Do you ever find yourself sitting in front of Photoshop for hours trying to mock up a decent navigation menu, or searching the web for the most aesthetically pleasing color palettes for your users to click on that doesn't remind them of McDonalds or a funeral parlor? Face it, sometimes we all lose our mojo for a moment or two, and then we are forced to validate ourselves not just to the W3C, but also to our website visitors, design clients and portfolio piranhas. And then we remember that through the general kindness of a group of web designers and/or developers, and through organizations such as The Creative Commons who work to guarantee that kind freedom, we don't always have to be the Picaso of style sheets.

DeviantArt.com has recently launched its very own online web-application based portfolio creation service, and they even host it for you as well. Users have the choice of either signing up for a free account or a premium account. In this article I'm going to cover the free account portfolio service they offer, show you a few images of the user interface and give my honest opinion on its worth -- for better or worse.

ProFolio is a professional ready to go portfolio that is perfectly suitable for both a personal portfolio or a more professionally oriented portfolio. Essentially anyone that wants an easy yet customizable way to display their graphical presentations such as photographs, digital art, web designs, etc would most likely be content with this software. Currently ProFolio is free, but the developers behind the software have been saying for as long as I've been aware of ProFolio that at some point in the somewhat near future they will be charging for further downloads. So, I wouldn't drag my feet too long before I gave this one a try.

This article features some of the more useful and free desktop graphics editors I've come across whether you're creating/editing an icon, a vector file or otherwise. I hope that everyone finds this article useful, and I also hope that it's read before you shell out $300 for a commercial graphic editor elsewhere. What you will not find in this article are the more well known image editing applications such as The Gimp

This article covers some of the more helpful and useful web browser addons, bookmarklets and favelets available today to assist the web designer / web developer with their tasks.

FreshBooks, the company behind the popular online invoicing and time tracking services, have made the cover of Entrepreneur Magazine, and to celebrate the occasion, they want to send you a copy -- free. Did I mention their services are also free? Freelancers take note.

It wasn't that long ago when I was searching for a couple of good code-snippet applications to store bits of source code. Well, I found a couple and published 2 Really Useful Code Snippet Applications. Now, I've found a few more worth noting, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, but they all serve their purpose nicely.

This is an extremely cool and useful web application, and if it hasn't been thought of before, I'm absolutely shocked, because it makes so much sense. Essentially, PHPanywhere is a web based free Integrated Development Environment or IDE for the PHP language. In other words it is a web based application that provides PHP developers a PHP code editor that mocks a desktop application, and it does so very well.

While some put a lot of stock into websites such as these, I would encourage you to not do so. As they may offer one point of reference to figure out the worth of a website you own, are selling, or would like to buy, they should just be one of many other statistical references to gather data from. If nothing else, they offer a form of entertainment, and you can grab a nifty website badge from some of them to impress your friends and co-workers.

I've found two more great RSS web application based tools for all of you webmasters, bloggers, and/or RSS Feed readers out there. One RSS tool serves a ton of different purposes such as a RSS Feed analytical report of sorts, and checks the popularity of your blog posts on various social networks. The other is a blogging community of sorts with various web based tools at your disposal and gives you the ability to create a super feed.

Time and time again I find myself trying to remember a bit of PHP or CSS code that I've used before to perform some sort of function. This is why most any web developer needs a code snippet application to archive those bits of code. In this article I bring attention to Snippley, a fantastic Adobe Air desktop application, and also Snipt, which is a web application based around a community to boot.

I've put together a massive list of 31 online web applications that offer you the ability to do most anything you could want to do to your photos and other graphics. While some of the websites offer a premium service, they all offer a free service as well.

Being a webmaster, you've got your hands full, and I should know; I'm obviously one myself. So, anytime I come across applications to make the job easier, especially web applications, I'm quick to try them out and promote their greatness. In this article we have a social network popularity scanner, a 'people' scanner with real-time statistics (somewhat different than an analytical scan), a community based web application set for your business or website and more.

Over the years I've come across a few Wordpress CMS Plug-ins that I have found essential and have used at one time or another on a few, if not all, of my websites. So, if you use the Wordpress Content Management System, you might find this article helpful as I've compiled a list of the Wordpress Plug-ins I consider to be highly useful.

I've put together a nice list of websites offering free color resources for the internet masses. Most of these sites offer some sort of online web application for you to use in your creating process, but they all offer something of value for the graphic designer, web designer, photographer, etc.

This is a clean Wordpress template capable of displaying large amounts of content without suffering aesthetically nor functionally.

This is a list of 25 free color related web applications to create color palettes, edit color palettes, create color themes, test colors and color palettes against a myriad of variables, find color palettes from images, and more.

I've put together a list of 14 of the nicest online typography related web-applications found on the internet today, and yes, every single one of them is free.

All website analytical tools have their pros and cons, and many people use more than one to track their website's visitors and gather other important data. With that in mind, I've put together this list of some of the best. All of these web applications offer a free service; while some are completely free, others offer a premium account as well. There is an exception. I've included the Mint and Yahoo analytical software packages in this list due to their popularity, although they are not free.

In this set of free web applications for web developers, we've included some incredibly nice resources, and also web applications that even blew me away. Javascript compressors, Wordpress theme creator, an extremely nice form generator service, Myspace theme creator and more.