1.Colorful Chart Icon

Author: Cemagraphics

2.Mouse Category Season

Author: Denghao

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How you showcase your portfolio is very important for any freelancer or design company. It reflects the way you do business, your attention to details and gives an overall feel of professional work. It can mean the difference from getting or losing clients.

To enrich your portfolio showcase you can use Javascripts based on the Prototype or Moo.Fx libraries, scripts such as Litebox, LightBox 2, Highslide JS, ThickBox & many others. These all work just fine, but are a bit too common these days. If you want something special, you have to go the extra distance, XML Flash based gallery scripts.

Here are some resources you can try. They all use XML and ActionScript and are fully customizable.

3D XML Flash Thumbnail Box

3D XML Flash Curve Wall

Spiral Carousel XML Flash script

3D XML Flash Cylinder Box

This is the wonderful list of 17 free and online web based tools for designers and developers which may be very helpful for you as well when you are at work. Designers and Developers will must like this list but you can also use them and will love whether you are office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known but, they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

FontStruct

FontStruct is a free font-building tool lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. Once you’re done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.

Whats its color

Whats its color is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image’s primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image.

DamnIT

DamnIT is a free service that emails you when a user encounters a JavaScript error in your webpages. You’ll receive detailed automated error information instead of vague bug descriptions.

Scrumy

Scrumy is a simple and intuitive way to do Scrum project management. At its core, Scrumy is a virtual taskboard, and is free. Scrumy Pro has more Scrum-specific features like multiple sprints, burndown charts, and daily snapshots.

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Snap2Objects.com released this fine icons set which consists of 15 high resolution icons in various sizes and formats. From .ico and .png files to a layered PSD file with sizes from 512px down to 16px.

The icons set is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License and can be downloaded from its official website.

Details : 3 fixed columns, Flickr, Twitter and delicious integration, thumbnail cover design.

Details : 2 columns, right sidebar, wodget ready, 125×125 ad zones, footer widgets, cross-browser compatible (Internet Explorer 6.0+, Firefox 2+, Opera 9+, Safari 3+ and Chrome 0.2+)

Requirements : Wordpress 2.6+

Demo : ZinePress – Free Wordpress Theme demo

Download : ZinePress – Free Wordpress Theme download

Free design templates don’t have to be unattractive, inaccurate and boring. Some web-sites offer high quality templates for the best price you would ever get – for free. You can download Flash-based templates as well as CSS-based layouts absolutely free; furthermore, you can use them for your personal and commercial projects without any restrictions whatsoever. Still, before using some of the templates, throw a glance at the license agreements – they’re changing all the time. Links checked: Nov/21st. 2008.

Free CSS-Based Design Templates

• Free CSS Templates
  There are 105 CSS Templates in the database at the moment.
• Art for the web
  Free web templates
  
  
• TemplatesBox
  Free Website Templates, Free Photoshop Web Templates
• Template Monster
  Web Templates, Flash Templates, Website Templates Design
• TemplateNavigator
  Free Web Templates | Free Flash Templates. TemplateNavigator.com is the largest on the net catalogue of free and professional website templates and free flash templates.
• DotcomWebDesign Providing free site layouts, web page layouts, website templates & site templates for the free Content Management System, cmsimple.

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Feng-GUI is a free web based service that enables you to view: “which areas of an UI is getting the most attention when an user looks at it in 5 seconds”.

With an artificial intelligence behind, the service generates a heatmap over an image uploaded.

Generated heatmap’s opacity can be changed for a better view & can be viewed in a bigger modal window or downloaded.

Feng-GUI is very handy to get another thought -about a user interface designed- other than the collagues, customers..

Website: http://www.feng-gui.com/

Thoughtpile is a challenging project that gives you the chance to win a new Embody chair by  Hermon Miller. Participate by adding your thoughts to the pile.

Link: http://www.thoughtpile.org/