#WDNDL For 12/08/2009 – Nerd News, Design/Development Tutorials & Inspirations!

• Revamping your logo design for occasions – Is it a wise choice? | Logo Design Blog
  Here are the advantages and disadvantages of amending your logos designs on different occassions.
• 12 Silly Logo Designing Mistakes – Strictly avoid!! | Graphic Design Blog – An Ultimate resource of Graphic Design
  If you avoid these 12 silly tips you will surely come up with a perfect logo design.
• http://www.morguefile.com/
  Morguefile.com is the free stock photo site for creatives by creatives. There are 200,000+ free images, no registration required and a license less restrictive than creative commons. Have a look.
  (tags: design webdesign inspiration resources photoshop tools web resource gallery photography)
• Interview with Don from Invisible Creature | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
  Awesomely inspirational – Tons of recognizable CD covers designed by same studio!
• Secure source code hosting and collaborative development – GitHub
  Interesting – Social Coding
• How to increase Zend Framework learning speed? – Stack Overflow
  Great Zend Framework resources all in this one question post on Stack Overflow
  (tags: zend programming php)
• Everything You Ever Want to Know About Creating Seamless Patterns in Illustrator – Vectortuts+
  Wonderful explanation and work flow to creating seamless patterns in Illustrator
  (tags: illustrator design pattern tutorials tutorial vector illustration patterns)
• Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design with Photoshop – Psdtuts+
  Really nice outcome and workflow – Photoshop Tutorial
  (tags: photoshop tutorial watercolor webdesign inspiration tutorials tuts)
• The One Page Linux Manual.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  Good all in one reference for Linux
  (tags: linux cheatsheet reference commands tutorial unix bash command)
• Google Launches Real-Time Search
  Its here!!!
• 5 Tips on How to Create an Effective Online portfolio | Bit Rebels
  Good tips for creating your portfolio – take these into consideration
• First Images of SpaceShipTwo – SpaceShipTwo – Gizmodo
  Holy freaking Crap.
• 108 Mono Icons: Huge Set of Minimal Icons | Tutorial9
  Awesome icons!!!
• How To Design a 3D Wooden Box in Photoshop | Tutorial9
  Great workflow tutorial!
  (tags: photoshop tutorial icon toread)
• Making Money with Web Skills | CSS-Tricks
  Fantastic read for all web designers and devs
  (tags: freelance job money webdesign business jobs make toread)
• Creative Bookmarks: Best of November 2009 | Tutorial9
  These are some amazing posts
• 10 Fresh Digital Artists & Designers to Follow on Twitter | Minervity
  Good list of awesome Designers and Artists on twitter
  (tags: artists designers digital lists twitter)
• Tips for Effective Communication with Your Clients | Web Design Ledger
  Great tips for dealing with Client Communication – Freelancers
  (tags: clients communication freelance tips design learning resources web)
• 60+ Simply Professional Looking Website Designs | Showcases | instantShift
  Great examples of Professional sites
  (tags: webdesign inspiration gallery design showcase web2.0 web lists)
• Bokeh Effect in Web Design: 30 Excellent Examples and Tutorials | Spyre Studios
  Beautiful Bokeh Effects – A Growing Trend
  (tags: webdesign inspiration showcase design trend pattern photoshop gallery)
• The Best jQuery Plugins of 2009 | Web Design Ledger
  Some truly great plugins from 2009 – I use most of these
  (tags: jquery plugins webdesign javascript ajax plugin design webdev)
• Fixed Floating Elements | jQuery for Designers – Tutorials and screencasts
  Great effect replication tutorial – shopping cart following you down the page when scrolling example
  (tags: jquery float css javascript webdesign tutorial design scroll fixed)
• 15 Most Important Considerations when Choosing a Web Development Framework – Nettuts+
  Good read if you are trying to get into the framework bidness!
  (tags: framework programming php jquery webdev webdevelopment codeigniter nettuts)
• 45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for Christmas Season | Naldz Graphics
  Nice christmas tutorials!
  (tags: illustrator photoshop tutorials christmas tutoriales)
• 10 Creative Bathroom Ads – Oddee.com
  Freaking awesome and funny bathroom ads!
  (tags: advertising design ads funny fun inspiration creative art)
• Impressive Gift Package Design Inspiration for Christmas – Noupe
  My wife loves packages that are neatly packed – good inspiration
  (tags: packaging design gift inspiration package gifts ideas christmas)
• 35 Powerful Photos That Tell A Story – Noupe
  Stunning images
  (tags: photography photos inspiration photo fotografia story freelance storytelling)
• The Unusable and Superficial World of Beer and Alcohol Websites – Smashing Magazine
  Beer websites = fail – Good explanation of why and how they could make it better
• Are we changing the world? « Boagworld
  Good read – As web designers – are we making the world a better place?
• xkcd -Suggestions – By Randall Munroe
  LOL!! I knew the facebook suggestions were going too far!!
  (tags: xkcd comic facebook humor best comics funny internet)
• Pay No Attention to the Creepy Man Behind the Clock Face – Person clock – Gizmodo
  Wow. now that is cool.
• Shred Like a Geek: Recycled Circuit Board Guitar Picks – Circuit Boards – Gizmodo
  Now these, make sense.
• LEGO Art by Nathan Sawaya | Oddity Central – Collecting Oddities
  Cool, but kind of creepy. lol
  (tags: lego cool art inspiration kunst sculpture)
• Geek Speak | How to upgrade your Webslang to Web… | Bit Rebels
  Good tips for keeping up with the Webslang
• Now You Can Turn Your Tweets into Klingon
  lol. im sure some people know Klingon well enough to not need this. sad.
• links for 2009-12-06 | AndySowards.com :: Professional Web Design, Development, Programming Freelancer, Hacks, Downloads, Math and being a Web 2.0 Hipster?
  xkcd – Stephen and Me – By Randall Munroe LOL random (tags: humor humour media comic webcomic webcomics)
  (tags: ping.fm)

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