AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 10/31/2008

Happy Halloween and welcome to your Daily Nerdy Links post! I hope all you Subscribers are ready for today and are reading this at your computers all dressed in crazy gear with face paint on. This is the very first Halloween Edition of nerdy web techy web developer/designery Resources! So Enjoy! Or I will suck your blood!! 🙂

First, we start with, Halloween Stuff!

• Twitter helloween icons
  So your on Twitter right now and they have tons of cool halloween Icons floating around in the posts, you are like “How?” Well now my friend, You know how. thx to @mayhemstudios 😉
• Trick Or Tweet Twitter Style | FutureNow's GrokDotCom / Marketing Optimization Blog
  Happy Halloween! Trick or TWEET! Here are the rules.
  (tags: twitter socialnetworking socialmedia tweetmarks halloween)
• Draw a Skull With a Wacom Tablet – VECTORTUTS
  Cool tutorial for those of you with Wacom Pads!
• Wallpaper of the Week #28 – Halloween | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Nice halloween wallpaper!
• Design a Scary Zombie Movie Poster
  So its time for another tutorial and on this tutorials you’ll gonna learn how to design a Scary Zombie Movie Poster in Photoshop. This tutorial is more on beginner type.

HTML Newsletter on MAC Tips

• Mayhem Studios Photoshop Tutorials | HTML Newsletters on a Mac
  Guidelines for HTML newsletter on MAC, Don't Steal, Learn. 🙂
  (tags: html email mac newsletter newsletters tutorial)

Web Designer/Developer Resources

• 50+ Must Read Web Design for ROI, Usability and SEO Articles | SEOptimise
  A list of some really cool Web Design/ROI/Usability and SEO Articles!
• 37 Free Flash Photo Gallery | DeveloperFox
  Looking for some nice Free Flash Photo Galleries? Check these out.
  (tags: free flash gallery image photo slideshow)
• 70+ Cheat Sheet Resources for Web Designers | Design And Marketing Blog
  Tons of Cheat Sheets for Web Designers/Developers like us!
  (tags: web cheatsheet webdesign webdev reference javascript technology)
• redswish – a web design blog » Improving yourself as a designer
  Good Tips on improving your career, and yourself, as a designer!
  (tags: design career)
• How a web designer/developer can prepare for a down economy. | BradStrickland.com
  Web Designer Developer Preparation kit!
  (tags: tips web-design economy)
• Managing Multiple Freelance Gigs With Mind Maps – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog
  Get Organized You Freelancers!
  (tags: career computer freelance productivity management mindmap freelanceswitch freelancing gtd lifehacks tools mindmapping selfdevelopment time work projectmanagement)
• 10 Ways You Shouldn’t Brand Yourself in a Bad Economy « Personal Branding Blog – Dan Schawbel
  Things Not To Do.

Illustrator Tutorials

• Draw an Old-world Style Tattered Scroll from Scratch – VECTORTUTS
  Great Drawing techniques!
• Create Intricate Patterns in Adobe Illustrator – VECTORTUTS
  Really nice patterns tutorial in photoshop!
• Illustrator 101: Reset Your Rulers (Video) | BittBox
  Simple answer to a Simple frustration in Illustrator.

Introduction fo E4X

• XML.com: Introducing E4X
  ECMAscript for XML (more colloquially known as E4X) has had comparatively limited success of adoption in the face of the power of JSON, I suspect partially because of a general ambivalence that the JavaScript community has towards working with XML, but more so because there is comparatively little out there describing how best to take advantage of the features that E4X offers.
  (tags: flash json web development article tutorial api JS programming articles library actionscript javascript AJAX flex code xml.com ecmascript parser e4x xml)

Freebies!

• 100 Greatest Abstract and Grunge Fonts (Free) | Graphics
  Really nice, And FREE, Grunge fonts! Great Collection!
  (tags: Resources fonts grunge)
• Mixed texture pack: documenting the move | highresolutiontextures.com
  Hi-Res Texture Pack! Freebies!
• 30 Beautiful Illustrator Brush and Symbol Collection | 1stwebdesigner
  Really NICE illustrator brush set! Yum!
• Operation NICE: NICE Giveaway: three heart photography & design
  Really nice cards giveaway!

So many cool phones, so little time.

• A tough decision: Grab an iPhone or wait for the Storm? | Between the Lines
  iPhone or Storm? Tough Decision indeed.

Twitter Stuff – Non Halloween 🙂

• Good (Twitter) Friends are hard to find…Until now! | The Design Cubicle
  Some good people to follow on twitter 🙂
  (tags: design blog twitter lists tweetmarks friends social-networking)
• Download Your Free Twitter Guide @ chrisg.com
  New to Twitter? There is apparently an instruction manual now. LOL
  (tags: howto free twitter cool socialmedia guide review)
• PR 2.0: Twitter Tools for Community and Communications Professionals
  Twitter Tools, Everyone Loves these!
  (tags: tools business microblogging communications media marketing web2.0 howto community blog internet twitter social SEO socialsoftware socialmedia research search tips list blogs socialnetworking social_media briansolis social+media pr twittertools twitter-tools)
• jQuery plugin for Twitter – blog – coda.coza
  jQuery Plugin for Twitter!
  (tags: webdesign twitter javascript webdevelopment plugin jQuery)

Design/Usability

• Why Web Design Matters : SEO Book.com
  As if you needed to know why.
  (tags: design usability webdesign guide information flash checklist article SEO web-design resource)

37 Signals Founder Interview

• Jason Fried of 37Signals on Business, Focus, and Avoiding Interruption – O'Reilly Broadcast
  Founder of an Amazing company called 37 Signals, Must see.
  (tags: web technology Video 37signals collaboration advice startup productivity web2.0 development programming work articles business management software lifehacks interview gtd career entrepreneurship agile oreilly fried focus to_read towatch)

Google News

• Read It Later Comes To Google Reader – ReadWriteWeb
  Yay for Google Reader 🙂
  (tags: web extension internet google tools productivity research firefox rss)

Web Tools

• Kid Tech Guru: 15 Free Websites to Download any YouTube Videos
  List of Video Downloaders!
  (tags: howto free cool download help videos youtube)

WordPress

• WP-Cumulus 1.15: Color! | Roy Tanck's weblog
  WP NOW IN COLOR!
• Press75.com Premium WordPress Themes by Jason Schuller
  Some Cool Premium WordPress Themes!
  (tags: design blogs premium media videoblog wordpress theme webdesign inspiration business wpthemes template Video php wp blog Resources gallery cms magazine wordpress-themes themes programming press75 templates)