Workflow is on every business owner mind that are trying to increase productivity. An easy way to do this is with generators. Here is a quick list of three generators that may help with your individual needs.

Stripe Generator

Here is an interesting website. With a once growing trend of stripes in web development now entering it’s decline, I find my-self second guessing every time I go to define a pattern in Photoshop. But with most trends they tend to fade away and are made in to accent pieces rather then main graphic elements. That being said this website allows you play with a easy to use screen as you create the perfect stripe(s) in a easy to download .png image file.

Ajax Load

This is a must use have. Given the revolutionary move toward WEB 2.0 coding (like social networking sites, forums, blogs, etc.) it’s not uncommon to see loading graphics will the browser loads large content form the databases (like images, video and audio). Ajax Load is a loader graphic generator with just four easy options.

1. Select one of the over 35 loading graphic presets
2. Select a background color for the graphic
3. Check were you wish to use transparency with the loader and turns the background color in to a color matte
4. Finally the foreground color

Then generate, tweak, re-generate, and download.

Lipsum

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.

Why use fake text, well when clients look at you proof for either web or prints they don’t like to es the following:
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah

or

TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT

and never

tcxracvbnudbaqzmsrjsyrtchaimsbfunmmdrbgcntaxmmenagrybaiufthc ttstdx truasgwqha gerafhoergynac grrugdxaxmrngaxc grrc ara rasdgfgcanrsafhd kbgadsfnadbfg bads bfbse i gfb erf cewafnehgwbfaegbcfaerafhbsdkfbask rfguasdhbf afgybdf afisbg

A Bit of Background
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

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