Free Web Design Resources

Ready to start making your own website?

Web design is great fun at times, frustrating at others, but it's always rewarding and can even be free! This section is filled with free stuff for your website including web design resources and tools to help you on your way to completing the website of your dreams.

Learn the basics of web design with the tutorials, add interactive content to your website, like guest books and forums, find a server to host it for free... and when you're ready find out how to promote and make money from your website.

This section is where Webweaver started. I was brand new to the Web and wanted to make my own webpage. The problem was I had no idea where to begin and didn't want to spend money on it while learning. Slowly my bookmark file began getting filled lists of free design resources and services, so I uploaded that to my first website. Along the way other people found that list and eventually I turned it into the main focus of that site. Webweaver was born shortly after. I hope it's as helpful to you as it has been for me =)

Handy, Free Stuff for Web Developers

Before you go wandering off, here's a couple resources that are worth checking out. Yes, they might be sponsors, but they offer great products and/or services for your website, and yes... I do use all of them personally.

Organize your pictures. Get Google's photo software.
Organize, edit and share your photos, clipart or any other type of image you want with this handy free image software from Google. Picasa is extremely easy to use and has a ton of handy features like tagging with labels to make it easier to find the photo you're looking for, star ratings to easily find your favorites, and the ability to password-protect any Picasa collection you'd prefer to keep private! Very handy for any web developer who has a collection of images for many different sites!

Firefox with Google Toolbar
OK, it's not directly a tool just for a webmaster, but there are a ton of extensions that make it incredibly useful (Web Developer Toolbar, HTML Validator, DOM Inspector and Live HTTP Headers just to name a few). And it's faster, safer and well.. in my opinion, better than Internet Explorer.
The web developer in me wants proper css support, and the surfer in me want a safe, secure and fast way to wander the web. Well, FireFox delivers both and it's totally customizable! It's been my default browser since it was still in beta. Download it and see for yourself!

Bravenet
They offer tons of free resources for your website including Human Click (visitors can see if you're online and page you, right from your website!), polls, guest books, forums, chat rooms, free storage space, tickers, password protection and much more (way to much to list here!).