I am always fascinated with themes using drop down menu and even better if it support more than 1 level of submenu. I would actually say 2-level submenu would be very much sufficient for most usage. Only one of my blog currently uses CSS Submenu because it has a lot of categories and the CSS Menu helps visitor to navigate around easily.

So to create a CSS Menu may just tough especially if you want to incorporate round corner, picture, mouse over and other graphical effect. I have found this great software which is free to use. It does not use java script and 100% css driven menu. The best is that if provides a GUI for you to configure your menu.

Getting a design converted from PSD to WordPress tedious work if you do not know what you are up to. There are services out there that charges for conversion. Devine Project is actually a free tool where you can convert PSD to WordPress Theme for free, yup, you can download and make your own theme for free. Of course, there is limitation but it is more than sufficient for you to make a theme with the free software provided by them.

I tried, it is not that simple, but they have some great step-by-step tutorial where you can follow to create the theme of your imagination.

This is an unique theme that you may not seen before. It is a WordPress theme that give you visitor a pleasant feel by telling them that you are changing. While doing that, it also ask if visitor would like to subscribe to your feeds or update via emails. It is quite a simple clean design but the idea is just great.

As you can see from the screenshot below, the theme, Changing Room is a free wordpress theme.

[Demo] [Download][Theme Website]

If you are a web designer or especially a rookie web designer (like me), you are sure to get into a situation whereby you are stuck because all the colours you picked does not matched. All you need is just a main theme colour, enter it to the RGB section on the bottom right towards the circle colour chart.

This is an example of the website screenshot. It is definitely very useful for designing logo, websites, name cards, and I guess every design work if you are not good at colour matching. It is a great help for me as I have used them for quite a while before they moved to this new domain.

Remember to click on the sample design, of light design or dark design. You can get a picture of how the matching of colours without guessing them.

Not to forget that you can also save your design, like my above design is using orange as the main colour. You get the colour scheme here.

Website: Color Scheme Design

This is no normal photo editor like Photoshop Express or other free photo editor. It is quite similar to Fauxto that was posted previously, but I like this better because it is much smoother and Fauxto was buggy then.

It is a very good photo editor with layers and most basic to intermediate tools you could find at a photoshop. But this is available for free and at the same time you could use this piece of software anywhere you go with a browser.

Below is my trial and I manage to draw something and download it without any problem.

Try out SUMO Paint

Previously I was promoting a software name Awesome Popup, and it is actually a great marketing tool if you are trying to get your visitor attention. Usually if you are not putting advertisements, your visitor will not get annoyed. What I did previously was to have a reminder for my visitor to join a contest.

Now you can create you own Popup with Lightbox as background. It will appear less aggresive with this smooth popup with Lightbox.

It is actually loading 2 different scripts, one for the popup and another for the background to have a nicer look.

Here is the tutorial teaching you how to d make your own smooth popup.

A cool way to change the Windows XP skin into a Mac look alike. I am sure that there are many who are like me who can’t afford to own an extra Apple Laptop but at the same time can’t really let go of the trusty old Windows (did I say trusty?).

This would be a very nice way to change your Windows XP Desktop. Below is a printscreen from the tutorial and it certainly look very much like an Apple. It is truly a great job done.

Learn about how you could change the skin of your Windows XP.

Mac Menubar has been quite a cool feature and here is your chance to have them for your website. This is quite a nice design with by using Fisheye jQuery. You could have this menu bar for your website or embedded with you theme. There is quite some script out there using Fisheye, but nDesign has one of the nicest out there.

Download Mac Menubar script and learn how to use them here. With little knowledge using html and changing some of the image and position, you are good to go with your website.

I tried combining this Apple Mac Menubar with this floating menu script, unfortunately the Fisheye is unable to float along with the menu. If you have the solution to this, let me know. I am interested to know.

It is a Free Picture Editor online, Fauxto. Nothing is better than free tool online rather having although it may not be everything an Adobe Photoshop can do, it is portable and it may just do some of the job as well. Although Fauxto may not be completely like photoshop, it does have the look and feel of Photoshop.

It has the basic picture editing feature like layers, croping, drawing tools eyedropper, fills, colour with RGB or web colour code. Enough for normal picture editing.

Other than the basic functions,  Fauxto offers different effects such as:-

1. Blur Tool
2. Drop Shadow
3. Glow
4. Sharpen
5. Noise
6. Emboss
7. Enrich
8. Grayscale
9. Invert
10. and much more could be listed

I will definitely use this when I need a Picture Editing Software on the go. The main benefit of this is that it is Free, Mobile and Lightweight (uses flash) enough to be used with slower computer too. Also the user interface is quite easy to use.

Although I faced a little problem having the browser hang during my trial. They should have the ability to save on real time as it will be crucial. Uploading big picture to be edited might also take some time as it is over the Internet.

Previously, I have written about Colour Picker Plugin for Firefox, which is a handy tool for web designer, webmaster, and blog owners. There are time where you need to make sure that adsense is embeded into your design, therefore, you will need to same colour.

There is a comment from korabi that installing this colour picker may take too much resources. Browsing through websites and programs, I manage to find anouther colour picker software which is free for use and it is only 580kb installation file.

ColorPic have much more function compare to the Firefox Plugin and it is a standalone software. It was easily installed on my Windows Vista. You can grab upto 16 colours at one time. The colour will be shown in RGB, CMYK, and Web Colour Code.

This is a look at the control panel, it is easy, just run the software and use ctrl+g wheneven you want to grab a colour.

This is a highly recommended plugin for designer, especially website designer. Collorzilla allows the designer to pick the color directly from the homepage, therefore, there will be no mistake in your color selection.

It is easy to use, just click on the small colorpicker icon on the bottom left of your Mozilla Firefox browser, and then move the cursor to the exact location you would like to pick the color. It will record the RGB, Web Colour Code (#xxxxxx) and the exact coordinate.

It currently support Intel Mac, FireFox and Ubuntu FC5 Linux.

Download Color Picker for Firefox

If you do not have firefox, you could start:-