Stuck For Inspiration?

Check out the below link for some cool sites to take some inspiration from.

You can search by colour, design or type of site:

http://www.designmeltdown.com

Browser Tests and Compatibility Issues

More interesting articles from the people at Smashing Magazine about browser popularity, useful links to download multiple versions of each one (the IE link is also featured on this blog) and some interesting research has been done into visitor habits with their browsers....

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/10/02/browser-tests-services-and-compatibility-test-suites

Enjoy....

Sexy Modern Fonts

Good site for downloading and viewing popular Web 2.0 fonts

http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/great-fonts-for-web-2.0

I haven't looked through them all so dunno which one's are free to download and which ones require a donation but check 'em out anyway.

Rainlendar - A customizable desktop calendar

A useful application for keeping track of daily tasks, meetings, birthdays etc, if you are like me and easily forget them unless they happen to be right in your face!

http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php

There are 2 versions - Lite (free) and Pro (15 euros). The Lite version will do the job sufficiently and it also comes with different skins as well.

Free Download - Ruby On Rails

The kind folks at SitePoint are offering a free download of Patrick Lenz's 'Build Your Own Ruby On Rails Web Applications' in PDF format.

http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails1/freebook.php

This is only available for a 60 day period and expires on 30th November 2007.

n.b. Please note this is a complete book and as such includes the download of a 20mb file.... so be patient!

Two Other Useful Blog Sites

On a similar kind of theme to this one, there are 2 other blogs for you to pick up useful tips from:

http://bytemedesign.blogspot.com - Russell Harman
http://grevsterstudios.blogspot.com - Robert Greville

New Link Added - Design Site

Good site for design techniques and useful tips for logo design, colours and font styles.

http://www.bamagazine.com

It's been added to the links list.