AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 11/07/2008

Thanks to everyone that made yesterday a GREAT day for AndySowards.com since it was the 50th Daily Links Post here! I again Would like to thank all of the Subscribers(There are a lot more of you now!), daily visitors, and twitter friends for making it a success so far! I am proud to keep those nerdy web techy web developer/designery Resources coming to you each day! Todays post is JUST as huge as the last! So Go get Info Overloaded! 🙂

Web Developer/Designer Inspirations

• 218 HD Resolution Desktop Wallpapers for Nerds | Nerd Business Blog
  Freaking HUGE post with some Freaking AMAZING wallpapers. Best wallpapers all Month. Seriously.
  (tags: design images image backgrounds background download inspiration blog desktop gallery fotografia fotos escritorio fondos hd wallpapers downloads fun free graphics photography list cool photoshop art photo geek wallpaper photos pictures)
• 10 Amazing Designers that Influence the Community | Web Design Ledger
  Some really cool designers! Inspirational!
  (tags: design trends)
• OkapiStudio » Industrial – Inspirational Structural Designs
  Amazing Interior/Exterior design and Furniture.
  (tags: design Web_Design interior identity webdesign review blog inspiration product cool studio art decoration creative furniture logo shelves)
• Business card inspiration part 2 – 40 designs
  Freaking awesome Business Card Inspiration. I love these type of posts. Anyone know where to get Business Cards like this? I want some!
• Inspiration: Craig Shields | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Probably the MOST inspirational and beautiful Graphics I have seen ALL WEEK! …Nay…MONTH!
  (tags: design inspiration graphics showcase personal art)
• Daily Inspiration #37 | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Really Inspirational image post.
• Beautiful Watercolor Inspiration | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Some amazing Watercolor Art.
  (tags: design inspiracion inspiration Tutorials photoshop watercolor illustrator illustration)
• Darren Jones » 10 Creative Workspaces
  Creative Workspaces of Designers, Some are nice, some are messy. Best part is, they are real.
• Price Tags: Another trend in Web Design – Productivedreams.com
  Designs inspired by The Tag. Very nice
• 23 Awesome Examples of Design as a Force For Good – PSDTUTS
  Design for the Good of Mankind.
  (tags: design creative inspiration advertising photoshop photo ads fotos art posters social marketing grde226 blogs life)
• 27 Eye-Opening and Inspiring Websites Of Top Brands – Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
  These top brand websites really open your eyes. Very nice collection!
  (tags: webdesign)
• web.without.words
  Interesting concept, basically makes you hunt for the content, to where you focus on one thing at a time.
  (tags: design internet usability wireframe words ui visualization blogs web webdesign art website inspiration gallery interface process layout web2.0 blog technology grid concept funny CSS cool ideas ux ia ergonomie wireframes)
• Votetime – Design links fed to twitter, Vote your favourite!
  I Would like to take this time to personally thank all of the Subscribers, daily visitors, and twitter friends for making it a success so far! 50th!
  (tags: ping.fm web design programming development Pligg Content Management System)
• Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 11/05/2008 :50th Post! – Design Float
  Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 11/05/2008 :50th Post! – Today is a Milestone for me here at AndySowards.com! This will the the 50th Daily Links post since this blog started about a little over a month and a half ago! I Would like to take this time to personally thank all of the Subscribers, daily visitors…
  (tags: ping.fm web development design resources)

Social Networking

• Social networking sites do double duty these days
  FaceBook and LinkedIn Connections – Its not What you know, but WHO.
  (tags: internet socialnetworking networking job work jobsearch)
• Brian Carter Social Media Guy: How to Dominate Facebook with Twitter
  Own facebook. With Twitter? Read on!

After Effects Tutorial

• Adobe After Effects Tutorial | Smoke Type | Steve Holmes | Layers Magazine
  Really NICE smoke effect for After effects. LOVE AE. Great tutorial.
  (tags: design photoshop todo type AfterEffects typography webdesign tutorial adobe editing textures effect 2008 3d Tutorials howto graphics tips effects animation cool visual font smoke after-effects after ae)

CMS Stuff

• Textpattern Developer's Toolbox | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
  More CMS'es. Textpattern is a PHP-based open-source content management system that is popular with both bloggers and website owners.
  (tags: Tutorials)
• 10 Promising Content Management Systems – Six Revisions
  List of some of the Top CMS's around. Which one do you use?
  (tags: design webdev webdevelopment review opensource Content blog apps Resources php development tools software webdesign web reference list cms lists management web-development sites computing article top content-management sixrevisions contentmanagementsystem contentmanagementsolution contentmanagement)

Design

• The Days of Static Design Visuals are Dead | How To Present Web Design | BrianYerkes.com
  Static Design is dead. Ready Why!

Freebies!

• Freebies – Bohemian Rhapsody Wallpaper | Arbenting
  Free Bohemian Rhapsody Wallpaper! Nice!
• DressUp! Avatars Icon Set | Freebies | Smashing Magazine
  Cool Avatars Icon set! For Free!
  (tags: design download smashingmagazine icone via:mento.info collection webdesign diseño web development logo icons webdev avatar icon freebies desktop free art graphic smashing picture iconos avatars)
• Function Web Design & Development [ Blog ] » Free Theme: Color Paper WordPress Theme now on Smashing Magazine
  Really nice Free Theme on Smashing Magazine

Business/Marketing

• Strategic Design: 6 Steps For Building Successful Websites | How-To | Smashing Magazine
  Great guidelines for Building Incredibly Successful websites! Awesome list!
  (tags: tutorial article design smashing process usability layout Tutorials web webdesign CSS inspiration howto ui smashingmagazine interface tips business websites development blog marketing strategy ux planning principles bit200f08 webdev website strategic)

Google Stuff

• Lifestreaming 101: Put All Your Content in One Place with Google Reader
  So many feeds. So little space. Consolidate your Content. with Google Reader.
  (tags: blog feeds aggregators feedburner feed Tutorials howto reader article lifestreaming tips google lifestream aggregator aggregation tricks tip rss labnol friendfeed googlereader)
• Official Gmail Blog: Tip: Your email, wherever you are on the web, with Toolbar
  Gmail ANYWHERE with FireFox plugin.
  (tags: firefox addons mozilla)

WordPress

• How To Create A Custom WordPress Page Template | WordPress Max
  This came in handy yesterday when dealing with WordPress and a client that needed a static welcome page that required some php programming.
  (tags: blog Video wordpress-tutorials template tutorial howto custom wordpress diy website homepage tech page templates how-to hacks)
• WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.7 Beta 2
  This just in! Beta 2 Is ready!
• WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.7 Beta 1
  You can test 2.7 Beta Now, if you like.
  (tags: wordpress software wp tweetmarks web-standards beta upgrade)
• WordPress 2.7 Feature Preview: Publish Module (UPDATED) « Mark on WordPress
  Video Preview of WordPress 2.7 release
  (tags: wordpress 2.7 screencast)

SEO Tips

• 10 SEO Techniques All Top Web Sites Should Use | Freelance Folder | The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers
  SEO Techniques YOU should use! With all these SEO Tips we have had lately, you should be an SEO MASTER by now.
  (tags: web article future google webdesign search webdevelopment tools tips webdev blogging SEO internet articles marketing roundup keywords basics)
• Black Hat SEO | What is Black Hat SEO | Affiliate Internet Marketing Tips
  Explanation of what Black Hat SEO is, and why its bad.

Sketchy Tutorial

• Create a Sketchy Work of Art in Just 10 Steps – psdfan.com –
  Really creative and Cool Sketchy Photoshop tutorial

Programming

• Notepad++ Tabbed Text Editor & More – 4Minds Technology Blogs
  NotePadd ++ Exceptionally good Text Editor. Original Notepad Blows.

Laugh of the Day

• Implementing some AJAX features on SpoonGraphics on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  Hilarious. Spoon Graphics Begins to add AJAX to site.
• Larissa Meek » Is Obama a Mac or a PC?
  Cast your votes! Is Obama a Mac or a PC?
• xkcd – A Webcomic – Scantron
  LOL Scantron test gone terribly wrong.
  (tags: technology comics xkcd funny comic humor satire webcomic awesome culture webcomics education humour)
• Rocket Scientist Web Design
  I think we found it… The Best web design company ever?! LOL!!

Freelance Web Developer/Designer Resources

• How Much Time Should You Spend Working Each Day? – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog
  Some days this is the biggest question I ever have. Check it out!
  (tags: freelance productivity freelancing organization planning clients)
• 20 typefaces to start a designers career | Typophile
  Start your career off on the right track with these typefaces!
  (tags: design tips list typography fonts type)
• Stu Nicholls | CSSplay | Elegant dropdown menu #1
  Nice example of a fancy drop down that doesn't look tacky. very nice
• Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Ways to Stay Energized
  In this day and age we are overworked and under rested. STAY ENERGIZED!! with these tips!
  (tags: tools work lifehack lifehacker inspiration howto lifehacks useful advice information article tips life interesting productivity articles help jobs gtd diy energy lists later how-to energized stress health self diet)

Yahoo, Is a Failure.

• Google Walks Away from Yahoo Advertising Deal – ReadWriteWeb
  Yahoo Owned. Google FTW.
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Yahoo tells Microsoft: 'Buy us'
  Yahoo said the "For Sale" sign is still on its front lawn and that Microsoft should buy the company. What a bunch of failures.
  (tags: microsoft yahoo merger forsale failure)

Web Tools

• Tabbloid
  Converts RSS feeds into PDF's and emails them to you! Kinda cool, if you love PDF's.
  (tags: web tabbloid tabloid newspaper hp newsfeeds print feed aggregator tools web2.0 publishing email blog cool rss free news magazines generator daily blogs online magazine feeds paper pdf newsletter internet tool)
• Instant Color Schemes
  Pretty Cool, automatically gives you color palettes by typing in keywords. It then uses Yahoo Images to find the most used colors for those keywords. Kinda crazy.
  (tags: design Resources blogging generator colour html web2.0 art web webdesign webdev reference CSS inspiration development graphics photoshop utilities palette images colors code yahoo tool search color scheme tools schemes colorscheme)

Amazon top Books of 2008

• Best Books of 2008: Editors' Top 10: Arts & Photography
  The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)
  Scott Kelby Makes Amazons Best Books of 2008 List! Congrats to him!

Twitter Stuff

• Web links :: TwitterPassion :: TwitterPassion is a hub of twitter luv! The directory of people, links, and resources.
  Add your favorite links if you are Passionate about Twitter!
  (tags: tools twitter directory tweetmarks)
• Micro-Messaging Companies Are Growing Fast – ReadWriteWeb
  Big Growth in Small Companies like Twitter.
  (tags: twitter monetization social socialmedia microblogging enterprise2.0 email)
• Twitter WMA Part 2 – Twitter and the Creative Logo Designer | ImJustCreative is Graham Smith
  Sequel to part 1 – Part 2, is that twitter is your friend, yet an addictive time spender
  (tags: blogging wordpress social networks)

Video Game Nostalgia

• Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection: Sega Reveals Splotchy 40 Game Mega Drive Compilation
  Wow this brings back the memories….

jQuery Stuff

• Christopher-Webb » Blog Archive » Smart Navigation with jQuery
  Smart Navigation with jQuery Tutorial

Directories To Join

• Find a Web Design Company – Xemion Web Designers Directory
  Be a part of This Web Designers Directory!
  (tags: design programming designer personal studio designers freelance resource webdesign web inspiration business advertising jobs company Web_Design marketing Resources directory gallery webdev Tutorials developer employment community outsourcing companies classifieds webdesigners diseñadores)
• Brainsites – the best webdesign directory – Join
  Join this web design directory today!

Photoshop Tutorials

• A Very Snowy Tutorial | My Ink Blog
  Really good Snow tutorial!
  (tags: design tutorial photoshop graphic illustrator brushes patterns)
• Smoke Effect – Adobe Photoshop – PSDTUTS
  Nice Smoke effect photoshop tutorial video
• Create and Then Shatter a Grid, while Making a Typographic Poster – Video – PSDTUTS
  Cool typography poster video tutorial
• Good-Tutorials – Newest Tutorials
  Site Redesigned – Some really great tutorials are here also.
  (tags: design reference html computer art photo software CSS web webdesign free flash illustrator learning php howto tools Resources graphics images education tutoriais photos adobe javascript Tutorials tutorial photoshop tips photography)

Blogging Tips

• How to Get Media Coverage for Your Blog
  Mediatize your blog!
• WordPress Shopping Cart: Fully Functional Market Theme
  Awesome Premium Shopping Cart Theme that Integrates with Paypal

Contests

• $11,000 Prize Giveaway – Design Group Writing Project For Charity
  Group Writing Project for Charity!
  (tags: design creative)

CSS Tips

• 10 CSS Tips for a Web Design that Sucks!
  CSS can help Web Designs that suck.

News You Need To Know

• Video Game News, Geek Stuff & Gadgets – The Feed at G4tv.com
  This truly is all the news you need to know.
  (tags: nerd news tech update info hip techy updates games gaming gamers)

Google Android News

• Developer Releases Tethering App For Android – ReadWriteWeb
  Aircard too expensive? Try Tethering – Basically connecting your phone to your laptop for internet connection, Developers are finding workarounds to make this the standard.
  (tags: software apps technology android)