphic designers and developers—to visualize the final product and identify potential problems early on in the process, thereby minimizing the headaches at later stages.

Written by: Tony Gentile
OpenCart Templates: e-Commerce Solution For Your Online Store

Ever been overwhelmed with your workload and concerned about meeting a project deadline?  If you’ve been a reader of Designrfix for a while now you know we feature the best the web has to offer and typically it’s for free.  While we always want to save you a buck, sometimes there are some design elements that we do think are worth paying for…for example; graphic artwork, vector artwork, 3D models and WordPress themes just to name a few.  These design and web elements are inexpensive and customizable.  Using a pre-formatted template for your work can cut your workload in half and help you meet your next clients deadline

Written by: GSivan
Top 10 Productivity Tools For Designers

Let’s face it: the life of the average freelance web designer isn’t always that rose garden you were promised by your drunken 9 to 5 friends down at the pub. You are responsible for everything, from designing to billing, while having to manage your time wisely and efficiently. Here are 10 tools that will help you do just that, allowing you to spend a little bit more time designing, and a little less time figuring out what you were supposed to do next.

Written by: Daniela Baker
The Importance of Color in Website Design

Color deeply influences the overall look and feel of a website and can form the first impression about a company for visitors. Color is one of the top three most important factors in a purchasing decision, according to an article by the Touro College Journal.

Cooper Marketing Group conducts an annual nationwide “color preference study”designed to find out what colors are currently in with various demographic groups. The results are sold to manufacturers and play a large part of the color trends in clothing, housewares, and automobiles each year. What does this mean for website design? Quite simply, sites with the wrong color scheme don’t appeal to their target audience and fail to convert.

Written by: Tony Gentile
Webmaster-Deals.com: Group Buying Website For Webmasters

With the popularity of such websites as groupon.com and livingsocial.com on the rise, consumers are realizing the benefits of this type of group purchasing. On some of these deals you can actual save up to 90% of the actual cost of the product/service that they are promoting. If you head over to www.webmaster-deals.com they offer the same sort of savings but for webmasters and designers alike. They are currently running four amazing deals right now that could definitely benefit you.  If you are looking to purchase anything from PSD files, vector icons or Photoshop gradients you should definitely check them out. So if you are in the market to buy or sell graphic design products or services www.webmaster-deals.com is a great place to start.

 

Written by: Laura Dragomir
Accessibility On The Web: Tips To Make Your Website More Accessible

I want to begin by stating a very well known fact: the right to access information is recognized by the United Nations (U.N.). Now, what most people think of when they say or hear that is that we are free to access it, that nobody has the right to prevent us from doing so. That is just about right. But what few people think that it’s not always governments that do not let people access information. There are cases in which people unknowingly prevent others to access information by not making it available for them in a form they can receive it. If you don’t get where I am going please bear with me for a while, you’ll soon understand.

Written by: Luigi
Site2you Giveaway: Win An Annual Website Builder Package

Website builder by Site2You is a handy online service which lets people with no webmaster experience building professional websites. Their annual subscription costs for this service is around $200 and today we are going to give away 3 annual licenses to designrfix.com readers.

Written by: Tony Gentile
30+ Very Useful Color Tools For Designers

Choosing the right colors and color combination for your web or print design is crucial when trying to invoke a certain feel, reaction or emotion from your viewers. In this post I have assembled an amazing collection of color selectors / color combination tools to make the selection process a little easier when trying to figure out what colors to use in your next design. All these tools are unique in their own way, so find the one that is right for your design needs and good luck with that next big project. Enjoy!