AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 12/09/2008

YES! Monday is over. Todays Links are huge, they will both Inspire you, and Make you uber nerdy smart! The Nerdy Web Development and Design Links are still coming daily! So check them out and pass them on! Bless you all!

Web Developer/Designer Inspirations

• Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 12/08/2008 – Design Float
  Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 12/08/2008 – New Week, New Inspirations. Todays Links have some really useful tips and ideas for you to try out! The Nerdy Web Development and Design Links are still coming daily! So check them out and pass them on! Bless you all!
  (tags: ping.fm web design development resources dev)
• dache | The visual works of David Pache
  100 Brands of Interest – Very nice logos
  (tags: design branding Inspiration logos list type typography print designers graphicdesign illustration logo 100 brands top brand logotype)
• 45+ Beautiful Christmas Cards | PSDTOP Blog – Design Tips, Photo Effects, Icon Creation, Special Effects and Links
  Awesome Christmas Cards!
  (tags: design gifts christmas backgrounds wallpapers cards beautiful card image christmascards)
• A BeTaMaXMaS
  Bring back the 80's, This is awesome.
  (tags: guide cool website videos flash youtube fun Retro funny advertising vintage media beta Video humor 80s christmas betamax holiday nostalgia television tv)
• Threadless Kids – Cute graphic tees, onesies, t-shirts and hoodies for kids and babies
  I should get some of these for my babies
  (tags: design awesome christmas fashion shopping webdesign inspiration t-shirts kids tshirts reference illustration product buy fun shop gifts clothing clothes tshirt shirts threadless toddler children baby)
• The Right Type: 5 Inspiring Typography Tales | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine
  Tales of Typography! Web Designer Bed time stories? LoL
  (tags: inspiration typography)
• Beautiful and inspiring Quotes from designers
  Inspirational Designer Quotes!!
• Every Great Photoshop Lighting Tutorial Ever! (Part 3 of 3) – psdfan.com –
  Awesome collection of Photoshop Lighting Tutorials! Amazing!
  (tags: webdesign graphicdesign blog effects Tutorials photoshop lighting tutorial webdev adobe)
• 350 Designs – Clean font showcase
  Really nice and Clean Font Showcase! Brilliant!
  (tags: design gallery webdev downloads examples typography CSS webdesign web list download photoshop free Resources inspiration development graphic article resource art showcase work fonts type font ui tipografia clean text freefont)
• Interface Design Inspiration – 36 Clean Comment Form designs
  Nice Clean Comment Form Designs! Inspirational Collection!
  (tags: design CSS web-design comments form diseño list web blogging wordpress webdesign Resources inspiration webdev blog showcase forms comment patterns html ui interface inspiración formularios commentform)
• I Am Paddy » What advice would you give to…?
  Some Great Advice, From some great people, focusing on their field.
• 50 Strange Buildings of the World | Village of Joy
  Amazingly Inspirational Architecture!
  (tags: design funny travel weird photo inspiration photos world building blog list interesting cool art images photography fun architecture pics fotos pictures House arquitectura strange buildings edificios construction curiosidades)

Freelance/Business/Marketing

• The 22 Step Social Media Marketing Plan
  A Breakdown of all the steps to make a Social Media Marketing plan work!
  (tags: web social planning social-media networking 2.0 socialnetworking tools blog web2.0 howto twitter examples socialmedia business marketing media mashable corporate advertising network strategy work social_media plan pr advice tips socialmarketing social.media)
• SEO Search Ranking Strategy, Tips, and Tactics | Josh Klein Web Strategy
  High Search engine ranks have nothing to do with SEO?
• Top 10 Reasons Why Blogs Fail and How to Avoid Failure
  Avoid Failure.
  (tags: blogging)
• Spotlight Ideas » Top 75 Blog Posts on using Twitter in Marketing / Social Media
  Huge Collection of Posts using Twitter in marketing/Social Media!
  (tags: twitter marketing index)
• Best Of | chrisbrogan.com
  Best of Chris Brogan, Nuff Said.
• Principles of Successful Freelancing
  Great preview to a Seemingly Great book!
  (tags: design freelance reading book work webdesign inspiration career freelancing business webdev web2.0 entrepreneur freelancer job sitepoint success principlesofsuccessfulfreelancing)
• Techdirt: Stopping People From Spreading Your Ideas Doesn't Seem Very Smart
  Make your ideas Open Source?
• Getting Your Traffic 'Right'! | Arbenting
  Get Traffic Right!
  (tags: web user link traffic internetmarketing submit)

Freebies!

• The Free Information Society – Media Gallery
  FREE eBooks! Nuff said?
  (tags: list information book society ebooks learning Tutorials reference cool downloads guide download Security activism ebook info education free amazing e-books gratis books pdf freedom anarchy repository)
• 10 Free Christmas fonts
  Freebies! Christmas Fonts!
  (tags: design typography recursos tipografia links webdesign Resources webdev free resource freeware fonts tipografía fuentes computer tech download christmas fun web font 10 woork holidays)
• Freebie – Grunge Corners and Edges Photoshop Brush Pack | Arbenting
  Grunge Corners and Edges Photoshop Brush Freebies!

Twitter Stuff

• You Don’t Have to Follow Everyone on Twitter that Follows You!
  Don't feel like a jerk if you don't follow everyone.
• Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not «
  Good reasons why Twitter is for the win, and friend feed is not.
  (tags: tools service friendfeed web2.0 ping.fm twitter socialnetworking microblogging blog)

Web Developer/Designer Resources

• The Yahoo Pipes Bleedster Feed – Bleeding Ultimate Feeds | WeAreJustCreative
  Great Idea on Syndicating Great Web Development/Design Feeds together!
  (tags: ping.fm feeds rss yahoo feedburner pipes syndication)

Web Tools

• Remindr
  Really simple and awesome web reminder tool!
  (tags: web productivity rails rubyonrails e-mail useful cool todo web2.0 tools utilities internet twitter social webtools online apps tool top gtd email service sms calendar jabber tasks reminder reminders remind remindr)
• http://www.ideas4all.com/
  Idea Sharing Site
  (tags: creativity 2.0 tools web2.0 community marketplace brainstorming ideas marketing innovation internet crowdsourcing cool blog negocios creatividad comunidad innovación compartir emprendedores innovacion)

jQuery Stuff

• Flip! A jQuery plugin
  Cool jQuery Plugin!
  (tags: design free jQuery JAVA animations ui plugin programming web webdesign Resources cool javascript development AJAX images tools webdev download animation effects recursos Plugins flip flipbox effect JS)
• Fading color effect for inline text links using jQuery | Css Globe
  Cool jQuery effect for inline text links!
• Track Outgoing Clicks in Google Analytics with jQuery
  Awesome! Track Outgoing clicks in Google Analytics with jQuery!!
  (tags: webdev google SEO jQuery analytics scripts)
• CSS-based layout, jQuery, web standards | Sean McCambridge Design | Charleston, SC Web Design
  jQuery is CSS For Designers
  (tags: webdesign jQuery)

IE6 and Alpha PNGs

• Alpha PNGs in Internet Explorer 6 – Snook.ca
  Good info on Alpha PNG's and IE 6

Design Tutorials

• Photoshop Paper Texture from Scratch then Create a Grungy Web Design with it! – PSDTUTS
  Awesome Photoshop paper texture 2 Web Design!!
  (tags: design reference diseño psd textures grungy web-design tips website tutorial photoshop howto webdesign graphics web adobe portfolio Web_Design grunge Tutorials layout background todo texturas paper texture Inspiration psdtuts photoshop-tutorials webbdesign)
• From Photoshop to WordPress – Part I – Design – The Web Squeeze
  Good insight on the workflow from PSD 2 WordPress!
  (tags: webdesign unread tutorial webdev howto photoshop mockup wordpress)
• 100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series (1-10) | Mac Training Guide!
  Amazing Collection of Photoshop Tutorials!!
  (tags: tutorial tutoriais tip Tutorials tips photography 2008 mac photoshop howto)
• Adobe Photoshop Tutorial | Data Sets | Variables | Layers Magazine
  Quick Video about Photoshop Variables
  (tags: tutorial photoshop variables)
• Beautiful Fluffy Clouds in Photoshop – Christmas Tutorial | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Fluffy Clouds rock! Tutorial on how to achieve them!
  (tags: design tutorial texture christmas photoshop)
• COLORBURNED – Professional Design Resources – Create a Burberry Style Plaid Part II: Applying a Twill Pattern
  Cool seamless pattern tutorial!
  (tags: Tutorials howto patterns pattern illustrator)
• Cleveland Web Design – Brad Colbow » Blog Archive » The Design Process Step by Step
  Design process steps!
  (tags: design webdesign process clients wireframe)

Get these guys to FOWA! Good Idea

• Gotta Get To FOWA (Future Of Web Apps)
  Send these guys to FOWA!
  (tags: design webdesign graphics flash humor digital fowa)

CSS Stuff

• CSS Best Practice #3: Clear Floated Containers (with Height||Width and Overflow) | Garrick Cheung
  CSS Best Practices!
• Structural Naming Convention in CSS – Six Revisions
  You'd be surprised at how many people need to read this. CSS Needs to be named too!
  (tags: design tips sixrevisions html webdesign code layout development usability webdev webmaster tutorial bestpractice CSS Tutorials conventions convention naming)

Food For Thought

• 8 Ways We Fail at Failing | this is aaron's life
  I never knew you could Fail so much at Failing!

User Experience

• The small things count in User Experience, highlighting over a link also highlights an image » Hell Yeah Dude – A voice for a young generation
  Small things DO count in UX
  (tags: design ui ux JS link webdesign tip inspiration image javascript CSS html web)

WordPress

• 5 Amazing New WordPress 2.7 Features – NETTUTS
  New WP 2.7 Features!!
  (tags: webdesign inspiration tutorial tips wordpress ui nettuts)
• Think Design Blog – WordPress – Lorem Ipsum Test Post Pack | Think Design
  Cool wordpress Test Post pack!
  (tags: wordpress lorem)

Mac Stuff

• Cooliris [Mac, Windows, iPhone] at CreativeApplications.Net
  Cool browser extention!
• Download PackRat for Mac – Client for 37signals Backpack web application. MacUpdate Mac Personal Info Managers Software Downloads
  Mac + Backpack = Packrat
  (tags: apps Applications application desktop 37signals backpack)

Contests/Giveaways

• IncSplosion begins! – IncSpring | Blogs
  Design Contest for Bragging Rights! Theme: Extreme Sports Blog
• Tutorial9 Presents: The Gift of Knowledge GIVEaway! | Tutorial9 – Tutorial Bliss.
  The Gift of Knowledge GIVEaway! Good contest, good prizes, good cause!

Laugh of the Day

• Another 23 Signs You're Becoming a Design Geek | Crestock.com Blog
  Are you a design geek?
  (tags: design fun joke designer webdesign blog articles funny photoshop list humor article typography lists presentation humour geek signs)