Designing is fun, if you know how to do it. I know a lot of people are dying to create their own webpages or edit their profiles but just get stumped because of the lack of training and are afraid to tackle the task because they lack the know how. Of course, you could always get the services of professional wed designers and developers who have been doing this for the longest time and have a track record for making high quality sites and designs.
The aim of the article is to help those who lack the funds to do so, or its for those who want to have a crack at just learning a new skill or you just want to put your creative juices to work.
Here are our picks for the week:
1. Profilder - Bored with your layouts and want to create a unique one? Profilder is a cross network layout editor. It includes thousands of patterns, layouts and what is great about it is that you can import and export your layouts with just one click. Now you have a tool to create and design your profiles with simple yet powerful editor.
2. Slick Plan - is an online tool to help you create beautiful and creative flowcharts and sitemaps for Free. The sitemap and flowchart can be exported via PDF or you can get the HTML file.
3. TwitPaper – Is a decorative tool that allows you to show your style and who you are to your family and friends on Twitter. They have plenty of Backgrounds to choose from.
4. Repper - Repper is a cool pattern generator that allows users to create their own patterns. Its an easy way to create your own pattern using your own images for your social network profiles and backgrounds.
5. Family Connections - This tool allows people who have little or no background in design and dev to create their family website. Share pictures and events with your family online.
6. Basekit – Basekit is a website builder and allows people to turn photoshop work into a webpage in seconds. BaseKit is a new way for designers, web designers and web developers to create rich, dynamic websites directly from photoshop designs or by choosing from a selection of pre-built site packs existing within our website showcase. They have made the website creation process really slick – enabling users to turn layered photoshop designs into clean coded web pages in a matter of seconds.
7. iStyler - Is a professional online Design kit. This tool will allow you to create, edit, and share tabless CSS design online.
No matter what your aim is, whether you just want to learn a new skill or try your hand at designing, we hope you can check out the tools. Creativity is in all of us, just finding the right tools to bring them out is the challenge and here we want to help you our readers discover that gem in you.
If you have any other sources or tools you feel will help. Drop us a comment or an email layeredbyte@lrcdesignstudio.com or tweet us @layeredbyte or @lrcdesignstudio.
