AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 11/03/2008

Really great weekend, Very Productive! AndySowards.com has been featured on naldzgraphics.com this week, really honored to have the shoutout. I hope you guys have gotten a lot out of Daily Nerdy Links posts this weekend! I hope all you Subscribers are getting some good tips! If not, Please send me some comments or suggestions! Now go and learn from those nerdy web techy web developer/designery Resources! Enjoy your day!

Wi-Fi News

• Marketing Your Products Through Wi-Fi Networks – ReadWriteWeb
  Great concept, hope it catches on, Freaking awesome.
  (tags: marketing wifi)

Blogging Tips

• 5 Ways To Take Your Blog To The Next Level | Blogging Tips from Blogsessive
  Take your blog to the next level with these tips!
• Another example of how a “business blogger” gets noticed. | Blog For Profit
  Want your blog to get noticed? Follow examples.

Twitter Stuff

• Lots of Useful Twitter Related Services and Contacts | TheBusyBrain Blog!
  Contribute to the Twitter Services and Contacts list!
  (tags: twitter)
• Mass Twitter Action and Retrieve Script
  Demo and code for a script that basically creates a webpage that you can use to display your own Twitter updates. Uses Twitter API. Good Insight to using Twitter API

CS4 Review

• John Nack on Adobe: CS4: What's in it for Photographers?
  CS4 for Photographers, Whats in it for you?

Programming Inspiration

• YouTube – Web 2.0 Expo NY: Jason Fried (37signals), High Order Bit
  Another good talk from Jason Fried, Founder of 37 Signals.

Design Contests

• Threadless T-Shirts – Submit a design, earn $2,500 !!
  Submit a great design for Threadless T-shirts and you can rack up some dough! And some shirts!
  (tags: design community contest contests apparel competition illustration inspiration web2.0 ideas money camisetas t-shirt clothing templates cool graphics shopping art business fun communication t-shirts diy crowdsourcing tshirts submit tshirt threadless fashion)

Designer Resources

• Design for Users: My Favorite Prototyping Tools
  Some good tools for designers like you!
  (tags: design ux webdesign web2.0 tools webdevelopment usability ui ia prototyping)
• 5 Designers Speak Up About Overused Techniques
  Overused Techniques in Graphics From Designers POV. – I'm Featured 🙂
• 5 Sources for Free and Legal Images | The Blog Herald
  Can't get enough images!
  (tags: design list plugin pictures stock photography blogging web webdesign blogs wordpress photos art source legal image photo Resources blog tools resource images free graphics download firefox opensource creativecommons sources)
• Votetime – Design links fed to twitter, Vote your favourite!
  If you have not tried out voteTime, You should, Good voting system.
  (tags: design tips tweetmarks bookmark Pligg digg survey Content designs links resource web webdesign web2.0 gallery Plugins blog aggregator new interview home System management tutorial Resources vote)

Web Developer/Designer Inspirations

• My Monthly Favorites: October 2008 | Naldz Graphics
  Great collection of some amazing sites from this month on Nalds Graphics, Yours truly is featured so you know its a good list! 😉
  (tags: design web graphics development designer monthly roundup collection sites inspiration)
• Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 11/02/2008 – Design Float
  Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 11/02/2008 – So this has been a good productive weekend for me, getting some programming work done for clients AND getting startup stuff done as well! I hope you guys have gotten a lot out of Daily Nerdy Links posts this weekend!
  (tags: ping.fm web design development resources)

Photoshop Tutorials

• Create a Sweet Refreshing Orange Juice in Photoshop | Naldz Graphics
  Thirsty? Make some Orange Juice! In Photoshop! 🙂
  (tags: tutorial photoshop adobe graphicdesign Tutorials)

Digg Tools

• Amazing collection of Digg tools!
  Lots of Digg Tools!

Freebies!

• Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers | Blog.SpoonGraphics
  Really nice hand drawn Icon set! I like a lot! Well Done!
  (tags: design cool media freeicons handdrawn grunge blogging web icons art webdesign social tools graphic blog Resources download illustration free graphics fonts buttons downloads icon todo rss hand doodle hand-drawn icone)

PSD to XHTML tutorial

• Encoding a Photoshop Mockup into XHTML & CSS | Blog.SpoonGraphics
  So what exactly do those PSD to XHTML sites do with your psd file? Basically this. Pretty much any web developer can do it, but the quality of how they do it varies! Check out the workflow behind it.
  (tags: design Tutorials wordpress conversion blogdesign article CSS web webdesign howto graphic mockup layout graphics photoshop development blog webdev tutorial blogging html code psd best xhtml theme adobe)

Nerdy Techy Resources

• 35+ Sites for Web Savvy Families
  Some Cool Web Tools for Tech Savvy Families to take advantage of.
  (tags: tools web2.0 Resources hacks lists mashable life family saas kids)
• Encoding for YouTube Using Compressor
  Really REALLY really. In depth buide on compressing video for YouTube. Jeez. Really in depth.
  (tags: compressor web mac tutorial Apple Tutorials osx videos howto conversion tips flash youtube blogs tech editing work compression Video film finalcut encoding fcp)