It took forever is how long No actually Cyan and I worked on it for about 3 hours last night and 3 hours today just sorting through everything. Worth it though, this is a page to keep in the bookmarks!

Thank you for the mention of DropSend - great list, lots of these apps and sites are life savers for us, as a small company.

Very handy list. Bookmarked in Delicious. Here’s hoping this list will be maintained and grow over time…

Hi Collis, I suggest this new web app, Professional on the Web, a directory where web agencies and freelancers can list their profiles and easily manage showcase of their projects. Users can search web professionals by tag and also rate projects instantly. No need to register or sign in. You can subscribe to the ever increasing list of designers and projects being added to Professional on the web via RSS.

It’s a way for freelancers to get new Jobs and for customers to find out new freelancers from the top rated list and looking their portfolios.

Really good list!! Great Resources! Tks!

Simply PERFECT .. i wanna get teme for select each section of tools ideas and just explore this huge supply …

Ey Cyan,
you guys ‘nd girls over at flashDen and of course here are doin’ some very very good things for the community and its great to see people like you so passionat about what they do…thanX a lot

cheers

Fantastic list. This has to be one of the most indispensable I have seen online in a long time..

Well, I’ve just added 7 new resources to the list, thanks for the suggestions people, keep ‘em coming!

Thanks, this list is fantastic.
There are some great tools in here that I hadn’t heard about before. For instance, I paid for ColorImpact, while the Adobe Kuler tool is WAY more advanced and even web-based.

Nice list, on a quick scan I spotted enough sites that I know do the business to investigate the others. I’ve used MediaTemple for a couple of years now and apart from the odd glitch with the gridserver setup over the past couple of months you can’t touch ‘em.
Nice ordering too, start with the boring but essential stuff we all try to ignore.

Thanks for sharing… This is usefull resources for Freelance like me (web designer)…

Cool…

These links are awesome!! Thanks for sharing!

pixie (color getter) http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html

or

colorschemer’s colorpix: http://www.colorschemer.com/download.php

they both will let you grab the color values and screen coordinates at any pixel on your screen. use it daily. Both are free, too.

and http://www.protolize.org is a site that lists resources as well.

DivShare - File Sharing Unlimited for free. No registration required either. http://www.divshare.com/

Amazing list of resources.
Another great website vendor is Agencyfusion.com. They’ve been easy to work with and I can alway trust that they’ll get my sites done the way I design them. (I’ve been burned by other freelance guys before) And the sites they build from your design come with a CMS baked right in. Good if you don’t want to deal with the programming stuff yourself.

And thanks again for the resource list. I’ve already bookmarked several. As a freelancer, I love the insights into support areas.

Mike

wow. nice stuff in the project management category. Even some things, I didn’t know about

Where did you find http://www.professionalsontheweb.com ? I like that site very much.

Hi, I’ve been using http://www.openair.com for a number of years to handle invoicing and think it would hold up well against the ones included here. Nice list btw, and I’m enjoying this site.

This is great! Thank you so much for doing this. Bookmarked

Fellow freelancers, Please please please dont use rackspace (as suggested in the list). They have received tons of customer complaints, problems and issues. Just read any review sites on them and you’ll see. I’m not going to suggest who to use for hosting but please think twice before using rackspace.

You missed htmlhelp.com, a reference which I find absolutely indespensible.

AWSOME LIST. PERIOD. I do have a few you should add though.

Job Boards:
Communication Arts Job Board, http://www.creativehotlist.com

Time Management:
Function Fox, http://www.functionfox.com

Hosting:
Host Gator, http://www.hostgator.com
(great reseller ability with tons of free php/mysql things with the aid of ‘Fantastico’)

Rock on. Great site. I have been looking for this website for years! Thanks for all the work.

Excelente recopilación. Bye.

Great list … but …

Bit US biased - would be nice if list indicated resources that are really
only of interest to a particular country. And also it would be useful to indicate if the resources were free or not.

For now though I’ll visit them all ….

Thanks

Aquent’s another friend of freelancers looking for gigs. They match you up with mostly design and marketing work. Good clients and they treat people well (health, 401k, and vacation).

http://www.aquent.com

Great tool but I can’t see many research sites like the one we run http://www.askcharity.org.uk This can save freelancers lots time because it is a search engine of charities’ PR people and their mobile numbers and allows journalists to send out case study requests to hundreds of charities at once

This is a great site and I have book marked it and will be coming back. I thought I would add a timetracking tool I use to your list. It is called timepanic…www.timepanic.com…I have found it very useful. It is inexpensive and easy to use.

Just thought I would add to your list.

@ByzX, Thanks for that, yep that is my dodgy CSS, I hadn’t really thought about what would happen when we had comments numbering in the three figures

I’ll get that sorted, thanks for the tip off!

thanks great resources!!

I have found a very good web based office suite. It offers everything you can think about similar to word, excel. powerpoint, crm, Project management, planner, wiki, Chat and many others.

Add the site http://www.zoho.com. Great Suite!!!

I can’t believe you didn’t mention wordpress.

Anotherone for the Stock Libraries: imageafter.com. Free hi-res images for commercial use without the need to credit the site.

Hi.. very good work…
You could complete your list with billster, http://www.billster.net, a web2,0 site for invoicing and keeping track of expenses…

This is so good! Thanks for sharing and for helping the freelance community!

New Timepost update is available with support for Blinksale (http://www.blinksale.com/) and Checkboard (http://www.checkboard.com/).

Get it while it’s hot:

http://www.timepostapp.com/download

Resources for Freelancers? Sure.

Graphic Define Magazine: Focuses on the business of running a graphic, interactive, or web design studio

Creative Latitude: a worldwide community that unites various creative disciplines for collective promotion, education and ethical business practices

BoDo: Business of Design online

Thanks for the [very] helpful list - I’ve got two to add, both of which provide free media. The first is http://www.morguefile.com - an online resource for hi-res, royalty-free stock images. The site is wonderfully intuitive, and a large number of the images are former stars (but are now dead and in the “morgue”…) The second is dafont.com - yet another beautifully intuituve site that offers a myriad of free fonts, and comes complete a preview for the line of text of your choice. These two are on the top of my list. Hope that helps!

Aah, its named Worktimer (forgot to mention)

There are many resources out there for designers that feel more like a dumping of links and some banner ads. It’s hard on the eyes and hard to digest. This site gets it done right. After all, you are catering to people who spend a great deal of time simplifying information for the eyes. How refreshing that you consider that with your layout.
Like the friendly characters and delicious colour palete. But most of all - i dig the content. I hope that this site grows into something successful, without loosing it’s philosophy. Proud to support it. - Respect.

Thank you for compiling this huge and helpful list. Another program that may be helpful for anyone with some programming background is Visual Web Developer by Microsoft (A mini version of the Visual Studio IDE). http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/

And no, I don’t work for Microsoft =P

A great list and resource. Thanks!

My vector software collection got a fantastic review.
Check it out:

http://www.bittbox.com/news/vectorvaultcom-product-review-interview-with-adam-jarvis-and-the-future-of-free-vectors-online/

http://www.vectorvault.com

My online list management application http://listigator.com is sort of a Tada on steroids, with item categories, list import&export, extensive sharing options and more.

Check this:
http://www.8ung.at/ukrebs
You should/must include Kalender in
http://freelanceswitch.com/general/101-essential-freelancing-resources/
Kalender is a fantastic diary-and-to-do application, which I selectd from a few dozen other freewares. It is much better than several paid softwares.

Toggl (http://toggl.com/) is the best free time-tracking tool I’ve used.

this is a really good (and possibly only) xml/xsl based cms - symphony

Hi,
nice list. CAN I TRANSLATE it in Hindi and post it in my above Hindi Blog?

धन्यवाद (Thanks!)

A low cost alternative to WebMeeting and any kind of Voice conferencing is Infinite Conferencing (www.infiniteconferencing.com).

It’s actually very reasonably priced and high quality of customer service.