Website Design Tips - Hypergurl

Icon creators, desktop capture software, web album generators and syntax highlighting notepads

Here are 4 free downloads that are handy to keep in your web design toolbox.

@icon sushi

@icon sushi is a free icon generator that comes in handy when you want to make your own favicons. This software helps you to import an image, edit it if needed then convert it to an icon. You can also make an icon from scratch if you don't have an image you want to use.

Download @icon sushi

Wink

Wink is a free desktop capture software that helps you to create tutorials for your visitors. This is especially useful for tutorial web site owners that want to make lessons in flash, pdf, HTML or exe format. Wink will enable you to capture screenshots and mouse movements. Then you can add explanation boxes, buttons and titles.

Download Wink

Web Album Generator

Web Album Generator allows you to generate HTML pages to display your digital photographs, even if you have no knowledge of web site design. You simply add each photograph, type in a title and caption then create your web pages by a press of a button. This generator can also be used to create thumbnail albums of any images. For exampe, if you enjoy creating web site backgrounds then use this album generator to create your thumbnail layouts for your pages. Here is sample webpage created with Web Album Generator: http://www.ornj.net/webalbum/sample/

Download Web Album Generator

NotePad++

NotePad++ is a terrific piece of software that is useful for programmers or web site designers to help them create their code. I guess you can think of it as an advanced notepad. The following features are what makes this editor popular with web site designers:

1. HTML (and embedded php, java script) Syntax highlighting and folding
2. XML Syntax highlighting and folding
3. Multi-Document and Multi-View
4. Asp Syntax highlighting and folding
5. Go to line number
6. Java Syntax highlighting and folding
7. SQL Syntax Highlighting

Download NotedPad++