#WDNDL For 7/23/2009 – Web & Logo Inspirations, Web News, jQuery & Freelance Stuff!

Happy Thursday!!! Thanks everyone for all the great feedback on the iSkin Keyboard Protector Giveaway, you guys rock! Today’s links has some Excellent Icon Posts, as well as Freelance Tips, Photoshop and jQuery Tutorials! Check out these links and enjoy yourselves!! Thanks everyone for all the love and support, I appreciate you all! Now Get your Daily Nerdy Web Development/Design Links!!

• Tabbed Social Media Icon Set – Designed for CreativeNerds
  More Fantastic Social Media Icons from @cheth
• Chromegestures Adds Mouse Gestures to Google Chrome – Google Chrome – Lifehacker
  Fantastic! Get Gestures in Google Chrome!
• How To Develop a jQuery Plugin
  Great read on Creating a jQuery Plugin!
  (tags: web tutorial webdevelopment)
• 50 Kick-Ass And Creative Dark Website Designs | Spyre Studios
  HOT Collection of Dark and Creative Web Designs
  (tags: design webdesign dark inspiration)
• CEO Letter | Zappos.com
  Interesting – this is the letter Zappos CEO sent out to employees about Amazon Merger
  (tags: business link finance marketing blogs technology culture email)
• 20 Film and Television Directors to Follow on Twitter
  Amazing List of TV and Film Directors on Twitter
  (tags: twitter mashable top movies film cine)
• BREAKING: Amazon Acquires Zappos for $850 Million
  Amazon Gets Zappos!
• Yfrog – i0c – Uploaded by mbubrick
  Wow, trailer to Tim Burtons alice in wonderland!! Looks amazing!
• 21 Office Supplies Too Awesome To Exist | Cracked.com
  LOL Awesome office supplies
  (tags: inspiration funny art humor)
• Melbourne’s $200,000 Logo « Fuel Your Branding
  Wow, That is amazing, I would love to have made that lol
• 50 Burning Logos – Amazing Must See! | Inspiration | PelFusion.com
  Freaking love these logos, Fire rocks!
  (tags: logos)
• 20 Tips for Coming Up with Fresh Ideas
  Great ways to get fresh ideas – try it!
  (tags: inspiration creative entrepreneurship tip startup)
• How to Troubleshoot a Flaky Internet Connection – Troubleshooting – Lifehacker
  These are some great tricks that I use, If you don't know these you should
  (tags: tips lifehacker reference wireless howto internet networking network computer)
• 10 Social Bookmarking Sharing Buttons For Your Site – Cherrysave
  Sweet roundup of some useful Social Bookmarking buttons
  (tags: web design development social networking buttons)
• Marvelous Examples Of Tilt Shift Photography | [f5]
  Tilt shift photography kicks ass – These are stunning
  (tags: inspiration showcase typography photography)
• 70 Typographic, Clean And Minimalist Color Scheme Web Designs | Graphic and Web Design Blog – Inspiration, Resources and Tools
  Awesome Minimalistic and Clean Color Scheme Designs!!!
  (tags: inspiration minimalism webdesign)
• DiggBar Change Causes Uproar – PC World
  More Fury related to DiggBar Changes!
• Web Designer Help » 20 Ravishing Red Websites
  AMAZING Red Sites, I LOVE Stampede Design's site
  (tags: webdesign red style)
• Hollywood Stars File for Bankruptcy, Stephen Baldwin, Jose Canseco, Victoria Gotti, Annie Leibovitz – ABC News
  Even Celebs are having trouble in the economy
• 30 Handy Cheat Sheets and Reference Guides for Web Professionals | Webdesigner Depot
  Great Cheat Sheets and Reference Guides for Web Pros!
  (tags: webdev webdesign resources accessibility tutorials tools css reference webdevelopment cheatsheet web-development)
• jQuery Calculation Plug-in
  jQuery Calculation plug in – Very nice!
  (tags: web resources programming mathematics calculator)
• Letterman on Twitter: “A Waste of Time” [Video]
  David letterman thinks twitter is a waste of time
• Top 18 Self-Promotion Tips for Web Designers | Web design | Website design | Web designer
  Awesome Tips for Self Promotion!
• 50 New Beautiful Blog Designs | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
  Amazing Blog Designs!!
  (tags: design review webdesign inspiration graphics ideas blogs blog referencias)
• Sam Raimi to direct WoW movie
  World of Warcraft Movie?
  (tags: world movie of warcraft)
• Gmail now lets you automatically unsubscribe from mailing lists – The Next Web
  SWEET!!! Gmail FTW!!!
• Miracletwentyone : The Visual Solutions of Joseph Gonzalez
  Awesome Portfolio – very colorful
  (tags: design webdesign graphic showcase advertising)
• 5 Tips for Drumming Up New Business in Hard Times | CrazyLeaf Design Blog
  Great tips for More Business – Freelancers
  (tags: webdesign entrepreneurship webdev tips business freelance blogs)
• Website Design for Beginners – Learning from “Your Logo Makes Me Barf” – Newbie Website Design – Beginning Tutorials for Website Design and Layout, Photoshop, HTML, CSS.
  LOL!!! These logos are terrible!!!
• Dealing with Client Logo Design Quotes – Ask for a Budget | UK Freelance Logo Designer – Logo & Brand Identity Design by ImJustCreative
  Great read for Logo Designers – Ask for a budget
• Design a Simple Yet Effective, Clean and Shining Button for Your Website in Photoshop | PSD Vault – Extra Unique Adobe Photoshop Tutorial
  Nice Button Tutorial! Simple but effective
  (tags: webdesign graphic beginner web tutorial tutorials graphics simple photoshop)
• 3 Steps To Building A Profitable Freelance Business Using Twitter
  Great tips for Freelancers on Twitter!
  (tags: tips twitter business wordpress socialmedia social_media freelance money gmail career freelancing socialnetwork tweecious tweetdeck writers twitip to)
• How to Create an Archives Page in WordPress
  Quick and easy read on creating an archives page in WordPress
  (tags: wordpress archives templates)
• Design Squeak – The best social news site on the cheezywebs!!!!
  This is a funny joke from Nikki Brown – Play off of the new moo social news site 🙂
• 22 Beautiful Example of Brochure Designs | Naldz Graphics
  Amazing Brochure Designs!!
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration photoshop typography diseño beautiful branding marketing illustration layout graphics business graphicdesign)
• The Art Of Applying Rule Of Five Plus Or Minus Two For An Effective Wireframe | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without Hitch
  Very interesting read about WireFraming!
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration webdev diseño wireframes userexperience interface howto css tools tips usability ia theory ui resource web todo toread ux website tutorial)
• John Resig – Computing with JavaScript Web Workers
  Great read from John Resig
  (tags: web development toread code html)
• New MooTools Plugin: ElementFilter
  Nice new MooTools Plugin for Filtering Elements
• 35 Extremely Useful Free Online Tools for Web Developers and Designer | tripwire magazine
  Useful Web Tools for Developers and Designers!
  (tags: webdesign tools list checklist webtools webapps)
• Twitter Link Roundup – Design, Entrepreneurship, Social Media And More — crowdSPRING Blog
  Awesome link roundup! As if you didn't have enough here 🙂
• The Amazing Art of Jason Chan | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  These are freaking Amazing pieces of Artwork! Even some WoW art in there!
  (tags: design inspiration tutorials photoshop art graphic interviews wallpapers iphone illustration illustrator fireworks pixelmator)
• Fun Geek Tees | Design « Bit Rebels
  Cool Geek Tees
• 16 Gorgeous Web Safe Fonts To Use With CSS | Web Design Tutorials | Creating a Website | Learn Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Dreamweaver
  This is fantastic – Awesome Web Safe Fonts to use with CSS
  (tags: webdesign css fonts font fontes family)
• Vector Grunge Banners – Free Vector Art – Download Free Vector Graphics and Vector Art at Vecteezy!
  Nice Grunge Banners!
• TweeHits
  New way to track your #followfriday on Twitter
• 17 Popular Universities That Are Using WordPress
  Everyone uses WordPress! Even these Fancy Universities!
  (tags: inspiration wordpress blogs academic highered)
• 45+ Excellent Code Snippet Resources and Repositories | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
  Awesome Code Resources!!
  (tags: design javascript webdev web inspiration tutorial resources css webdevelopment html resource tools tutorials jquery smashing search code ajax programming development webdesign)
• iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over-Blown Visuals | How-To | Smashing Magazine
  Great read for iPhone App Designers
  (tags: design webdesign development resource smashing mobile application smashingmagazine mac applications)
• A Different Top Navigation – Nettuts+
  Nice approach to a Top Navigation
  (tags: design webdev diseño nettuts tutorials webdesign web inspiration development)
• 30 Best Free iPhone Photo & Video Applications | Tools
  LOVE this post – Nice iPhone photo and video appz!
  (tags: video free apps photo iphone fotos)
• Outlaw Design Blog » Who Else Wants Higher Paying Clients?
  This is a great read for Freelancers
  (tags: pricing webdesign inspiration business freelancing clients freelance)
• Creating a Stencil Bomb in Illustrator – Vectortuts+
  Great Stencil Bomb in Illustrator Tutorial
• 10 PC Productivity Tools for Graphic Designers | GoMediaZine
  Excellent Productivity Tools for Graphic Designers on PC
  (tags: design tools software productivity product review utilities)
• 35 Astonishingly Intricate Ice Sculptures
  Fantastic Ice Sculptures!!
  (tags: inspiration sculpture)
• Colorburned | Stunning Smoke Effects: 42 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes
  Stunning Smoke Effects!! Nice Brushes!
  (tags: design brushes recursos freebies resources webdesign photoshop effect brush stuff free smoke for)
• 1,000 Full Color Business Card Giveaway from Printprintprint | Naldz Graphics
  Awesome Business Card Giveaway!
• In the Woods – Working with Sessions and Cookies in PHP and MYSQL
  Great read about working with Sessions and Cookies in PHP
  (tags: webdesign programming php development tutorial web-design security tutorials webdev tips cookies mysql)
• links for 2009-07-21 | AndySowards.com :: Professional Web Design, Development, Programming, Hacks, Downloads, Math and being a Web 2.0 Hipster?
  GOOD Magazine Data Design | Inspiredology These are awesome Visualizations of Data! (tags: design inspiration
  (tags: ping.fm nerdy daily web development and design links)