Came across a pretty neat “people search” website, called Spock. It’s still in its beta stages, but its a pretty neat site that bring up thumbnails with results which makes it a lot easier for determining if the results are exactly what you want. Its a pretty fun tool to use when your either looking for information on someone, or just fiddling around in your down time.

Check it out at Spock.com

Website’s dedicated to providing web 2.0 templates, tools, and generators for creating quick and easy logo’s, badges, and other graphic media.

We figured we’d share this one with our community, it’s called “TypeTester”. It is an online resource for comparing screen font’s side by side. We’ve found it to be a useful tool in certain situations, let us know how it goes TypeTester - The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary

Finding complementary and primary colors for a pre-existing site or image can be a very daunting task. This utility comes in handy and can save you a bundle of time. It scans any image that you upload (or you can choose a url) and it tells you what color’s work best with it, as well as what colors are in the image’s main focus.

Have you ever wanted to find out what font was used in a flattened image? A font just like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad campaigns? Well now you can, using the WhatTheFont font recognition system. All you do is upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in there database. If WhatTheFont can’t figure it out, you can submit your image…

Finding freelance gig’s can be a difficult task sometimes, especially when anyone that knows the basics of browsing the web can easily “claim” they are a professional web designer. These website’s might not land you the 3k+ contracts (normally don’t), but they sure do come in handy when business is slow and your looking for small things to pass some time.

BEGINNER RESOURCES

SiteKreator - You can instantly design, build and host a fully-branded website for personal or business use.

Leafletter - Allows you to create a “little web site” that you can then distribute anywhere (social networks, blogs, other websites).

SynthaSite - Browser-based website creation tool that allows you to collaborate with friends or colleagues. Also has lots of widgets, templates and other components you can use.

Weebly - With…

Our list of Open Source Web Design Programs

Why pay for software if you can find it free? Usually, the answer is that the free stuff just plain isn’t any good. You won’t find that to be the case with the open source web design software programs in this section however, these are the best of the best.