Useful Tutorials and Tools for Web Design

Over the process of redesigning AoG Design, I found a few helpful guides and tools that might be useful to others:

Photoshop Guides

• Transparent Glass Lettering in Photoshop


• Glass buttons in Photoshop


• How to Make a Folder Icon

Domain Tools

• SEO Domain Whois Tool - Gives you an SEO score, show keywords your site has, missing alt tags, etc.


• Crazy Egg Analytics - has nice visualization options for web traffic, including a cool heatmap.

Misc

• Icon Drawer - amazing icons which inspired me to make a few custom ones for AoG Design.


• Expression Engine - a really cool PHP CMS that I might use in the future to redo all of my sites.


• Redesigning the ExpressionEngine Site - an article written by the guy who designed the Code Igniter and Expression Engine sites, really interesting read


• PageRank Guide


• Mountain Dew Game Fuel - Surprisingly tasty Mountain Dew (I usually don't like the stuff) that helped me stay up till 7:30am working on the site the first night


• Lorum Ipsum Generator - let's you create random filler text without typing "fjdkafjkfldja" over and over again. As a bonus, the text even looks cool