*reprint from article written for the Joomla Community Magazine - August 2008 Issue
Site Integrator: Resources for Designers
Great ideas for finding design ideas
One of the things I love the best about the Joomla! Community is how people share tips, tricks and resources with each other. Hopefully with this article I will be sharing some new resources to add to your designer "toolbox", some that I have used for years and some recently shared with me by others.
The first resource, and one that I use every day, multiple times a day is Google. Google is your friend when it comes to searching for that special css technique that fixes a specific problem, or trying to find out why your design may not look the same in different browsers. It is also the place I turn to to find tutorials for image editing, web design layouts and just generally finding good information quickly.
CSS Resources
I have a love/hate relationship with CSS, and I think you would be hard pressed to find a designer that doesn't. The template forums are full of questions regarding CSS and why it is or is not working. Fortunately there are a huge number of sites dedicated to CSS from beginner level all the way up to experimental, cutting edge techniques. I have a list of sites I regularly visit to keep up on CSS techniques that would be way to long for this article, but I do want to share a few of my favorites.