Opinions are bound to vary on such a crucial and potentially controversial subject but … when do you think a design is done? Sure, there are goals to be met, clients to be appeased, but at the end of the day it is the designer who decides when something is actually finished. Is it alright to simply meet the expectations of someone else or do you need to have your own goals continually in mind as well?
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So how did we get here, with our amazing three-dimensional rendering programs that can produce images that compete with reality? Well, it really started back in the 1970s with low-tech 3D modeling software which, at the time, seemed like an amazing advancement. So what’s next? 3D that looks more real than reality itself? Anything seems possible.

Six Revisions is a great website with wonderfully simplified collections of resources for web designers and developers. Just to highlight a few, here is a wonderful collection of 30 CSS Techniques and Examples that are certainly worth a bookmark or a link. Web designers and developers are, as a rule, often not particularly efficient – with that in mind here are 20 Tips and Tools to Improve Efficiency. And for when you finish with a design, here are 7 Tools for Evaluating Your Web Design.

Merging, blending and cross-shading are some of the most difficult tasks in Photoshop. Lots of folks do it successfully to create compelling works of art and strange mutant hybrid animals. So how do they do it? Well, this video will show you how to make a ‘crog’ – a cross between a crocodile and a frog. What you’d need to do this for on a practical level is, of course, your call.

Whether you are just starting out or a seasoned veteran these tools, tutorials, lists and other resources are great sites for any web designer. Organized into helpful categories (design inspiration, CSS resources, web design guides, color tools, free fonts and more) this collection not only has useful resources but also categorized links to other lists with 100s more. If you’re not a designer but still need to create sites you still might be best off spending a few bucks on a web page creation tool with a simple GUI than hiring a designer but can still use the first section below and these great wallpapers to get design inspiration!

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