70 Free Website Design Resources
September 12th, 2007
Obviously, if you’re in the market for a small business website, I’d love for you to contact me. But for anybody who is designing your own sites, I was going through several of my different social bookmarking accounts and thought I’d go ahead and put together some of the resources that I’ve run across.
Some I’ve used, others I haven’t…I’m not recommending you use any of them or advising you not to!
Color Tools
- Color Schemer
- Colr.org
- Daily Color Scheme
- Instant Color Schemes
- Well Styled Color Scheme Generator 2
Text HTML Editors
- 1st Page 2000
- Ace HTML
- Alleycode
- Bluefish
- CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor - drag n drop interface with built-in FTP
- Cream
- Crimson Editor
- Cute User-Friendly Text Editor
- Free TextBox
- HTML Kit
- Notepad++
- PS Pad
- SeaMonkey
- TextWrangler
- Top Dawg HTML Editor
What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) HTML Editors
- Amaya
- Angel Writer
- PageBreeze - HTML editor with both visual(WYSIWYG) and HTML tag/source modes
- Selida 2.1
- Trellian WebPage
- Web Weaver EZ
- WebDwarf
CSS Layouts
- 12 CSS Layouts from Design Shack
- 3 Col Layout from Saila
- 3 CSS Layouts from Tanfa.co.uk
- Basic CSS Layouts from CSSFill.com
- CSS Layout Techniques and Layouts from glish.com
- CSS Layouts from Stu Nicholls - CSS Play
- Large Searchable repository of CSS based Layouts at Template:css
- Layout Gala
- Layout-o-matic - CSS Layout Generator at Inknoise
- Layouts straight from W3C
- Opensource CSS Layouts at CSS Tinderbox
- Ruthsarian Layouts
- The Layout Reservoir
Menus and Navigation
- 11 Free Sliding Doors CSS Menus by Exploding-Boy.com
- 14 Free Vertical CSS Menu Designs by Exploding-Boy.com
- 30 +free CSS Menus and other CSS goodies from Dynamic Drive
- 9 Free Website Menus and a bunch of other Web Design Tools from SearchBliss.com
- CoffeeCup Free DHTML Menu Builder
- CSS Menu Generator from Webmaster-Toolkit.com
- E-Lusion.com Free Menu Designs
- FlashButtons.com Free Flash Menu Builder
- Free Button Generator
- Free Web Templates for Creating Menus with Lists and XHTML+CSS from Webdesign.about.com
- GRSites.com Menu Generator
- Pulldown Menu Generator
- Scrollovers - interesting link effect
Backgrounds - Textures
- 100’s of Free Background Textures from Julianne’s Background Textures
- 100’s of Free Web Background Images, Tiles and Textures from All Free Backgrounds
- 195 Seamless Textures from Infinite Fish
- 2500+ Free Background Graphics from ABCWebWorx
- 500+ Seamless Background Textures from Absolute Cross
- 700+ Free Texture Images from Texture Warehouse
- 7292 Free Original Background Textures from WebGround
- 800+ Backgrounds from Absolute Designs
- Great Collection of Free Backgrounds from Citrus Moon Patterns
- GRSites.com Absolute Background Textures Archive
- Huge Collection of Free Backgrounds
- Large Collection of Free Seamless Tiles from About Graphics Software
- Media Link’s Free Backgrounds and Textures
- Over 1000 Free Backgrounds from FreeBackgrounds.com
- Over 2000 Free Backgrounds from AAA Free Backgrounds and Textures
- Over 600 Background Tiles from Backgrounds By Carel
- Thousands of Free Backgrounds from Backgrounds Giant
Obviously, this is by no means a complete list of the great free resources that are out there. If you have other free resources that you think belong on the list, feel free to let me know in comments and I will add them in.
Please note that I do have comments that include links set to go into moderation…but I assure you, I’ll get to them ASAP and approve the comments and add your suggestions to the list!
I didn’t use anything other than my bookmarks to compile this list today…but I know there are probably tons of these type of resource lists around…so let me know if you have one of those too, and I’d be happy to add those to this list as well!
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Massive list - this is gonna take me some time - thanks for posting this, Dana!
Wonderful job, Dana. Stumbled!
Thanks YC! Just make sure you leave time for stumbling
Thanks Skellie…loved your post about giving today!
Thanks for offering this great list of no cost resources. Though I have come across some of them myself, there were quite a few I had yet to find… until I stumble upon your post.
Wow this is really great post! Thanks for the resource!
Hi,
This is a great post, but I thought it might help to have a few of the errors about the free WYSIWYG and text editors corrected:
I couldn’t find a free copy of 1st Page, it appears to be a trialware free software. If there really is a free version, I’d love to get the URL to that exact page. Thanks!
Amaya has a WYSIWYG mode as well as text.
Angel Writer says it’s a text editor, but it’s actually an RTF text editor, you edit the pages in WYSIWYG style.
CoffeeCup Free HTML editor is a text editor only in the free mode. To get the WYSIWYG version, you have to upgrade to the full CoffeeCup editor.
Hi Jennifer,
Thanks so much for the info. As I said, I have not used all of these resources, so I appreciate the feedback and will make the appropriate changes now.
I think the 1st Page is a free download. The trialware is the 1st Page 2006, but it was my impression that the 1st Page 2000 was free…at least I couldn’t find an option to purchase it! The direct link is http://www.evrsoft.com/1stpage2.shtml and I will update the link above.
I will also make the changes to the other three that you mentioned.
Thanks again! Dana
Keep up the good work and thanks for the resources.
Thanks for your comments John!
Great list of resources!! Thank you!
wow..this is great….Thank You so much
it is useful to have this website.