Photoshop is the tool of choice for web designers. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up 20 of the latest Photoshop tutorials for designing websites. The end results produced by these tutorials are great looking designs, but keep in mind that it’s not meant for you to reproduce an exact copy and use it as your own. Instead, follow the tutorials and learn new techniques to incorporate into your own designs.

How to Make a Vibrant Portfolio Web Design in Photoshop

Create a Professional Web 2.0 Layout

Create a Grungy, Translucent Web Portfolio Design

How to Create a Unique Colorful Site Layout

Web Design Process: Zee Site

Create a Clean Modern Website Design in Photoshop

How to Make a Highly-Textured Site Layout in Photoshop

How to Make a Creative Blog Layout

Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design with Photoshop

Create a Promotional iPhone App Site in Photoshop

Create a Clean and Classy Web Design in Photoshop

Create a Gnarly Snowboarding Themed Web Design

Awesome Portfolio Design

RocknRolla Blog Design

How to Create a Unique WordPress Theme

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How to Create a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design in Photoshop

Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch

How To Create a Clean and Colorful Web Layout

the following ten books contain a wide variety of valuable information for web designers, ranging from HTML5 to a guide for managing your time. There’s plenty here to keep you busy reading for a while. Enjoy!help you like them.

HTML5 Quick Learning Guide

This guide introduces you to just the main elements of HTML5 that you’ll probably want to use right away. This guide is for those who want to get the basics figured out first, and worry about the finer details later on.

Time Management for Creative People

Written by Mark McGuinness, this e-book serves as a guide for creative people to help them be more productive and better manage their time.

The Woork Handbook

Introduction to Good Usability

This guide is especially handy if you haven’t done a lot of webdesign yet or if you are involved in webdesign but don’t do any of the real work. I hope to shed some light on some common interface elements and mistakes people often make with them.

How To Be Creative

If you’ve ever felt the draw to do something creative but just haven’t been able to pull it together, you’ll love this manifesto. Hugh MacLeod, an advertising executive and popular blogger with a flair for the creative, gives his 26 tried-and-true tips for being truly creative. Each point illustrated by a cartoon drawn by the author himself.

Why design?

What designers offer to clients is a way of thinking. The “Why design?” booklet outlines the role of design in business strategy. It seeks a common framework for why design adds value to clients’ interests.

The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design

Would you like a process which would help translate the often vague, unclear wishes of your clients (and yourself, for that matter) into a clear and solid basis for your design? This manifesto will show you how.

The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design… directly from Woork!

Eloquent JavaScript

Eloquent JavaScript is a digital book providing a comprehensive introduction (tutorial) to the JavaScript programming language. Apart from a bookful of text, it contains plenty of example programs, and an environment to try them out and play with them.

A Concise Guide to Archiving for Designers

This guide provides designers with the proper ways to store and describe their collections in 10 short chapters. The author, Karin van der Heiden, provided the translation.

Type Classification

This book has been made to help you learn the 10 broad classifications of type. These are the basic foundations of what you need to learn to learn typography and it is essential for any designer to know how to classify type.

Web design galleries offer designers and developers creative inspiration on their own designs. By aggregating the top web designs on the web, a gallery serves as a prime spot for getting those creative juices flowing.

In this article you’ll find 16 of the best and most popular web design galleries ranked in order by the number of votes they garnered on a poll that was published earlier this month. On instances where there was a tie, the site with the higher Alexa rank received a higher ranking.

16. Web Creme

Nearing almost 4 years of operation, Web Creme is one of the more matured website showcases on the web. The websites are displayed with large thumbnails so you don’t have to be 2 inches away from the monitor to see them. The Web Creme archives can be filtered by using color themes of sites.

15. FAVEUP

FAVEUP is a design inspiration gallery that has a CSS Websites, Flash Websites, Business Cards, and Logo section. It’s an excellent one-stop shop for your design inspiration cravings.

14. CSSREMIX

Created and administered by New-media designer John Mills, CSSREMIX is a thumbnail-style web design gallery featuring some of the best designs on the web. Subscribe to the RSS feed so that you can get notification whenever a design is featured on CSSREMIX.

13. Design Shack

Design Shack currently features over 1,800 websites in their CSS Gallery. If you think that’s too much, don’t fret, you can filter the gallery by color, by the layout type, or by category (such as Corporate or Music).

12. CSSelite.com

CSSelite.com features high-quality web designs that users can vote and comment on. Check out the Best of the Best category to see the top picks on CSSelite.com. You may also want to subscribe to the CSSelite.com RSS feed to get notified of new designs.

11. The FWA

The FWA, which stands for Favourite Website Awards, is a Flash gallery that awards one site daily for the best Flash website. It’s a coveted award by many Flash designers – and the winners typically display the FWA badge on their winning site as a mark of prestige.

10. Pattern Tap

Pattern Tap is an excellent gallery for getting interface design pattern inspiration. At Pattern Tap, you’ll find collections of common site interface components like breadcrumbs and inspirational web forms.

9. Make Better Websites

Make Better Websites has an excellent philosophy: " We want to advocate a world without visual violation of shitty advertising.". You’ll see a clean gallery interface devoid of advertising.

8. Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine, the premier online publication for designers and artists, has an excellent Showcase section that presents high-quality and captivating design collections. At Smashing Magazine, you’ll find great collections of tabbed navigation showcase to more niche collections such as the sports website showcase.

7. cssheaven.com

cssheaven.com is a thumbnail-style gallery. They tag and categorize entries so that you can easily find designs based on keywords or categories.

6. CSSline

CSSline is a great site for those who just want to see the designs – the site’s own design is minimalist in fashion so that you’re focused solely on designs being featured. They tag entries by keywords and color.

5. CSS Mania

CSS Mania features hundreds of web designs a month organized into many categories for you to find exactly what you’re looking for. They also have an API for developers wanting to interface with CSS Mania content.

4. DesignBombs

The only description needed for DesignBombs is quoting the site’s tagline: Droppin Bombs All F**k’n day.

3. The Best Designs

The Best Designs features only top-quality designs which are categorized into many helpful keywords for easier navigation and searching of sites.

2. Best Web Gallery

Best Web Gallery focuses on quality rather than quantity: though you may not find hundreds of updates a month, whenever there are updates, they are of the highest quality designs.

1. siteInspire

At the number one spot for the best design gallery as voted by readers: siteInspire. siteInspire currently houses close to 500 high-quality designs which you can sort in a variety of ways. siteInspire also categorizes each entry meticulously so that it’s easier to find site designs on a particular topic.

Typography is basically defined as the art of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. This technique is widely used today in a variety of applications, including web design. Numerous designers are now using typography to improve the look and feel of the sites they produce; this post showcases several examples of these typography-themed websites.

This post entitled 35 Examples of Using Typography in Web Design will show you some of the most successful ways of using typography for your designs. Feel free to check them out and enhance your ideas. Keep inspired!

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There are lots of web design tools available on internet, which will help you accomplish your tasks easily and quickly, and still more are coming. Every designer now has his/her own toolbox. I will try to make such toolbox for you too. I have collected 25 such tools, and if you know more feel free to add in the comments.

Ready to make your own toolbox?. Okay! Here is the list of 25 web design tools.

1. HTML Entity Character Lookup

This lookup allows you to quickly find the entity based on how it looks, e.g. like an < or the letter c.

HTML Entity Character Lookup

2. Blueprint CSS framework

It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.

Blueprint CSS framework

3. Typetester

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier.

Compare Fonts For Web Design

4. Em Calculator

Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design.

Making Scalable and Accessible CSS Design

5. Web Developer Toolbar

Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

Web Developer

6. MeasureIt

Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

Draw Out A Ruler

7. ColorZilla

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.

Advanced Eyedropper and ColorPicker

8. Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

Firebug

9. Designers Toolbox

All kind of print and web documents sizes.

Designers Toolbox

10. What the Font?

Submit an image to WhatTheFont to find the closest matches in our database.

What the Font?

11. Easy Web Form Builder

FormSpring gives businesses and organizations an easy way to build any type of online form, integrate it with their website and begin collecting data.

Easy Web From Builder

12. Browser Shots

Test your site in different browsers.

Check Browser Compatibility

13. Icon Finder

An Icon search engine.

Icon Search Engine

14. Button Browser

Its a button gallery and button maker.

Button Gallery and Button Maker

15. Rounded Corner

This generates a basic box with rounded corners. It will create four image files and the necessary HTML and CSS code for you to put rounded corners around your content.

Generate Rounded Corners

16. BlogFlux Button Maker

You see those 80×15 buttons everywhere. Our Button Maker lets you make some yourself. Fiddling around with Photoshop or any other graphics editor can be a pain. Make 80×15 or 88×13 buttons with a few clicks.

Button Maker

17. Vecteezy

Get free vector graphics.

Get Free Icons

18. Background Image Maker

Nice application to create background images.

Background Image Maker

19. Photoshop Brushes

Cool Photoshop brushes available for download.

Photoshop Brushes

20. Tartan Maker

Tartan Maker – the new trendsetting application for cool designers.

Tartan Maker

21. Color Schemer

ColorSchemer Studio 2 is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals.

Color Scheme Gallery

22. Webs

Create your own website for FREE!

Web Site For Free

23. Sampa

Make a Free Website: Every day, thousands of people just like you use Sampa to create their own personal website, family website or baby website.

Make a Free Website

24. Format Pixel

Create your own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogues, portfolios and more.

Online Publishing Tool

25. Weebox

Flash-based website creator.

Flash-Based Website Creator

One of the most challenging aspects of design for many web designers is color selection. The color scheme of a site can have a huge impact on the overall look of the site, and it will have an impact on visitors as well. There are a number of different methods that can be used for finding the right color scheme for a particular project, and in this post we will look at several of those methods. Throughout the post you will find links to helpful resources that you may appreciate.

Getting Colors from Existing Marketing Materials

In many situations the client will already have an established color scheme from an existing website or from other marketing materials. In some cases they may want a change, but frequently you will need to work from the established color scheme. Sometimes making slight changes to the shades of colors but sticking with the same basic color scheme can make an impact, and combined with a fresh design of the website it can help to give the company some added interest to their identity.

In situations where you are not working with a client that has an established color scheme, here are some methods that you can try for finding the right one on your own.

Online Color Palette Resources

There are a number of websites and online tools available for selecting color palettes. Many of these sites allow users to upload color palettes that they have put together, and the rest of us benefit by being able to browse through those that have been uploaded. Most of these sites allow you to search or sort the color schemes by a particular hue or by keyword, which can be helpful if you have one color that you want to use but you are looking for others to use with it.

Here is a quick listing of some of the best places to find color palettes.

Adobe Kuler

COLOURlovers

ColorSchemer

ColoRotate

Others:

• ColorCombos.com
• Colr.org

Other online tools exist for helping you to put your own color palette together. Here are some of the best.

Copaso

Color Scheme Designer

Toucan

ColorMunki

The Color Wizard

Color Explorer

Taking Colors from Photographs

Photographs are a great source of color inspiration. You can easily and quickly browse through photos either of your own or random photos from sites like Flickr and deviantART. When you find one that includes a beautiful color scheme, you can upload it to one of several different online tools that will help you to determine the specific colors that are used, providing the hex value so that you can use them in your design work.

Here are some of the best resources of this kind.

ColorSuckr

Pictaculous

What’s Its Color?

Others:

• Color Palette Generator from jrm.cc
• Palette Generator from Big Huge Labs
• Color Palette Generator from DeGraeve.com

At From the Couch David Perel has a nice video tutorial where he goes over his process for choosing colors from a photograph. This is a method that can easily be applied by designers with impressive results.

Design and development blog Build Internet has a series of posts that showcase color schemes from Photographs. Check out their Motivation category to find the color scheme posts.

Taking Colors from Magazines and Other Printed Materials

Online resources aren’t the only place to find color schemes. Magazines, books, flyers, posters, brochures, cards and any other type of printed material can be another source of color inspiration. You can either find a scheme that you like and try to come close just by eyeballing it, or you can scan it in and take the colors directly from the scan in Photoshop or another program.

Browsing Web Design Galleries

One of the best ways to find color schemes that work well for the web is to browse through design galleries. As you do, you will come across some color schemes that you really like and it may give you some ideas for your own work. Of course, what is good for one site may not work very well for another, so it is a good idea to keep your particular project in mind so you can find some colors that will work well for your situation.

You can search around and take one color from a few different websites, or find a scheme that you like and work with Photoshop to find a similar color scheme that will work for you but will avoid copying the colors of the other site. One of the downsides to this approach is that you can wind up doing more copying than you intend, so be careful to make your scheme unique even if it is inspired by other sites.

I Like Your Colors is an online tool that allows you to enter a URL, and it will give you the hex value of the colors in use.

Based on Psychology of Colors

One of the factors that should be considered when choosing a color scheme is the psychology of color. There is a great deal of research that has been done over the years to indicate meanings and messages that are associated with various colors. In many cases this will vary from one culture to the next, so be sure that you are paying attention to information that is relevant to your client and their audience.

Here is a list of some online resources and articles regarding the psychology of color.

• Color Psychology in Online Marketing
• Color Wheel Pro: See Color Theory in Action
• The Meaning of Colours
• Why Color Matter
• Color Psychology
• Color Symbolism and Psychology (from Wikipedia)

Nature

Color is everywhere in nature. Step outside, look around, and you are bound to find some inspiring color schemes. Plants, animals, sunsets, color schemes can be found from just about anything in nature. Of course, getting the exact colors and shades isn’t as simple as when you are working with a photograph (although you can always take a picture) or an inspirational website, you can still get many ideas simply from observing nature and the colors that appear.

What’s Your Approach to Choosing Colors?

If you have a method that works well for you, please share in the comments.