AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 2/05/2009

Thursday is the turning point! So close to Friday! Today we have a ANOTHER HUGENORMOUS Episode of Daily Nerdy Links to power you through! Now Get your Daily Nerdy Web Development/Design Links!!

Web Development/Designer Resources, Inspirations and Entertainment!!

• Cornify – Unicorns & Rainbows On-Demand
  This is so useless, but hilarious 🙂
  (tags: design fun humour funny humor amazing tools web2.0 awesome webapps javascript html websites generator)
• Not every company needs an App Store
  well, its true!
• 50 of the Best Ever Web Development, Design and Application Icon Sets : Speckyboy – Web Design, Web Development and Graphic Design Resources
  AWESOME Icon Sets for Web Dev, Design and Applications!!
  (tags: graphics images application stock download free webdesign resource resources social graphic development webdevelopment webdev list css website iconset icons ui icones set web-design)
• Best Dual Monitor Wallpapers Sites List :: Best Sites List
  Nice list of Wallpapers for Dual Monitors!
  (tags: design icons photos best dualmonitor photoshop desktop images wallpapers photography monitor photo)
• COLORBURNED – Professional Design Resources – My Best Buds on Twitter
  Great Designers and Twitterers to Follow!
  (tags: design twitter friends social colorburned)
• Top 100 Twitter Users by Influence « State of the Emerging CIO
  Top Twitterers by Influence
• 40 Textured Websites for Design Inspiration
  Awesome Textured Web Designs! Inspiration at its best!
  (tags: web design web-design webdesign textures grunge inspiration website patterns sites texture showcase layout texturas)
• Free Adobe Flash Tutorial | Including closed-captioning information for hearing impaired viewers | Layers Magazine
  Good Flash Tutorial on Closed-Caption!
  (tags: video flash adobe flv accessibility caption captions captioning)
• How To Design The Perfect Form | Web Design Tuts
  The Perfect Storm. I mean. Form.
  (tags: design webdesign showcase marketing web ergonomie form pattern webstandards benchmark interface usability inspiration tutorial)
• 70 top tips to generate blog traffic
  Freaking Awesome Tips for Generating Blog Traffic!
  (tags: twitchboard traffic resources tips blog blogging english bestpractice blogs seo how work awesome)
• 124 Exclusive Showcase of Package Design Innovations | webbyarts.com – dedicated public weblog to form ecosystem of visual artists.
  More Brilliant Package Designs!
  (tags: design inspiration brand identity packaging package communication resources gallery photoshop innovation inspiracion showcase product embalagens embalagem)
• CSS Navigation Techniques (37 entries)
  Great examples of CSS Navigation! Inspiration!
  (tags: design webdev howto layout programming xhtml tools web webdesign tutorial tips cool examples navigation javascript web2.0 inspiration resources css html menu menus code tutorials development list reference gallery ajax tabs)
• Clear And Effective Communication In Web Design | How-To | Smashing Magazine
  Excellent Read for being Clear and Effective in your Web Designs Communication
  (tags: design interface communication guidelines ux patterns smashing article webdesign inspiration marketing smashingmagazine resources tutorial ui tips css usability websites web-design layout principles web.design web_design clear)
• 1000+ Classic Icons for Free Download | webbyarts.com – dedicated public weblog to form ecosystem of visual artists.
  Ultimate list of Free Icons!
  (tags: design webdev download icon downloads web-design blog webdesign free resource resources website collection iconos freebies icons opensource diseño)
• moBlur.org – jQuery + Flot – Plots, Canvas and Charts
  Great jQuery Chart Tutorial!
  (tags: development programming plugins jquery chart graph stats)
• Ajaxian » CSS for Layout. Another Rant
  Great Rant about CSS for Layout!
  (tags: webdesign css layout tables)
• 8 Twitter Networking Tips: From Online to In-the-Flesh
  Great Tips from Online to In The Flesh! – Twitter Networking Tips
  (tags: webdev career network twitter blogging brand read cards marketing socialmedia personalbranding networking twitip)
• Compress PHP, CSS, JavaScript(JS) & Optimize website performance.
  Great look at optimizing your websites performance!
  (tags: design apache web performance blog programming htaccess compression javascript optimization php)
• Narrowly defining your ideal target customer | Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing
  Ideal Customer – Good Look at what one should be
  (tags: business marketing advertising service communication profile customer)
• 9 Effective Tips for a Better Landing Page
  Tips for a better landing page!
  (tags: design webdesign resources webdev blog tutorial howto tips conversion analytics seo landing-page webdevelopment pages marketing blogging)
• » How to protect your Twitter account from Scammers – TwitBacks.com Blog
  Don't let your twitter account get Scammed!
  (tags: web twitter blogs 2.0)
• Rediscovering Your Freelance Fire – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog
  re-ignite your freelance fire! Great read!
  (tags: freelance inspiration consulting freelancing people)
• Creating a “Filterable” Portfolio with jQuery – NETTUTS
  AWESOME Tutorial for creating a nice 'Filterable' portfolio with jQuery!
  (tags: design tutorials webdevelopment navigation scripts tutoriales ajax programming webdesign development javascript images filter filtering php html webdev blog code portfolio gallery tutorial css nettuts)
• gary vaynerchuk » Help pick the topic of Gary’s upcoming talk at FOWA – my 2 minute take on life
  You can help Gary Vee Pick a Topic!
  (tags: blogs)
• Add Twitter Updates To Blog Sidebar – TwiBadge | WordPress Plugin
  Another tutorial for adding twitter updates to your sidebar!
  (tags: twitter blogging wordpress plugin)
• Awesome Motion Designs by Dan Filip Radu | Abduzeedo – design inspiration and tutorials
  Great Motion Designs! Inspirational!!
  (tags: inspiration)
• 10 lightweight apps to make older PCs fly | News | TechRadar UK
  Breathe new life into your old PC with these apps!
  (tags: tips tools apps utilities speed pc computers computer free applications application software technology freeware browser computing games windows)
• How to Organize Your Web With Delicious – The Essential Toolbox | MakeUseOf.com
  Great way to Organize – Delicious.
  (tags: social visualization socialnetworking ajax extensions bookmark tagging bookmarking organizer delicious organization bookmarks socialbookmarking addons internet article productivity howto web2.0 tutorial web)
• On The Eve Of Its Fifth Birthday, A Facebook Design Retrospective
  The History of Facebook
  (tags: comparison design web article techcrunch socialnetworking powerpoint social_networking 2009)
• 31 Inspiration Logos (part 1 – Top Rated) | webbyarts.com – dedicated public weblog to form ecosystem of visual artists.
  Very Creative and Inspirational Logos!!
  (tags: logo)
• 42 Web Design Companies: Designs That Move Me | Design Moves Me
  Inspirational Collection of Great Web Design Companies!
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration graphicdesign companies)
• jQuery on Whitehouse.gov – A Closer look « Steve Reynolds
  jQuery is so popular Whitehouse.gov is using it! Nice!
  (tags: webdev design obama carousel libraries javascript code jquery plugin plugins library)
• 50+ Free WordPress Themes for Personal Blogs of High Quality
  Great Collection of WordPress Themes for Personal Blogs!
  (tags: wordpress templates freeware)
• Real separators for the Mac OS X Leopard dock (howto)
  Awesome Tutorial of how to Add Real Seperators to the Mac OS X Leopard Dock
  (tags: howto tips leopard tiles business mac apple hack osx utilities)
• gameQuery – a javascript game engine with jQuery
  Javascript Game Framework!
  (tags: web development plugin ajax 2008 plugins engine browser javascript code api 100+ sprites framework gamedev)
• Editable (jQuery Editable Plugin)
  This is a real customizable jQuery editable plugin. Currently it can convert any tag (span, div, p and …) to text input, password, textarea, drop-down list.
  You can easily extend it by adding your own input type using its editableFactory object.
  (tags: webdev editing jquery plugin javascript form table edit edit-in-place plugins ui opensource script editinplace js edit_in_place editable inline in)
• Ajaxload – Ajax loading gif generator
  Another PreLoader Generator!!
  (tags: graphics web web2.0 images animated ajax loading resources development html icon image programming cool generator)
• Preloaders.net | Free AJAX animated loading gif's | 3 dimensional (3D)
  Pre loader Generator! NICE!
  (tags: design webdesign javascript generator free graphics 3d icon service tool images loading image)
• It’s called… Internet – Matt Heerema
  One of the first News Reports on 'The Internet' Hilarious throwback – history lesson!
• pxforce – graphic design blog » Blog Archive » 25 great site designs powered by WordPress
  Awesome WordPress Powered Sites!!
  (tags: wordpress design webdesign website showcase inspiration list graphics web-design themes photoshop)
• Web Templates Blog » Blog Archive » The most impressive eCommerce templates
  Great Roundup of Impressive eCommerce Templates!
  (tags: webdesign css showcase templates xhtml e-commerce)
• 5 Reasons to Subscribe to Design Blogs | My Ink Blog
  Designers Should Subscribe to Design Blogs – WHy? Here are good reasons!
• Designing With Grid-Based Approach | How-To | Smashing Magazine
  Great Tutorial of Designing with Grid-Based Approach
  (tags: design webdev graphics layout articles cool tutorial web webdesign tips resource usability guide web2.0 inspiration css tutorials resources development reference list)
• In the Woods – WordPress for Designers: Day 2
  Great tutorial for Designers of WordPress! Part 2
  (tags: video webdesign web_design wordpress design web website education blog tutorial customize screencast tutorials photoshop)
• In the Woods – WordPress for Designers: Day 3
  Great tutorial for Designers of WordPress! Part 3
  (tags: tags webdesign wordpress themes templates theme screencast)
• 16 Usable CSS Graph and Bar Chart Tutorials and Techniques : Speckyboy – Web Design, Web Development and Graphic Design Resources
  Useful Tutorials for CSS Graph and Bar Charts!
  (tags: design tutorials collection graphs links web webdesign graphic examples data webdev resources gallery webdevelopment presentation charts php tutorial tools css jquery chart graph)
• 18 Sets of Free Hi-Res Ornamental Brushes for Photoshop | Best Design Options
  FREE Hi-Res Ornamental Brushes! Nice!
  (tags: webdesign free brushes downloads brush list photoshop)
• How Ubiquity Will Change the Way You Browse the Web – NETTUTS
  an AWESOME Look at Ubiquity
  (tags: ping.fm web plugins productivity nettuts browser firefox)
• xkcd – A Webcomic – Boyfriend
  Laugh of the Day – Funny – Statistical Significant Other
  (tags: design comics dating mathematics comic web)
• Kelly Karnetsky » Guru of Technology » Sites to Improve Your Twitter Experience
  More sites to improve your twitter experience!!
• 300+ Active Web Designers to Follow on Twitter | Naldz Graphics
  Great Twitter Followers for Designers and Developers! Every Single One!!
  (tags: inspiration design twitter collection twitchboard roundup people)
• 15 jQuery Plugins to Fix and Beautify Browser Issues | DevSnippets
  Awesome Plugins to Fight those Stupid Browser Issues!
  (tags: design web webdesign resources webdevelopment webdev useful javascript plugins programming plugin)