BgPatterns is a background pattern creator with tools to set color, base pattern, rotation of motif and more.
For web development, few IDEs are both free and as powerful as Aptana. The new Aptana 3.0.5 Beta is now a mature product (early Aptana 3 was very buggy) and good enough to switch to. Here you will find a syntax colouring theme for the new Aptana 3, compatible with TextMate and e Text Editor theme systems.
Masonry CSS3 is the counterpart of the well known jQuery plugin and relies on CSS 3 columns. Check the demo on the home page of Radu’s site.
One of the best ways for a design to stand out is to use a unique typeface. Most of the good typefaces are paid, but there are rare gems that are available for free thanks to the generosity of their designers. In this post you’ll find 10 great free fonts to use in your designs. Some of them are offered as web fonts too to be used in your websites using the @font-face declaration.
We’re gonna start a new section here featuring some cool web design resources and articles because everyday the web design community produces an incredible amount of stuff and sometimes we just can’t keep up with everything, or what the heck, we just don’t want to. If you release or publish something during June, feel free to send your own links to resources like icons, PSDs, articles, tutorials and cool web apps using the contact form to be included in next month’s Best Web Design Resources.
Google opened today the +1 button for all the web. Since, of course, this will affect search results, you need to include the +1 button in your site as soon as possible. In this post you will find a plugin for WordPress to include the +1 for posts and pages and a widget to include a +1 button to the base url of your site.