#WDNDL For 8/11/2009 – Freelance & Design Tips, Typo Inspiration & Tutorials, CSS3 & HTML5 Resources!

Its Tuesday! Thanks everyone for the great response to my Intro to Computer Science Article yesterday! Todays links are full of HTML5 and CSS3 resources, along with some great Freelancer and Designer tips. So Enjoy the links! Thanks everyone for all the love and support, I appreciate you all! Now Get your Daily Nerdy Web Development/Design Links!!

• Mark Zuckerberg and FriendFeed Co-Founders Celebrate Deal [Pic]
  that looks like an awesome place to be – signing a $50 million deal
• Ridiculous client requests (and how to reason with them) | Graphic Design Blender
  Awesome ways to handle ridiculous client requests.
• Discovering Papervision3D: Best Design Practices and Tutorials | Design Showcase, Tutorials | Smashing Magazine
  very Nice read about Papervision3D
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration tutorials webdevelopment opensource papervision papervision3d)
• 37 of the Best Web Designs from the Travel Industry | Vandelay Design Blog
  Very Nice Travel Industry Web Designs!
• Photoshop Vs. Illustrator in a no-holds-barred battle to the death! Part 1 of 2 | GoMediaZine
  Awesome Battle of Photoshop vs. Illustrator
  (tags: design inspiration article blogs funny adobe comparison opinion tweecious hilarious)
• Geek Gang Signs « Bit Rebels
  LOL Nice Geek Gang Signs!
  (tags: fun geek)
• 15 Excellent Free Design Ezines | Design Reviver
  Awesome FREE Design Ezines!
  (tags: design webdesign free magazines inspiration)
• 40+ Awesome Typography Wallpapers, serious inspiration | tripwire magazine
  Fantastic Typography Wallpapers!!
  (tags: design inspiration photoshop awesome desktops type showcase graphic ideas graphicdesign gallery typography)
• 10 Best Impact Follows For Your Tweets « Bit Rebels
  Awesome people to follow on twitter!!!
• OMG Yahoo Gets OMG.com For Cheap
  haha OMG i wish I had it 🙁
• Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
  "FriendFeed Acquired!" – Facebook
• 15 Tutorials that helped me grow as a Designer | GreatCreativeLinks.com
  Fantastic Tutorials to help you grow as a designer!
  (tags: webdesign tutorial photoshop-tutorials)
• Drawings and Other Cool Creations from David Lanham | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  Awesome Creations from David Lanham!!!
  (tags: drawings inspiracao)
• 20 Tools For The Freelance Designer On A Shoestring Budget | Spyre Studios
  Awesome list of FREE Tools for the Freelance Designer
• 10 Must-Follow Usability Experts on Twitter
  Awesome Usability Experts on Twitter!
  (tags: webdesign twitter usability media toread)
• 50 Beautiful Graphic Design Portfolios | [Re]Encoded.com
  Awesome Graphic Design Portfolios!
  (tags: webdesign)
• 40 Creative Digital Remakes of Popular Movie Posters : Speckyboy Design Magazine
  These are fantastic Digital Remakes!
  (tags: design posters poster movies inspiracao)
• Mac app giveaway #1 DropZone | styl.eti.me
  Nice Mac App Giveaway!
• 70+ Examples of Product Comparison Tables in Web Design
  These are very well done Examples!!
  (tags: design charts chart webdesign inspiration ecommerce product)
• 8 Regular Expressions You Should Know – Nettuts+
  FANTASTIC RESOURCE! This is quick, and straight to the point explaining some of the most common Reg Ex's
  (tags: webdesign programming nettuts googlereader patterns unix example javascript tutorial jquery webdev development css tips)
• How a Macworld cover is made | Create | Creative Notes | Macworld
  Freaking. Awesome.
  (tags: design inspiration photography cover magazine video)
• Get angry: AT&T changes contract to prevent class action lawsuits
  AT&T Blows
  (tags: fun iphone community contract)
• Pepsi and Coca-Cola Logo Evolution – The Cola war continues!! | Graphic Design Blog – An Ultimate Resource for Graphic Designers
  Great look at the evolution of Coca-Cola!
• 30+ Cute and Clever Anime Paper Child Art | Naldz Graphics
  Wow, these are awesome!
  (tags: design inspiration graphics photography article showcase art)
• 25 Stunning Artistic Illustrations in Wallpaper Sizes
  Wow, huge illustrations! Nice!
  (tags: wallpapers)
• 12 Unusual and Creative Alarm Clocks | Toxel.com
  Awesome alarm clocks!!!
  (tags: design inspiration advertising shop clock)
• Are You a Daredevil Freelancer? | FreelanceFolder
  Awesome read – Are you a daredevil freelancer?
• 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Blogging | How-To | Smashing Magazine
  Great read on Corporate blogging, and why some succeed and others fail.
  (tags: blog tips web2.0 article work enterprise2.0 corporate advice socialmedia blogging social media smashingmagazine blogs business)
• xkcd – A Webcomic – Superlative
  This is GREAT – Everyone knows someone like that.
  (tags: ping.fm funny comics comic xkcd parody favorite)
• Hellovon – The Great Portfolio of Von | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  VERY Nice portfolio!
• Super Cool Creative Stencils and Banksy Promo | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  Wow, awesome Stencils!
  (tags: inspiration street)
• 5 CSS3 Design Enhancements That You Can Use Today | Webdesigner Depot
  YUM – CSS3 Design Enhancements you can use today!
  (tags: design webdesign tutorial development webdev rounded webstandards css css3 programming browsers !pm:webdev transparency to-read)
• Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools | CSS | Smashing Magazine
  Fantastic CSS Techniques!!
  (tags: webdesign web inspiration resources showcase article)
• The Most Linked to Pages of Top Design Blogs
  These are some awesome bookmarks
  (tags: design webdesign web blog search graphics)
• 13 Top Designers Share the Coolest iPhone Apps They Use Everyday | Inspired Magazine
  Fantastic post – Designers share their everyday iPhone apps!
  (tags: apps designer iphone applications designers ipod app)
• 25 Detailed Tutorials for Coding Up Your Web Designs
  very detailed tutorials for coding your Designs – Nice!
  (tags: webdesign webdev webdevelopment coding php)
• 50 Really High Quality Photoshop Navigation Menu Tutorials | Graphic and Web Design Blog – Inspiration, Resources and Tools
  AWESOME Photoshop navigation menu tutorials!!
  (tags: design webdesign web inspiration resources howto navigation interface photoshop)
• 20 Useful Web-based Image Editors
  Great alternatives to Photoshop for editing images on the go – Web based image editors
  (tags: editor)
• How to Avoid Designer Burnout
  Awesome Read on how to avoid Designer Burnout!
  (tags: design inspiration business health graphic freelancing communication imported productivity work freelancer resource freelance advice designer creativity article)
• 29 Sets Of Grunge Photoshop Brushes
  freaking awesome Grunge Brushes for Photoshop!
• Reader News: 24% Of Twitter Updates Done By Bots
  Will twitter turn into a bot ran ghost town?
  (tags: twitter)
• Inspiration Is Everywhere – Just Get Off Your Computer | The Design O'Blog by Niki Brown
  Awesome way to look at the world around us, as inspiration!
• Top 10 WordPress Codes Every Designer Should Know | Css Reflex – Design Blog | Web Design | Inspiration and Resources for Designers
  Very common wordpress codes you should know!
  (tags: design webdesign development css reference webdevelopment webdev wordpress ping.fm programming coding hacks cms wp compilation admin snippets pages code php)
• Ajaxian » Microsoft dips toe in HTML 5 water
  Oh god. Microsoft will find a way to ruin this.
  (tags: microsoft ie html5 w3c)
• Extreme Ping Pong Table Designs | Toxel.com
  EXTREME PING PONG!!!!!
  (tags: design interior table)
• 6 Work at Home Tips for Young Entrepreneurs | Under30CEO
  Awesome tips for working at home productively
• USAA Bank Will Let Customers Deposit Checks by iPhone – NYTimes.com
  Wow, I can't wait till I never have to leave my house for anything but food.
• Database Queries the CouchDB Way
  Great look into the very interesting CouchDB
  (tags: no_tag web webdev reference interesting js dev jquery javascript json mapreduce query nosql couchdb)
• 40+ Awesome Tutorials and Techniques For WordPress Theme Developers | tripwire magazine
  awesome Tutorials and Techniques for WP Theme Development
  (tags: design tutorial development webdev wordpress-themes themes reference wordpress resource blogs blog)
• 70 Must-Have CSS3 and HTML5 Tutorials and Resources | Web Resources | WebAppers
  Great CSS3 and HTML5 Resources!!
  (tags: design webdesign web tutorial development resource webdevelopment webdev tutorials tools reference recursos xhtml resources css)
• Maximize your RSS potential in minutes with these 5 WordPress plugins / Brian Cray's Blog
  some nice WP Plugins for your RSS
  (tags: wordpress blogging wordpress-plugins atom plugins)
• 8 Great Ways to Motivate Yourself When You Just Don't Feel Like It – Dumb Little Man
  Great tips for getting things done – LOL @ #4 BURN THE SHIPS!
  (tags: tips business research motivation)
• Why our home page design sucked – We Are not Freelancers
  Great critique of old page vs new redesigned page
  (tags: webdesign)
• 10+ JQuery tutorials for working with HTML forms
  great tutorials for using jQuery with Forms
  (tags: jquery forms)
• Creating Very Cool Folded Typo | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  Awesome Folded Typography Tutorial
  (tags: design tutorial tutorials effects text typography)
• links for 2009-08-09 | AndySowards.com :: Professional Web Design, Development, Programming, Hacks, Downloads, Math and being a Web 2.0 Hipster?
  Apache CouchDB: The CouchDB Project Very Interesting Database Project 60 (Latest)
  (tags: ping.fm nerdy daily web development and design links)