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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.