Web Design: Top 7 Wireframing Tools (Updated)

Web Design: Top 7 Wireframing Tools (Updated)

Using Visio for Web Wireframe Mockups

This article from GUUUI shows you how to download and install a couple of Visio stencils designed to make it easier to produce wireframe mockups of web pages and applications.

The Autumn of the Multitaskers - The Atlantic (November 2007)

The Autumn of the Multitaskers has almost nothing to do with Web Design ... except that designing websites when working as part of an organisation (especially an agency) seems to almost require that you do lots of things "at the same time".

Too Many Preferences Makes for a Bad User Interface.

This article asks "Why Can't Free Software Do Good UI?" and then suggests the answer is closely related to the mentality of adding preferences rather than fixing problems.

Configure flash video player to play video automatically

Configure flash video player to play video automatically

Here comes Squarespace

Squarespace was mentioned on SitePoint yesterday. It's a fully-featured hosted solution for building websites. There are even developer options for web designers to build sites on behalf of their clients, then give their clients appropriate levels of control over their content.

FineTuna: A Handy Collaboration Tool For Designers

FineTuna: A Handy Collaboration Tool For Designers

Free Icon Editor (and other stuff) - sibcode

sibcode has a free basic icon editor and some other related software.
Not tried any of it yet, but looks perfect for FavIcon.ico files :-)

CSS Image Preloader

Here is a way of preloading images with CSS rather than JavaScript

Axosoft: Agile & Scrum Software Project Management and Bug Tracking Software

Axosoft: Agile & Scrum Software Project Management and Bug Tracking Software

Need to have a look at this to see if it's any good.

Aspose programming components

Aspose has components for creating, reading and writing Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF documents and BarCodes in both .NETand Java SSRS.

iPlotz and Balsamiq Mockups: wireframing, mockups and prototyping for websites and applications

iPlotz and Balsamiq Mockups tools for wireframing, mockups and prototyping for websites and applications

RFC-compliant email address validator � Dominic Sayers

RFC-compliant email address validator - Dominic Sayers Looks even more useful than Doug Lovell's article.

Validate an E-Mail Address with PHP, the Right Way

Validate an E-Mail Address with PHP, the Right Way - contains some discussion on whether this really is "The Right Way"... but useful reading.

JavaScript Query String Handler (window.location.querystring)

This script (querystring.js) makes light work of accessing query string values and is bound to come in handy in future!