What does the job of a webmaster boil down to? Is it internet marketing? Is it content writing? Is it just a good helping of entrepreneurial spirit? Actually it’s all those things – and more – and if you want your website to truly thrive then you need to be able to take care of every aspect of its well-being. Here we will look at a few ways that you can get more from your website’s appearance by investing in gadgets and gizmos that will aid in your graphic design, so that as well as filling your site with great information and media, you can also make sure it looks the part as well. Here are some of the best gadgets, software and tools to get you into graphic design and make sure your site looks as slick as possible.

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jQuery.PercentageLoader is a jQuery plugin for showing a progress widget in more visually eye-catching way than the ubiquitous horizontal progress bar / textual counter.

Installation and usage is quick and simple. It makes use of HTML 5 canvas for a rich aesthetic appearance with only a 10kb (minified) javascript file necessary (suggested web font optional), utilizing vectors rather than images so can be easily deployed at various sizes.

SimpleModal is a Mootools plugin to create simple, yet professional-looking modal windows including alerts and confirm messages with only a few lines of code. Confirm configuration involves the use of callbacks to be applied to affirmative action; it can work in asynchronous mode and retrieve content from external pages or getting the inline content.

SIMPLEMODAL is not a lightbox although the possibility to hide parts of its layout may partially make it similar.

Content can also be retrieved via AJAX. Here’s an example below:

Snippet code Javascript:

#JS

$("myElement").addEvent("click", function(){
  var SM = new SimpleModal({"width":600});
      SM.addButton("Action button", "btn primary", function(){
          this.hide();
      });
      SM.addButton("Cancel", "btn");
      SM.show({
        "model":"modal-ajax",
        "title":"Title",
        "param":{
          "url":"file-content.php",
          "onRequestComplete": function(){ /* Action on request complete */ }
        }
      });
});

Snippet code HTML:

#HTML

Open Modal

Whether you are selling web applications, windows software products, information products or eBooks, this brand new set of premium quality eCover action scripts and smart templates will help you do just that. And the best part is, you don’t have to be a “techy” person or have any design skills at all. These brand new action scripts and smart objects will do the job for you. All you need is Adobe Photoshop and a few minutes of free time.

What makes this set of actions and smart templates special?

• Super fast: Each action takes under 20 seconds to render into 3D and the smart templates are even faster. That means you can modify and tweak your covers much faster.
• Crisp 300 DPI Resolution: All the action scripts and smart templates are in high resolution ready to be used for print. There are no jagged edges or pixelation.
• Unique “looks”: Even if you already have another set of actions or smart templates, you won’t find eCover types like these anywhere else.
• Premium quality: Great care went into creating each eCover action script and smart template in this package. Each one is premium quality and as good or better than anything else out there on market.
• Over 70 to choose from: There are over 70 action scripts and smart templates in this package so pretty much all eCover types are covered and there’s plenty of variety to choose from.
• Brand new for 2011: These are all brand new actions and smart templates created in 2011, so you’ll be getting the newest and freshest “looks” for your products.

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Need to enhance any of your presentation or video or eBooks? Then, you need 3D Man/Women Characters with Real Transparent PNG, Vector Image and High Resolution with 3000 pixels x 3000 pixels. These graphics are meant to help you create converting and inspiring presentation in your video, eBooks, marketing advertisement and website. They will make your life easier in producing a great digital work.

At last an affordable and easy to use speedy solution is available to make your life as an Internet Marketer more enjoyable and a lot more time efficient.

When you’re able to enhance any of your presentation or video or eBooks as easily and quickly as this then you’ll find that you can start making more money a lot quicker just because you’re able to focus on taking action and producing income generating results for your online business.

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Iconshock released one of the most complete credit card icon set containing 457 payment and credit card icons packed in a fantastic collection. It includes 9 sizes, pixel perfect icons for smaller sizes and vector for larger sizes, source files in AI (larger ones) and PSD pixel perfect (smaller ones). All payments methods have been included: PayPal, 2Checkout, Google Checkout, Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express, Worldpay etc.) and the list goes on. These icons are ideal to show on eCommerce websites and Sales Pages.

Marketing Graphics Toolkit consists of 21 modules of premium graphics content that are geared specifically towards Internet Marketers. They are useful especially if you sell stuff online whether you are using an e-commerce website or you are using a couple of sales pages for your products. PSD sources are available for every module from the package. This ULTIMATE graphic source is meant to save you money and time.

For a one time payment of $9.95 you get:

See some screenshots of some of the features mentioned

With 21 different Modules, there’s something for everyone here. Just one piece of content from this package can save you either a hundred bucks on designer fees, or hours of time trying to do it yourself.

Hand-drawn Free Web Icon Set is released by a group of young, talented, extremely creative people from Poland, containing pretty much every icon you will ever need while designing a basic website or an iPhone/iPod/iPad application. All these extremely colorful icons are available in 32px (best to use while designing websites or apps). But if you need bigger icons, there is a 128px package included.

Features include:

• Available in 2 sizes: While designing websites or apps, the 32px size is the one that we use the most. But the package also includes 128px icons, just in case you need bigger icons.
• Free updates: 247 is not the final number. They’re going to add new icons to the set once in a while and you’ll be able to download them for no additional cost.
• Beautiful design: Each icon has been hand-drawn. Each has that unique style that you won’t find in any other icon set. Just look at the colors.

There’s a lot of free icon sets containing modern, shiny icons. Servers, hard disks, consoles, globes, speakers, LCD screens, etc. But what about good old times?

Graphics Creator is a free tool created especially for Internet Marketers and webmasters that are looking to improve sales pages conversions by creating professional graphics including buttons, headlines and guarantees. You just have to select the type of graphic you need to create, customize it and then save the created image.

For instance to create an “Add to Cart” button you have to go through the following steps:

• 1) Add the overlay effects. These include: Corner-Darken-Top, Corner-Darken-Bottom, Highlight-Clear-Top, Highlight-Dark-Top, Stripes-Light, Stripes-Dark, Middle-Shadow-Dark, Side Arrows Overlay, Button Shadows, Grain Effect, Inner Glow, Star Burst, Text-Highlight and Royal-Border.
• 2) Add some graphic addons (optional). These include credit card icons and arrows.
• 3) Set the color and text effects: background, border stroke, stage bg, font color, headline tag.
• 4) Save the graphic as JPEG.