#WDNDL For 7/29/2009 – Illustration Inspirations, CSS, WordPress, Freelancer Tips!

Happy Hump Day! Today’s links have some Excellent Illustration Inspirations as well as some really nice Logo Roundups! Check out those awesome Threadless shirts too! Love those things. Thanks everyone for all the love and support, I appreciate you all! Now Get your Daily Nerdy Web Development/Design Links!!

• 5 Easy Social Media Wins for Your Small Business
  Awesome Social Media Wins for Small Business
  (tags: twitter web2.0 community social_media campaign)
• 5 Things that Make the Nerd World Go Round | The Steel Closet
  LOL great nerdisms
• How it feels to be sued for $4.5m | Music | guardian.co.uk
  Great read – Filesharer that was sued
  (tags: file internet filesharing media articles 2009 culture music feed copyright piracy p2p)
• 5 Must-Have Qualities to Become a Top Freelancer | FreelanceFolder
  Great Qualities for Top Freelancers
  (tags: design webdesign tips business freelance work job inspiracion career)
• Exemplary Mom Builds 98-Inch Screen Inside Kid's Bedroom Ceiling – ceiling TV – Gizmodo
  this is ridiculous, is it just me, or is the screen upside down if you were laying with your head at the foot of the bed? just sayin LOL
  (tags: technology awesome toys WoW tv)
• Interesting Code Highlighters for blogs and websites
  Fantastic Code Highlighters!
  (tags: webdesign wp-plugins webdev tools javascript code plugin tricks)
• 23 Extremely Helpful WordPress Help Sheets And Resources | Graphic and Web Design Blog – Inspiration, Resources and Tools
  Freaking fantastic WP Cheat Sheets
  (tags: design webdev programming templates seo)
• 10 Most Wanted Category Hacks and Plugins for WordPress
  Awesome list of WordPress Category Hacks
  (tags: webdesign webdev blog wordpress plugins hacks)
• Bak Dergisi :// Bak Magazine
  Awesome and FREE Online magazine for Designers
  (tags: design webdesign web inspiration graphics free)
• Text Rotation with CSS
  Another great way to make a cool date box! WITH CSS This time! no images!
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration webdev tricks text hack css development date reference css3)
• Keep Polishing Your Personal Brand | Brand Camp University – Personal Branding 2.0
  Good read on Personal Branding!
• The Ultimate Guide to Decoding the Flickr API – Nettuts+
  Great read on Flickr API
• 30 Best Inspiring Vector Figure Illustrations
  Freaking awesome Vector Figures!
  (tags: illustrator vector)
• Important Notice Regarding Your Website | Frog's Digital Design Blog
  Great way to deal with these new IE8 issues.
  (tags: webdesign business service client ie)
• MYST – Changing The World of Gaming « Bit Rebels
  I used to love myst
• Woman Sued for $50,000 Over a Tweet
  Ridiculous!!!
  (tags: twitter socialmedia socialnetworking google media linkedin myspace flickr mashable)
• Review: Fever, self-hosted RSS reader tells you what's hot
  Very interesting Feed Reader
  (tags: software)
• Three Short Tutorials for Photographers and Photography Lovers – Psdtuts+
  Great quick and easy tutorials for photograph lovers!
  (tags: tutorial perspective photoshop photography useful foto correction panorama)
• Truly Design, Italian graffiti collective :: koikoikoi.com – Visual Arts Magazine, graphic design, illustration, photography, interviews, inspiration, tutorials
  Stunning Collection of Graffiti – Very Creative
• Web Design Trend Hunting – The Circle As A Design Fetish & 20 Fresh Examples | Inspired Magazine
  Great post – that circle sure is getting around!
• Found Footage: Robochan gets a 3GS upgrade
  haha wow this thing is awesome!
• How To Use Your Blog To Terrorize Tech Geeks. | Tremendous News!
  LOL this is hilarious
• MP3 Players That Rock – by Digital Trends
  Crazy iPod Alternatives
  (tags: ping.fm technology guide trends digital iphone ipod)
• Color Scheming for Designers | styl.eti.me
  Great read for Designers on Color Scheming
  (tags: design colour colors webdesign tips lists color scheme resource)
• 12 Inspiration Logos Featuring Subtle Symbolism » Creative Cox
  Awesomely subtle symbolism in these logos
• 5 Web Accessibility Improvement Tools | UX Booth
  Freaking awesome Accessibility Improvement Tools!!! Colorblindness test? AMAZING
  (tags: website design webdesign resources web tools reference list !pm:webdev accessibility usability tool usabilidad accesibilidad)
• 10 Advance jQuery Scripts to take Your Website to the Next Level | Web Designer Online
  Awesome jQuery Scripts!!
  (tags: design webdev webdesign web inspiration javascript website ajax webdevelopment programming)
• How to Add Decorative Glamour to Your Ordinary Script Font – Vectortuts+
  Awesome Glamour effect added to ordinary script font
  (tags: tutorial typo script photoshop illustrator logo text tutoriais)
• 23 Breathtaking Moments And Ideas Captured By Photographers @ SmashingApps
  These are some amazing photos
  (tags: fotos creative creativity interesting pictures)
• The 5 phases of professional logo design | Graphic Design Blender
  Awesome phrases of Pro Logo Design
  (tags: design tips freelance logo logodesign)
• Designers, what was your first piece of work? | Gavin Elliott |
  Excellent post – Designers first pieces of work
  (tags: webdesign inspiration)
• How to Build a CSS Image Viewer the Clever Way
  Awesome CSS Image viewer tutorial
  (tags: design images photos webdesign tutorial html code gallery)
• 21 apps Apple doesn't want on your iPhone | ITworld
  Nice apps that apple doesn't want you to have
• New Freebie: Inspirational Wallpaper! – ThemeForest
  LOL! These are hilarious
• What is a CSS Reset? | Altered Aspect – Web Design by Rob MacKay
  Great explanation of a CSS Reset
• 30+ Beautiful Logos That Use Italic / Cursive Fonts | Pixelactic
  Amazing Logos – I love most of these
  (tags: design logos inspiration resources typography creative logo)
• 20 Design blogs I subscribe to (and you should too) | Graphic Design Blender
  Great design Blogs to subscribe to
• 20 Ways to De-stress for Designers and Artists – ArtBistro.com
  great ways to De-Stress for Designers and Artists
• What makes a good logo?
  Great read on Logo Design
• World of Twitter – Mosaic Twitter Wallpapers | Wallpapers
  Great world of Twitter Mosaic Wallpapers!
  (tags: webmaster web inspiration twitter apps recursos wallpaper)
• CodeIgniter From Scratch: Day 2 – Nettuts+
  Great tutorial for CodeIgniter from Scratch!
  (tags: tutorial framework frameworks webdev tutorials howto programming php nettuts codeigniter unread j)
• PHP/JS Competition: Win an iPhone 3G S! – Nettuts+
  Nice PHP/JS Competition!
  (tags: php themeforest js)
• MooTools Tutorials and Resources Round-Up | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
  Fantastic Tutorial and Resource roundup for Moo Tools
  (tags: webdesign resources smashingmagazine smashing tutorial development)
• The Definitive Guide to Using Negative Margins | CSS | Smashing Magazine
  Great guide for Negative Margins – Must read
  (tags: design web tutorial webdevelopment smashing layout magazine howto webdesign html programming guide smashingmagazine development webdev tutorials)
• How I Disconnected From Social Media For A Day – And Survived! | bkmacdaddy designs
  lol great read from a day of social media disconnect
• 55 Fresh Examples Of Corporate Website Designs | Inspiration | instantShift
  Great examples of Corporate Designs!
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration website business)
• Top 10 Camping Gadgets for Geeks « Bit Rebels
  Great geek camping gear!
  (tags: geek gadgets)
• 10 Creative Examples Of Typography | Mert Tol – r27's posterous
  Awesome examples of Typography Video
• Date Display Technique with Sprites | CSS-Tricks
  This is pretty Fantastic – AMAZING IDEA
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration tutorial development webdev date diseño wordpress jquery)
• Facebook’s New HQ Status: Collaboration IRL – otto
  Wow facebook has got it going on!!!
  (tags: design facebook collaboration interiors architecture)
• Lego Sunglasses « Bit Rebels
  Crazyness I want those glasses! LOL
  (tags: lego)
• Insane Photo Illustrations by Emeric Trahand | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  AMAZING Illustrations!!!
• Behind the Scenes of the DesignBump Redesign
  Fantastic look of the Behind the Scenes of the Design Bump Redesign, WELL DONE
  (tags: design webdesign business website branding photoshop inspiration articles process graphicdesign identity)
• links for 2009-07-27 | AndySowards.com :: Professional Web Design, Development, Programming, Hacks, Downloads, Math and being a Web 2.0 Hipster?
  Text Blocks Over Image | CSS-Tricks Love this overlay effect, I try to use it often 🙂 (tags: webdesign images
  (tags: ping.fm nerdy daily web development and design links)