COLORBURNED - Professional Design Resources - 63 Extraordinary Companies that Support the Design Community

As bloggers and designers, we're used to getting a lot of things for free. Free content is an excellent way to bring new visitors to your website and many visitors these days expect to see free content. Personally, I love giving away free content; I love receiving it too but as a blogger and supporter of the design community, I think it's very important to not only visit my favorite sites but to also support those site's sponsors.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I decided to write this post and say thanks to the advertisers who keep the design community alive and keep much of the content free. Listed below are as many advertisers as I could find that advertise in the design community. I encourage you all to visit these sites and support them as best as you can.

DESIGN GALLERIES

Best Web Gallery
http://bestwebgallery.com/
Inspirational gallery website.
Feed My App
http://www.feedmyapp.com/
Your daily web 2.0 dose.
Pattern Tap
http://patterntap.com/
Fill up on good web.

DESIGN STUDIOS

E.Webscapes
http://ewebscapes.com/
Blog design studio.
Right Banners
http://www.rightbanners.com/
They make banners.

DESIGN WEBSITES & BLOGS

Design Nerd
http://www.blog.designnerd.net/
Articles on design.
Digital Photography Tutorial
http://www.digital-photography-tutorial.com/
Photography tips, tricks, tutorials and techniques.
PSDTOP
http://www.psdtop.com/
Photoshop tutorials.
Share Brain
http://sharebrain.info/
Resources. Inspiration. Knowledge.
Web Designer Depot
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/
An exciting new website that explores different web and graphic design techniques.

ONLINE PRINTING

Hot Cards
http://www.hotcards.com/
Low cost full-color printing.
UPrinting
http://www.uprinting.com/
Online Printing Services.

PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE & HARDWARE

Active Collab
http://www.activecollab.com/
Project management and collaboration tool.
Colourmod
http://colourmod.com/
Colorouring where no color picker has gone before.
Dim Dim
http://www.dimdim.com/
Web conferencing that just works.
Foxycart
http://www.foxycart.com/
Ecommerce that doesn't suck!
GoodBarry
http://goodbarry.com/home
Save time and grow your business.
IAC-EZ
http://www.iacez.com/
Put the "EZ" in bookkeeping.
Light CMS
http://www.speaklight.com/
A friendly CMS for web designers.
Morae3
http://www.techsmith.com/morae.asp
Useability testing software.
My Intervals
http://www.myintervals.com/
Time tracking software.
Pro Work Flow
http://www.proworkflow.com/
Smart project, task & time management.
Send Cube
http://www.sendcube.com/
Simple, affordable and powerful way to manage campaigns and email marketing.
Screencast.com
http://www.screencast.com
Share high quality videos, documents and presentations.
Tanager Audioworks
http://www.tanageraudioworks.com/
Songwriter's toolkit.
TechSmith
http://www.techsmith.com/
Screen capture and recording software.
Wacom
http://www.wacom.com/
Pen tablets.

PSD TO HTML CONVERSION

Code That Design
http://codethatdesign.com/
PSD to HTML Conversion.
Dr. Martian
http://www.drmartian.com/
PSD to HTML Conversion.
Feather Code
http://www.feathercode.com/
PSD to HTML Conversion.
FE Coding
http://www.fecoding.com/
PSD to HTML converstion.
Markup Service
http://markup-service.com/
PSD to HTML conversion.
Pixel Crayons
http://xhtml.pixelcrayons.com/
PSD to HTML Conversion.
PSD2HTML
http://www.psd2html.com/
PSD to HTML conversion.
PSD Slicing
http://www.psdslicing.com/
PSD to HTML conversion.
W3 <Markup/>
https://w3-markup.com/
PSD to HTML conversion.
XHTML4U
http://www.xhtml4u.com/
PSD to HTML Conversion.

STOCK IMAGERY AND RESOURCES

Audio Jungle
http://audiojungle.net/
Thousands of stock music loops.
Crestock
http://crestock.com/
Creative Stock images.
Designious
http://www.designious.com/
Vector packs, illustrations and t-shirt designs.
Flashden
http://www.flashden.net/
Buy and sell stock flash files.
Flipping Book
http://page-flip.com/
Premium page flip flash engine.
Go Media Arsenal
http://gomedia.us/arsenal2/
Professional Design Weaponry
Media Slap
http://www.mediaslap.com/
High quality photoshop brushes.
Stock Vault
http://www.stockvault.net/
Stock photography.
T-Shirt Factory
http://www.tshirt-factory.com/
Provides customers with high quality design products for the apparel industry.
Vector Portal
http://www.vectorportal.com/
Everything vector, everything free.
Vector Stock
http://www.vectorstock.com/
Quality stock vector downloads.

WEB HOSTING

ATNET Hosting
http://atnet-hosting.com/
Web hosting.
Drupal Value Hosting
http://www.drupalvaluehosting.com/
Premium Drupal hosting at affordable cost.
Eleven2
http://www.eleven2.com/
Web hosting.
Media Temple
http://www.mediatemple.net/
Web Hosting.
Mosso
http://www.mosso.com/
Web hosting for developers.
Webfusion
http://webfusion.com/
Web hosting.

WEBSITE TEMPLATES & BUILDERS

Dream Templates
http://www.dreamtemplate.com/
3,500 Amazing Website Templates.
Elegant Themes
http://www.elegantthemes.com/
Premium Wordpress themes.
Gooey Templates
http://www.gooeytemplates.com/
Smart web app UI templates.
Plug and Press
http://www.plugandpress.com/
Wordpress themes.
Revolution Two
http://www.revolutiontwo.com/
Wordpress Themes.
Site Masher
http://www.sitemasher.com/
Build professional websites.
Templates Factory
http://www.templatesfactory.net/
Professional website templates.
Theme Forest
http://themeforest.net/
Buy and sell website templates.
Woo Themes
http://www.woothemes.com/
Premium Wordpress Themes.

17 Comments

liam says:
December 3, 2008 5:42 PM

Great stuff. Interesting post and a great point. There are a lot of familiar faces in the sidebars of many design blogs, and they're doing a great job keeping it running :)

penflare says:
December 3, 2008 5:59 PM

wow, fantastic list, really needed some of these references - thanks!

Brian says:
December 3, 2008 6:07 PM

Great post and quite a unique idea. The only thing that would be nice would be to see each company's ad next to their listing!

Franz Jeitz says:
December 3, 2008 6:50 PM

I love the idea behind this post. Hereby I want to thank all the sponsors that keep our nice community running.

Webdesigner Depot says:
December 3, 2008 7:38 PM

This is a great collection - thanks for mentioning our site :)

Steven Snell says:
December 3, 2008 9:17 PM

Without these people/companies I wouldn't be able to spend much time on my blog. Big thank you.

kathryn austin says:
December 3, 2008 10:03 PM

Great compilation - saved it as favorite, as I know it will be useful to refer back to

Heather Villa says:
December 4, 2008 1:07 AM

I would like to thank you for thanking us! I will be honest, part of the reason I choose to advertise on the blogs, content sites and sites that cater to the design and freelance community is because the high quality of content they provide and knowing that they need sponsors and advertisers to maintain said content!

Best,

Heather Villa
IAC-EZ