#WDNDL For 7/14/2009 – Web Inspirations, jQuery & WordPress Tutorials, & Freebies!

Its Tuesday! Its been a great week for me, how bout you guys? Today’s links have some awesome stuff in them, especially the Pencil art one, that is AMAZING. Check them all out tho ;). Also, If you have noticed that there is a new look, Phase 1 of the redesign has been launched! So Look around! And Stay tuned for Phase 2 very soon!! 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!!

• Steampunk Mechanical Cheetah | Design You Trust. World's Most Provocative Social Inspiration.
  Dear God. Don't ever want to see this thing in an alley at night
• Adverblog: The coolest University website ever
  This is pretty awesome – I LOVE 8Bit web game sites
  (tags: campaign blog marketing school 8bit website advertising japan university education student retro digital)
• 35 Incredibly Creative Portfolio Website Designs
  Awesome Portfolio Website Designs!!
  (tags: design tips portfolio advice)
• 45 Sets of Seamless Vector Patterns | Creative Nerds
  Freaking Awesome Seamless Vector Patterns!
  (tags: design webdesign textures backgrounds)
• 30+ More Ways to Create Twitter Groups
  Good read on Creating Twitter Groups
  (tags: web2.0 twitter article mashup)
• Retro Comedy: The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads Of All Time
  Pretty freaking Creepy LOL
  (tags: design blog graphics marketing art graphic fun funny culture examples advertising humor photos)
• 12 Essential Security Tips and Hacks for WordPress
  Great Security Tips and Hacks for WP!
  (tags: graphics design webdesign tips reference webdev blogging development web wordpress list articles advice hacking backup security hack lists mysql php fonts hosting dev checklist)
• Six Ideas For Breaking A Creative Block
  Great Ideas for Breaking Creative Block!
  (tags: design inspiration freelance creativity copy)
• Most inspirational sites of the week #1
  Very inspirational sites of the week!
• Cleanup WordPress Header – Important, Display, This, WordPress, Discovery, Simple – WP Engineer
  Great way to cleanup WordPress
  (tags: wordpress)
• If You’ve Done Any Of These Things, You Belong To The Twitter Bandwagon. | Tremendous News!
  Freaking awesome and hilarious as usual
• Ten Simple Rules for Choosing the Perfect CMS + Excellent Options
  Great read – Picking the perfect CMS!
  (tags: design webdesign tutorial content-management webdevelopment reference blog blogging article webdev tips)
• Impressive Pencil Art by Jennifer Maestre | Webdesigner Depot
  These are freaking fantastic – Amazing – Stunning. I LOVE THESE!! Made with Freaking PENCILS! How the hell!
  (tags: design cool 3d interview)
• 40 Great Adobe AIR Applications for Designers and Developers | Webdesigner Depot
  Air Applications for Designers and Developers
  (tags: design resources web webdesign web2.0 adobeair adobe-air downloads applications code apps)
• 20 Masterful Digitally Painted Celebrity Portraits
  Great Celebrity Portraits – Digitally Painted
• The Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of all Time
  Great Photoshop Tutorials! Best of all time! EPIC!
  (tags: design webdesign resources buttons compilation photoshop)
• Making a Content Slider with jQuery UI – Nettuts+
  Quick and Easy Content Slider with jQuery UI Tutorial
  (tags: webdesign web development webdev tutorials !pm:webdev gui webdevelopment nettuts ui javascript html tutorial)
• Yummy Envato Freebies: ‘Nice & Clean’ Site Template + More! – Nettuts+
  SWEET Site Templates – Freebies!
  (tags: template design webdesign inspiration free ui)
• Creating a Keyboard with CSS and jQuery – Nettuts+
  Awesome Keyboard with CSS and jQuery
  (tags: design tutorials css jquery)
• Free Copies of Magento Beginner’s Guide – Nettuts+
  Great Guide for Magneto Beginners
• Free WordPress Theme: Paper Wall | Freebies | Smashing Magazine
  Great WordPress THeme – Free!
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration premium wpthemes smashing_magazine)
• CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF) | CSS, Freebies | Smashing Magazine
  Great Cheat Sheets for CSS 3 in PDF form
  (tags: free design webdesign development tools css reference html5 website webdevelopment pdf smashingmagazine cheatsheet programming)
• Social Network Design: Examples and Best Practices | How-To | Smashing Magazine
  Freaking awesome Examples and Best Practices – How To Social Network Design
  (tags: reference design webdesign socialmedia social)
• 7 Fabulous Tips & Tricks Daily Sources for Designers & Coders | Inspired Magazine
  Fantastic Tips and Tricks for Designers and Coders – Daily References
  (tags: webdesign design web inspiration resources webdev tutorial webdevelopment magazines no_tag reference tutorials)
• Web Designer Help
  Good blog with lots of helpful posts
  (tags: webdesign tips photoshop inspiration diseñoweb)
• 15+ techniques and tools for cross browser CSS coding
  Good tips for Cross Browser CSS Coding
  (tags: design webdesign resource cross-browser codes browser programming webdevelopment techniques html)
• 10 Famous Works of Art (with client feedback) | Stock Photo & Image Bank Crestock: Creative Stock Photos & Images
  Funny post – Masterpieces roundup w/ funny client feedback
• 70+ Incredible HDR Photographs and photoshop Tutorials for professional photographers | Techie Blogger
  Fantastic HDR Photographs and Photoshop tutorials
  (tags: inspiration tutorial photoshop list)
• 10 Fresh tools and resources for web developers
  Freaking Awesome Tools and Resources for Web Devs
  (tags: webdesign web inspiration development)
• 10 Gadgets For Instant Game Rooms
  Sweet Gadgets for Instant Game Rooms!
• CSS : 3 Simple steps to write better Stylesheets | Designfeed.me (Beta)
  Awesome CSS Tips – Write better stylesheets
• Top 20 Earning Web Design Websites | Web Design Tutorials | Creating a Website | Learn Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Dreamweaver
  This is a very interesting post with how much other Design blogs are making
  (tags: design advertising webdesign money web reference freelance inspiration)
• Delicious Recipes for WordPress Page Menus and Page Listings
  Great read on Page Menus and Listings for WP
  (tags: webdesign tutorial tutorials wordpress pages)
• How to Create a Surreal Scene of Flying Bombs on Fire – Psdtuts+
  This is freaking awesome! Great tutorial
  (tags: design tutorial graphics photoshoptutorials photoshop)
• Video of the Week #45 | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  This is an awesome Infographic video!
  (tags: graphicdesign video color information visualization)