2011 | The Design Grid

Noupe passionately delivers stylish and dynamic news for designers and Web developers across the globe on all subjects of design; ranging from CSS, Photography, JavaScript, Web design, Graphics, Typography and much more.

02.Oct.2011

Design Informer

Design Informer is a web design and graphic design blog that features freelance articles, tutorials, freebies, resources, and inspiration posts.

02.Oct.2011

Subtle Patterns

Subtle Patterns is a collection of high quality design patterns for you to use freely. New patterns added weekly.

02.Oct.2011

Gravity Forms

Gravity Forms is a complete contact form solution for WordPress. With Gravity Forms you can build complex, interactive contact forms in minutes with no programming experience.

04.Aug.2011

Digging Into WordPress

The DiW PDF/eBook features 400+ pages of practical WordPress wisdom, presented in regular or widescreen format with clear, easy-to-read type and color-coded chapters. Includes hyperlinked URLs, copy-&-paste code snippets, and searchable content.

30.Jul.2011

CBF Labels

CBF Labels manufactures satin woven labels, printed labels, hangtags & sticker hang tags, rubber and PVC patches, stickers, leather and suede patches, labels and badges, zipper pulls, and other apparel trims.

15.Jul.2011

Lorempixum – Placeholder Images

Placeholder Images for every case. Webdesign or Print. It’s simple and absolutely free! Just put the custom url in your code to get your FPO / dummy image.

12.Jul.2011

Griddle.it

A clean and simple way to align your webpage layouts. No complex grid frameworks necessary. Enter your dimensions after our URL to get a background guide image to work with in your browser. Grids are created on the fly, so any combination should work.

18.Jun.2011

Grid Calculator

A simple tool for web and print designers to calculate your grids. Download your grid as illustrator or photoshop files with a pre-made guides ready to go

18.Jun.2011

The JAVASCRIPT GRID

The JAVASCRIPT GRID provides an easy to use and customizable grid overlay for every website—including presets for 960.gs, blueprint and Less Framework 4.

17.Jun.2011

FitText

FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Use this plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.

17.Jun.2011

Normalize.css

Normalize.css is a customisable CSS file that makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards.

16.Jun.2011

Spritemapper

Spritemapper is an application that merges multiple images into one and generates CSS positioning for the corresponding slices.

16.Jun.2011

Inuit.css

Another CSS framework?! Yup, ‘fraid so, but this one’s different… It combines years of my best dev tips, tricks and practices in one handy file.

15.Jun.2011

FFFFallback

A simple tool for bulletproof web typography.

15.Jun.2011

Mobile Boilerplate

Mobile Boilerplate is your trusted template made custom for creating rich and performant mobile web apps. You get cross-browser consistency among A-grade smartphones, and fallback support for legacy Blackberry, Symbian, and IE Mobile.

14.Jun.2011

Layer Styles

Just like your favorite graphics editor but in your browser. And it creates CSS.

14.Jun.2011

Initializr

An HTML5 templates generator to help you getting started with an HTML5 project.

14.Jun.2011

HTML Email Boilerplate

This website and its sample code creates a template of sorts, absent of design or layout, that will help you avoid some of the major rendering problems with the most common email clients out there.

14.Jun.2011

Custom Bags HQ

The easiest way to order custom bags printed with your artwork. Get an instant quote and easily order online.

31.May.2011

Sticker Mule

Sticker Mule is the easiest way to buy custom stickers & skins. We fix artwork problems for free and provide free shipping to anywhere in the US. Our products are made using the world’s most advanced printing technology.

27.May.2011

GuideGuide

A columns, rows and midpoints panel for Photoshop CS4 & CS5.

20.May.2011

Konigi Wireframe Icons

This is a version of the Konigi Wireframe Icons which may be used in wireframes, on personal and commercial web sites, and in print publications. The product includes EPS and PNG versions.

20.May.2011

WP Invoice

A WordPress plugin that lets you create and send web-invoices and setup recurring billing for your clients.

20.May.2011

Preloaders

Free animated loading gif preloaders generator for AJAX loading

20.May.2011

Ajaxload.info

A loading gif generator.

20.May.2011

Minimal WP Themes

Minimal WP Themes offers simple, easy to use, search engine optimized, minimal WordPress themes.

14.May.2011

Theme.it

Theme.it has been established to provide a centralized collection of unique WordPress Theme related tutorials, articles, files and videos authored by influential members of the WordPress community.

10.May.2011

YouWorkForThem

Download Creative Fonts, Stock Art and Graphic Design Goods.

09.May.2011

Humans TXT

An initiative to know the creators of the website. Contains the information about humans to the web building.

07.May.2011

ColorSnapper

The missing color picker for Mac. ColorSnapper is an easy-to-use tool for quickly finding out the color of any pixel on the screen. It is activated via a system-wide hotkey, giving you a magnifying loupe to easily pick the pixel you need.

06.May.2011

Flickholder

Image placeholders from Flickr based on dimensions and key words.

06.May.2011

PLACEHOLD.IT

A quick and simple image placeholder service.

06.May.2011

CSS Font Stack

The long awaited CSS font stack resource. Just click to copy the font stack to your clipboard.

29.Apr.2011

CORPUS

Corpus is friend to the developer tired of box-based content management systems and those looking for more flexibility building websites, web apps, and mobile apps. With Corpus you can virtually build any dynamic content–anywhere.

28.Apr.2011

Soapbox

Soapbox for iPad is your creative digest, your personal promotional kit to make sure that ideas are represented in an interactive and innovative way.

26.Apr.2011

Copy/Paste Character

Click on a special character to copy to your clip board and paste it’s HTML value in your code.

25.Apr.2011

Minus

Minus helps you create and share galleries online. Drag your pictures and files onto this page, and we’ll do the rest.

25.Apr.2011

Crestock

Crestock has the stock photography industry’s highest standard in royalty free stock photos & images.

25.Apr.2011

Ajax Edition 3

dynaTrace Ajax Edition 3 makes building lightning fast Web 2.0 applications easy. Speed page load times, optimize rendering, tune DOM execution, and compare to competition. Even integrate with Selenium, Watir or QTP to begin automating your performance tests.

24.Apr.2011

CSS3 Please!

The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator.

24.Apr.2011

Miro Video Converter

Finally! A super simple way to convert almost any video to MP4, WebM (vp8), Ogg Theora, or for Android, iPhone, and more. 100% Free and open-source.

21.Apr.2011

WP Beginner

WPBeginner is a perfect guide for WordPress Beginners. Our articles offer a wide variety of WordPress tips, tools, themes, and other WordPress resources.

20.Apr.2011

Protein

Protein is the WordPress theme for Business, Portfolio, Corporate built with latest WordPress 3.1 features. Custom Post Type, Unlimited Colors, Extensive admin panel etc.

20.Apr.2011

PrePress

Minimal, modern WordPress theme for creatives. The homepage features a slider which pulls in your portfolio items, blog posts, testimonials, and a custom twitter widget. All areas are wigitized, so customization is a breeze.

20.Apr.2011

Folio

Clean and elegant, incredibly powerful and flexible, it’s just the best WordPress theme for you or your company’s work presentation.

20.Apr.2011

Name Mangler

The Finder is good at a lot of things, but renaming a lot of files is not one of them. Enter Name Mangler, which makes short work of all your file renaming tasks.

20.Apr.2011

Uniform

Have you ever wished you could style checkboxes, drop down menus, radio buttons, and file upload inputs? Ever wished you could control the look and feel of your form elements between all browsers?

19.Apr.2011

Freelance Jam

The show for freelance professionals who build the web.

17.Apr.2011

ActiveInbox

Effortless email excellence. ActiveInbox is a free Chrome & Firefox plugin that improves Gmail & Google Apps.

17.Apr.2011

Boomerang for Gmail

Boomerang for Gmail is a Firefox / Chrome plugin that lets you take control of when you send and receive email messages.

17.Apr.2011

Espresso

Your cup of coffee has been the thing that gets you out of bed, the smell of creativity, the taste that makes your day. Now, Espresso delivers something better than a caffeine boost: a web editor with style.

17.Apr.2011

Alfred App

Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web.

17.Apr.2011

The CSS Gallery List

The ultimate CSS gallery list for increasing traffic and backlinks. We submit your website to 100 CSS galleries manually within 24 hours for just $20.

16.Apr.2011

BizzThemes

Premium WordPress Themes that are Fast, Professional, Top Quality & SEO Optimized for Small Business websites.

16.Apr.2011

Raven Tools

Build and Manage Online Marketing with Raven’s SEO Tools and Social Media Tools. Perform Keyword Research for SEO and Report on Social Media Growth all within one interface.

16.Apr.2011

Edit Flow

A WordPress plugin that allows you to define custom statuses, leave comments within WordPress to give feedback on articles and keep track of activity via email updates.

16.Apr.2011

StudioPress

Professionally designed premium WordPress themes. StudioPress developed the Genesis Framework which is a powerful web-publishing tool.

16.Apr.2011

Modernizr

Modernizr adds classes to the <html> element which allow you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet. You don’t actually need to write any Javascript to use it.

16.Apr.2011

Lineto

The digital font foundry – Tomorrow’s fonts today – Your browser’s favorite website.

16.Apr.2011

Headway

Headway is a premium WordPress theme offering drag and drop layout editing, easy design customization, and developer friendliness.

16.Apr.2011

Genesis Framework

The Genesis Framework empowers you to quickly and easily build incredible websites with WordPress.

15.Apr.2011

Striking

The superb flexibility of its framework allows it to be tailored to a Blog, Portfolio, Creative, Business or almost any other kind of website one can imagine.

09.Apr.2011

Karma

Karma is a Premium WordPress Theme built on a highly intelligent framework. Whether your a WordPress pro or just a beginner, you’ll have absolutely no problems at all working with this theme.

09.Apr.2011

Fosu

A unique, geometric font that is entirely uppercase, extra thin, and very sleek. It is a legible font with some abstract characteristics. The uppercase letters are kerned tighter than the lowercase ones. It supports most international characters as well as numbers and symbols.

09.Apr.2011

Central

Central was developed specifically as a titling font for a theater-hub website. The pure geometric forms and elegant simplicity provide a pleasing contrast to small screen text sizes.

09.Apr.2011

Bayadera 4F

A mix of upright Script and Monoline text font.

09.Apr.2011

Banda

Banda is a semi-serif typeface characterized by a tall x-height and rounded semi-serifs.

09.Apr.2011

Modern Clix

a minimal, grid based, elastic theme for WordPress.

08.Apr.2011

The Noun Project

The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world’s visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way

14.Mar.2011

desktop

The Culture of Design

14.Mar.2011

novum

world of graphic design

14.Mar.2011

IDPURE

Swiss graphic design magazine idpure is dedicated to the actors of the graphic arts, the images, design and to the professionals of creation and visual communication.

13.Mar.2011

Layers

The how-to magazine for everything Adobe.

13.Mar.2011

Applied Arts

Canada’s visual communications magazine.

13.Mar.2011

Brand Identity Essentials

This book is the fourth book in the Essential series following Layout Essentials, Typography Essentials, and Packaging Essentials. It outlines and demonstrates basic logo and branding design guidelines and rules through 100 principles including the elements of a successful graphic identity, identity programs and brand identity, and all the various strategies and elements involved.

12.Mar.2011

Should I work for free?

Who’s ready to stop working for free? Hopefully you are! If you have any doubts, consult this handy chart below. Start in the middle and work your way to your answer!

12.Mar.2011

Creative Review

The best in visual communication.

12.Mar.2011

Graphis

The best of international visual communications

12.Mar.2011

GD Magazine

Since 1963 Graphic Design USA has been the news magazine for graphic designers and other creative professionals.

12.Mar.2011

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine is focused on designing and building websites. We present most valuable techniques, ideas and resources for Web designers

12.Mar.2011

Letter Gothic

Letter Gothic was designed by Roger Roberson for IBM sometime between 1956 and 1962. A monospaced sans serif font designed for use on an IBM Selectric typewriter, Letter Gothic is a good choice for tabular material.

11.Mar.2011

Mrs. Eaves

This typeface is named after Sarah Eaves, the woman who became John Baskerville’s wife. Check out the ‘Just Lig’ set.

11.Mar.2011

Gabriel Sans

Gabriel Sans is a font family inspired by the original Sans Serif fonts of the Transitional age like Futura or Grotesk, but with a modern twist. It is clean, elegant and straight-to-the-point.

11.Mar.2011

Getquantify

Advanced user interface brings a whole new experience to online task management. Create Projects, Users, Tasks, Categories. Set Priorities & Deadlines.

11.Mar.2011

Classica

Classica is a beautifully minimalistic portfolio theme, free from gimmick and trend, making your talent the focal point of your portfolio – the way it should be.

09.Mar.2011

Mono-tone

Mono-tone is a clean minimalistic WordPress theme packed with everything you need and nothing you don’t!

09.Mar.2011

Miniml Press

Miniml Press is a sleek, professional WordPress theme best suited for artist and business portfolios, creative professionals, or anyone wishing to display his/her work with a clean, minimalist layout.

09.Mar.2011

User Interface Design Framework

A complete GUI symbols library, icons and styles for Illustrator.

09.Mar.2011

Brixx Letterpress

The fastest, easiest way to order custom letterpress printing! Real time online ordering, upfront pricing on common products, customizable product selections, industry leading letterpress printing, and competitive pricing.

03.Mar.2011

Cart66

The Best WordPress Ecommerce Plugin. Sell physical or digital products, promotions and coupons, memberships, subscriptions, payment plans, free trials, UPS real time shipping rates

03.Mar.2011

Online Font Converter

The Online Font Converter is a 100% free service. The Online Font Converter converts fonts to/from: .dfont .eot .otf .pfb .tfm .pfm .suit .svg .ttf .pfa .bin .pt3 .ps .t42 .cff .afm .ttc .woff & .pdf

02.Mar.2011

iBend

the ultra-thin portable media player stand designed for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Google Nexus One.

24.Feb.2011

PICONS

Royalty-free vector icons for designers

24.Feb.2011

ontwik

Lectures, Screencasts and conferences for real web developers & designers

15.Feb.2011

Fonts in Use

Type at work in the real world.

14.Feb.2011

for PRINT only

FPO is a blog dedicated to both the visual stimulus and the detailing of the development and production of printed matter: Annual reports, books, business cards, stationery suites, collateral materials, posters, packaging and anything else where ink meets substrate.

14.Feb.2011

The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto fro Web Designers

The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers is a list of helpful and *subtle* suggestions to organize Photoshop Documents, making the transfer of them less painful.

13.Feb.2011

Web Development Project Estimator

The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.

13.Feb.2011

SelfControl

Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X application which blocks access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and websites for a predetermined period of time. For example, you could block access to your email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still have access to the rest of the web.

12.Feb.2011

Desks Near Me

Desks Near Me is a simple and beautiful way for freelancers, contractors, and other nomadic workers to see great places where they can work.

12.Feb.2011

Formstack

Formstack’s online form builder provides an easy way to design and create powerful web forms without any programming or HTML knowledge.

12.Feb.2011

Free Minimal Grid Based Themes by Dessign

Beautiful modern and minimalistic WordPress themes, design for illustrators and graphic designers to show their amazing work.

12.Feb.2011

Obox Themes

Gorgeous design and functionality that you would normally only be able to attain from expensive, professional agencies. Obox creates plug ‘n play themes, built across multiple platforms.

10.Feb.2011

MockFlow

MockFlow is an online wireframe tool for software and websites

01.Feb.2011

mockingbird

An online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.

01.Feb.2011

PixoPoint Menu Plugin

A custom plugin for WordPress which allows users to easily add their own custom dropdown menu to their site

24.Jan.2011

WordPress SEO Plugin

WordPress SEO is the most complete SEO plugin that exists today for WordPress.org users. It incorporates everything from a snippet preview to optimize your page titles, meta descriptions and keywords, and loads of optimization options in between.

24.Jan.2011

StartBox

An incredible theme framework for WordPress.

24.Jan.2011

NameChanger

NameChanger is designed for the sole purpose of renaming a list of files.

24.Jan.2011

ClipMenu: A clipboard manager

ClipMenu can manage clipboard history. You can record 8 clipboard types, from plain text to image.

24.Jan.2011

HandBrake

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

24.Jan.2011

Bean: An OS X Word Processor

Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of charge!

24.Jan.2011

Beautiful Type

This blog was created by two web designers who share the same passion for typography. The content presented here is a patchwork of photos and illustrations from the Web, discovered overnight and all having a relationship with typography in general.

20.Jan.2011

The Complete iPhone Development Toolbox

In this “ultimate toolkit”, we’re showing you everything you need to get started; books, tutorials, software resources, screencasts, podcasts, blogs, forums, conferences, software libraries, design kits, icons, and even where to hire a developer if you decide not to go it alone!

20.Jan.2011

Awesome WordPress hacks to make your blogger life easier

WordPress hacks are always a popular topic here at Cats Who Code. Today, I have compiled hacks that will make your blogger life easier, by optimizing and simplifying how your WordPress blog works.

20.Jan.2011

How to disable and delete post revisions in WordPress

This function will remove all revision posts and associated objects from the database.

20.Jan.2011

Simple PHP Contact Form

This website component allows you to easily place a self-contained Contact Page on any PHP page of your website.

20.Jan.2011

WordPress and Ajax

An in-depth guide on using Ajax with WordPress. The WordPress and Ajax book will provide you a firm foundation on using Ajax with WordPress.

20.Jan.2011

iA3 Theme for WordPress

The iA³ WordPress is based on the actual theme we use on the iA website. It incorporates hand crafted state of the art HTML5 and CSS3. The HTML code follows a simple structure which helps your SEO. It’s a fully functional responsive design that comes with a series of iPhone/Android/iPad adaptions.

18.Jan.2011