Free Resources for Web Designers and Developers

That feeling of a creative blockage, may happen to everyone once in a while, and it is fully understandable with all the pressure and stress that a web project may cause our thoughts to get stuck. Fortunately, here you’ll find some freebies to make life easier.

In this opportunity we present this list with cool new freebies, designed to save time and take that pressure out from your shoulders. Including all kind of things you would need, go ahead and take a look into this post and check the fantastic things we feature here for you.

Perfect moment to catch up the inspiration that is running away from you.

Xcharts javascript library

Xcharts javascript library

Xcharts is a cool javascript library thought to create good looking data driven chart visualizations. Uses HTML, CSS, and SVG files to make it dynamic, fluid and open customization. Page has excellent examples and is fully documented. Ideal for analytics projects.

Free Site under construction template

Free Site under construction template

Considering its main purpose, this is a very complete freebie. This is a template of a single page to keep your customers informed. available for WordPress, and as a XHTML temple. Contains also a simple slider with 3 slides with useful functions like social buttons, subscription via mail and comments. As an additional, a fantastic countdown clock. everything functional.

Complete and free user icon set with vectors

Complete and free user icon set with vectors

This fantastic set of icons comes available in 4 versions. One of the versions is colorful; perfect for Windows Vista/7 and Mac. The other 3 versions are minimalistic and each one thought and designed for an specific environment: one for windows 8, one for android, and one for iPhone and all of them cover pretty much every type of avatar users might want. Ideal for multiuser applications and projects.

PSD Shopping cart interface

PSD Shopping cart interface

A nice inspirational in dark colors. this is a PSD shopping cart design that includes image, product name, model, quantity of items, unit price, option to remove, total and other options like one to continue shopping and other one to go to checkout. As the developer says, It’s a great starting point for building your own cart shopping cart graphic.

Windows Upgrade Notification

Windows Upgrade Notification

A very bootstrap like update notification image available as PSD. If you need assistance with your commercial projects including free and premium features, this can make your day.

Free PSD snow text effect

Free PSD snow text effect

Ideal for winter season and anything related with ice. This is a realistic PSD ice and snow text style that can also be applied to shapes.

Notebook blog post PSD design

Notebook blog post PSD design

Ideal for blog themes development, this content box has a ruled paper background, a folded corner, stylish staple, and a few share/like icons and tag designs items.

CSS windows 8 metro buttons

CSS windows 8 metro buttons

Windows 8 has stepped strongly in the market. And this has had effect in all kind of designs. This one here is a collection of buttons made in CSS and HTML and should be easy to include in your own designs, and be edited later on, If what you are looking for is to include a simplistic metro style to your project, this is the right freebie for you.

Boxi email newsletter PSD theme

Boxi email newsletter PSD theme

This is a PSD theme also inspired on the windows 8 layout. And provides an excellent way to display all types of information, so it is a considerable option for the new era of themes development.

Prime technologic vibe font

Prime technologic vibe font

This is a cool font with a techy and futuristic vibe. It’s very complete and includes capital and case letters, as well as numbers, symbols for web, and a wide variety of special characters. Provide your projects with a new look and a techy feeling with this font.

Notepad design free PSD

Notepad design free PSD

Skeuomorphic designs are still fighting back strongly against flat and minimalistic design. This here is an amazing PSD creation of a notepad. with very realistic details as the rings, the rounded rectangle edge and the border shadows ideal for projects that allow the inclusion of short notes

Shock handwritten font

Shock handwritten font

This is an exclusive handmade font created at designshock. Due to its nature, its design fits perfectly with any notepad or sheet style design. Includes capital and case letters. This font will definitely separate and differentiate your designs from the other ones in the web.

30 Hand-drawn icons and Photoshop shapes

30 Hand-drawn icons and photoshop shapes

Icons that come isolated in a 64×64 background for quick use and also converted as Photoshop shapes that you can easily include into your photoshop installation for future projects.

Paper stack image frame (PSD)

Paper stack image frame (PSD)

Every once in a while, a project design might face a moment when you do not know what to do to with your images so that they don’t look plain and boring. This freebie can help you by giving you more options when the time comes. Its usage is very simple. download the PSD file, and edit the page sizes to fit your pictures.

Clear web buttons pack

Clear web buttons pack

This is a nice collection of classic buttons for web. includes 36 different buttons in various sizes and colors. colors are as easy changeable as changing a layer fill. Both CSS and vector files are fully editable.

Mouse icon layered PSD icon

Mouse icon layered PSD icon

An amazing and very realistic representation of a logitech mouse. Available as a full layered PSD of 512×512. Ideal for android technology applications.

Photography business WordPress theme

Photography business WordPress theme

The logo set by default has a stunning shutter icon that helps to illustrate the goal of this theme as one for photography pages. The content boxes in this theme have backgrounds with cool grid designs. The grid layout give it an original touch. Theme is bootstrap ready, internationalized, and comes with a huge amount of customization options to make it the right one for you.

Instagram PSD icons

Instagram PSD icons

Do you have an application or tool for instagram? you better consider these icons to be included in your project. These are non merged icons made in photoshop available for easy customization.

WP clean up WordPress plugin

WP clean up WordPress plugin

This freebie is for WordPress users who might need some of assistance to clean their database a little. WP Clean Up is a plugin that allows to remove unuseful files and redundant data with just a few clicks. You will surely save a lot of space in your SQL database with this one.

Mail subscribe list WordPress plugin

Mail subscribe list WordPress plugin

Can’t you find something that helps you to create mailing lists that do not have a lot of options you don’t need? Well, this plugin is for you then. it allows users to subscribe to mailing lists just with their name and email address.

Artistic landing WordPress theme

Artistic landing WordPress theme

Landing pages can get a good theme here, this one comes with an attracting light colors scheme, also with full page content boxes and comes with 2 built in sliders to show your products and services. This theme counts with cool graphic elements, as well as some advantages like Bootstrap included and an enormous amount of customization options.

X-editable in-place editing

X-editable in-place editing

This excellent tool allows you to create editable elements in your page. Is available for engines like bootstrap and jquery; and is of online course a great help in small forms projects including several users. The use turns to be really easy and convenient.

Abstract backgrounds pack

Abstract backgrounds pack

A pack with 5 backgrounds with light effects to create an abstract artistic effect. available in blue, yellow, pink, green, purple and orange. these can be used in commercial projects or simply as the background of your desktop.

Bootup.js static files load

Bootup.js static files load

This tool makes easier to manage .js and other files for offline use by caching and loading static files from local storage, certainly a good option to fasten the time your web application takes to start . If your tool uses a lot of javascript files or takes some time to load because of this, consider this option.

Social count jquery plugin

Social count jquery plugin

This tools built in CSS and jquery, supports social counts from Facebook, twitter and Google +. It is thought as a barebones project, to be integrated to social network widgets. Available and working with the principal desktop browsers and mobile OSs.

Any list scroller javascript code

Any list scroller javascript code

A stunning jquery plugin that works with lists, scrolls them horizontally or vertically simple way or circular (infinite), and works with any kind of content. texts, images, and else.

Spectragram.js instagram plugin

Spectragram.js instagram plugin

This tool requires you to have a client_id and an access_token by registering an application at Instagram Developers. This jquery plugin works with the instagram API and allows to get the most recent media published by the user you select, or to get the hottest media in instagram of the moment, and also to get the pictures matching to a particular tag you set.

Zurb responsive email templates

Zurb responsive email templates

As days go by, every time more people, takes a look to their mail on their cellphones. Zurb has created a great set of responsive email templates to make sure that your email campaigns can be seen on any device.

Corporata inspiration font

Corporata inspiration font

A nice font that is available for download at designers profile at deviantart It includes capital and case letters, but also includes numbers and a nice set of capital and case greek letters. The first appearance it gives is the one of a font ideal to be used in the design blogs and magazines thanks to the wide curves it has.

Form alert interface in PSD and CSS

Form alert interface in PSD and CSS

A set of several elements including; a login panel, alert widgets for form responses, sign up buttons and some others. Designer provides fully coded HTML/CSS as well as the PSD files for further customization. Excellent inspiration to create a fantastic login screen using what is already created or changing it to take it to a new level.

20 Dark patterns

20 Dark patterns

Some times it is hard to create a project using dark environments without making it look dead. Sometimes only thing needed to give it more energy is a cool pattern. For that reason, we include this freebie, that includes 20 awesome designs so that your project doesn’t look plain and boring but awesome.

Potato chips layer style

Potato chips layer style

Just looking at the image makes you hungry. This potato chips layer style for photoshop is an ideal element to add to any food related project like restaurant flyers, the theme of a recipes blog, a restaurant website and all the options you can think of.

Super buttons: Free PSD buttons

Super buttons: Free PSD buttons

This kit not only include these big app and social media buttons that you can see, it also includes editable e-book cover graphic templates, hand-sketched arrows, and calls-to-action texts. Do you have a landing or advertising page project? these buttons will for sure make it more attractive.

code based dark pagination

code based dark pagination

Many pages navigation buttons are just plain links, to change that here is this dark code based navigation interface with that 3d buttons effect that makes it very attractive. Make it easier for your visitors to surf on multiple pages of content with this interface, a great time saver.

Verb OpenType format font

Verb OpenType format font

This font claims to be industrious and motivated but not too busy to say “hello”. And the first impression it gives is a strong one. this font is a very complete one includes characters like old style numerals, also currency tabular numerals, as well as other very handy features.

Vector woman characters set

Vector woman characters set

A huge bundle featuring 8 fully editable female characters that are very handy since there is one for every situation. Business, sport, spa, travel, medicine and technology projects can benefit from this freebie. these are certainly good quality cartoon characters

Dark UI PSD kit

Dark UI PSD kit

A sleek small set of awesome graphic elements that come handy and ideal for web multimedia projects. Dark colors compose this interface and give it a simplicity air to the whole set. Available as a PSD file.

Equalizer Layered PSD UI

Equalizer Layered PSD UI

This interface was created initially to control the volume on the left and right speakers but you can use this for whatever comes to your mind. available as a PSD file fully vectored so that you are able to customize it at your convenience.

WP-bootstrap theme creator

WP-bootstrap theme creator

The new era of themes for WordPress include Bootstrap, this one is developed to be used either as is or to become a starting point of developers and create a personal one. includes shortcodes so you can easily add UI elements found in Twitter Bootstrap.

Dropdown buttons in HTML/CSS

Dropdown buttons in HTML/CSS

have you ever thought about dropdown buttons. Either if you have or haven’t, you will find this idea interesting and perfect for one of your projects. These are 4 buttons created in HTML and CSS with a nice dropdown effect. Ideal for social network sharing but the use is up to you and can be anything coming to your mind

Jhere jquery plugin/API for maps

Jhere jquery plugin/API for maps

A maps API developed in javascript to simplify the maps creation process. API’s are complicated so this is an awesome time saver. this tool is a great partner in the creation of interactive maps and some cool examples can be seen on its home page.

Layered PSD 5I progress bars

Layered PSD 5I progress bars

These progress bars give the impression of fluorescent paint filling a small tube. Very artistic design available as a PSD and layered for further customization. Ideal for any artistic projects that you may think of.

Mac os x-like animated folder with css3

Mac os x-like animated folder with css3

This is a tutorial that shows how to create an animated folder using HTML, CSS and jquery. Very clear and with snippets available. The demo is very funny and catchy and features a folder with 10 draggable elements that can be put into the folder. This is certainly a good way to learn how to code to create stunning animations.

One div HTML/CSS icons

One div HTML/CSS icons

To finish this post, take a look to this gallery of static and animated icons made using only HTML and CSS, this gallery renders true what they say: “code is art” . each icon is easy adaptable as a div element to your HTML projects thanks to lightbox snippets.

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2 Comments, leave yours
  1. Federica Aug 21, 2013, 8:52 am

    Hi there, thank you for including Any List Scroller in your list, really appreciated!

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  2. Maitreya Vyas Aug 21, 2013, 2:07 pm

    Thanks for this useful blog! :)

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