Happy Wednesday! Its been a busy week here at AndySowards.com and we would like to say Hello and welcome to all the new Subscribers, daily visitors, and twitter friends! Your nerdy techy web developer/designery Resources await! Feel free to leave some comment love or lay down some nerdy techy link enlightenment and Get Informed while doing it! Some really great inspirations, Freebies, and Info are below!

Freelance/Business/Marketing

• 145 MUST READ free business related eBooks | Mike Smith
  GREAT collection of Business Related eBooks to read, best part is, they are FREE!
  (tags: blogging business marketing socialmedia ebooks freebies)
• How To Get and Use Customer Feedback | Freelance Folder | The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers
  This is an important part of Any business really. Use your feedback information for good!
• Should your business have a blog? » Tammy Hart Designs
  I Think the answer to this question is obvious, but read for yourself!
• louisgray.com: 15 Tips on Improving Search Engine Visibility
  Tips to live by when it comes to Search Engine Visibility, I pretty much adhere to all of these 'standards'
• SitePoint » The Downside of Free
  Good Insight, Something to think about next time you offer stuff for free, I am a personal fan of Free, but sometimes ya gotta charge!
  (tags: business webapps)
• The Power Of Collaboration In Today’s Blogging World – 10 Reasons to Find a Blog Buddy
  Blog Collaboration happens more often than not these days, here is why.
• Three Keys to Successful Branding for Small Business | Branding Matters
  Tips for Success when Branding for your Small Business!
  (tags: business branding smallbusiness success)
• SEO, Social Media & Marketing – The First 4 of ‘7 Steps in Courting Google’
  Learn how to Court Google. First 4 Steps of 7
• I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday, For A Design Done Today…(maybe) | Arbenting
  Unfortunately, an all too true story most of the time when it comes to web development/design work, and clients.
• SEO 2.0 | Quick Guide to StumbleUpon Categorization and Tagging
  Quick Guide to Categorization and Tagging with StumbleUpon, I know I don't use stumble upon to its full potential, check this out!
  (tags: web2.0 socialmedia tagging)

Web Developer/Designer Inspiration

• Using padding in your design – We Are not Freelancers
  For Padding Addicts. Good Web Examples of Good Padding Usage!
  (tags: inspiration Tutorials CSS showcase example webdesign)
• 50 Excellent Blog Footers Design | Inspiration
  Another Great collection of Blog Footer Designs! Fuel your footers inspiration!
  (tags: design)
• 10 Things to Do with Your Feed Footer | Traffikd
  Good ideas to spruce up your feed footer! Never thought about it before really… Nicely done!
  (tags: marketing rss feed)
• Interview with Abstract Artist Rik Oostenbroek – PSDTUTS
  Nice abstract artist interview! Inspirational!
• Aeiko (v6) Portfolio of Pete Harrison (I love Juicypanda)
  Amazing and Inspirational Portfolio done in Flash by a UK Designer. Very Nice.
  (tags: design graphic advertising portfolio artist artwork designers photo flash web webdesign gallery graphicdesign print fashion Artists typography inspiration graphics illustration designer freelancer agency diseño photoshop cool art photography illustrator portfolios)
• webbyarts.com – dedicated public weblog to form ecosystem of visual artists. » Best Innovative Designer of the Week in Nov 08 – Biomachina
  Awesome Collection of the Best Innovative Designer in November 2008 – Biomachina – Wickedly awesome designs.
  (tags: designer portfolio)
• Playing Nice: Top 5 Charity Games | Brain Pickings
  Nice Charity Games, Games with a purpose? Kind of cool to think about.
  (tags: general)
• An Interview with Liam McKay | My Ink Blog
  Great interview with Liam McKay of Function, Very Inspirational!
• Grad Students Redefine Easy Money With $1-a-Letter Web Site
  Inspiration for those with Innovative ideas and motivation to achieve goals on their own terms. Mostly Aspiring Startups.
  (tags: socialnetworking web language rubyonrails web2.0 internet business funny domains technology wired article marketing media interesting online money economics words innovation)
• Showcase Of Clean And Minimalist Designs | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
  Really Great examples of Clean and Simple designs!
  (tags: design graphics ideas smashingmagazine showcase cool list webdesign inspiration art web graphicdesign designs style resources simple minimalist clean portfolio article gallery webdev typography layout smashing web-design minimalism minimal lists CSS)
• Web Design: Real Estate Sites | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Think all real estate sites are boring? They don't have to be, some of these designs are Nice!
  (tags: design realestate webdesign inspiration webdev resource web-design)
• COLORBURNED – Professional Design Resources – Meet Abduzeedo Founder Fabio Sasso
  Very Nice interview with one of my faves! Abduzeedo founder Fabio Sasso!
  (tags: marketing)

Business Card Tutorials!

• 19 Photoshop tutorials to design your own business card | DeveloperFox
  Nice Collection of "How To" Tutorials for Creating Business cards in Photoshop! Awesome!
  (tags: design print businesscard inspiration Tutorials card photoshop business graphicdesign)

Web Tools

• Find, Follow and Share Comments — BackType
  A Home for all your comments, Awesome concept!
  (tags: web socialnetworking research comment comments service startup tech web2.0 tools blog twitter search aggregation monitoring tracking socialmedia blogging follow commenting commentaires backtype ycombinator searchengine blogs community social tool aggregator share)

Contests!

• The 125px by 125px Block Banner Link Challenge – Part 1 | ImJustCreative is Graham Smith
  125×125 Banner Block Challenge!
  (tags: design ping.fm blogging graphic links love adverts link)
• Free Stuff: 300 (x3) High-Res Textures – Comment to Win | BittBox
  Texture pack contest! 3 Commenters will be chosen randomly and will get to download all 6 of the Colorburned texture packs for free.
  (tags: design Resources free download textures via:mento.info)

Frustrations!

• In the Woods – The Web Development Pet Peeves of Twitter Users
  We all have them. don't lie.

Freebies!

• Think Design Blog – Free Vectors – 230 Marker Illustrator Brushes | Think Design
  Tons of Marker Illustrator Brushes!
  (tags: design vector brushes Resources freebies hand-drawn free vectors webdesign photoshop graphic illustrator)
• Arbenting – The Act of Being Creative
  Freebies – Circular Fractal Photoshop Brush Pack!
  (tags: design tutorial html code Tutorials webdesign flash creative inspiration Resources CSS creativity reference howto freebies photoshop textures development blog blogs art)
• 181 Free Twitter Buttons, Badges, Widget and Counters to Help You Find Followers
  Tons of cool Twitter Eye Candy to entice your future followers!
  (tags: design twitter microblogging clipart blogging tools Resources social icons socialnetworking web2.0 widgets tweetmarks webdev tips free graphics socialmedia buttons button badges)

Web Developer/Designer Resources

• In the Woods – Links of Note
  Some good links found noteworthy by ThemeForest!
• Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 11/18/2008 – Design Float
  Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 11/18/2008 – Happy Tuesday, Feel free to leave some comment love or lay down some nerdy techy link enlightenment and Get Informed while doing it! Some really great inspirations, Freebies, and Info are below!
  (tags: ping.fm web development resources design dev)
• Designing Print Collateral For An Online Business | Design Shard | Web Design Blog
  Really great Article for those Designers that Do Web Work Only, but want to learn PRINT work.

Laugh of the day – Most Annoying Commercial Ever.

• YouTube – Shaman WoW!!!
  Most annoying commercial ever.
  (tags: ping.fm WoW Shaman shamwow blizzard warcraft)

Blogging Tips

• 8 of the Best Blog Post Editor’s for You! | hcggd.com
  Top Blog Post Editors! Which is your fav?

Go Gmail

• Ditch Your Old E-mail Addresses – Wired How-To Wiki
  So many people have this problem. Ditch that old email address and go Gmail. Just DO IT!
  (tags: web technology delicious old how-to tech tools Tutorials computer organization email tips tutorial domain hosting howto internet gmail mail spam diy website google yahoo wired e-mail emails change address addresses)

Twitter Stuff

• The Best UK Designers and Geeks on Twitter – Part 1 | WeAreJustCreative
  Are you a UK Designer or a Geek on Twitter? Leave some love and your twitter ID Here!
  (tags: ping.fm twitter graphic creative geek designer logo professional)