Wallbase lets you find a ton of awesome wallpaper/background images free of charge. You can filter by relevance, date, popularity, or just have it pull up images at random. This is something I’ve been looking for for a long time.
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Great for finding inspiration and/or seeing how the best of the best have designed their mobile experiences.
Organized by categories including navigations, signup flows, user profiles, commenting, activity feeds, etc.
Here’s a great format for startup pitches courtesy of Adeo Ressi. Full info here.
Menus, ribbons, interesting contact forms, slideshows, drop-shadows, and a bunch of other solid CSS3 resources.
- Tets+: 30 tutorial videos that walk you through html and css from the very beginning - for free.
- CSS Tricks: Blog w/ designer interviews, code snippets, downloads, forums, and more. The content is pretty advanced, so it’s best suited for those already with an understanding of CSS.
- Lea Verou: An incredible designer who has developed a set of CSS3 tools that showcase and help you develop patterns, gradients, animations, and more.
- W3 Schools: The standard resource for just about all languages. It’s not the easiest to consume, but it has all the information you’ll ever need in text form - and will almost always appear as a top result for any questions you type into Google.
- Colorzilla Gradient Generator: Tool that makes it easy to create CSS3 gradients.
- Box and Shadow Generator: Tool that makes it easy to create shapes and drop shadows using CSS3.
- Amazing CSS3 Animations: List of 47 cool animations using CSS3 compiled by webdesignerwall.com. It doesn’t show you how to make them, but is a great place for inspiration and to see what CSS3 is capable of.
30 days of 10-minute video tutorials that teach you html and css from the very beginning.
My favorite destination for NY Tech Scene news and insight. Writing style is much freer and honest, with headlines that’ll give you a laugh.
Tech.li is a tech blog most of you probably haven’t heard of. It’s a startup media outlet based in Chicago that focuses on innovation in the Midwest. It’s content is very different that the mainstream outlets, and definitely something to check out when looking for companies in the Midwest.
