AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 12/29/2008

Hope everyone had a great Christmas Weekend! I know I did, a busy one! Totally not ready for it to end! But all good things don’t have to end! Daily links are back! So keep the Nerdy Times Rolling! Thanks to all of my Friends and Supporters!!

Best of 2008

• The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008
  Awesome roundup of the BEST and MOST POPULAR Photoshop tutorials of the past year!! NICE!!
  (tags: design tips typography tutoriais tutoriales 2008 Tutorials web webdesign reference photography popular 100 photos television photo top100 adobe lists bestof art tutorial list tools photoshop graphics Resources howto inspiration best)
• 25 fantastic design articles from 2008 | David Airey » graphic designer, logo designer
  Collection of Great Design Articles from 2008!
  (tags: design articles misc webdesign list graphics article typography 2008 graphic)

Freebies!

• 8 Free eBooks on Twitter — AriWriter
  Free Twitter eBooks for squeezing out all the Usefullness of the popular social site
  (tags: free business twitter marketing ebooks)

RSS

• Digg on Twitter: A Powerful RSS Reader for the Lazy
  I like RSS, but Im Lazy, so this is probably for me 🙂
  (tags: twitter rss digg)

Worst Captchas

• Top 10 Worst Captchas | IT Management and Cloud Blog
  LOL Nice list of the WORST Captchas
  (tags: design blogs culture authentication accessibility lol captcha humour 2008 technology webdesign web fun funny blog web2.0 ui list geek internet humor wordpress usability top10 bad spam Security ai captchas net)

Twitter Stuff

• Most ReTweeted
  Most ReTweeted by the Hour, Day, or Month!
  (tags: tools viral retweet twitter software retweeting socialmedia trends analytics statistics app viralmarketing)
• Why I won’t follow someone on twitter | Blog For Profit
  Reasons not to follow someone on twitter, pretty reasonable 🙂
  (tags: twitter)
• YouTube – I Don't Have Time For Twitter or Facebook | Perry Belcher
  No time for anything!

Web Developer/Designer Resources

• » The Web Designers Guide To Success
  Our guide to Success! Heed these words!
  (tags: pricing tips webdesign Tutorials howto business freelance freelancing)
• 30 Excellent WordPress Video Tutorials – Six Revisions
  Great WordPress Tutorial Videos!! Tons!
  (tags: Tutorials design code videos lists firefox Video screencast online reference web webdesign development blogging collection howto screencasts themes wordpress blog webdev tutorial list blogs resource wp cms guide wordpress_tutorial)
• How To Master Photoshop In Just One Week :: Elite By Design
  Wow great photoshop tutorial resource!
  (tags: design graphics photography tutoriales training learn tech howto web webdesign photoshop webdev tutorial art images tips software Tutorials reference graphicdesign tutoriais learning guide adobe photo photos videotutoriales week lessons master)

Web Developer/Designer Inspirations

• 2experts Design – Web Design and Graphic Design Blog
  Great collection of Designer Interviews!
  (tags: design interviews photoshop graphic designer illustrator designers)
• Arbenting's Best of the Week for 12/21 – 12/27 | Arbenting
  Some of last weeks best stuff on the web!
• Sites of the week #31 | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Nice collection of interesting and inspirational sites!
  (tags: まとめ)
• "Retro-Futuristic" Art Inspiration – Part 2 | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Cool Retro future art!
  (tags: design Retro abduzeedo inspiration cool art graphicdesign illustration future)
• Best of the Week #45 | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Really great news from Last week!
• 70 Amazing Business Cards – Fubiz™
  More business cards to light your imagination for your own
  (tags: design graphic advertising cards business-cards businesscards businesscard photos visitenkarten gallery diseño freelance inspiration reference creative blog collection 2008 cool business art marketing ideas graphicdesign print identity card tarjetas printing branding)
• 2experts Design – Web Design and Graphic Design Blog by Design Professionals
  Really Nice Logo Designs from 2008!
  (tags: design web2.0 logo gallery roost)
• 2experts Design – Web Design and Graphic Design Blog by Design Professionals
  Tons more of those cool business cards
  (tags: design card cards inspiration business resource creative designer designs)

WordPress

• 8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks | How-To | Smashing Magazine
  If you use WordPress and are not familiar with SQL Then you need this.
  (tags: web reference Plugins Security database useful howto development blog blogging hacks todo mysql wordpress wp webmaster smashingmagazine admin hack sql backup technology Tutorials list tips php code tutorial webdev tools)

Freelance/Business/Marketing

• Freelancing Cost Pt. 3 – Return of the Red-Eye! | Arbenting
  part 3 of a great series at Arbenting, Showing the true cost of Freelancing
  (tags: freelancing)
• Balancing Part Time Freelancing with a Full Time Job – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog
  Very nice insight to help those who freelance part time
  (tags: howto business freelance todo freelancing)
• Zappos Blogs: CEO and COO Blog: Everything I Know About Business I Learned From Poker
  Hmm, business really IS like poker.
  (tags: blog philosophy company branding web2.0 advice principles reading startup business blogging entrepreneurship marketing quotes emprendedores culture strategy gr2dic ideas blogs biz poker zappos)

jQuery

• s3Slider jQuery Plugin – NETTUTS
  Very nice jQuery Slider Plugin!
  (tags: design tutorial images opensource jQuery slideshow photos Tutorials web CSS webdesign Resources javascript howto plugin banner slider image Plugins code development webdev web2.0 AJAX JS gallery dev nettuts slide)