AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 10/10/2008

Another Day, Another set of links, Hope todays link collection brightens and enlightens your day and Helps you to become a better Web Developer/Designer/Programmer, Marketer, Blogger, and Techy Nerd. Send me some feedback and tell me what you think! Enjoy!

CSS Tutorials

• New Screencast: How to Use sIFR 3 – CSS-Tricks
  sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is a technology that allows you to use any font you wish on your web pages. Long story short, it uses JavaScript to target certain text page elements and replace them with a block of Flash, which is the same text only rendered with a new font.
  Awesomeness.
  (tags: webdesign fonts Video sifr webdev tutorial CSS howto javascript typography)

WordPress Plugins

• 13 WordPress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should – Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
  Great list of forgotten wordpress apps that are helpful to your blog!
  (tags: design Inspiration download wordpress-plugin web-design Plugins web webdesign blogging free tools blogs awesome hacks designer extensions opensource list webdev wordpress Resources blog plugin toread analytics wp lists wordpress-plugins source)

Build a Following

• 25 Ways to Build Your Community | chrisbrogan.com
  Good points on building a following.
  (tags: community blog help build)

Nice Font, Man!

• Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen
  Slickly Designed Font Comparing App. Very Nice.
  (tags: CSS fonts design tool web text html resources tipografia typografie typetester compare browser webtools typography reference webdev online screen typo website test type useful font webdesign resource tools)

Web Designer Resources

• ESTHETIC CORE | Everything A Designer Needs
  Ton of resources, truly is a good reference for any Designer
  (tags: design web-design webdesign Tutorials brushes tutorial Inspiration Resources vector)

Laugh Of The Day – Microsoft Fail

• Royal Pingdom » Blue Screen of Death in unexpected locations
  Hilarious collection of the blue screen of death around the globe haha.
  (tags: blue screen of death microsoft fail)

InfusionSoft Improvement Idea List

• Customer Feedback for Infusionsoft :: Infusionsoft Product Ideas forum
  Use InfusionSoft? Got a good idea to help improve it? Submit it! Be Heard!
  (tags: infusionsoft ideas submission feedback)

I’m Not a Twitter Addict.

• Plugd » Blog Archive » 68 Twitter tools to satisfy your twitter addiction
  Ton of Tools for Twitter
  (tags: tools twitter collection social network)

Amazon S3 Storage Service Info

• Amazon Web Services Blog: MySQL Interface to Amazon S3
  Look at a Code snippet using MySQL Interface to Amazon S3. Interesting.
  (tags: development api mysql hack dev hacks interface webdev coding web2.0 sql database databases programming engine cool developer code library software webservice db aws storage amazon s3 ec2)

Inspiration

• Online-Photoshop Tutorials
  Very nice site design and content, great inspiration, clean design.
  (tags: webdesign photos photoshop design online mac counter creative web2.0 Tutorials google images tutorial Inspiration effects desktop blogs ps)
• Inspiration: Crazy Ads | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Creative and Crazy ad collection by abduzeedo
  (tags: design photos ads Inspiration graphics photoshop funny advertising graphic)

Chrome In Trouble?

• Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn | Tech News on ZDNet
  After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the end of Firefox to the demise of Microsoft itself. Very Controversial Article, I like Chrome. What do you think?
  (tags: chrome google fail article input)