With 3DPlus, you can add a new dimension to your website graphics, presentations and desktop publishing projects.

3DPlus – free 3D modeling features:

• Camera Control – View your scene from any angle with six preset camera positions & freeform orbiting. It is perfect for adding a new slant to your designs & aligning objects in 3D.
• Automatic Animation – Create fantastic animations in seconds with the easy-to-use, yet powerful 3D animation tools and instant special effects. Then export your masterpieces as animated GIFs to spice up your websites and presentation or email them to your friends & colleagues.
• 3D QuickShapes – work like intelligent clipart so there’s no need to draw objects from scratch. Just drag the shapes to the desired size & customize them.
• Gallery – Choose from a range of 3D models, backgrounds, textures and fills, all easily accessible from 3DPlus’ easy-to-use gallery.
• 3D Objects & Materials – Select from a multitude of materials, patterns & textures in the 3DPlus Library to create awesome animations.
• 3D Model – With the 3D Model format you can apply your choice of textures, colours and bevels to complex clip-art objects, with separate material controls for front, sides, and back. The built-in DirectX Support also makes for speedier rendering.
• Text & Effects – Add text in the style of your choice & apply textures, bevels & shadows to create stunning eye-catching effects.
• Direct Output Preview – The Export dialog features a built in window so you can preview color depth, dithering and palette settings in a single step before conversion. Even embed your 3D designs directly into your publications using OLE.

To download the free version of 3DPlus, go to the Download page. It is free for personal use only and allows you to install on only one PC.

To learn how to create 3D designs and animations with 3DPlus, visit the Tutorial Page.

3DPlus – Free 3D Animation Software is a post from: TechieQuest

With ColorBlender you can choose to make your own palette selection of colors by either moving the RGB (Red/Green/Blue) or HSV (Hue/Saturation/Value) sliders or entering the values. You can also pick from hundreds of choices that have been submitted by other users. You can create your own palette, save it for future use. All saved blends are stored on ColorBlender’s server, and only an ID is saved on your computer. ColorBlender will give you a single URL to open your current blend directly. You can easily send the blend URL via email to your friends.

The “Photoshop Color Table (.ACT)” button will let you download the blend as a small file that can be imported into Adobe Photoshop. ColorBlender also allows you to export the blend into .eps file to be used in Illustrator by clicking the “Illustrator Color (.EPS)” button.

To fine tune your colors, you can change to “Direct Edit” mode. In this mode you can click each of the 6 color swatches to edit each color individually by using RGB or HSV sliders.

ColorBlender really makes color-picking easy. What I like about ColorBlender is that I can save my color palette and export the colours to a Photoshop Color Table or as a eps file for use in Illustrator. ColorBlender is a free online tool, you can visit http://colorblender.com/ to make your own color palette.

ColorBlender – Web Based Color Matching and Palette Design is a post from: TechieQuest

fo.reca.st surveys allow you to design online surveys, collect responses from the visitors of your blog or website, analyze them and finally present the survey results – all using only your web browser and for free.

fo.reca.st features:

• Easily Embed into your Website – Embed your survey in any place on your website or blog easily with HTML code.
• Free – fo.reca.st is free, you can register at http://fo.reca.st/surveys/register.
• Powerful Layout – You can create different layouts with just several clicks – choose the font, color, dimension and placement of your survey components and check created layout with the on-the-fly preview.
• Rich Content – add images, videos, sounds or use the powerful rich text editor to format your text information.

fo.reca.st functional limitations:

• Limited to 10 surveys per account
• Limited to 30 questions per survey
• Unlimited number of answers per survey
• Limited to 10 answer options per questions
• Limited to 10 media items per question

You can view and manage all surveys you’ve created in My Survey page. To create a new survey, click on the ‘add a new survey’ and give it a title. Then add your questions with description and answer options. You can also change the style, image, color and size for the display of your questions. You can publish your survey and post the link on your website or in your blog or you can send this link via email to allow visitor to take part in your survey.

fo.reca.st – Web-Based Surveys Made Easy is a post from: TechieQuest

Taskee is a hosted website task management tool for small and medium size web design companies. Taskee simplifies website task management communication process and makes it easier and cheaper to collaborate during website testing process.

Taskee appears as a button on the upper right corner of the browser page. It has a very simple and easy to use interface. You can directly add tasks or comments while you are on the web page. For more on how to use Taskee, read the 6 Quick Steps to Use Taskee.

Taskee is a powerful website testing tool for website designers where developers, testers and clients can communicate while testing an online project. It is easier to collaborate during the website testing process and to manage tasks, comments and bug reports from your colleagues, clients and testers.

With Taskee, you can:

• See a list of URLs that have tasks assigned.
• Click on a URL to see tasks related to it.
• Assign and manage tasks related to the URL you are viewing.
• Comment on tasks.
• Write a new comment to all users of Taskee.
• Switch between projects directly in Taskee.
• Users are notified about new tasks by email.

There is no download or installation. Simply make a quick registration and you will be provided with 2 lines of Taskee code (Javascript). Copy and paste the Taskee code into your website <body> tag:

<body bgcolor=”#00FFCC”>
<<Your Taskee Code here>>
<<Rest of the website HTML>>
</body>

Give Taskee a try! It’s a wonderful testing tool for web applications. For more information about Taskee and the demo, visit http://www.taskee.com.

Taskee – Website Testing Communication Tool is a post from: TechieQuest

YSlow analyzes the page’s components, including downloaded components, using advanced techniques and tells you why they’re slow based on Yahoo’s 13 identified basic rules for high performance web sites.

To run YSlow, select Performance, Stats, or Components, or right-click YSlow in the status bar. When YSlow analyzes the page, the Firebug window displays the Performance view, and the status bar at the bottom of the window displays the overall grade for the page, and its size.

How YSlow works:

1. YSlow crawls the DOM to find all the components (images, scripts, stylesheets, etc.) in the page.
2. YSlow gets information about each component: size, whether it was gzipped, Expires header, etc. YSlow gets this information from Firebug’s Net panel if it’s available. If the component’s information is not available from Net panel (for example, the component was read from cache or it had a 304 response) YSlow makes an XMLHttpRequest to fetch the component and track its headers and other necessary information.
3. YSlow takes all this data about the page and generates a grade for each rule, which produces the overall grade.

YSlow gives you:

• Performance report card
• HTTP/HTML summary
• List of components in the page
• Tools including JSLint

With YSlow, you can:

• Build faster web pages
• Reduce your end-user response times
• Get the most potential for improvement by focusing on the front-end

YSlow also allows you to view results from the Performance, Stats, and Components views in printer friendly format.

You must install Firebug in order to use YSlow. Once Firebug is installed, download YSlow from http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow and follow the prompts to install it. Firebug must be enabled, and the Firebug window must be open to run YSlow and view the results. For more on how to use and customize YSlow, visit the Help page.

YSlow is licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 1.1, with portions licensed by third parties under other license terms. To review the terms before installing, see License.

YSlow – Speed Up Your Web Pages is a post from: TechieQuest

With Photoscrape, you can use a number of different tools such as Brightness, Auto Contrast, Whitebalance, Sharpen, Blur, Noise Reduction, Red Eye Removal, and more to edit your pictures. There is also a printing option that allows you to combine multiple photos on a single page according to the paper size.

Photoscape’s – Free Digital Photo Editor Software features:

• Viewer – View your folders photos, slideshow
• Editor – resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming
• Batch editor – Batch editing multiple photos
• Page – Make one photo by merging multiple photos at the page frame
• Combine – Make one photo by attaching multiple photos vertically or horizontally
• Animated GIF – Make one animation photo with multiple photos
• Print – Print portrait shot, carte de visite, passport photo
• Screen Capture – Capture your screenshot and save it
• Color Picker – Zoom in screen on images, search and pick the color
• Rename – Change photo file names in batch mode
• Raw Converter – Convert RAW to JPG

For more screenshots, visit http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/screenshot.php. Photoscape is compatible with Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista, you can download it free from Photoscape Download page.

Photoscape – Digital Photo Editing Software is a post from: TechieQuest

You can easily create free web forms, web databases and email forms including Contact us forms, Feedback forms, Events registration forms, Surveys, Online Polls, Order forms, Invitations, Bugs track, Mailing list, Media collection(movies, music), Address book and any type of business forms and online forms. The created forms can be used as local/internal forms to manage information, or may be defined as ‘public forms’ and embedded in a web sites, blogs or social community pages.

Our forms may be embedded in your website, blog, or may be used internally. Forget all you know about databases and forms creation – our form builder is a WYSIWYG tool and it requires zero coding skills. It enables a user to easily create web forms and web databases such as:Contact us forms, Feedback forms, Events registration forms, Surveys, online Polls, Order forms, Invitations, CRM…oh, yes…it’s free of charge.

FormLogix also provides a web database management tool to manage and analyze all data accumulated through the form effectively. This web database management tool is available for published as well as internal forms and it contains the abilities to sort, filter, delete, edit, chart and much more.

FormLogix features:

• WYSIWYG form maker tool
• No knowledge required in programming
• Full drag and drop support
• Link forms technology (c)
• Data validation
• Database storage
• Email per data entry
• Repeatable fields & sections
• A wide range of data entry controls and html elements
• Embed your form into your websites
• Share your forms’ data
• Public and Secured access to forms and reports
• Export data
• Create web forms
• Web based applications
• Professional data analysis tool
• Survey tool
• Create web databases
• Customize the look and feel of your html web form
• Link your forms within other forms.
• Share your web forms, web pages and data
• Can easily be incorporated into existing web application or site.
• Multi-lingual, RTL Support

With FormLogix, you will be able to create your web forms without any coding or graphic skills. You can access, alter and manage your form and data from anywhere.

There is no download or installation. For more help on how to use FormLogix, visit the Help Center where you can find manuals, tutorials, FAQ and glossary. For more screenshots, visit the Sample page.

FormLogix – Online HTML Form Builder Tool is a post from: TechieQuest

RobotReplay records visitor sessions on every mouse movement and click, keystroke, where users click, how far down the page they scroll, how long they stay on a site and then lets you watch your visitors actions as a movie.

RobotReplay complements existing web analytics tools like Google Analytics, StatCounter or ClickTracks, and generates little ‘movies’. We merged ‘cinema’ and ‘analytics’ and got ‘cinelytics’.

The idea behind RobotReplay is that website owners can see first hand how people are using their site and this will help them organize their site content to improve usability. But website visitors are not aware they are being recorded unless the site owner decides to disclose that information to them.

I guess this RobotReplay will make most website visitors a little uncomfortable. I think RobotReplay will make the best use for web development debugging purposes. This of course helps developers understand how users generate errors, and where they have to improve. What do you think?

RobotReplay is free, you can sign up and start monitor your users. RobotReplay supports all modern browsers and operating systems. For browsers, that means Mozilla Firefox 1.0 and later, Internet Explorer 6.0 and later, Opera 8.0 and later and Netscape 8.0 and later.

RobotReplay – Record and Watch Your Users Intereact with the Internet is a post from: TechieQuest

Color Scheme Chooser GX is based on classic color theory pioneered by Johannes Itten in the mid 1900s. Johannes Itten developed a new kind of color wheel that uses yellow, red and blue as its primary colors.

Color Scheme Chooser GX includes all the classic color schemes: Monochromatic, Analogic, Complementary, Split Complementary, Triadic, and Double Contrast.

1. Monochromatic Color Scheme – uses the same color (hue) but changes the brightness and saturation to achieve different shades and tints.
2. Analogic Color Scheme – uses 3 adjacent colors. The base color plus two colors 30° either side. The distance (degrees can be adjusted for different effects).
3. Analogic and Complimentary Color Scheme – uses the analogic colors scheme and includes the complimentary color.
4. Complimentary Color Scheme – uses colors on the opposite side of the color wheel. The complimentary colors are always warm and cool together.
5. Split Complimentary Color Scheme – Similar to complimentary but chooses the adjacent colors 30° each way of the compliment.
6. Double Complimentary Color Scheme - uses the complimentary color scheme and includes one color 30° back from each.
7. Triadic Color Scheme – uses the colors at 120° around the color wheel (360°).

Color Scheme Chooser GX is very easy to use, just input RGB or Hex values or drag the RGB sliders to change the base color. Drag the target slider to change the base hue, saturation or brightness. The preview occurs in real-time. When adjusting the color scheme, you immediately see your changes on the available samples. You can choose different color schemes (explained above) by selecting them in the drop menu.

Color Scheme Chooser GX is a great color matching tool, you can find the best matching colors for your design.

Color Scheme Chooser GX- Color Schemes and Palettes Generator for Your Design is a post from: TechieQuest

Weebly is a powerful interface for simplying the web creation process. Data-driven elements allow near-infinite customizability, and content created through Weebly can be published on any server.

Recently, Weeble added a few new features:

• completely re-designed the editing interface
• host your website at your domain for free.
• integrated SnipShot image editing so that users can edit, crop, resize and retouch images within the Weebly interface.
• added the Custom HTML element that lets you integrate items. Weebly doesn’t support yet (ie. rockyou slideshows).
• able to upload files of all types, like PDFs, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, etc.
• revamped editing and page management interface.
• Multiple column layouts (2 column, 3 column, etc)
• New photo gallery element.
• A contact form element.
• Type in address for Google maps
• Paste in the URL for Google, YouTube videos
• 7 new themes.

You can simply create a website, add pages, then drag and drop its elements (like title, text pictures, videos, Google maps, Flickr feed, ads and more) anywhere on the page. No HTML knowledge is required. To customize these elements, double click them and choose from a simple set of drop-down options. When you are satisfied with your design, preview it, set the properties of the page and publish it live. Different themes are also available and can be interchangeable on the fly. Weebly also supports any Javascript-based elements.

This is a great tool for minimizing your time on site design to concentrate on the content. Changing the look and feel of a site is easier with Weebly than with any other site designer I’ve seen. Currently, Weebly is compatible with Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

You can play around with their live demo. For more information on Weebly, visit the Help page.

Weebly – AJAX Style Website Creator is a post from: TechieQuest