ACCORD5 is a company creates awesome web applications that make people happy. I agreed that the maintain perfectionist-level standards for their work. They have recently released a User-friendly help desk system called “Trellis Desk“. Trellis Desk is a powerful, robust help desk solution for your business. Improve your company’s service by allowing your customers to quickly and easily submit support tickets to your team. Trellis Desk sports a range of advanced features to revitalize the way your business handles customer support. Even better, it’s completely free; you don’t have to pay any license fees to use Trellis Desk.

Basic documentation and peer-to-peer support is also included at no charge, but to receive official customer support for Trellis Desk from ACCORD5, you’ll need to purchase a support plan.

The spam bots search the websites and create mailing list to send the spam. They take the email addresses written on your website page in text format and send you spam emails.

The spam bots are not able to read the email addresses written on a image (picture format). So to fool them we can create our email addresses written on a image. There is a free service called Spam Proof eMail Generator where you can just enter your email address, choose colors and font types and create a picture of your email address automatically for you.

CSS Type Set is a hands-on typography tool allowing designers and developers to interactively test and learn how to style their web content. You can set the font family, size, color, letter-spacing, word-spacing, line-height and etc… It will automatically generate the CSS file for you. You can see the changes instantly. It is a really great tool for experimenting a suitable font type for your site.

We are now coming to a point where the browsers are supporting a lot of new features, giving us more opportunities to take advantage of previously unused pseudo elements. Advanced Css Menu Tricks is instead of simply altering the state of the navigation item the user is currently rolling over, we want to alter the non navigation items as well. This will help focus the users attention on the item they have selected on, and create a new look and feel for the site overall.

Advanced Css Menu Tricks will work perfectly in any modern browser, yet still be fully functional in your older version of IE as well.

Piwik is an open source web analytics software. It gives interesting reports on your website visitors, your popular pages, the search engines keywords and etc… Piwik is built with plugins: you can add new features and remove the ones you don’t need. Piwik being installed on your server, the data is stored in your own database. You can very easily embed your graphs in your blog or website or dashboard.

If you are a developer, you can definitely help. One of their main mid term objective is to make it easy for external developers to build plugins for Piwik. Help is also welcome if you want to work on the core of Piwik: there are lots of interesting problems to solve, new features to implement and bugs to fix.

The JavaScript image cropper UI allows the user to crop an image using an interface with the same features and styling as found in commercial image editing software, and is is based on the Prototype JavaScript framework and script.aculo.us. Drag to draw areas, selection area can be moved and resized. It allows dynamic preview of resultant crop (if minimum width & height are provided), this is implemented as a subclass so can be removed if not required. All functionality & display compatible with most popular browsers.

IzzyMenu.com let us creating professional looking CSS menus for your Website easily. You can create your menu with drop down DHTML sub-menu online, without writing a single line of code. And more importantly, it is free. There are many different menu styles for you to choose from. You can customize the font, background, border, padding, margin, link, hover state and etc… anything you can imagine. And after all, you can download the menu and integrate into your website easily.

DesignPacks.com offer free, high quality image collections that can be use in both personal and commercial web design projects. Each collection features a group of 15 images that share a common theme. They’ve created dozens of collections based on a variety of themes. Every DesignPack can be downloaded as a single ZIP file. File sizes vary between 3-5MB. You can browse the Image Catalog to see what’s available.

Although DesignPacks.com mentioned that there will be new sets added monthly, it seems like they have stopped updating the site since 2005.

Jayhan present you the vector dotted world map free for download. It comes with three different dot sizes which is fine, medium and large to cater for different purpose and needs. This dotted world map is based on the world map resource from Deviant Art, and Jayhan overlay a dotted pattern on top and slowly remove the unwanted dots to form the shape of the world. It took Jayhan several days to accomplish this. UK was missing in the map. However, Dotted world map vector V1.1 has now included UK as well.

ColorToy 2.0 is a Flash based color scheme generator and picker. It generates complementary color schemes based on your inputted color values or randomly. There are three ways to use ColorToy.

1. Enter a RGB value. e.g. 211,21,52 and hit “Submit RGB”. ColorToy 2.0 will then generate your complementary color scheme.
2. Enter a HEX value e.g. #c0ffee and hit “Submit Hex”. ColorToy 2.0 will then generate your complementary color scheme based on your HEX value.
3. Hitting “Random” will generate a random color and associated complementary color scheme. Go on, give it a click.

You can also check out the collection of other useful Color Scheme Generators we have mentioned on WebAppers a while ago.