AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 11/01/2008

Halloween was great! I hope you guys got to see Halloween Edition of Daily Nerdy Links post yesterday! I hope all you Subscribers are recovering nicely this weekend :). Enjoy your weekend and get your nerdy web techy web developer/designery Resources! GET EM!

For Logo Masters

• 10 Principles of the Logo Design Masters – VECTORTUTS
  Really great principles to follow if you are a Master Designer!
  (tags: Inspiration design logo illustrator vector Resources logos tutorial logodesign typography graphicdesign)

Web Developer/Designer Resources – There are a TON

• Eco Design Blog » 101 Design resource sites
  Even More Designer Resources! WOW You guys are going to have a Busy weekend learning all this cool stuff! Me as well! Really nice Background on this site too btw.
  (tags: Resources design cool download photoshop blogging webdev web webdesign reference Inspiration web2.0 blog graphics list links tools Tutorials CSS free resource business Art templates fonts photos font lists vector images)
• The Ultimate Productivity Toolbox for Creative People | Lateral Action
  Nice Toolbox! Lots of stuff I use and stuff I NEED to use 🙂
• 17 Wonderful Free Tools To Make Designers Lives Easier! – Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
  Great tools, that I use often! probably because they are free!
  (tags: design tool article web webdesign links apps tools useful web2.0 Web_Design Resources review CSS list html)

How to Illustrate

• How to Illustrate a Wooden Frame on a Wall Scene – PSDTUTS
  Really nice illustration of a wooden frame!
• 200+ Resources for Freelance Web Designers
  Tons and Tons of resources for Web Designers/Developers, You can spend your entire weekend reviewing these!
  (tags: design Resources photoshop fonts entrepreneur productivity templates webdev business web webdesign tools reference resource CSS web2.0 development blog list free tips programming software website links freelance freelancer freelancing recursos lists)

Blogging Tips

• 10 Ways to Find Readers for Your Blog By Leveraging Other Online Presence
  get people to pay attention to your blog!
• Official Google Reader Blog: By Bloggers For Bloggers
  how to put google reader shared items on your blog
  (tags: web2.0 recursos blog feeds howto share blogs blogging widget atom wordpress reader publish Google rss google_reader blogger)

Web References

• KB to MB Converter
  Why? Because for programming, it needs to be EXACT! 🙂
  (tags: web technology converter convert computer webdesign tools Resources utilities reference computers useful internet conversion to tool tech bytes byte calculator b gb mb kb)
• Array of MIME Types – PHP – Snipplr
  Here are a list of MIME types that you will need at some point if you deal with uploading files to servers with PHP – Programmer Resource 🙂
  (tags: code php snippets mime-type)
• Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 10/31/2008 – Design Float
  Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 10/31/2008 – Happy Halloween and welcome to your Daily Nerdy Links post! I hope all you Subscribers are ready for today and are reading this at your computers all dressed in crazy gear with face paint on. This is the very first Halloween Edition of nerdy web tech…
  (tags: ping.fm web design development resources)
• How to Search For the Perfect Color Scheme | MakeUseOf.com
  Find The perfect color scheme!
  (tags: web tools graphics website color)

Funny Halloween Video from Yesterday (Since I was a Vampire)

• YouTube – Forgetting Sarah Marshall "Dracula's lament"
  "Dracula's Lament" by Jason Segel.i couldnt get enough of this song in the theaters. i love how he gets all into it, haha. i also dubbed over the d…
  (tags: ping.fm Dracula's lament dracula song Forgetting Sarah Marshall jayson segal)

CSS Tips

• Make CSS Rounded Corners – Webmonkey
  Tons of CSS Rounded Corners popping up, Which is right for you? Check this one out!
  (tags: design html rounded roundedcorners webdevelopment web webdesign tutorial research Web_Design CSS Tutorials internet javascript round corners programming/css)

Freebies!

• 100 Greatest Abstract and Grunge Fonts (Free) | Graphics
  Amazing font collection. Nice Grungy ones. I actually used some of these the other day!
  (tags: design photoshop lists font grunge Art blog webdesign resource Resources typography reference download free list illustration cool fonts abstract roundup bit200f08 brushes recursos freefonts fonty 100)

Learn from Experience

• Home Office Warrior » Top 5 Lessons I’ve Learned in 5 Years of Working from Home
  Good advice from someone who has actually worked from home for the past 5 years!

Flash Game Tutorials!

• Deziner Folio» 20 Free Tutorials to Create Your Own Flash Game #2
  Really awesome collection of Game Tutorials, I love these, as I am a aspiring Game Developer, once I am done mastering the Web 🙂
  (tags: programming flash games Game actionscript)

Daily Inspirations

• 50 Top Design Studios from each of the 50 States | The Design Cubicle
  Really nice collection of Design studios in each state!
  (tags: usa design)

Optimize It.

• 10 Easy Steps to Great Website Optimization. | The Wojo Group
  You could write a book on website optimization, in fact people already have. But, here’s 10 really easy steps to getting your sites optimized for speed. Hopefully this will get you started and you’ll want to investigate front end optimization a little further. – A Good Read Had By All.
  (tags: design CSS article optimization SEO howto web webdesign tips webdevelopment reading programming Inspiration development webdev tutorial website code javascript JS websites html hosting apache performance optimize compression optimisation speed bestpractice)

Freelancer Tip

• A Simple Way To Stop Clients From Rejecting Your Proposals | Freelance Folder | The Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers
  keep clients from rejecting your proposals! Sheesh, Good Ideas!
  (tags: webdesign freelancing clients tips business marketing ideas freelance todo web read proposals pricing design)