Resources
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However, if you do refer to them in any blog post(s) of your own, I will expect you to acknowledge the time and effort I put into compiling them by providing a link back to this Resources page. Thanks, in advance for your co-operation and happy blogging! 
blogging polls
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http://basicpoll.com/ - free service lets you easily set up a customized, interactive opinion poll on your site. BasicPoll.com offers an easy-to-use control panel that lets you generate real-time Web polls. No installation is required (as the polls are remotely hosted).
http://polls.blogflux.com/- Blog Flux Polls are the easiest way to add fun and interactive polls to your sites.
http://www.gfxpoll.com/- create a free graphical poll for your website forum or even email.
http://www.htmlpoll.com/ - simple poll that allows for color customization and textareas.
http://luckypolls.com/ - Free polls and surveys for you web site or blog.
http://www.misterpoll.com/ - Free polls with an added feature - free message boards.
http://www.opinionpower.com/ - Three types of polls available for the duration of one month only.
http://poll.pollcode.com/ - A basic poll tool.
http://www.polldaddy.com/ - An online tool, which allows you to create free polls and place them on your website or blog.
http://quibblo.com/ - Free polls, quizzes and surveys.
http://quimble.com/ - A simple poll tool with two extra features poll RSS and poll discussion.
http://www.snappoll.com/ - Create a free online poll for your website by using an easy poll generator.
http://www.vizu.com/ - A sophisticated tool with 10 options. You can include images in questions and answers.
blogging surveys
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http://freeonlinesurveys.com/ - Free easy to use survey builder.
http://simplesample.org/ - A free survey tool for creating, editing, and distributing surveys online.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/- A powerful tool to create and publish custom surveys in minutes, and then view results graphically and in real time.
blogging tools
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http://www.dead-links.com/ - A free broken links checker spider will read the html code and check for the broken links in two categories, internal, from the same host, and external, outgoing link to different domains. Note: the spider doesn’t crawl links inside frames or javascript or flash.
http://www.dead-links.com/check_links.php - A free broken links checker. The spider will crawl one by one each of the addresses you input looking for links to your website within link partners html code. Note: the spider doesn’t crawl links inside frames or javascript or flash.
http://www.recip-links.com/ - A free reciprocal links checker. The spider will crawl one by one each of the addresses you input looking for links to your website within link partners html code. Note: the spider doesn’t crawl links inside frames or javascript or flash.
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/valet/- A free links checker. When you enter the URL of an HTML page on the Web, it will fetch the page, and print a report on it. Link Valet will also spider your site. When a link references another HTML page at the same site and hierarchy as the URL, Link Valet will recursively follow the link and prepare a similar report on the page referenced. Note: the spider doesn’t crawl links inside frames or javascript or flash.
http://wholinkstome.com/ - A free tool for locating and reporting links.
browsers
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http://www.browsercam.com/Default2.aspx - Cross Browser Compatibility Testing Tools. See your web design on any browser on any operating system. Check javascripts, DHTML, forms and other dynamic functionality on any platform. Not just yours. Use a bank of testing machines remotely to test your website.
http://browsershots.org/ - test your web design in different browsers.
http://www.browsrcamp.com/ - allows you to test the compatibility of your design with Mac OS X browsers.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/- The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/recommended - recommended add-ons.
http://www.thesitewizard.com/webdesign/multiplebrowsers.shtml - How to Check Your Website with Multiple Browsers on a Single Machine (Cross-Browser Compatibility Checking)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx - Internet Exlporer 7.
http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/content.aspx?ctId=388#develop - Develop High Performance Web Applications
http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/ - Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple — all your Internet needs in one application
http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/- allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter
http://www.opera.com/ - Download, learn more about the Opera browser or check out the new beta
color tools
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http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html/ - websafe colors - color wheel 4096 Color Wheel Version 2.1 by Jemima Pereira. Free for any use.
http://lab.rails2u.com/bgmaker/- Background Image Maker http://dev.sessions.edu/ilu/ilu_1.html- color calculator. Use it to select a color scheme for a corporate identity or design project. Rotate shapes on the color wheel to identify harmonious color schemes. Adjust saturation and lightness. Save RGB, CMYK, or HTML color values, then send them to a colleague or client.
http://slayeroffice.com/tools/color_palette/- It will create 10 shades of the base color, located top-left, at varying degrees of opacity.
http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/index.php - Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image you want to work with.
http://jrm.cc/color-palette-generator/ - generate color palette based on image.
http://www.colorschemer.com/- a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals. Work with a dynamic visual color wheel, instantly explore harmony relationships and even let ColorSchemer Studio intelligently suggest color schemes for you!
http://www.colorblender.com/- free online color tool for color matching and plaette design
http://www.colourlovers.com/ - Search Thousands of Color Palettes - Search Thousands of Patterns - you’ll find over 284,457 user created color palettes to inspire your creative projects. Get the RSS feed of the latest palettes created or use our pro palette maker to create and share your favorite color combinations
http://colormixers.com/mixers/cmr/- ColorMixers grew out of my simple, yet popular color tool. I’ve updated the design, and made it expandable - I have plans for more variations - “websafe” colors, etc.
http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorsontheweb.asp - The purpose of any web page is to convey information– or at least that should be true for the vast majority of sites. Thus, the use of colors should facilitate this communication. Using the wrong colors is likely to turn your visitors away.
http://www.cgtextures.com/- CGTextures strives to be the worlds best texture site. Being a 3D artist myself, I know how hard it is to create textures without good photo materials. Making textures should be about creativity, not about spending hours looking for the right image on the internet. I hope that by supplying good quality textures in an organized manner, your everyday work will be easier and more enjoyable.
http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla/ - for download - Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies
http://websitetips.com/colortools/sitepro/- This colour schemer tool helps you choose colour schemes for monochromatic, analogic, complimentary, split complementary, triadic, and double contrast. It’s especially great for exploring color combinations easily and quickly.
http://www.colr.org/- colors from images
http://www.easyrgb.com/- Match your computer generated RGB values to color cards, paint lines, inks, fandecks and more… Find an industrial standard match for your computer colors. Transform “virtual” colors in “real world” references.
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/gradient/ - We created this online tool to allow you to painlessly generate a gradient image of 3 types, with instant previewing so you get exactly what you had in mind.
http://www.hscripts.com/tools/web-page-color/ - Use this online website designer tool to play with, change and choose web page, background and font color combination,text size, font family and font style to your website. Find and chart colors that will match and copy the hex code in to your html pages.
http://www.benmautner.com/widerangle/2005/11/html-color-code-combination-chooser.html
http://www.redalt.com/Tools/ilyc.php - I like Your Colors - Type the URI of a page and submit it to see what colors it uses.
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/ - Pick a color value format, input two valid CSS color values in the format you chose, and pick the number of midpoints you’d like to see. The palette will show the colors you input as well as the requested number of midpoint colors, and the values of those colors.
http://realcolorwheel.com/colorwheel.htm - Use this Real Color Wheel to match pigments that are correct colorwheel oppositions.For mixing dark shadow colors with out using black pigment. A color wheel designed for a natural artist painting on location.
http://www.stripegenerator.com/ - the ultimate stripe generator
http://www.stripedesigner.com/ - Stripes, stripes, stripes! You see them everywhere in web2.0 sites but how do you actually create them? Now here is your chance to experiment and make those stripes!
http://www.stripgenerator.com/ - create a comic strip
http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Technicolor/ - a marvelous color tool
http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/big.html - the webmasters color library
css tips
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/webmaster-resources.shtml#css-tips
http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/css-cheat-sheet/
http://www.html.net/tutorials/css/introduction.asp
css tools
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2289
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
http://www.mandarindesign.com/blogger.html
http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/
email address obfuscators
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http://digitalcolony.com/lab/maskemail/maskemailascii.aspx
http://www.coderlab.us/playground/email_encoder.php
http://services.nexodyne.com/email/
http://www.signaturegenerator.net/
http://kontactr.com/
fonts
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_fonts.htm#a01
html tips
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/webmaster-resources.shtml#css-tips
html tools
http://www.ahfb2000.com/tablemakertool2.php?sub=gen_form
http://infohound.net/tidy/
http://validator.w3.org/
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/
image hosting
Related posts: Free Image Hosting Services
http://www.4freeimagehost.com/- upload all the images you would like. When you need to share images on Forums, your Blog, Ebay auctions, classifieds and even your family and friends.
http://www.freeimagehost.eu/- Upload a zip file containing the images. Do not create subfolders. The server will extract the images from the zip file. 100 images max per zip-file. 100mb upload limit.
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/- Filename extensions allowed: gif, jpg, bmp, png Filesize limit: 3,000KB. FreeImageHosting.net is mainly for people who don’t want to use their own bandwidth to share images.
http://www.freepichosting.com/- Unlimited uploads. Host images, videos, documents, and any other file
http://www.freepicturehosting.com/- Upload Unlimited Images. 100mb/month Bandwidth. Branding On Your Images.
http://www.imagecave.com/- Free accounts get enough storage for hundreds of images, and unlimited data transfer! Direct linking and remote loading is what we’re here for!
http://www.imageshack.us/ - You can upload as many files as you want but each image you upload must be less than 1.5 megabytes in size. If it is greater than that amount, your image will be optimized for internet use. Flash files will be rejected if they are over 1.5 mb. Video files must be less than 50MB and they will be automatically optimized.
http://www.imgplace.com/ - provides for basic uploading, flash uploading and zip uploading as well as a gallery option. Content types: “Adult content” or Family Safe”.
http://www.free-webhosts.com/image-hosting/PhotoBucket - free image hosting company for ebay, online auctions, classifieds, message boards, blogs, live journals, and online photo albums. Easily upload, categorize, add titles and delete images. Direct linking is allowed, and there are tutorials for directlinking images on eBay auctions, MySpace, and Xanga. You can upload up to 20 pictures at once and images larger than 1 MB are automatically scaled down.
http:/imagetitan. com - free hosting service for auctions, message boards, guestbooks and more. Hosted on high speed dedicated servers, we are the perfect solution for quick, easy, and reliable hosting. Upload all the pictures you want.
http://www.picshome.com/en/index.php - You can sign up for a free account choosing a username and password that you will use to upload images to your account. A valid email address is required when you join. maximum 300MB
http://www.pictiger.com/- upload images, create a thumbnail from it, resize the image or the thumbnail, create albums, post images to sites, forums, blogs or anywhere - hotlinking to thumbnails allowed.
http://www.screenshots.cc/ - applet upload, common upload and URL upload. Images can be made private and resizing is provided for.
http://www.theimagehosting.com/register.php - unlimited images - upload zip files.
http://www.webasyst.net/photos/ - free and paid accounts. Free accounts limit 50 images; 20 MB. Both Free and Paid accounts include all available features and functions, but Paid accounts have no limitations on the number of images
http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/- Download Webshots Desktop to upload multiple photos at a time and easily manage them - store and share 1000 photos + 100 more for each month of membership.
images
http://aarinfreephoto.com/
We offer free images for personal and commercial use. You may download and use our images on your web site, print ads, brochures or any end products. To maintain your right to use these images, you will need to display the copyright information “© AarinFreePhoto.com” or “images courtesy of AarinFreePhoto.com.” wherever any of these free images are being used, regardless of medium. The copyright information will need to be legible. If these images are in use on a website, a link to our AarinFreePhoto.com is required. Please view our Terms of Use before downloading or using our images.
http://amazingtextures.com/textures/index.php
Welcome to our texture library, we have hundreds of free textures to download, high-resolution textures, images, backgrounds, wallpapers and texture maps. Check out our massive collection of Tiled Textures or see our users Top Textures.
http://www.amgmedia.com/freephotos/
Free Stock Photos for you to use… All these digital photos (taken with Nikon Coolpix) are 72dpi. Click on the thumbnails below to see the larger version for use on your website. You may use any of the royalty free photos shown at right as long as you give credit to the photographer: Ernest von Rosen, www.amgmedia.com
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/
The Image Gallery is provided as a complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
http://www.artfavor.com/
ArtFavor is the collection of vector and flash clipart, sounds, fonts, photos, pictures and images for designers, flash programmers and interested in creative web design. You can use any resources only for non-commercial projects.
