Creative Drifter

The need for quality CSS and XHTML website templates is rising every day. Search engines love ‘em, web designers love working with them, and clients say “oh, that looks nice”. I personally use them as reference and inspiration when working on projects. So I’ve decided to compile a list of links to a ton of the best ones. Please enjoy.

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Being part of a community and coercing with other people in your field will make you better in that field. That’s just how it works. Be social, give info, get info, talk to the world. I often participate in social networks, and not just twispacebookdin. Here’s a list of Communities, Forums, and Social Networks for designers and creative types.

1. deviantART: where ART meets application!
2. Behance Network
3. depthCORE :: Digital to the Core
4. Evoke™ v4
5. Front Page Stories | Designmoo
6. Kontain | Your life
   
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I spent the last 2 days in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. It’s one of the most beautiful and culturally rich places I’ve visited, and I will back. I decided to create a high-res texture pack to reflect the amazing, natural inspiration that I absorbed on my trip. Check them out and download the zipped file at the bottom.

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Yoono combines all of your social networks into a customizable and toggle-able sidebar on Firefox. If you dont use Firefox, they have a beta version for losers that use Explorer. This plugin saves me tons of time every single day. You can post updates, drag and drop, and share things to all of your networks at once(if you want to). Yoono joins my elite list of plugins for Firefox that I would be cringing without. The best part of this is that Yoono is for everyone with more-than-one social network or IM account. Know anybody in that category? Yeah, you know.

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Here’s a list of extremely useful tools for web and graphic designers. I often use these to speed things up and work more efficiently.

1. The Grid System
2. Golden Ratio Calculator
3. PXtoEM.com: PX to EM conversion made simple.
4. Web Development Project Estimator
5. Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test – Browsershots
6. Create your Google Sitemap Online – XML Sitemaps Generator
7. favicon.ico Generator

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