AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 10/03/2008

Now that October is in full swing, Everyone has Halloween on their mind, so today in ‘Nerdy Daily Links’ Hopefully you enjoy the Halloween store I found and linked to, it has a ton of great stuff! Everything else is a range of tutorials that I rounded up to help work on your Web Developer/Designer skills so you can always be improving! As always, comments and suggestions on making the posts better and more informative are always welcome!

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Now go get your buried treasure!

Web Development Tutorials

• Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery
  CSS tabs are apparently the future, Its fast, elegant, and functional. You see those tabbed things all over the net now, how bout giving it a try on your own?
  (tags: css jquery tutorials ajax content tabbed inspiration tab interface navigation menus menu coding cool code layout photoshop programming tutorial design web webdesign development javascript webdev web2.0 howto html ui tabs)
• Build a Sleek Portfolio Site from Scratch
  Need a portfolio site? Not sure how to make it hot? This tutorial can help.
  (tags: design howto article code cool xhtml tutorial web webdesign CSS photoshop guide portfolio inspiration tutorials tutoriais psd scratch to webdevelopment programming webdev reference development internet website toread tips html layout)
• 20 Vector Illustrated Masterworks, Deconstructed
  Great collection of inspirational vector illustrations! Must look and be inspired!
  (tags: vector illustration collection masterworks deconstructed tutorial howto)
• Don't Meet Your Heroes – The CSS & Web Standards News Compilation Site – DMYH
  Great site with tons of resources and compilations of feeds for web development standards and CSS! Check it out!
  (tags: design reference daily standards AJAX tips html CSS webdesign javascript web blogs portal rss news Resources development links aggregator web2.0 webdev tools xhtml Inspiration blog graphics accessibility feed feeds webstandards)

Adobe Air – Desktop Development Intro

• Introduction to Adobe Air
  So whats the big deal about adobe air? Its a revolutionary concept that allows you to build cross-platform desktop apps! Check it out!
  (tags: Flash development Tutorials air actionscript adobeair tutorial webdevelopment toread)

Want Moar Google Products? Be the first to test them.

• Google – User Experience Research
  Want to test Google's products before anyone else? Sign up here!
  (tags: web money marketing testing funny user Google usability research todo finance experience survey)

Twitter Entrepreneur?

• How to use Twitter as a serious networking tool | ZaggedEdge.com
  How to use Twitter as a serious networking tool, Looking at twitter through the perspective of an entrepreneur. Interesting read!
  (tags: insight twitter networking social tool)

Urban Dictionairy – TMI?

• Urban Dictionary – Urban Dictionary is the slang dictionary you wrote.
  TMI? If people throw acronyms at you all day and you are like WTF does that mean? Turn to the urban dictionary. keeps me up to date so I don't look like a total n00b.
  (tags: online imported education fun research search web tools funny reference geek translation culture web2.0 internet humor community wiki writing database cool social dictionaries words english urban language slang dictionary)

Web Designer/Developer/Geek t-Shirts

• Design By Humans | T-Shirts Reviewed | Interesting
  Great t-shirt line, Geeky, yet stylish. If anyone wants to buy me one of these, feel free ;). These are reviewed by Hongkiat.com A Very trusted source for my resource needs 😉 Go check out his review.
  (tags: t-shirts designs designer brand nice nerdy geek tech stylish)

Halloween Costumes! (I know, nothing related to web development at all LOL oops)

• Halloween Decorations, Halloween Props, Scary Costumes, Scary Masks, and Halloween Accessories – Frightcatalog.com!
  So its October, and Everyone is talking about Halloween coming up. Have you gotten your costume yet? This is probably the best site on the net. Have a look!
  (tags: imported buy shop funny clothing effects analysis awesome shopping masks horror costume decorations props costumes halloween)

37 Signals – Getting Real

• Getting Real
  Do you develop web applications that potentially thousands or millions of people will use? Do you want to know what the best strategy is on doing that? Well its simple. Keep it simple. MUST READ BOOK FOR ANY WEB PROGRAMMER/DEVELOPER.
  (tags: ping.fm)