Designing for web requires extensive knowledge of the different web designing tools and techniques. To be an accomplished web designer it takes fluency in various software and markup languages involved in web designing. For any aspiring web designer it's important to develop an expertize over HTML, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, and CSS. Although there are various institutions that teach web designing, nothing can be better than honing your skills through self-tutoring. There are scores of free web design tutorials that provide you the best way to polish yourself for the professional world.  Moreover with video tutorials you can understand complicated works in seconds what can otherwise take hours to grasp. You can do lot with Flash with the help of our list of top 90 free Flash Tutorial. Still there's a vast array of tutorials for web designers, which makes it difficult to choose the right ones. To sort out this problem I did a bit of research to get the top 10 free tutorial for web designers.

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Most of web designers and developers prefer Firefox to other browsers. Whether you are a front-end graphics designer or web programmer  who has been generating web-based solution for some time now, I hope you know about Firefox functionalities. Firefox is a versatile player   with a variety of add-ons to make things easier. With add-ons Firefox is almost an omnipotent thing with maximal functionality that you can expect from a browser.

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Stoyan Stefanov and Nicole Sullivan, two Yahoo developers have made image optimization easier than it was ever before. Smush it is their brain child. It is a free online tool for lossless compression of JPG, PNG, GIF files (including animated).

So all you need to do is just go to their site and upload your image file. Then they will smush or optimize the pic for you within seconds and provide you with a download link in zip files and also tell you the exact percentage of optimization.

Let's take a detailed look at it.

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