{"id":2953,"date":"2015-01-12T05:42:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T05:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cnickerson.com\/?page_id=2953"},"modified":"2024-03-09T12:59:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T12:59:46","slug":"design-goodies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cnickerson.com\/woo\/design-goodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Goodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I design, I&#8217;m often searching for different graphics and images to use for websites or craft projects. Yes, I could probably create many of these myself, but it&#8217;s much more efficient to use something that&#8217;s already available than re-inventing the wheel. My favorites are free or reasonable-cost resources.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"fa-ul\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativefabrica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Fabrica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"Fonts, Graphics, Themes and More\" href=\"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Market<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"The Fancy Deal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefancydeal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Fancy Deal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"Free Flat Icons\" href=\"http:\/\/flaticons.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FlatIcons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"freeimages\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freeimages.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FreeImages<\/a> (formerly stock.xchng)<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"Free PSD, Graphic &amp; Web Design Resources\" href=\"https:\/\/www.graphicsfuel.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Graphics Fuel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"Free textures\" href=\"http:\/\/lostandtaken.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lost and Taken<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"Free vector graphics\" href=\"http:\/\/openclipart.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Openclipart<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"Free stock photos\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pexels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"Royalty Free Stock Photos &amp; Images\" href=\"http:\/\/photodune.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PhotoDune<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"Free Images\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixabay<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"Pixel 77 Freebies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pixel77.com\/freebies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixel77<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"PixelBuddha\" href=\"http:\/\/pixelbuddha.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PixelBuddha<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"Subtle website background patterns\" href=\"http:\/\/subtlepatterns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subtle Patterns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"Unsplash\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My CSS Heroes! These are some handy sites and resources from some amazing people who really know their CSS. These sites are where I go when I need tips on solving CSS puzzles, or when I just want to learn something new for the fun of it:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"fa-ul orange\">\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"Jen Simmons\" href=\"http:\/\/jensimmons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jen Simmons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"Rachel Andrew\" href=\"https:\/\/rachelandrew.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Andrew<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i class=\"fa-li fa fa-cog\"><\/i><a title=\"Stu Nichols\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cssplay.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stu Nicholls &#8211; CSS Play<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chris Coyier (he writes about frontend stuff at <a title=\"CSS Tricks\" href=\"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/author\/chriscoyier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boost<\/a> now). Founder and former owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CSS Tricks<\/a>, which is now owned (and pretty much abandoned as far as new content) by Digital Ocean. Fortunately, the archives are still there, at least for now.<\/li>\n<li>Here are a few more CSS sites <a href=\"https:\/\/chriscoyier.net\/2024\/02\/28\/where-im-at-on-the-whole-css-tricks-thing\/#comment-56588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris mentioned<\/a> in a comment thread:\n<ul class=\"fa-ul orange\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/css-irl.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CSS { In Real Life }<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/css-articles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CSS Articles by Temani Afif<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/moderncss.dev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Modern CSS Solutions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I design, I&#8217;m often searching for different graphics and images to use for websites or craft projects. 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