Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 4/07/2009 – Designer Tips and Inspiration Edition!

Its Tuesday! Still busy, and still tired, but making the most of it! Today’s Daily links have some GREAT Inspirational posts, there are also tons of great Design Tutorials so go learn some new things :)! Enjoy the nerdy links today! Thanks everyone for all the love and support, I appreciate you all! Now Get your Daily Nerdy Web Development/Design Links!!

Web Development/Designer Resources, Inspirations and Entertainment!!

• 19 Amazing Free Graphic and Image Editors for Designers and Photographers : Speckyboy Design Magazine
  Great roundup of editors
  (tags: design tools photography editor photoshop software free graphics)
• UI Principles
  Great principles of ui design
  (tags: programming development resources presentation practices design best ui)
• 51 Cool Marketing Advertising Ideas | MarketingByMouth.com
  Cool marketing advertisement ideas!
• twitterbackground.info | a custom twitter background gallery » Blog Archive » @andysowards
  New twitter background site, My profile is featured! Vote it up 5 stars if you enjoy 🙂
• 6 Coolest Sites to Find New Tweeters | Listropolis
  Great sites for new tweeters
  (tags: twitter tools follower socialmedia tweet twitter-tools)
• xkcd – A Webcomic – Security Question
  LOL this is great. Laugh of the day!!
  (tags: ping.fm xkcd fun technology government humor geek culture security comics)
• Ultimate One Color Logos Inspiration | Abduzeedo – design inspiration and tutorials
  Amazing One Color Logos – Very Inspirational resource!
  (tags: logo inspiration design branding logos webdesign color icon)
• CSS Scoop – CSS Gallery – Categorized CSS Gallery and Website Design Inspiration – CSS Scoop » Blog Archive » UI Patterns: User Interface Design Pattern Library
  Great usability resource!
• Squidspot – Website Design and Multimedia Portfolio – Periodic Table of Typefaces
  Awesome! Get a copy of the periodic table of typefaces!
  (tags: typography font fonts reference geek posters webdesign)
• 30+ Beautiful beverage packaging designs – Blog – Touchey – design magazine by walid wannous
  STUNNING Beverage packaging designs!
  (tags: design packaging inspiration resources products bottle)
• Best Web Design Gallery?
  So who is the best?
  (tags: collection webdesign)
• Behind the scenes at Vivid Image | Web Designer – Defining the internet through beautiful design
  Great read – behind the scenes at a new and kickass web agency
• Nanocrowd – The movie search engine
  wow. a movie search engine. I have no idea when, or how this will be useful to me
  (tags: movies search movie social film recommendation web2.0 video)
• Graphic Design Studio Web Layout | Grafpedia
  Great tutorial for building a web design studio layout
  (tags: psd buttons webdesign design create howto layout mockup)
• Apple Products in Web Design: Examples & Resources
  Awesome roundup of apple products being used in web designs
  (tags: inspiration apple iphone design webdesign icons mac websites)
• Vector tut:- How to Create a seamless Pop Design Element :
  Awesome pop design element – seamless!
  (tags: april)
• Create your own WordPress Information Widgets
  Interesting read about creating your own wordpress info widget (Oldie but goodie)
  (tags: wordpress ia)
• Accused! – Jon Engle
  Wow, Designer charged $18k for using his own work??
  (tags: art psychology)
• 21 Really Useful WordPress Plugins Every Blogger Must Own – TZ
  Simply amazing wordpress plugins
• Use Custom Missing Image Graphics Using jQuery
  Great Way to save broken image links
  (tags: jquery images error image javascript graphics js webdesign)
• Scalable Reliable Secure REST
  Awesome slide presentation about REST
  (tags: rest architecture presentation)
• 20 Free Original Hi-Res Grunge Stained Paper Textures | Freebies | Web Design Blog | Design Shard
  Awesome paper textures!!!
  (tags: textures free freebies grunge paper resources texture design)
• Colorburned | Submit Your Designs to be Featured in My Next Book
  Great opportunity – submit your designs to be featured in a book!
  (tags: books design retro contest)
• Best of Illustrator March 2009 — Gurus Unleashed
  Amazing Illustrator roundup – Best of March 09
• How to Use Content-Aware-Scaling in Photoshop CS4 – Psdtuts+
  Awesome feature in Photoshop CS4
  (tags: photoshop scaling tutorial cs4 tutorials pictures howto photos)
• Illustrator Tip #14: Converging Points Together Using Average Function
  Quick and useful Illustrator tip!
  (tags: tips tutorial)
• 50 Beautiful Websites with Illustrated Landscapes | Webdesigner Depot
  AMAZING illustrated websites, love these
  (tags: webdesign inspiration design illustration gallery landscape illustrator showcase)
• Graphic design contracts – your advice | David Airey » graphic designer, logo designer
  Great advice on Design contracts
  (tags: freelance contract webdesign contracts design freelancing tips legal)
• 10 Tips to Design Usable Shopping Carts | Webdesigner Depot
  Great eCommerce/Design usability tips
  (tags: ecommerce webdesign usability design shopping e-commerce tips shoppingcart)
• Smooth Lines Background Vector « DragonArtz Designs
  Sweet line backgrounds
• Business Cards Produced Using Unusual Materials | Web Design Ledger
  Love these type of cards – unusual material
  (tags: businesscards businesscard design inspiration business_cards business print card)
• Colorburned | Case Study: The Design of the New Colorburned Website
  Great insight to an AWESOME re-design
• 25 Examples of Cool Coming Soon Page Designs – Part II | Dzine Blog
  Awesome coming soon page designs!!!
  (tags: inspiration webdesign design showcase web examples blog templates)
• Free Vector Art – vEGGtors
  Awesome egg vectors
• Auto-Moving Parallax Background
  Very freaking sweet. New way to do backgrounds eh?
  (tags: css jquery resources development design javascript webdesign web)
• Design Observer
  Awesome typography guide to the galaxy
• Could FeedBurner Be Replaced by PostRank.com? (Redux) – ReadWriteWeb
  Interesting read – could happen
  (tags: feedburner syndication rss google stats blog)
• 10 Questions With Collis Ta’eed* | The Design O'Blog
  Great interview with Collis Ta'eed !!
• Calvin Lee Interview | Inspiredology
  Great interview with a GREAT designer, The one, The Only, @mayhemstudios
• Usability Review: WebJam.com | UX Booth
  Great review of WebJams usability review
• How to Create a Cartoon Character with Expressive Lines – Vectortuts+
  Quick and easy illustration tutorial
• 15 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Web and designers | Helping web designers and developers
  Some fantastic wordpress themes!
  (tags: blog themes wordpress)
• 25 Most Useful Blogs for Web Design & Development | Web Resources | WebAppers
  Awesome blogs for Web Design and Development
  (tags: webdesign blog design inspiration blogs web development resources)
• Why "Goofing Off" At Work Boosts Productivity – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership
  This is so true. Gotta have downtime.
• Blog Beautiful: 10 WordPress sites Pt II | Web Designer – Defining the internet through beautiful design
  Cool roundup of WordPress sites that rock
• 20 Incredible Workspaces interior design
  Awesome interior designs!
  (tags: design interior modern workspaces)
• office faq
  Now this is a cool office
  (tags: computer home design productivity workspace office)

Cool silver charms and leather bracelets design! Totally awesome sterling silver bracelets.