#WDNDL For 5/18/2009 – WordPress Resources, Fonts and Designer Interviews Edition!

Happy Tuesday!! Nerdy Links are BACK! Sorry for the absence but I had the FLU last week, it was not fun! Todays links are HUGE. We have some great WordPress Themes, Plugins, Tutorials in the list, also a ton of great and inspirational Designer Interviews. Great list of Freebies as well! 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!!

• 9 Tips For Brand Building With Web Design | Webdesigner Depot
  Great tips for brand building with Web design
  (tags: design inspiration development reference)
• 20 Tutorials to Develop WordPress Plugin | How-To | PelFusion.com
  Great tutorials for building wp Plugins
  (tags: tutorials plugin wordpress)
• 21 Amazing Free WordPress Themes for April | ThemesCloset.com
  Awesome WP Themes from April!
  (tags: resources wordpress showcase themes theme)
• Top 35 Plugins of WordPress to Share Your Blog Post | Tools | PelFusion.com
  Nice plugins for WP to share your posts!
  (tags: blog wordpress blogging socialmedia)
• 8 Awesome Website Designs of the Game « Powerusers
  Awesome Video Game Web designs
  (tags: web-design game)
• Black & White Female Portrait Showcase – Tutorial9
  Awesome black and white portraits!
  (tags: photoshop tutorial portrait photography showcase)
• Microsoft SuperPreview: a New Way to Test Web Sites
  interesting new way to test web sites – new tool from microsoft
  (tags: usability browsers sitepoint websites web)
• Behind The Scenes with Digg | Web Designer – Defining the internet through beautiful design
  Take a look at Digg's Diggs!
• Five questions with Andy Sowards | Web Designer – Defining the internet through beautiful design
  In Case you missed it, My Interview on Web Designer Magazine!
• Five Questions with Calvin Lee of Mayhem Studios | Web Designer – Defining the internet through beautiful design
  Interview with Calvin Lee – the original media ho!
• Illustrator, Ricardo Gimenes of ‘Behind the Website’ | Fuel Your Creativity
  Awesome Illustrations!!
• Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive « alex.moskalyuk
  Great ways to be persuasive!
  (tags: psychology tips reference marketing advertising books)
• 100 Tips to Be a Smarter, Better Twitterer | Computer Colleges
  Nice Twitter Tips!!
  (tags: tips twitter reference social internet media microblogging)
• 55+ Extremely Useful Online Generators for Designers
  Very nice generators for Designers
  (tags: webdesign resources graphics generator patterns)
• 42 Amazing Resources for Inspirational Typography : Speckyboy Design Magazine
  Cool resources for Typography!
  (tags: design webdesign resources typography magazine)
• 21 Colorful Artwork Of Character Design To Grab Your Attention @ SmashingApps
  Great Colorful Artwork
• 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design | Fonts | Smashing Magazine
  More FREE FONTS!
  (tags: design development opensource article tools photoshop tipografia typeface reference inspiration)
• 32 Freebie Filled Resources | ResourceDock
  Cool FREEBIES!
  (tags: design web resources free)
• ColoRotate: Home
  Awesome 3d colors!
  (tags: design webdesign development reference tools graphics color palette colors recursos)
• 25 Free Social Media Marketing & SEO Ebooks, White Papers + Other Downloads | SEOptimise
  Cool SEO stuff!
  (tags: social-media socialnetworking sem search ebook ebooks blog)
• Flash Freebie: O’Reilly Books! – Flashtuts+
  Win some books!
• How to Implement Email Verification for New Members – Nettuts+
  Awesome email verification tutorial
  (tags: design membership web tutorial tutorials php email form)
• » 70+ High-Quality Free Fonts for Designers WebAir Blog
  Spectacular collection of FREE FONTS!
  (tags: design resources typography fonts font)
• Digg and Techmeme are Dead. Long live TweetMeme! – TheNextWeb – FriendFeed
  TweetMEME FTW!
• 20 Beautiful Examples of Photoshopped Smoke Art and Technique Tutorials : Speckyboy Design Magazine
  Sweet PS Smoke art!
  (tags: design reference beautiful)
• Beginners guide to Jquery + Ruby On Rails | Not Geekly Correct
  Awesome tips for jQuery and RoR Integration
  (tags: tutorial webdev jquery rails rubyonrails)
• 10 Amazing Sculptures Made of Typewriters – Oddee.com
  stunning, and creepy, sculptures made from typewriters!
• Another 16 Creative Ads in Unusual Places – Oddee.com
  Awesomely creative ads!! in crazy places!
  (tags: advertising)
• 50 Creative Twitter Backgrounds That You Should See for Inspiration
  More awesome twitter backgrounds!
• 9lessons: Facebook like multi Toggle Comment Box with jQuery and PHP.
  Cool toggle comment box with jQuery and PHP Tutorial
• Balsamiq Mockups For Desktop | Balsamiq
  cool tool for mocking up designs
  (tags: design prototype web2.0 development)
• Corporate Campaigns Hint at Brand-Advertising Revival – Advertising Age – News
  interesting read on corporate advertising campaigns
• 10+ beautiful jQuery and Ajax photo gallery
  Awesome jQuery and Ajax photo galleries
  (tags: gallery jquery photo ajax)
• 80+ Web Tools and Typography resources for web designers
  awesome typography resources!!
  (tags: design opensource webdesign typography)
• Roundup of CSS Resources – More CSS Resources Than You Can Shake a Stick At : Web Design Resources Blog & Graphics Blog with Lists of Web Site Design Tools
  Tons of css resources
  (tags: programming design webdesign tutorials resources tools tips css reference)
• There Is Definitely Something Devious Going on Over at Reddit!
  reddit up to something?
• 10 Ways to Keep Your Precious Followers on Twitter | CHROMATIC
  Keep your twitter followers!!
  (tags: twitter web2.0 microblogging etiquette)
• Hannah Stouffer Amazing Illustration mixing Watercolor and Textures | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  Stunning illustrations with watercolors!
  (tags: design inspiration illustration abduzeedo painting)
• 10 iPhone Apps I Use Daily As A Web Designer | D-Lists
  SWEET iPhone apps for web designers
  (tags: download applications iphone ipod)
• Create a Slick and Accessible Slideshow Using jQuery
  Awesome slideshow using jquery
  (tags: javascript webdev:jquery gallery slideshow mockup)
• 16 Great Graphic Design Blogs and Sites – Psdtuts+
  Excellent graphic design blogs
  (tags: design showcase style webdesign inspiration tutorials blogs graphic)
• 5-Minute PNG Image Optimization • Perishable Press
  cool PNG image optimization
  (tags: design tools image optimization)
• Spam (the REAL spam!) has a sense of humor – The Next Web
  silly spam.
• Use Google’s Brain To Find Keywords | Daily SEO Tip
  make google find your keywords
• Headhunters Using Twitter – The New Productivity Check | Minervity
  Great read – new way to check productivity
• 25 Awesome Illustrator Cartoon Tutorials | Minervity
  Great illustrated Cartoon Tutorials!!
  (tags: design resources tutorials illustration cartoon)
• 100+ Incredible Twitter Backgrounds | cheth Studios
  Some amazing twitter backgrounds
• VIDEO COPILOT | After Effects Tutorials & Post Production Tools
  Great Disintegration effect for After Effects
  (tags: design effects animation advanced awesome resources)
• Scribd Store a Welcome Addition to Ebook Market (and 650 O'Reilly Titles Included) – O'Reilly Radar
  Huge collection of O'Reilly titles on Ebook
  (tags: pdf ebook ebooks publishing store)
• 26 Spectacular Surreal Magical Tutorials | Creative Nerds
  AMAZING surreal effect tutorials
  (tags: design light tutorials photoshop effect graphics)
• 25 Great Examples of Using Gradient Effects in Web Designs
  Excellent use of Gradient effects!
  (tags: design showcase webdesign layout web photoshop)
• 60 Examples of Beautiful Night Shots | Inspiration
  STUNNING night shots….amazing.
  (tags: inspiration gallery photography photos night)
• Brand New: Information Streams come to Life
  Awesome Lifelike Info Streams 🙂
• 35 Creative USB Drive Designs | blueblots.com
  Freaking CREATIVE USB drive designs!
• jQuery Style – A gallery showcasing awesome sites built with jQuery
  More awesome sites built with jQuery!
  (tags: design tutorials dev websites demo webdevelopment programming web)
• Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump | Zen Habits
  Great ways to get motivated
  (tags: lifehack life health article howto inspiration lifehacks self-improvement advice)
• 12 Free High Resolution Grunge Stripes Photoshop Patterns | Webtreats Etc
  Awesome grunge stripes!!
  (tags: free textures backgrounds grunge patterns stripes)
• Printing & Prepress Basics – Vectortuts+
  Great read for preparing for Printing basics
  (tags: basics design tutorial tutorials photoshop illustrator vector print printing)
• 100 Amazing Free WordPress Themes for 2009 | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
  Excellent FREE wordpress Themes for 09
  (tags: design themes webdesign wordpress-themes inspiration wordpress_themes blog free wordpress templates)
• 22 Examples of Creative Billboard Designs | blueblots.com
  Freaking awesome billboard designs!!
  (tags: design inspiration gallery billboard)