Resources

April 21, 2020

- The greatest platform for E-commerce. Makes everything from A-Z simple and efficient.

- Freelance work for cheap. Be careful who you use, as everyone has a different skill set that may not translate over to other areas. For example someone who creates quick video animations may not be right for menu design.

- A fiverr alternative with great talent as well.

- Another freelance/talent alternative

- A wonderful resource for backgrounds and videos.

SOFTWARE + APPS

They offer up all sorts of free apps for web designers, including an HTML editor, web form builder, shopping cart designer, and more.

Powerful prototyping and collaboration tools.

Edit images on your computer.

Easy graphic design software for anyone.

Free infographic templates.

PHOTOS

SYMBOLS + ICONS

Looking for symbols or icons to use on your website? Look no further.

Tons of free icon sets, including weather icons, social icons, line icons, and many others.

More than 2800 boldly graphic icons in a few different styles.

Over 350 free vector icons for mobile and web designs.

An icon font with 170 different icons to choose from.

A symbol font that allows you to add symbols to your websites.

Generates icon font packs.

Download vector icons or include icons as webfonts.

Search a noun, get a free symbol or icon.

Free icon library.

Customize and optimize social media icons for your site.

60 free vector Photoshop icons.

Free quirky and professional icon bundles.

FONTS

Fonts are such a crucial part of design that they can be easy to overlook. Look here instead, and find the fonts to take your design to the next level.

Add fonts to your website in just a few clicks.

Hundreds of totally free fonts.

Check out a curated collection of the most beautiful Google Webfonts.

Gorgeous pay-what-you-can fonts.

COLORS

Need help dialing in the best colors for your design? These color tools are at your service.

A gallery of Material Design and flat design colors to use in your designs.

Start with any color and get a palette (with 5 shades per color) based on a few different color scheme patterns: monochromatic, adjacent, triad, tetrad, or custom.

Tons of great color palettes taken from photographs. You can search by keyword or for similar colors.

Choose from different types of color pairings and save your color palettes.

Generate a color palette based on 2 colors.

The name says it all.

Ditto.

Flat color picker.

Color palette generator.

Free color picker download.

Check out the exact colors that major brands use.

Find the perfect color variation you’re looking for.

Browse user color palettes and add your own to the community.

Generates color palettes based on images.

BACKGROUNDS + TEXTURES

Photos, fonts, and colors aren’t the end of a design—you also need backgrounds and textures to holds them all together. Find yours with these tools.

Tons of funky, bold, and bright repeating patterns to choose from.

Amazing repeating patterns from around the world.

All the textures you could ever want: grunge, rust, plaster, concrete, dirt, and many more.

Create your own patterns using Font Awesome icons. Customize the background color, canvas size, and shape transparency.

Free downloadable patterns.

Free textures in a ton of categories, including cardboard, stone, metal, bubbles, seamless, and more.

Create seamless patterns with customizable colors, shapes, and more.

DOMAIN NAME SEARCH ENGINES

A domain search and registrar. (Don't use Godaddy, they bombard you with ads and their interface isn't user friendly.)

A powerful domain name search engine that helps you find domains that are short, fun, common, similar, and various other qualifiers.

Enter a keyword or two and get a list of available domains that incorporate them.

Describe what you want in two words and Panabee will generate a list of potential domain names.

Generate random domain names based on one word.

Search for a domain name by keyword.

FRAMEWORKS, TEMPLATES, CODE PACKS, + THEMES

Here is a list of frameworks, templates, and themes you can use.

A blank, responsive WordPress theme boilerplate that follows the official WordPress Codex best practices and requirements.

An advanced responsive framework that’s one of the most popular out there.

Create mobile apps using the web technologies you know and love.

Quickly generate a template based on HTML5 Boilerplate.

A modern, responsive framework based on Google’s Material Design specifications.

If you want to create WordPress plugins, the Plugin Boilerplate is a standardized, object-oriented starting point.

A basic starting point for creating your websites so you don’t have to recreate everything from scratch each time.

The first and the best. Free HTML5 boilerplate code.

Free fully responsive HTML5 template.

A framework for CSS that’s only 1 line long!

A Skillcrush favorite.

A basic template for developing your first WordPress theme.

Free WordPress template for developers.

WordPress template for building out a brand new theme.

A WordPress starter theme based on HTML5 boilerplate and Bootstrap.

A clean, basic WordPress theme for developers.

A responsive HTML, CSS, and JS framework.

Free themes for Bootstrap.

CODE STYLE GUIDES

A collection of resources, best practices, inspiration, and reference materials for modern coding. There are also sections filled with tools and additional resources and language-specific information.

Google Developers Web Fundamentals

A comprehensive resource for web development best practices, right from Google. Perfect for both new developers and those who want to make their projects better.

Before you deploy a website or app, be sure to check out these best practices to make sure everything goes smoothly.

GitHub’s very own code style guide.

Google’s code style guide.

A code style guide from the pros at Mozilla.

Also in OUR THOUGHTS

FBA Vs. Shopify: What Amazon Sellers Need To Know

March 18, 2021

Building a threat-proof ecommerce store is not exactly possible as there are always threats and vulnerabilities waiting to be exploited. However, building an infrastructure that does not rely on one main sales channel is crucial for long term survival. This is an evergreen philosophy that has the most effective strategy in the face of instability. Furthermore, if we have learned anything over the last year, it’s that nothing is 100% stable. When a crisis hits, it hits hard and the best plan is to have a backup plan.

Fear is a Killer

March 16, 2020

Fear is a killer and fear is a pandemic.

Fear fear itself.

In business and in life, the one thing that prevents positive change is fear.

The world cycles through new and old, phases through good and bad, repositions the “numbers ones,” gives weight to the light, and accelerates the persistent.