Web Design Resources for Common, but difficult to Reproduce Techniques

 

The World Wide Web, it's a pretty cool thing. You can think of basically any question, and the answer  is usually just a few clicks away. Now, instant access to information is good, but instant access to tools is even better. There are plenty of great tools and wizards out there on the web that can help you generate code for some of the more time consuming effects you see on almost every website. Why not make your life easier?

Ever notice those tightly striped backgrounds used commonly to accent websites? Usually these are created in photoshop on a very small scale, and the process can be pretty techincal and geometric making sure that the images created are tileable. Well, now there is a great site, www.stripegenerator.com, that allows you to easily fabricate stripes for use as backgrounds. This ajax based tool allows you to customize basically every aspect of the stripes to create some really applicable backgrounds.

For WEB 2.0 sites, it's now more common to see rounded edge boxes than straight edge boxes. Making these roundies can often times be a painful process for beginner's and intermediate web designers. Enter www.roundedcornr.com to make smoothing harsh angles an easier task. Here you can generate code that customizes the radius of the corner, color, and even gradient of the boxes you generate.