This has been a crazy week again for me! First it is the week we all vote for our president, AND I had to spend most of the day yesterday with my wife in the hospital, but she is feeling a little better! I hope all you Subscribers are having a great week! I am trying to get an early start today. now go and learn from those nerdy web techy web developer/designery Resources! Enjoy your day!

Text Effect

• Papercraft Text Effect
  Cool paper text effect!
  (tags: tutorial Tutorials howto photoshop text)

Sound Files

• FindSounds – Sound Types
  SFX for that next flash or video project of yours.
  (tags: design flash directory mp3 animals resources samples sonidos multimedia soundeffects podcast sounds downloads resource sound audio effects reference media search archive download web fun library music tools free cool database)

Fire Fox Milestone

• Firefox Reaches 20% Market Share for First Time Ever – ReadWriteWeb
  I scream, You scream, 20% of us scream for FireFox. I know. it didn't rhyme.
  (tags: firefox browsers)

Designer Interviews

• Interview with Adam Woodhouse, AKA Ardcor – PSDTUTS
  So many great Designer Interviews lately. This is another example. Really nice artwork.
• Ten Questions For Roger Byrne, The Man Behind The 'Ti.me's! | Arbenting
  Roger Byrne Interview! You know him as the creator of Styletime and Votetime!

Illustrator Tutorial

• Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Clean Website Layout – VECTORTUTS
  Who knew Illustrator can create a Clean Layout for Web Pages? Not me.
  (tags: design graphics vector diseño photoshop web webdesign wordpress web2.0 tutorial reference illustrator adobe Tutorials layout website clean tutoriales recursos desarrollo)

Frameworks

• FWDir – Framework Directory
  FWDir, short for Framework Directory, is a database of programming frameworks spread across various programming languages such as PHP and CSS. A framework contains code used to help you develop fully-fledged projects with ease. They can help in various ways: by providing functions that help generate admin backends, by providing classes and functions for dealing with forms, and most importantly, by providing a pattern that can be used throughout your application.
  (tags: development webdev php gallery aggregator framework free frameworks)
• ZendFramework performance – Vox
  Great read on ZendFramework performance. PHP/MYSQL
  (tags: web apache web-development development reference optimization optimisation performance php5 programming tips framework sysadmin php tip speed xdebug zend zendframework tweak zf zend-framework benchmark read)

Web Developer/Designer Inspiration

• 28+ Collection of the Best, Most Creative, Twitter Profile Designs Ever – Part 3(trios) | AndySowards.com :: Professional Web Design, Development, Programming, Hacks, Downloads, Math and being a Web 2.0 Hipster?
  A Collection of some Nice Twitter Profiles, this is a post that was compiled a month or so ago by yours truly, worth checking out
  (tags: twitter backgrounds inspiration collection great nice profiles web design designers roundup)
• Image Caption Design: Simply Elegant or Boldly Graphic? | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
  Collection of 'Image Caption' Designs. Never thought of how they were designed really. Opened my eyes!
  (tags: images usability)
• Tag Galaxy
  If flickr was a meaningless galaxy of unknown planets with names of tags. then this would be it! Kinda cool though still.
  (tags: gallery design mashup fotografia tags search tools photography inspiration animation interface web2.0 cool photos flash art images fun photo fotos image flickr 3d pictures aggregator visualization galaxy papervision3d tagging tag)
• Lisa P. Maxwell
  Impressive! A creative agency providing live stream of all 30 employees with the ability to chat with each one
  (tags: design advertising customerservice awesome webdesign cool live example social socialmedia chat jobs marketing agency viral agencies im direct copywriting chicago casestudy)
• Darren Jones » 10 Applications every web designer should have in their dock.
  A list of Applications that Every Designer should have in their dock. True story.
  (tags: design adobe apps list freelance mac top coda)
• Veer: Products: Merchandise: Kern Zip-up
  Funny Zip-up for Typography lovers!
  (tags: creativity design apparel wishlist type typography culture clothes shopping fun art kern kerning hoodie shirt jacket want fashion tshirt veer gifts shop awesome buy humor t-shirts clothing geek funny)

Freebies!

• Free Issue | Layers Magazine
  Get a FREE issue of Layers Magazine. I love layers.
• 25 Free Digital Audio Editors You Should Know | Tools
  Really cool, and Free, audio editors you should use! I use Audacity
• The Most Usable Web Icons Available…and FREE
  Really great collection of FREE web icons available to use!
  (tags: icons)
• 30 Free Vector Twitter Buttons | Siah Design
  Nice Twitter Buttons! and they are Vector!
  (tags: free graphics twitter vector)
• Urban Brushes – PSDTUTS
  Urban Brush set for photoshop!
  (tags: photoshop brushes urban)
• School of Fish Brush Set – PSDTUTS
  Fishy Brushes!

Hardware

• Ten reasons why you need an Intel Core i7 | News | TechRadar UK
  Like they needed reasons.

Career

• Managing Your Career With Mind Maps | Geekpreneur
  Get Organized with Mind Maps!
  (tags: article career mindmap mindmapping planning)

PHP/jQuery Tutorial

• Create a Photo Admin Site Using PHP and jQuery – NETTUTS
  create a photo admin section where an administrator can retrieve photos from a database and update the title of his photos simply by clicking on the appropriate text. Using PHP and jQuery! Enjoy!
  (tags: design howto database photography programming webdesign web photos webapps jQuery javascript development AJAX webdev tutorial Tutorials gallery images code photo admin screencast nettuts Video coding php cms site mysql login)

SEO

• Search Engine Optimization Rules To Live by – a knol by Gerald Weber
  SEO rules that you should follow!

InDesign Tutorial

• Creative Curio » Mail Merge is Dead! Long Live InDesign Data Merge!
  Have you ever had to set up a catalog, a set of coupons or ads that are basically repetitive and have data stored in a database or spreadsheet?
  (tags: graphics productivity design indesign)

Wordpress

• Elegant Themes – Premium Wordpress Themes
  Some Nice Premium Themes for only $20 bucks!
  (tags: design blogs premium themes webdesign wordpress wordpressthemes cms theme html inspiration website template creativity drupal wp gallery Resources illustration blog CSS blogging templates wordpress-themes)
• Don’t Ignore Your WordPress Footer – NETTUTS
  Quick and Easy tutorial for adding Widgets to Footer!

Anatomy of Professional Web Design

• Anatomy of Professional Website Design, Part 1 | Antonio Wells. Web & Multimedia Designer
  Is your design Anatomically Correct?
  (tags: design photography web webdesign color analysis CSS website concept typography modern creative to)

Business/Marketing

• 17 Marketing Ideas You (Probably) Haven’t Been Using | Mike Smith
  Some good Marketing Ideas, You probably aren't using!
• Blue Screen of Duds | Why I quit my day job
  Insight from someone who just fired their Job!

Web Developer/Designer Resources

• COLORBURNED – Professional Design Resources – 111 RSS Feeds That All Designers Should Subscribe To
  Awesome collection of Feeds that all Designers should subscribe to.
  (tags: design collection web webdesign rss feeds links resources inspiration tips list blogs)
• Rulers: Measure Everything On Your Screen | MacApper
  So much to measure, so little time.
  (tags: macosx rule)
• Rockable Press » Rockstar Wordpress Designer
  New book coming out, looks pretty good!
  (tags: webdev wordpress book)
• The html blog | 10 code snippets for PHP developers
  More Snippets of greatness for us PHP Developers
  (tags: web Tutorials webdevelopment validation web-design reference webdesign development howto programming tips tools tricks dev snippets php html webdev blog Resources list bit200f08 shortcuts snippet good programmers code)
• Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 11/04/2008 – Design Float
  Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 11/04/2008 – Well The week is in full swing at Daily Nerdy Links posts! I hope all you Subscribers are having a great week and are learning a lot of good stuff! Today is going to be a busy day for me now go and learn from those nerdy web developer/designery Links
  (tags: ping.fm web development design resources)
• Super Cool Abstract Vectors in Illustrator and Photoshop | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Sweet Abstract Vectors Tutorial in Illustrator, Looks kind of like an optical illusion.

Web 2.0 News

• Video Site Brightcove Shuts Down Free Services – ReadWriteWeb
  It had so much promise, The trouble with a good idea that has an underdeveloped revenue generating system.