#WDNDL For 7/16/2009 – Freebies! Fonts! Wallpapers! Oh My! (CSS Tools too!)

Its Thursday! This week is almost over! I hope its going well for you! Today’s links are STUFFED With FREEBIES! There are also a ton of good CSS Tutorials and Generator tools, as well as other Greatness for Inspiration and WordPress/jQuery Stuff too! 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!!

• Building Traction with Search and Social Media Visibility
  Good read on Search and Social Media Visibility
  (tags: socialmedia newmedia research seo social)
• 115 Amazing Dual Screen Wallpapers To Spice Up Your Desktop | Showcases | instantShift
  Stunning Dual Screen Wallpapers!!
  (tags: images desktop wallpaper)
• Design a Golden Flame Text Effect in Photoshop | Web Resources | WebAppers
  Insanely Awesome Flame Text Tutorial!!
  (tags: design tutorial photoshop text typography)
• 10 Illustrators You Should Know | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC ILLUSTRATORS!! These are stunning examples of their work
  (tags: design artists ilustração inspiration showcase art illustrator illustration diseño)
• 10 Essential Ajax Scripts for Web Developers | TutorialFeed
  Cool Ajax Scripts to check out!
  (tags: ajax scripts)
• The FontBook – The Big Yellow Book by FontShop Giveaway | UK Freelance Logo Designer – Logo & Brand Identity Design by ImJustCreative
  Nice Giveaway! The Big Yellow Book!! – Typography book
• Lists Galore!: iEverything: 20 marvelous items inspired by the iPod & iPhone
  LOL This is awesome! Ipod and iPhone inspired stuff – Random items that rock!
  (tags: iphone ipod)
• Inspiration from Packaging – Freelance Web Design Belfast Northern Ireland – Lee Munroe
  Awesome Packaging Inspirations!! I like the macbook Air One 😉
  (tags: design inspiration packaging package)
• Seven ways to toggle an element with JavaScript
  For when you just need a quick and easy javascript toggle function without having to use jQuery
  (tags: design tips blog webdesign web development tutorials webdev web2.0 howto tutorial programming script dhtml)
• How to Charge for IE6 Work – From The Couch | CSS Videos | Video Tutorials | Video Interviews
  Great look at Charging for IE6 work
• Show Me Your Dock Series! Part 11 | Hi, I'm Grace Smith
  Awesome Read – Jonathan Snooks Dock!
• Twitter enabled negative word-of-mouth to instantly affect Bruno at the box office | Buzz Study
  Very interesting! I still want to see Bruno
  (tags: twitter buzz bad study)
• 20 Fresh & Awesome Text Effect Tutorials Using Photoshop & Illustrator (2009) – TZ
  Fantastic roundup of Text Effect Tutorials!
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration tutorials illustrator text effects)
• 25 High Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designs
  GREAT Free Fonts for Professional Designs!
  (tags: cool webdesign design web resources webdev web2.0 list free diseño fonts style download stock freebies graphicdesign logos type typography designer quality font)
• 10 Places to Download Awesome WordPress Themes | BloggWP
  Excellent resources – Places to download awesome WP Themes!
• This Just Inbox: A book-sensitive reading lamp – Core77
  lol this is pretty slick
• Ultimate Retro Graphic Design Inspiration | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  Inspirational Retro Graphic Design!!
  (tags: design typographic typography graphic graphicdesign retro space 80s)
• 35+ Free Comic and Cartoon Fonts For A Funny Design | PV.M Garage
  Awesome Comic fonts!
  (tags: design webdesign resources twitter free font art)
• Best Design RSS Button Collection and Button Photoshop Tutorials | Widgetbucks Review, Tips and Tricks
  Fantastic Collection of RSS buttons and tutorials!
  (tags: design webdesign resources web2.0 graphics web-design website blogging wordpress 2008 button icons)
• The 5 Most Mindblowing BASE Jumps In History
  This is pretty extreme!
  (tags: video jumping funny awesome graffiti base basejumping)
• 50 Websites to follow if you’re into Web Design | The Interactive Wall
  Awesome Web Design Sites to follow!
  (tags: design webdesign resources technology websites gallery webdev tips inspiration web blog tutorials graphics web-design googlereader opml creativity blogs links reference web2.0 development)
• 10 Rare and Cool jQuery Plugins | Queness
  These jQuery plugins are pretty freaking awesome!!
  (tags: design webdesign tutorials cool animation jquery development)
• Brian Hoff | Graphic Designer, Logo Designer » How To Become A More Effective, Proficient and Informed Designer
  Awesome post on organization
  (tags: design productivity advice webdesign resources tips business freelance)
• 21 Absolutely Useful And Inspiring Collection Of Most Desirable Freebies @ SmashingApps
  Very useful and Inspiring Collection of Freebies!!
  (tags: webdesign inspiration collection themes)
• Top 10 Social Media Presentations | Digital Buzz Blog
  Fantastic Roundup of Social Media Presentations!
  (tags: web web2.0 business marketing advertising social-media powerpoint presentations socialnetworking guide internet networking presentaciones slideshare social_media information blogs list)
• How to Create a Realistic Chrome Text Effect | Minervity
  Fantastic Chrome Text Effect Tutorial!
  (tags: design tutorial photoshop text effects)
• Add a Custom “Trendy” Border Around Blog Images With CSS & JavaScript | Impressive Webs
  Great Tutorial – Trendy Border around blog images with CSS/JS!
  (tags: webdesign tutorials css javascript border)
• 12 Designer tutorial sites | TheLanceLife
  Great Tutorial sites!!
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration tutorial tutorials collection sites)
• Brand New: Brand New is Brand New
  Brand New – Redesign – Lookin good!
  (tags: marketing)
• What?! Another blog?
  @chrisspooner creates yet another awesome blog!
• 9 Tools to measure your Twitter Influence & Reach ! – Daily SEO blog
  Great tools to measure twitter Influence!
  (tags: tools twitter analytics twittertools webanalytics)
• 50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development : Speckyboy Design Magazine
  This is great – Quick and Easy tools for Faster CSS Dev
  (tags: webdesign generator resources development list useful)
• Big Game Publishers Muscle In On iPhone Upstarts | Epicenter | Wired.com
  Game Publishers get a piece of the iPhone app pie!
  (tags: apps iphone game education)
• The Open Source Opportunity
  Awesome Open Source Opportunity in Drupal apparently
• 100 Geeky Places to Take Your Kids This Summer | GeekDad | Wired.com
  I am so taking my kids to these places!
  (tags: temp geeky kids)
• Unlike Vista, People Actually Stand in Line to Buy Windows 7
  wow people actually want Windows 7 haha
  (tags: web windows microsoft vista 7)
• 10 things Mac OS X should copy from the iPhone – The Next Web
  Great points! – iPhone is pretty slick
• Carsonified » 23 Essential HTML 5 Resources
  Great read – HTML 5 resources
  (tags: design webdesign resources development standards collection)
• 40 Best Spiderman Illustration, Fan-Art and Wallpapers | Desizn Tech
  These are just awesome!
• 45 WordPress People you need to follow | WooCamp
  Awesome WordPress People to follow on Twitter!
• 30 Top Web Designers On Twitter | Web Design Tutorials | Creating a Website | Learn Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Dreamweaver
  This is a freaking awesome List of Web Designers to follow on Twitter!
  (tags: design webdesign list social 2009 ux socialmedia userexperience no_tag compilation twitter)
• How to Client-Proof Your Work Schedule – FreelanceSwitch
  Fantastic read for Freelancers – Client-Proof your Schedule
  (tags: article planning project-management)
• 40 Sexy And Creative Typographic Logo Designs | Spyre Studios
  These are some freaking Fantastic Typography Logos!!!
  (tags: design typographic typography creative logo reference)
• 5 Useful And Creative Ways To Use WordPress Widgets | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
  Excellent read – WordPress Widgets – Creative ways to use them
  (tags: design webdesign web development plugin useful howto tools plugins blog)
• Quality-Price-Ratio in Web Design (Pricing Design Work) | How-To | Smashing Magazine
  This is a fantastic post – Interesting approach to charging for design work
  (tags: webdesign design freelance smashingmagazine entrepreneurship to_read clients freelancing work webdev business smashing price personal magazine web_design)
• CodeIgniter From Scratch: Day 1 – Nettuts+
  Good start to learning CodeIgniter!
  (tags: tutorial webdev tutorials webdevelopment unread video)
• Animating Design Elements: 7 Unique & Creative Practices | Noupe
  Fantastic Examples of Animating Design Elements – Must see!
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration resources howto slideshow animations web-design showcase javascript navigation validation !pm:webdev examples blogs jquery)
• Duck my life
  LOL creative, funny, and useless 🙂 ENjoy!
  (tags: web web2.0 javascript funny humor awesome games game)