What’s In Your Design and Development Toolbox?

While working on a simple project today, I realized how much I rely on the many tools at my disposal that allow me to accomplish the things I need to get done very easily.

I'm always sharing these tools with friends and co-workers, and so I ask the question "What's In Your Design and Development Toolbox"? Here are a few of my favorites.
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Two Free 960 Grid Photoshop Templates

For most people who design custom websites, the first step is creating the layout in Photoshop. Having a three or four column template ready is the fastest solution to make sure that your design will fit inside the browser window and that everything is evenly spaced and lined up correctly.
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Friday Freebies for August 28th, 2009

What better way to kick off the end of the monotony of the work week than tons of free stuff like vectors, icons, Photoshop brushes and more? Another in our series of roundups, "Friday Freebies" containing tons of free items for your design projects. Have a great weekend!
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Free Resource: ASCII Symbol to HTML Converter

Do you ever find it hard to remember the html entities for the ASCII characters you’re supposed to use so your code validates when designing a website or while making your next post in your favorite blogging program? If you don’t have them all stored in your memory by now, I may have a little tool that will help you.
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Making Stunning Buttons in Photoshop

Buttons are an important part of a design. Their main purpose is to call a user to action and get them to press it, to make an action happen on the page. Many sites out there simply leave buttons in forms and on pages to the default style and let the users operating system take care of making them look, well, boring. In this tutorial I will show you how to create stunning buttons that will draw attention and get some clicking going on.
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