This cool post on Design Vitality lists a bunch of sites and tools for website designers including:

• open source web design programs
• website templates & css layouts
• automated CSS tools and generators
• blog themes & templates

Colorjack is a cool open source color picker DHTML tool that allows you to add a color picker to your web project.

Another related plugin (seemingly still under development) is Sphere, which is a color picker based on a color wheel.

Check out moe cool Javascript Design Tools and widgets.=

This spiffy Stripe Generator tool makes it super easy to create seamless, efficient, striped backgrounds.

Drop the generated images in your designs for that fab Web 2.0 -ey look. 😉

Are you a Web Designer?

If so, check out A List Apart’s first annual Web Design Survey, meant to “increase knowledge of web design and boost respect for the profession.”

Visit soon, because it’s only open until May 22, 2007.

Another local designer and I have started the Gig Harbor Web Design Meetup Group and our first meeting is on May 5, 2007.

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