AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 10/24/2008

This whole week has been great for AndySowards.com The Traffic has nearly doubled here(Not that it takes much to double Nothing. haha.). Overall it has been a success, and I thank all of you subscribers for hanging in there with me, I shall now reward you with another Daily Web Developer Resource List! This one is actually pretty huge too, yesterdays was humongous, so this one is keeping up with that trend. Hope it serves you well! Enjoy!

Web Developer/Designer Inspiration

• Show me some well designed logos! #7 | Identity and branding
  A few thousands of people visiting this weekly logo design gallery means the logos are very good, the designers are very tallented and it means that people like them.
  (tags: design inspiration gallery logo text color identity logos)
• 40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
  Great Out of the Box Collection of Site Designs. Inspiration at its best.
  (tags: design reference gallery interface layout 2008 ui ideas Resources webdesign web inspiration CSS portfolio layouts smashing graphics list creativity web-design blog web2.0 javascript html webdev tutorial creative showcase smashingmagazine inspiracion)
• Creative User Interfaces in Modern Web Design | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
  Some Amazingly Creative UI Examples. Must See Post.
  (tags: flash design interface nice smashingmagazine visualization creative web webdesign layout article inspiration web2.0 blog CSS art list diseño showcase usability ideas navigation ui interactive smashing user interfaces gui ux userinterface)
• Inspiring Grunge Style Big Typography Posters | Design Shard | Web Design Blog
  Cool Grunge Style Posters – Reminds me of Hollister posters. Really nice. Good Inspiration.
  (tags: design grunge posters inspiration blog graphics typography color illustration poster)

Freebies!

• 50 High Resolution Textures, Tutorials and Resources | Noupe
  Humongous collection of Textures!
  (tags: design free illustrator wallpaper pattern resources tutorials texturas patterns backgrounds diy stock texture textures pictures images graphics collection diseño useful graphic resource tutorial webdesign web photoshop art background image grunge)

PC Tips

• 4 Windows XP Maintenance Tips | How-To
  PC's are like Pets.
  (tags: microsoft windows tips)

Javascripts!

• LightWindow – NETTUTS
  Another Cool Lightbox-esque JS Script
• ModalBox – NETTUTS
  Modal Box Rocks. Nuff Said.

Google Tips and Tricks

• How To Create Standard Reply Template With Gmail Canned Responses | JerryOng.com Community Blog
  Quick walk through of Google's "Canned Responses" Setup
  (tags: ping.fm spam & free tips google email fun add tricks gmail mail new to)
• Google Alerts as a Tool for Link Development | Online Marketer .com
  Quick Walk through of how to use Google Alerts for Link Development
  (tags: google alerts tutorial howto link development)

Google News

• Google to introduce warnings for potentially hackable sites | Zero Day
  Last week, Google’s Patrick Chapman and Matt Cutts announced that they’re experimenting with a new security feature aiming to alert webmasters on the potential for having their sites hacked due to the outdated version of their web applications, starting with WordPress only

Social Networks

• Netvibes – Social Mashup
  Customize Your Experience.
  (tags: design blogs AJAX Bookmarks social news aggregator portal rss feed feeds mashup widgets media collaboration personal socialnetworking internet reference web2.0 blog tools community web search page daily startpage homepage netvibes)

iPhone Apps

• cliqcliq – we love iPhones, web services, & web applications
  Color iPhone app for Designers
  (tags: design apps userinterface iphone colour palette color application)
• Classics: Reading redefined, for iPhone & iPod Touch
  Very Slick and Inspirational design on this Awesome iPhone App.
  (tags: design mobile inspiration Ipod iphone touch layout apps book awesome ebook ebooks app reader Apple books ui classics)

Twitter Stuff

• Twitter – My Thoughts After 4 Months Of Use – ShoeMoney®
  Have your doubts about twitter? Read this then.
• Win a $3,000 Apple Laptop … Maybe – ShoeMoney®
  If you can guess how many twitter followers they will have by the first of the year without going over. Must be following in order to win.
  (tags: twitter contest game win laptop free prizes)
• How to Get More Twitter Followers: Some Methods That Work
  Squeeze every drop out of your tweeting power!
  (tags: blog socialnetworking socialsoftware blogging strategy twitter ideas blogs microblogging marketing toread article SEO socialmedia 2.0 process bestpractices smo followers doshdosh)
• Who's on Twitter here? – Bloggeries Forum
  Bloggers on twitter. Im on the list! Are you? Some good people to follow.

Social Network News

• LinkedIn Connects With Investors for $22.7 Million – NYTimes.com
  Social Networks and Money – LinkedIn Gathered some Major Funding

Nerdy Halloween!

• Master Chief Collector’s Costume | Uncrate
  Best Halloween Costume Ever, So Who wants to buy me this?

Freelancers Guide

• My Freelance Life: Why I Started On The Road To Self-Employment | CMD+SHIFT BLOG: Design, Tech, Internet, Web, Freelance, Blog by Liz Andrade, Owner of Seatttle Web Studio CMD+Shift Design. | Random
  Insight from fellow freelancers on why they decided to be their own boss.
• Invoicing, Time Tracking & Contracts / Creative Freelance Series | Fuel Your Creativity
  Good training for Freelancers!
  (tags: freelance)
• Should You Host Your Clients Websites? – CSS-Tricks
  To host, or Not to host. That is the question.
  (tags: freelancer hosting client websites)
• 50+ Ways to Improve Your Productivity as a Freelancer – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog
  Improve your freelance business with these awesome tips!
  (tags: personal web freelancing lifehack career tips list business article time gtd freelancer freelance work organization productivity project todo advice entrepreneur organizing improve plan selfdevelopment freelanceswitch)
• 7 Intellectual Property Resources Every Freelancer Should Know About – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog
  Being well informed about services and techniques helps mold a great Freelancer. Or Any Web Developer/Designer/Programmer really. Get in the know!
  (tags: freelancer tips strategy information howto)
• 7 Daily Time Wasters and How To Get Your Time Back | Freelance Folder | The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers
  We all know the internet has tons of methods of wasting our time. Well get it back!
  (tags: blog activism productivity)

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Web Tools

• FavIcon from Pics — free favicon.ico for your website (animated, static and marquee icons)
  Favicon not working? Validate!
  (tags: design html icons service tool web webdesign software check online converter services images tools webdev graphics Browser generator free icon webservice validation internet validate favicons favicon validator)
• Clean CSS – A Resource for Web Designers – Optmize and Format your CSS
  Too Lazy and or Ignorant to code clean CSS? It happens more often thatn Not. But Have no fear. This thing is here.
  (tags: design reference tool software optimization optimizer resource online clean utilities generator webtools code html development tips webdev web2.0 free programming webdesign tools CSS Resources web compression optimize performance compressor formatter)
• Browser Statistics
  So 22.3% of people STILL use IE6…..Why?
  (tags: design Resources Browser accessibility stats CSS technology web webdesign javascript usability trends browsers research internet development tools webdev html software reference marketing firefox statistics analytics ie standards data resolution w3c)

Blogging Tips

• 8 Reasons to Add a Newsletter to Your Blog
  Add a Newsletter to your blog? Why? Read on.
• Why Do We Blog?
  Good question eh? See tons of peoples answers and reasons to slave over their blogs.

Amazing Animations

• Physics Flash Animations
  This is a product of Flash, Math, and Physics. Definitely worthy of a Daily nerd Link.
  (tags: ideas design math reference animation examples physics games science Resources programming statistics graphics visualization fun learning Video mathematics flash fisica educational energy simulation animations)

Email Marketing

• New Features And Updates In sendcube
  Sendcube is an email marketing system, More notably, their site design is pretty cool, I especially like the giant 3D RSS logo.
  (tags: design email marketing)

WordPress Plugins

• Comment Luv
  Cool site that has a WP Plugin that let checks your commenter's blog for recent posts, and posts a link to the most recent one if they choose to.
  (tags: webdesign Plugins SEO tools wp blog drupal ping.fm love comment AJAX comments blogging wordpress plugin commentluv)