Last week, “I profiled Big Stock Photo”:https://smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000187.html as being a worthy competitor to iStockphoto. Well, I’ve since come across “Fotolia”:http://www.fotolia.com/ – another iStockphoto clone.
Tools & Resources
Get Your Site Rated by the ‘Experts’ for Free
Want a free check up on how your site compares with ‘best practice’ in terms of popularity, design, accessibility, and user experience?
“Sitescore”:http://www.silktide.com/tools/sitescore is a online tool that provides an automated rating of your site according to the above four criteria as well as incorporating a user rating feature.
Cheap Stock Photography: Big Stock Photo
No idea how I haven’t come across this site before. Big Stock Photo (referral link) looks and works pretty much like iStockphoto, which is certainly no bad thing.
Create Online Graphs With Flash
One of our sites has a page of medical treatment statistics. I was never that enthused about how it looked visually – a bunch of tables doesn’t exactly grab your attention – and so I decided to see what I could do in the way of adding some graphs to make the data easier to grasp. Read More
iTunes 4.9: Podcasting Software for the Masses
Thanks to Apple and iTunes 4.9 I’ve finally got the whole podcasting thing. As I was cycling to work this morning listening to a podcast of one of my favorite shows – NPR’s “On The Media” – it dawned on me at last what a cool technology podcasting is. Read More
My Favorite Firefox Extensions
Thanks to its ability to incorporate third party developed extensions, Firefox is so much more than a web browser to me. It’s now an invaluable web development tool – so much so that I really don’t know how I’d manage without it.
Project Management with Excel
I don’t have Microsoft Project on my PC; however, every now and then I’m called upon to manage a project of sufficient scope to require an actual project plan. (Shock! Horror!)
Read MoreScreen Capture Software Review
A good screen capture tool is an essential part of the web designer’s arsenal. I often need to grab part of a web page or a graphic or icon and then pull it into PhotoShop. Of course, you can just hit the Print Screen button, but it’s a pain to edit out all the stuff you don’t need. Read More