This book is a mirror image of the book Web Design with Dreamweaver 8 by the same author - except this book is for hand coders.

A good title for people new to modern web design practices that include:

• CSS for layouts
• Semantic code
• Accessibility in web design

The topics are covered within the context of small usable projects, that can easily be adapted to your own web design work.

Though published in 2005, the material is still relevant and still is a pretty good buy.

A LIST OF FREE IMAGE EDITORS AND CONVERTERS

PowerBatch 2.7 - 1.6MB
- Batch renaming, resizing, converting, printing, rotating, colour adjustment, cropping.
- Crop with aspect ratio confinement.
- Built-in FTP client!
- All program files are contained in a single folder.
- Converts JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BITMAP and JPEG2000.
- Supports animated GIF and multipage TIFF.
- Contact sheets.
- Image effects.
- Add text.

Paint.net - 4.9MB
- In development.
- Clean GUI.
- Developed with help from Microsoft.
- Requires 24MB .NET Framework 1.1 to run.
- Limited layers support (cannot be moved on canvas).

Pixia 3.1 - 3.6MB
- Not much known about this one yet.

Photofiltre - 1.6MB
- Multiple images open at once.
- Many plugins.
- More than 100 filters.
- Feature packed.

FastStone Image Viewer - 2.4MB
- Convert major formats (inc. PSD).
- Lossless JPEG rotation.
- Magnifier viewing.
- EXIF support.
- Resizing, flipping, rotating, cropping, colour adjusting tools.
- Crop with aspect ratio confinement.
- Compare images side by side.
- Batch image converter/resizer.
- Supports animated GIF and multipage TIFF

Xnview - 2.1MB
- Utility for viewing and converting graphic files.
- Imports 400 graphic file formats.
- Exports 50 graphic file formats.
- EXIF.
- Copy, cut and crop.
- Brightness and contrast adjust.
- Modify number of colours.
- Filters and effects.
- Windows print (Contact Sheet) and TWAIN support.
- Supports animated GIF and multipage TIFF.

GIMP - 7.3MB (Windows version)
- Probably the best open source contender to Photoshop.
- Requires GTK+ 2 runtime environment - 3.5MB.
- Layers support.
- Difficult to get used to GUI layout (or so I’ve read).

Thanks to Tim

Stefan Mischook