AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 11/04/2008

Well The week is in full swing at Daily Nerdy Links posts! I hope all you Subscribers are having a great week and are learning a lot of good stuff! Today is going to be a busy day for me now go and learn from those nerdy web techy web developer/designery Resources! Enjoy your day!

Twitter Stuff

• Get a Free Custom Twitter Background (For a Limited Time!) – TweetStyle
  Get a custom twitter background for free! If you don't already have one that is. 🙂
• 30 Creative Twitter Theme Backgrounds – Freelance Web Design Belfast Northern Ireland Lee Munroe
  Some nice Twitter Backgrounds!
• Brian Carter Social Media Guy: Tweetbait: 7 Ways to Get Retweets
  Good guide to getting Retweets!
  (tags: twitter)

Flash Tutorials

• FocusOnFlash.com – A resource for Web Development Tutorials with the focus on the Adobe Flash platform.
  Good place for flash tutorials!
  (tags: webdesign Video guide actionscript forum tutorial as3 adobe flash free Tutorials development actionscript3)

Directory of API’s

• API Directory – ProgrammableWeb
  1,000+ APIs are already available for mashups, opportunities are mind-blowing!
  (tags: web reference api services mashup webservice 2.0 programming webdesign web2.0 service web20 database webservices internet list tools development Resources dev directory resource AJAX search webdev links mashups sites rest apis)

Web Developer/Designer Inspirations

• 80 NEW Creative, Smart & Clever Advertisements
  Really awesome collection of new creative advertisements!
  (tags: inspiration creative advertising ads)
• Brainsites – the best webdesign directory – Rankings – All Sites
  Directory for Web Design sites! Add yours if its relevant!
• Craig Farrall’s Blog » Blog Archive » The 10 TO DO Things for Web Designers
  a To Do list for Web Designers!
  (tags: web webdesign blog tips articles todo)
• Top 5 T-Shirt Designs, Top Five Tee Shirt Design Concepts | Design Shard | Web Design Blog
  Cool t-Shirt Design Trends!
  (tags: design graphics print t-shirt)
• Unique CSS Borders – Boring borders step aside – The Web Squeeze
  Really nice CSS Border Ideas
  (tags: design webdesign CSS rounded corner borders border)
• Illustrated Vector Landscape Web Design Trend | Blog.SpoonGraphics
  Another great collection of sites, Really like the Vector Landscape ones!
  (tags: design illustration websites illustrator web webdesign vector trends cartoon background 2008 inspiration graphics creative gallery examples 2.0 landscapes footer landscape elements header)
• 30 Stylish Examples of Doodles in Web Design | Blog.SpoonGraphics
  Really amazing collection of some nicely doodled websites 🙂
  (tags: design illustration web-design web webdesign inspiration examples doodle internet roundups layout website list)
• Info Graphic In The Making | The DesignO'Blog
  An experiment in social design.

Font Creation Tutorial

• How To Design a Font: {Part2} Draw Up A Storm! | GoMediaZine
  Really amazing tutorial on how to design a font.
  (tags: design best inspiration sketch font Resources tutorial Tutorials typography cool)

Uber Facebook List

• One Uber FaceBook List for Creatives and Geeks | ImJustCreative is Graham Smith
  Uber Facebook List, Get on it, and Add me!
  (tags: ping.fm bookmarking list twitter delicious blogging Facebook flickr directory music)

Best Tutorial Sites

• 100+ best sites to find tutorials!
  The BEST source to find all the tutorials you need!
  (tags: design photoshop tutoriales link resource 100+ find graphicdesign illustrator best sites list graphics Tutorials web webdesign tutorial CSS to)

WordPress Stuff

• WordPress 2.7: Ten useful new features – op111.net
  Don't read too much, you'll start drooling over 2.7 and have to stop everything. haha.
  (tags: web tips wordpress news publishing features 2008 2.7)
• Free WordPress Layouts: 15 Must Have Grunge Blog Themes | Mike Smith
  Amazing Collection of Free WordPress Grunge Themes!
  (tags: design blog blogs wordpress theme scripts grunge)

Contests

• Submit Your Favorite Designed Logos | The Design Cubicle
  Submit Your Design Today!
• Contest: Free Flashloaded 3D Spiral-Comment to Win | Naldz Graphics
  Comment on this post to win some cool Flash 3D Spiral Stuff!

Designer Interviews

• Interview with Franz Jeitz – psdfan.com –
  Designer Interview!!
• Interview with Designer, Kyle Steed | Fuel Your Creativity
  Another Designer Interview from Fuel Your Creativity
  (tags: designer tweetmarks interview)

Business/Marketing

• how to sell anything value benefits copy writing | Jim's Marketing Blog
  Now this is just good to know. I don't care who you are.
  (tags: marketing)
• 5 Steps for Successful Social Media Marketing
  Take some steps in the right direction with your Social Media Marketing
  (tags: socialmedia marketing strategy)
• Adsense is Still King | Web-workathome.com
  Tips that make Adsense Work!

Freebies!

• 40 Beautiful Free Icon Sets – Six Revisions
  This is the motherload of icon sets.
• Social Bookmark Iconset | Vikiworks™ Studio
  Another cool Social Network Icon Set!
  (tags: design Resources download bookmark set image free web webdesign graphics vector socialbookmarking icons cool art inspiration Bookmarks wordpress web2.0 blog images social desktop downloads 2.0 rss icon grafik iconset)
• A list of very nice and free social buttons | OpenSourceHunter
  Ultimate list of Big, Nice, Glossy Social Network Buttons, Good Find!
  (tags: design graphics collection network bit200f08 media internet web webdesign social socialmedia buttons bookmark lists images tools web2.0 download Resources socialnetworking webdev free Facebook 2008 button icons badges icon grafik)

CSS/Javascript/jQuery Stuff

• Tabbed search bar using CSS and Javascript | OpenSourceHunter
  Yet Another Tabbed Tutorial, at least you get variety 🙂
• Facebox,a jQuery-based Facebook-style lightbox | OpenSourceHunter
  A look into FaceBox.
  (tags: jQuery Facebook)
• Simple Animated Menu for Mootools 1.2 | OpenSourceHunter
  Create a nice menu effect with MooTools
  (tags: inspiration menu mootools)

User Interface(uI)

• Design for Users: The Art of the Signup
  Nice Article on the signup/account creation process of web sites.
  (tags: signup ui usablility process account creation)

Best Of

• Arbenting’s Best of the Week (10/26 – 11/01) | Arbenting
  Another really great roundup of some great resource collections that came out this week!
• Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 11/03/2008 – Design Float
  Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 11/03/2008 – Really great weekend, Very Productive! AndySowards.com has been featured on naldzgraphics.com this week, really honored to have the shoutout. I hope you guys have gotten a lot out of Daily Nerdy Links posts this weekend
  (tags: ping.fm web design development resources)
• MyInkTrail: Best of the Web, October 2008 | My Ink Blog
  Really good collection of the best of October, seen a lot of these lately, good stuff!

Web Tools

• Lovable Links: Store, Sync and Share your Files with Dropbox | The Design Cubicle
  Cool info for DropBox, an easy way to sync and share files via the web
  (tags: tools tweetmarks)