aclJohn's Design Finds

Jordan’s Furniture Room Planner is an online application for planning and furnishing rooms online.

It helps users create detailed room plans without using complicated design software.

Users can...

• design a room from scratch or
• select from prebuilt rooms.
• design...
  • bedrooms,
  • dining rooms,
  • home offices,
  • living rooms, and
  • youth bedrooms
• add...
  • furniture,
  • patio,
  • gym,
  • appliances,
  • wiring, and
  • many other elements to their design.

Useful tools that users can use include...

• a text t...

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If you are a web designer and life revolves around HTML and CSS, then you are aware of the importance of various time-saving tools that make life easier. HTML Ipsum is one such tool.

It has a collection of HTML codes along with dummy Latin text in it (or what we call “Lorem Ipsum” text). Just click on the title of any of the code boxes and the corresponding code gets copied to the clipboard.

Find out more and or try it out at http://html-ipsum.com/.

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Chimply is a web application that lets users generate loading indicators, animated bars; such indicators are often used by web developers to let users know when a page or application is loading.

Buttons and badges can be generated as well.

Simply...

• select one of the templates,
• customize size/background/colour, and
• click on “Generate” Button.
• Once the image is ready, download it onto your computer.

The site is free and sign up is optional. By registering, users are able to save th...

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Create Online Banners, Use or Share in presentations, VLEs, websites, Myspace, Facebook, and more! It's FREE!

Just...

• Select Banner Size or Create a custom size
• Upload a Background image or add colour
• Add
  
  • Text
  • an Effect
• Upload Image
• Save Or Download Your Created Banner

Try it out at http://www.livebannermaker.com/.

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If you are an ASCII art fan check out this simple online utility called ASCII-O-Matic.

It lets users upload an image and generate ASCII art pictures from it.

Note: The application only...

• supports JPEG format only and
• only accepts images 60 x 50 pixels.

Users can set...

• colours (Black & White or Coloured) and
• characters (Letters or Squares)...

...for the generated ASCII picture.

When the ASCII picture is ready users can get its HTML code and save it onto their computer...

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BlindTextGenerator is a handy tool for web designers and developers. It generates dummy text for various layout needs and purposes. It includes the popular “Lorem ipsum” text as well as other texts.

Simply...

• click on the preferred dummy text to see it on the right side (10 dummy texts available).
• increase/decrease the size of the text by the number of words or characters and/or divide the text into paragraphs.

In Advanced options users can adjust...

• font family,
• font size,
• style an...

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Need a quick logo? Try OnlineLogoMaker.
A web based service that lets users create logos online for free. Whether it is going to be a business logo, or just a simple logo for personal use, website or blog for example, OnlineLogoMaker can help.
Features:

* Easily create logos online.

* Create as many logos as you like.

* Upload/add

• images,
• text and
• symbols.

* Customize

• logo size,
• position,
• colours,
• fonts,
• shadows… etc.

* Download resulting logos as PNG images.

* Free and no registration.

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Official Seal Generator as the name suggests is an online seal generator with which users can...

• create cool custom seals,
• download them and use as you like.

Official Seal Generator provides users with variety of seal templates (Circular, Oval, Vesica, Convex, Pentagon, Square, Triangle, Claddagh, Clan Badge, Shield, Rectangle) and customization options.

The process is straightforward, simply...

• pick a template;
• enter text;
• choose borders and emblems;
• pick colors and then
• click ...

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