July 2007 – Designlab by Geir Akselsen

60 Beautiful and Visually Appealing Designs

Smashing magazine has put together a collection of 60 really beautiful designs. They did a great job in putting this list together i must say! Its defenitely worth a look!! Visit the gallery for these 60 smashing sites here..Â

45 free good looking icons

Here is a selection of free icons, and they dont look shabby at all! A nice set of icons which will kick your design up a notch ;o) Click here to visit the site…Â

Stanley Studio

36 free flash elements

Here you can download some pretty allright flash elements (Mostly buttons) Worth a look since its free :o) Click here to check it out..

Avoiding the 5 Most Common SEO Mistakes

Here is an article covering some usual mistakes when it comes to Search Engine Optimization. Worth a look if your Optimizing your site and need some basic advice.. Click here to read the article

SlimStat â€” A simple web stats analyser

Slim stat is a great web analyzer program released under the GPL license. Its defenitely worth a look! I have not tested it out yet, but im looking forward to it! Head on over to the site and download a free copy of Slim stats!

Great free After Effects Tutorials

He is what I call a true VFX artist and creator of his own original films. He worked for several Visual Effects studios but his true passion is film-making. He believes that great visual effects are only as good as the purpose they serve in telling a meaningful story. Check out these great tutorials here.. Lets roll!!

5 Free Programs No Web Designer Should Be Without

This site lists and describes 5 different free Windows apps that will help any web designer. Read more here

Iconfinder

This is a pretty cool searchengine for icons. Put in what type of icon your looking for and it comes up with different icons and the license type they have.. Check out the site here..

Colour lovers great Colors & Palettes

At Colour lovers you can get loads of different colors and palettes for your designs! And even better, they got a great function where you can search in Istockphoto’s image database for images with the same colour that your chosen colour palette is.. I dig this great function!! Now you can make your designs streamlined and beautiful with hardly any effort ;o) To the guys at Colour lovers all I gots to sayÂ is WERE NOT WORTHY!! Head on over to their great site and chooose a palette that tickles your fancy!!

Turn your Web 1.0 site into a Web 2.0 site

Slayerment

This isn’t the 80’s. The Internet is now a part of everyone’s life so shouldn’t your archaic beast for a site also be? The answer is yes if you enjoy growth. In spirit of how badass Web 2.0 is I have assembled a list of 12 ways to turn your Web 1.0 site into a Web 2.0 site. Click here for to read this article…

6 Simple Tips for Better CSS

Griffin

Setting up your css can sometimes get a little messy. Here are some good simple tips for setting up your CSS and how to keep it structured neat and nice.. Head on over to mr Griffin to read the rest of this article…

Over 20 great free vector graphics files

Vector

This site offers lots of great free vector graphics files. get em while u can!! Roll on over to Garcya’s site to get some vector…

Free stock photos that are actually good

Stock

I found this great site yesterday which offers free images. The images are pretty good too so you should check it out if you need images for your design. Click here to visit Stockvault.Â Another great site for free good looking stock photos is SXC this site is highly recommended too :o) Enjoy!!