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AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 11/21/2008

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The Week is closed! Its FRIDAY! Its been a GREAT week here at AndySowards.com and we would like to say Hello and welcome to all the new Subscribers, daily visitors, and twitter friends!
ALSO would like to give a big thanks to all the new sponsors that you see to the right! Also, There are still spots available if you would like to advertise, Or you can contact me and we will work something out! 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

• 10 things I learned in a year at EMU Marketing | Upside Down City
  Good article on what was learned at University of Oregon while working at EMU Marketing, We can all learn from these marketing lessons!
• 2008 StartupNation Home-Based 100 Winners
  Top home based business Competition! Inspirational!
• Keep your Magpie in the cage please | Blog For Profit
  MagPie Is a No Go for lots of Twitterers, whats your take?

Web Development/Design Inspiration

• Turn Your Name Into a Face
  Crazy Site I ran into Yesterday, Enter your name, and it gives you a face! Crazy, kinda creepy.
  (tags: design image webservice names weird avatar humor web generator tools web2.0 face people Pixel interesting tool images visualization software visual name converter avatars fun funny webサービス faces ネタ turn into)
• Tyler Finck, Sursly, The New Site
  Coolest use of jQuery and Page Layout elements I have seen thus far with the Scroll Feature. Inspirational Indeed.
  (tags: design jQuery portfolio web webdesign inspiration CSS javascript designer)
• Illustration Artists Showcase and Inspiration - Part 2 | Design Shard | Web Design Blog
  Really Beautiful Illustrative Artwork collection! Inspiration at its best!
  (tags: design graphics illustration showcase artist)
• ColorJack: Sphere (Color Theory Visualizer)
  This is one cool color picker. Freaking Awesome
  (tags: design graphics photoshop web webdesign art color Resources colour colors blog tools webdev CSS wheel conceptart colorjack colours)
• COLORBURNED - Professional Design Resources - Meet Sean Hodge, Editor of PSDTUTS & VECTORTUTS
  Meet The Editor of PSDTUTS & VECTORTUTS. Very nice Interview!
• 25 Free Photoshop Brushes | Abduzeedo - design inspiration & tutorials
  Really Freaking Awesome Photoshop Brushes! For Free!
  (tags: design collection insp photoshop_brushes brushes Resources graphics freebies free list photoshop gimp resource abduzeedo lists brush roundups)
• Designer Scribbles
  Share your scribbles, If you are a Designer!
• Interview with Chris Spooner - psdfan.com -
  Designer Interview, Chris Spooner, Inspirational!
• 32 Invaluable Sites for Web Design Inspiration for Web Designers | Resource Labz
  Collection of Awesome Sites for Inspiration If you are a Web Developer/Designer!
  (tags: design reference web-design ui CSS web webdesign examples webmaster wordpress website inspiration Resources gallery links lists webdev tutorial collection)
• Kathryn Austin: Attention Designers
  How do you, as a Designer, Present your work to your clients? Share the techniques people!
  (tags: design process presentation)

Web Development/Design Resources

• Coda Clips
  Cool Resource if you are into Coda!
  (tags: design CSS software osx snippets code reference web webdesign programming coda expressionengine apps webdevelopment javascript Resources php coding panic snippet mac Apple resource html webdev development wordpress tools codaclips clips)
• Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 11/20/2008 - Design Float
  Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 11/20/2008 - big thanks to all the new sponsors that you see to the right! Also, There are still spots available if you would like to advertise, Or you can contact me and we will work something out! Your nerdy techy web developer/designery Resources await!
  (tags: ping.fm web design development resources dev)
• SitePoint » 10 Must Have Tools for Communicating with Clients
  So here are the Must Have Tools for Communicating with Clients. Nice list! I have used most of these and enjoy them.
  (tags: webdesign projectmanagement webapp network tools web2.0 communication business freelancing client software tool pm work documentation 2.0)
• Web Design and Web Development Help Forum - The Web Squeeze
  Tons of Web Developer Resources! Its a Developer Help Forum Community!
  (tags: design web development forum the)

Contests

• Blog Contest: 417$ worth of PSD to XHTML/CSS Conversions for FREE! from Fe Coding | AndySowards.com :: Professional Web Design, Development, Programming, Hacks, Downloads, Math and being a Web 2.0 Hipster?
  With All of the PSD to XHTML/CSS Conversion sites out there its hard to tell which to use! Well today I am going to make it super easy for you to get your PSD
  (tags: ping.fm code coding contest conversion design designer free freebies html pages photoshop psd psd2html rules contests)

Twitter Stuff

• Twitter Followers vs. RSS Subscribers
  I may just have to agree with This Argument, Twitter Wins.
  (tags: howto twitter blogging socialmedia rss)
• How to Ask Effective Questions on Twitter
  Make your questions Effective, because Twitter is fast paced!
  (tags: tech twitter questions)
• Twitter Tips from Chris Brogan | Web 2.0 - Online Visibility - PR - Social Networking
  Simple Twitter Tips, from Chris Brogan Himself!

CSS Stuff

• #43: How to Use CSS Sprites
  Learn About CSS Sprites in this Screencast!
  (tags: jQuery CSS)

Freebies!

• The Ultimate Free RSS Icon List
  This Truly is the Holy Grail of RSS Icons! Freebies galore!
  (tags: design blogging web website webdesign tools icons images web2.0 rss icon webdev feed iconos graphics list clipart free)
• Name your Top 3 *must have* Mac apps (excluding Adobe Suite) - Kristof Creative
  So what are your Top 3 Mac Apps? Leave them here!
• Deziner Folio» 220 Amazing Free Photoshop Layer Styles
  Giant collection of FREE Photoshop Layer Styles! I have not seen many collections of layer styles, only brushes! Nice one!
  (tags: design patterns psd webdesign Resources backgrounds material photoshop color recursos styles layerstyle)
• Bright! - a free icon set | Min Tran's weblog
  Bright! is a crisp, sharp and beautiful set of 148 hand-crafted icons in vector format, ideally for both web and print work. Nice one! Free Icon Set!
  (tags: design blog download downloads iconos diseño stock webdev web webdesign graphics illustrator free inspiration art 3d iconset vector icone resource Resources graphic freeware icons images icon web2.0 tools bright icones)

PHP Programming

• How to Dynamically Create Thumbnails - NETTUTS
  Create Dynamic Thumbnails Using PHP.
  (tags: webdesign development tutorial images php thumbnails resize)

Computer History!

• 10 Old Computers With Outrageous Price Tags | Techy Shit - A Blog For Tech Heads
  Old computers were so Expensive, and Back Then, Kinda useless for most people. Crazyness.
  (tags: blog tech computers amazing Retro history old)

Web 2.0 News

• Facebook to Charge App Developers $375 | Business 2.0 Press
  I all of a sudden lost the urge to develop a facebook app anytime soon :-p

Laughs of the Day

• 15 Error Messages To Make You Chuckle | Techy Shit - A Blog For Tech Heads
  Hilarious Error Messages. Nice Collection!
• 25+ Images That Might Give Geeks a Hard On | Techy Shit - A Blog For Tech Heads
  Hilarious Post - Awesome Images, Definitely For Techy/Geeky/Nerds!
  (tags: design lists humour lifestyle nerd photos blog funny list gadgets photo nerdy cool gallery geek images humor pics geeks geeky awesome fun tech photography pictures sheet)

jQuery Stuff

• jQuery UI - ThemeRoller
  Really quick and easy way to make your own custom jQuery theme file!
  (tags: design CSS computer generator library jQuery web free programming webdesign inspiration javascript colour tabs themes templates gui theme accordion AJAX tool development tools webdev code apps interface ui effects themeroller)

Photoshop 3D Tutorial

• 3D text effect - 2009 - Adobe Photoshop Text Effects - Adobe Photoshop Software
  Quick and Easy look at 3D Text Effects in Photoshop CS3
  (tags: tutorial photoshop 3d make)

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3 Responses to “AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 11/21/2008”

1. ImJustCreative
   8:03 am on November 21st, 2008

   JUst a quickie, really don’t know how you manage to keep this up everyday day. You know there is now ever growing pressure to not miss a day other wise it’s going to be a big FAIL! ;0)

   Graham

2. Andy
   8:08 am on November 21st, 2008

   Haha Oh I know I am up for the challenge Thanks for all the support!

3. Kevin
   10:09 am on November 21st, 2008

   Thanks for the link

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