AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 1/08/2009

We are 1 step closer to the weekend. Its Thursday! Congrats for battling through the first full week back after vacation! You made it this far, Don’t give up now! I want to Thank all of my Friends and Supporters for keeping me in the Top 10 on http://www.retweetrank.com/! Your efforts are much appreciated! Now go check out Todays Daily Nerdy links!

WordPress

• 10 Killer WordPress Hacks | How-To | Smashing Magazine
  FREAKING AWESOME List of 10 Killer WP Hacks!! Go implement them now!
  (tags: webdesign wordpress smashing CSS tips Tutorials Resources development webdev tutorial blog tools blogs template hacks blogging todo twitter Plugins howto reference 2008 php code wp hack navigation plugin adsense pagination)
• Introducing Twit It Up! « Jon Bergan – A blog about Design, Development & Being Your Own Boss
  Pretty sweet WP Blog Plugin allows visitors to easily tweet your blog post!
  (tags: twitter wordpress plugin tweet)

Web Developer/Designer Inspiration

• Wednesday Web of Inspiration: Large Typography | Arbenting
  Awesomely Inspirational Typography focused designs!
• 10 Designer Interviews Worth Reading | Outlaw Design Blog – A Graphic Design Blog
  Great Designer Interviews, Good Reads
  (tags: design designer interesting interview)
• Size Matters…10 Gigantic Ads that Grab Attention
  Huge ads that Grab Attention! Nicely Done!
  (tags: fun advertising interesting world publicidad guerrilla)
• 160 Creative and Inspiring Print Ads | Back to Essentials
  Freaking awesomely Inspirational Print Ads!
  (tags: design photography inspiration advertising creativity reference list 2008 print creative ads roundups graphicdesign)
• 21 Simple But Impressive Corporate Web Designs Of Top Brands – Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
  Really Nice and Simple Corporate Designs!! Inspirational!
  (tags: design marketing branding company clean Web_Design resource web webdesign inspiration gallery website websites corporate brands simple top designs showcase blog list business article web-design ideas site brand 21 corporate-design coporate)
• Web Design Inspiration – 25 Websites With Beautiful Background Part II
  Beautiful Background Inspirations in Web Design!
  (tags: design background web backgrounds webdesign selection links inspiration lists showcase)
• What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like
  In case you have never witnessed this phenomenon, this is what beautiful code looks like!
  (tags: design Tutorials coding xhtml images code reference webdesign howto web accessibility technology development webdev tutorial CSS html art tips internet cool webdevelopment programming image interesting clean beautiful standards good php)
• 20 amazing or original Logotypes & Logos ! | Mickaël B. Alexandre Blog
  Awesome Logos and Logotypes!!
  (tags: design logos inspiration Resources reference graphics graphic logo)
• Starved Magazine
  Submit your artwork to Starved Magazine!
• Toxel.com » Modern Electrical Outlets and Power Strips
  Really AWESOME collection of Modern Outlets and power strips – Inspirational designs!
  (tags: design hardware cool home technology modern ideas culture gadget shopping power gadgets and industrialdesign electricity electrical)
• 34 Websites That Are Still in 2008 | Tutorial Wow
  Simple mistake can happen to anyone!
  (tags: webdev Tutorials photoshop)
• Inspiration: Tim Dinter | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Awesome Illustration Inspiration! – Tim Dinter

Social Networks

• Digg Phishing Scam Exposed
  Beware of Digg Phishing scam! First Twitter Now Digg!?
• Where Digg Fails, A Success for StumbleUpon
  Digg: 0 – Stumble Upon: 1 – but who is keeping score?
• Bogus LinkedIn profiles serving malware | Zero Day
  Malware Served from Bogus Linked In Profiles! All social networks are getting attacked lately!
  (tags: linkedin social networking media network malware bogus)

Web Developer/Designer Resources

• COLORBURNED – Professional Design Resources – 20 High Resolution Photoshop Lens Flare Brushes
  Awesome Lens Flare Brushes! Extremely Useful!
• Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 1/07/2009 – Pligg Beta 9
  Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 1/07/2009 – Todays Post is FULL of Tutorials, Resources and Tips and Tricks for Web Developers and Designers! Now go check out Todays Daily Nerdy links!
  (tags: ping.fm web development resources design dev)
• 38 Free Elegant XHTML/CSS Website Templates | Graphics
  Awesome and FREE XHTML/CSS Web Templates!
  (tags: CSS templates template)
• resizeimage.org – Resize images with ease
  Quick and Easy Image Resizer
  (tags: design cool image resize utilidades recursos graphic web webdesign tool utilities images generator online tools web2.0 graphics free photoshop photos photo photography webapp editor editing foto imagenes crop resizeimage resizer)
• 400+ Time Saving Photoshop Actions | Design Reviver
  HUMUNGOUS List of Photoshop Actions! TIME SAVERS!!
  (tags: design Tutorials links effects lists action actions photography reference web webdesign Resources blog tools tutorial list tips resource downloads photoshop adobe todo free photos graphics howto photo shortcut photoshop.actions photoshopactions)
• Top 20 iPhone Apps for Bloggers, Designers & Freelancers
  Great iPhone apps that make life easier!
  (tags: blogging list selection Apple app software iphone gtd lists mobile apps Ipod Applications phone ipodtouch mac application reviews)
• 29 Really Creepy and Creative Photoshopped Self Portraits : Speckyboy – Web Design, Web Development and Graphic Design Resources
  Freaking Awesome Photoshopped Self Portraits! Very Creative! VERY CREEPY
• Best of TUTS – December – VECTORTUTS
  Awesome Tutorials from the month of December 08!!
• 160+ RSS Feeds For Web-Designers And Developers | Spyre Studios
  Some Great Feeds to Subscribe to!
  (tags: design webdev webdevelopment photoshop the web-design tutorial web webdesign tips list inspiration CSS Tutorials Resources development blog graphics reference resource blogs business feed rss bestof javascript links feeds lists developers)
• CorkDump – Customizable, User-Submitted, and Helpful Web Design and Web Development Resources
  Its like a Developer/Designer Resource Bulletin Board! – CUSTOMIZABLE!
  (tags: design webdev photoshop handbook resources css ajax javascript webdevelopment resource web tools webdesign web2.0 tutorial inspiration html flash work list templates links xhtml Tutorials development blog reference ressources php portal)
• 35 Most Useful FREE Vectors to Kick Start 2009
  Kick off the new year with these most USEFUL FREE Vectors!!
  (tags: vector icons free)
• swissmiss: belt buckle made of letterpress type
  Typography Belt!!!
• What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like
  The post behind the Image – Good stuff
  (tags: design web2.0 programming webstandards style advice standards markup article tutorial webdesign tips web Resources CSS code html beautiful Tutorials layout clean bestpractices articles reference blog howto development webdev xhtml coding)
• Design Trends for 2009 – Follow or Not Follow | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Design Trends for 2009!
  (tags: webdesign inspiration reference trends abduzeedo design tendências 2009)
• Working With a Content Management Framework: MODx – NETTUTS
  Working with MODx CMS Framework
  (tags: webdesign Web_Design contentmanagement framework webdev tutorial Content Tutorials frameworks cms php nettuts todo j modx)

Internet History

• Video: History of the Internet – ReadWriteWeb
  History Of the Internet! – Interesting Video
  (tags: internet Video history rww)

Web 2.0 News

• Jing Goes Pro: One of Our Favorite Screencasting Tools Just Got Better – ReadWriteWeb
  Jing goes Pro! Jing is an awesomely easy to use screencasting software! makes explaining to clients simple
  (tags: tools tool screencasts socialnetworking Video pictures videos screencast screencasting rww capture youtube jing)
• Bit.ly Plug-in Extends Tiny URLs, Shows Clickthrough Numbers – ReadWriteWeb
  Bit.Ly Rocks! Shows Clickthrough numbers!
  (tags: twitter plugin firefox twitchboard url)
• iClockr
  Cool Mac App – Track your time!

Guy Kawasaki

• So What Do You Do, Guy Kawasaki, Founder, AllTop.com? – mediabistro.com Content
  Guy Kawasaki Interview "Twitter is what I do"
  (tags: web2.0 guykawasaki twitter web2 socialmedia news interview alltop kawasaki)
• Biznik Live – Biznik
  Business Thought Leaders podcast Archive! Some good ones in here!
  (tags: tools conference business reality technology insight podcast check live)

Twitter

• Weak Password Brings 'Happiness' to Twitter Hacker | Threat Level from Wired.com
  Twitter Hacker Tells All! Interesting.
  (tags: twitter hack obama happiness)
• How to Stop Twitter Becoming a Waste of Time
  Don't let Twitter become a Waste of Time

Apple

• MacBook Pro 17-inch first hands-on (update: video added) – Engadget
  All I can say is freaking JIMP!!!
  (tags: Video Apple pictures review new macbookpro pro macbook)

jQuery

• API: Filter & Find | jQuery for Designers – Tutorials and screencasts
  jQuery Screencast for Designers – Filter and Find
  (tags: howto AJAX filter jQuery tab)

Freebies!

• 50 Most Extreme Free Grunge Fonts | Web Design Ledger
  EXTREMEEE! – ly grungy Free Fonts! 🙂
  (tags: design via:mento.info typography download webdesign Resources graphicdesign grunge downloads typo fonts webdev list free lists gallery freeware font fonty overview)

Programming

• Best Practices for Version Control « loop label
  Good Version Control Tips for Programmers!
  (tags: blog svn programming best standards bestpractices practices subversion sourcecontrol git versioncontrol tips)

Laugh of the Day

• Best Office Pranks of All Time
  Ok. these are just Hilariously taken too far haha
  (tags: blog images funny fun humor office lol hilarious prank pranks jokes)

Tunage!

• T.R.O.Y.: Fifty Remixes You Need To Hear (21-30)
  Awesome Remixes You need to hear! Listen while you Dev!
• AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 1/07/2009 | AndySowards.com :: Professional Web Design, Development, Programming, Hacks, Downloads, Math and being a Web 2.0 Hipster?
  Its Wednesday! Man this week is crawling by! I can't wait for the next round of vacation! Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the Daily Nerdy Web
  (tags: ping.fm nerdy daily links)

Tutorials

• New PLUS Tutorial – How to Create a Sci-Fi Fan Art Illustration – VECTORTUTS
  LOL Awesome Tutorial, good for when you go to a Nerd Convention 😉
• Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 1/07/2009 – Pligg Beta 9
  Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 1/07/2009 – Todays Post is FULL of Tutorials, Resources and Tips and Tricks for Web Developers and Designers! Now go check out Todays Daily Nerdy links!
  (tags: ping.fm web development resources design dev)

Freelance/Business/Marketing

• Six Valuable Things Web Design Clients Won’t Tell You – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog
  Things Web Design Clients Won't Tell you! Valuable Read!
  (tags: design tips advice clients personal entrepreneurship business web webdesign programming inspiration article tricks web-development client resource freelancing development blog webdev articles freelance entrepreneur humour problems terms contract contracts consulting)
• A Discussion On Web Maintenance Contracts | My Ink Blog
  Good Discussion on Web Maintenance Contracts!!

SEO – Sitemaps

• SEOmoz | Do Sitemaps Affect Crawlers?
  Sitemap = Good.
  (tags: tips google sitemaps seomoz seo)