AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 1/12/2009

Another week is kicking off today and I feel like its going to be a good one! So Get busy and curl up with some Daily Nerdy Web Development/Design Links!! 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!

Web Development/Designer Resources

• 12 Common Photoshop Mistakes, Misuses and Abuses | The Design Cubicle
  Good tips on how to avoid the Common Photoshop Abuses and Mistakes!
  (tags: design graphics via:mento.info help ps photography photoshop)
• 11 Essential Tips for Good Print Typography | Spoonfed Design
  Great tips for Print Typography!
  (tags: design)
• Jason Santa Maria | Grey Box Methodology
  Good Methodology for Creating Design Mock Ups for your Clients
  (tags: design methodology box workflow webdevelopment web webdesign tutorial html layout process awesome wireframe CSS creativity concept prototyping articles wireframes projects webdev illustrator method santa maria jason grey)
• Developer Portal for web designers, developers and programmers
  Turn your background Images into Clickable Links with CSS
  (tags: design background div header technical hack backgrounds webdesign development CSS html articles image click dhtml block dev banner link hidden clickable trick tip)
• 12 Really Handy CSS Framework, Template And Snippet Sites For Smart Web Designer | 1stwebdesigner – Love In Design
  Awesome CSS Frameworks, Templates and Snippets for the Smart Web Developer, Take advantage of these!
  (tags: design web-design webdesign templates Resources useful webdev framework tools snippets code CSS tool)
• The T-shirt Designer's Toolbox | Dead Wings Designs
  Nice! T-Shirt Designer's Toolbox, definitely a ton of resources here.
  (tags: design tshirts inspiration t-shirt tshirt Resources shirt tools graphics resource roundup)

Web Development/Designer Inspirations

• pxforce – graphic design blog » Blog Archive » 20 excellent illustrations in web design
  Inspirational Collcetion of Illustrations in Web Design
  (tags: design web webdesign inspiration illustration vector)
• Design for Chinese New Year: 20+ Images, Brushes, Wallpapers and Fonts | Graphics
  Awesome Chinese New Year Resources!
  (tags: design new clipart background Resources wallpaper graphics brushes photoshop windows fonts desktop icons custom font 2009 icon chinese china)
• 25 Modest Websites With a Muted Colour Scheme | Blog.SpoonGraphics
  Awesome Muted Site Color Inspiration!!
  (tags: design website 2.0 colour colors site web webdesign layout showcase inspiration web-design nature colorscheme interface blog CSS blogs links websites color art brown nicedesign modest muted)
• 21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration – Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
  Simply INCREDIBLE Photoshopped Photos to spike your Inspiration!
  (tags: STUNNING)

Freebies!

• COLORBURNED – Professional Design Resources – The Most Retro Line Illustrator Brushes Ever!
  Awesome Retro Line Brushes!!
  (tags: design illustrator Resources brushes tools brush free Retro photoshop vectors tool texturas download lines pixelart vector)
• 30 Excellent Resources for Graphic Design Freebies – Six Revisions
  Great Resources for Freebies! Stock Photos – Etc.
• BannerSnack Flash Banner Creator Giveaway: Comment & Win! | Freebies
  Flash Banner Creator Giveaway! Leave a Comment and WIN!

Freelance/Business/Marketing

• What’s Your Inner Voice Telling You? – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog
  Follow your inner Freelancer!
  (tags: freelance career self freelancing)
• 7 Ways Being Unbalanced Can Make You More Productive | Zen Habits
  Really? It can HELP? 😀 Im gonna be WAY productive then!
  (tags: productivity self-improvement a selfimprovement organization)
• Increase the Effectiveness of Your Next Guest Post with a Landing Page
  Increase Effectiveness with a Landing page!
• 37 Signals office on Sunday
  Looks nice to have a quiet, simple office like 37 Signals
  (tags: photography entrepreneurship office)

Startups

• Structured process you must know to develop a web application
  Great read if you plan on building a web app
  (tags: design CSS software process planning workflow database webdevelopment reference web webdesign Tutorials inspiration howto projectmanagement apps analysis guide business development webdev tutorial html programming application app webapp architecture develop structure)
• Girl in Your Shirt » InYourShirt.tv Internet Television
  This girl will apparently wear the shirt of your startup, company, service, whatever. and promote you. LOL
  (tags: entrepreneurship)

Tutorials

• A Perfect Truth: Reverse Photoshop Processing | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Really interesting video tutorial

Best of

• Best of the Week #47 | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Another Great Best of Last week Roundup!
• Arbenting’s Best of the Week for 01/04 – 01/10 | Arbenting
  Another Great Best of the Week from Arbenting!

Web 2.0 News

• Who's Watching You on the Web? – ReadWriteWeb
  Who's Watching YOU right now? Better put some pants on.
  (tags: web tracking internet privacy apps bug SEO metrics firefox analytics Security extensions trackers)
• Google Warns of Privacy Issues on the Social Web – ReadWriteWeb
  Privacy Issues in the Social Mediaverse
  (tags: web2.0 socialnetworking socialnetworks paper privacy openid readwriteweb research social internet socialmedia google download 2009 Security pdf data social_media legal socialnetwork social-networking information social-media)
• Weekly Wrapup: 2009 Web Predictions, iTunes Drops DRM, Twitter Security Scare, And More… – ReadWriteWeb
  Weekly Wrap up of Web 2.0 News – Great read.
  (tags: web2.0 2008 trends 2009 rww tip predictions week)
• Short URLs for Google – ReadWriteWeb
  Google Gets Short URLS! Bout time.
  (tags: web google search link sharing url short rww shorturl urls shortening)

Twitter

• DMfail Fails, Reborn as Re-Twit'd
  RT'ing is all the rage
  (tags: twitter mashable review re-twit'd)
• Keep Track Of Your Twitter Followers And Have A Clean Inbox In Gmail
  Quick tutorial of writing rules by Creating Filters in Gmail!
  (tags: twitter)
• What Percentage of your REAL LIFE friends have Twitter Accounts? [POLL]
  Who needs RL Friends on Twitter? Pffttt
• twibs : find the businesses on twitter
  Directory of Businesses on Twitter
  (tags: list directory business twitchboard resource twittertools twitter social companies socialmedia media search listings businesses @twibs)
• MyInkBlog Flickr Group Showcase IV | My Ink Blog
  Very Inspirational Showcase!
  (tags: design inspiration showcase flickr)

Social Media

• 10 great places to promote your designs | Social Media Marketing by Mike Smith
  Awesome places to promote your designs! Nice!
  (tags: design web social diseño SEO portfolio followup promote promoting)

Blogger

• Blogger Buster: How To Filter Posts by Label on the Home Page (Create a Side-Blog)
  Really good tips for creating a SideBlog on your BLOGGER blog
  (tags: tutorial tips blogging blogger)
• Blogger Buster: Complete List of Blogger Widgets
  Cool Widgets that make life easier if you use BLOGGER
  (tags: webdesign showcase blogger blog web-design list reference templates blogging recursos resource utilities download widgets)
• Blogger Buster: A cheats' guide to customising Blogger templates
  If you are unfortunate enough to use Blogger, here are some good tips for customizing the thing.
  (tags: web web.design blog CSS edit codes article blogs customize html templates template blogger)

WordPress

• Make your own Word Press Theme | AlteredTemplates – Free & Premium Templates
  Collection of links for Learning to Make your own WordPress Theme!
  (tags: design Tutorials template wp howto webdesign Resources wordpress help 2read create blogs web2.0 tutorial layout press make tips CSS theme themes word coding start)
• Secretly "Test Drive" a WordPress Theme | WebDazzling.com
  Great tip to Test out your WP Themes!
  (tags: wordpress-plugins wordpress blogging Plugins theme wordpress-themes)

CSS

• Beautiful CSS: Organizing Your Stylesheets
  Good read about Organizing your Stylesheets in CSS
  (tags: design beautiful web organization webdesign webdev bestpractices tips organize CSS howto work style your organizing *** stylesheets stylesheet)
• Box model
  Are you familiar with the Box Model?
  (tags: design standards web webdesign documentation webdev diagram CSS box reference borders html course coding w3c css2 box-model w3schools boxmodel model padding)

UX

• Don’t Click Here! – Placing Links in Context | Build Internet!
  good read about usability and links in content!
  (tags: webdesign writing link bestpractice webdev tips links usability interface accessibility click copywriting)

Windows 7 – Beta – FREE

• Sick of Vista? Try out Windows 7 Free! | AlteredAdvice – Freelance Graphics Design Community
  Try Windows 7 Beta