#WDNDL For 5/11/2009 – Design Inspirations Edition!

Great monday so far! Hope you are all enjoying it! Todays links will inspire you in many different avenues! Hope you enjoy it and pass it to a friend! 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!!

• 10 Amazing Designers that Influence the Community | Web Design Ledger
  Awesome Designers from the Design Community
• How to Create a Planet Icon Set in Photoshop | Web Design Ledger
  Awesome Planet Icon Set Tutorial – Photoshop
  (tags: howto)
• Outlaw Design Blog » Ultimate List of Design Conferences, Tradeshows, and Expos
  Awesome List of Design Conferences!
• Useful FireFox add-ons for web developers | OpenSourceHunter
  GREAT FF Add ons for Web devs!
• 30 Inspiring Web Design Layouts from deviantART
  AMAZING Deviant Art Web Design Layouts!!
  (tags: webdesign inspiration design templates showcase web portfolios layout)
• Powerfull List of WordPress Lifesavers Plugins | Noupe
  WP Plugins that save your bacon
  (tags: wordpress plugins plugin blog reference webdesign list)
• Should You Freelance in a Recession? | Freelance Folder
  Good freelance advice for recession
• FriendDeck: An aggregator for friendfeed.
  Tweetdeck for FriendFeed?
  (tags: friendfeed air download freeware)
• Logo Design Inspiration – Best of Cool Logos Part III : Graphic Design Blog & Graphics News Blog
  Some awesome logos!!
• 20 Excellent JavaScript Navigation Techniques and Examples
  Great JS Navigation Techniques! – Inspiration
  (tags: javascript navigation jquery ajax tutorials menu menus webdesign)
• Tech In Use » Useful Twitter Tips for Newbies
  Tips for the twitter noobs!
• 3D shapes
  Great look at 3d shapes in PS
  (tags: photoshop-tutorials)
• 9 Ways to Get the Most out of 140 Characters | ploked.com
  Great ways to get more out of your 140 characters
• How I Did It: Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, Marketing via the Internet Article – Inc. Article
  Awesome interview with Founded or LinkedIn
• jQuery Style Plugins – Awesome jQuery plugins resource for you!
  More awesome jQuery powered sites
  (tags: jquery plugins style resource ressources samples webdesign menu)
• Photoshop mask tutorial with layer style changes
  Great PS Masking tutorial to change colors of objects
  (tags: photoshop tutorial car colors cs3)
• A Pizza Hut PR Stunt Or a Social Media Blunder Waiting to Happen? from Search Marketing Gurus | Online Marketing Professionals Give Search Marketing Tips, Advice, Strategies & Tactics
  Pizza hut being pwnt by social media
  (tags: socialmedia twitter media brands business corporate pr)
• Selections In Photoshop, Part 4: Tips & Tricks
  Great Selections in PS – Tips & Tricks
• 9lessons: Ajax Add a Record with Button Status Change using jQuery.
  Great tutorial – Ajaxing buttons with status changes
  (tags: jquery javascript ajax php programming tutorial web tips)
• 6 Awesome Websites That Fail At Working Too Often – OMG Lists – When we list, the world listens- The Ultimate Pop Culture List Site!
  Good look at the sites that love to fail
• Twilight font by ~VampHunter777 on deviantART
  Wow, Twilight font!
• Burning Up the Web – May Roundup | AiBURN
  Great roundup of the best from the web in May
• 30 Extremely Elegant Serif Fonts | Web Design Ledger
  Stunning Serif Fonts!!
  (tags: typography fonts free webdesign design type resources read)
• 45 logos that utilize negative space effectively | VelvetAnt.net
  AWESOME Logos using negative space
• Beautiful Illustrations by Hazim Hamid | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  AMAZING Illustrated stuff!
• TUAW Tip: Saving InDesign CS4 files for InDesign CS2
  Quick tip for Saving InDesign CS4 files as CS2
  (tags: indesign tips adobe mac conversion cs4 osx)