AndySowards.com :: Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 11/25/2008

Get your Mind ready for Thanksgiving with a healthy helping of Nerdy Links! Preparing you for thanksgiving this week ;)! Go get the resources!!

Freebies!

• 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts | Fonts | Smashing Magazine
  Awesome High Quality Fonts!
  (tags: design typography via:mento.info magazine fonts webdesign Resources smashingmagazine typo font beautiful freefonts typeface smashing list resource free inspiration)
• +15 Free Handpicked Wood Textures
  Amazing! Best wood textures I have ever SEEN!
  (tags: design backgrounds webdesign Resources graphics photoshop textures wood)
• Free Vectors: Ink Trees | fudgegraphics | for lovers
  FREEBIES! Ink Vector Trees!
  (tags: free photoshop illustrator vectors)
• 25 wall textures pack – PSDTUTS
  Nice, Free, Wall texture pack!
• COLORBURNED – Professional Design Resources – 25 Seamless Polka Dot Pattern Swatches
  Awesome Polka Dot Patterns that are Seamless! Freebies!
  (tags: vector patterns)
• Freebies – Sketchy Arrow Photoshop Brush Pack | Arbenting
  Nice Sketchy Arrows! I suck at hand drawn stuff so this is great!
  (tags: design photoshop brush handdrawn sketch)
• 50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets for Modern Design Trends – Six Revisions
  Really amazing Modern Design Trend Brush Sets! FREEBIES!
  (tags: design graphics photoshop-brushes download vintage modern links web webdesign list photoshop adobe free photoshop_brushes photo grunge art Resources inspiration resource tools webdev creative tool brushes Retro brush sixrevisions photoshop.brushes pinceles)

Web 2.0 News

• Twitter Ignores Facebook's $500 Million Friend Request
  Wow! Thats a pretty big offer!
• SitePoint » Terrible Idea: Magpie Twitter Ad Network
  Magpie = Fail!

Secret Santa!

• Flickr: Twitter Secret Santa Gift Exchange
  Love Secret Santa's!

Freelance/Business/Marketing

• The Monster List of Freelancing Job Sites – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog
  Get your Freelance on with these Job Sites!
  (tags: design reference freelance career jobsearch jobs money consulting writing aggregator free web list work webdesign Resources programming business directory entrepreneur resource development blog webdev lists links freelancing entrepreneurship job employment)
• Don’t Be A Twitter Snob, Focus on Friendships
  Friendship makes the Twitterverse Go Round. Srsly.
• How to spy on your competitors | Mass Media Design Blog
  Successfully spy on your competitors! Good tips!
  (tags: business SEO freelance research competition comparison)
• What to Ask a New Client Wanting a WordPress Theme
  Your Clients, asking for WordPress themes, What to ask THEM!
  (tags: wordpress article themes plugin post)

Tutorials!

• A Comprehensive Introduction to Photoshop Selection Techniques – PSDTUTS
  Photoshop Selection Techniques!
  (tags: design photoshop psdtuts techniques photography tutorial Tutorials howto technique list graphics computer tricks tips adobe masks tools selection selections masking select)
• How to Make a Blogger Business Card in 5 Minutes (And Win 1000 free!)
  Make a Blogger Business Card in 5 Minutes! Nice!
  (tags: design freelance publishing inspiration businesscards blog tutorial tips business card blogger social name images printing)
• Creepy Ghost in Photoshop and Cinema 4D | Abduzeedo – design inspiration & tutorials
  Awesome Ghost in Photoshop and Cinema 4D Tutorial!
  (tags: Tutorials)
• 28 Powerful Photoshop Lighting Effects | Web Design Ledger
  Really AMAZING lighting effects to pull off in Photoshop!
  (tags: Tutorials design resource useful tricks graphic graphics webdesign reference web effects digital photography adobe list Resources inspiration tips howto photo how-to effect light tuts blog art tutorial photoshop graphicdesign lighting)
• How to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation – Video – PSDTUTS
  Awesome Photo Manipulation Video, Good insight to workflow!
  (tags: photoshop)

Web Developer/Designer Inspiration

• Book cover design | Design daily news
  Crazy old Books, Crazy old designs!
• Best of The Week #3 // seaneill.com
  Another Great Weekly Roundup of all things Web. Nice list!
• 30 Dark Designs You Should've Seen | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
  Some REALLY nice dark Designs. Inspirational.
  (tags: design webdev graphic templates color web CSS website graphics webdesign gallery creativity examples reference inspiration creative lists development cool designs dark layout list art web2.0 internet blog html showcase black)
• 10 logo designers. 20 logos. | Logo Design Love
  Nice Collection of Logos from 10 Logo Designers!
• Interview with Designer Menachem Krinsky | Fuel Your Creativity
  Another great Designer Interview from Fuel Your Creativity. Featuring Menachem Krinsky!
• electric pulp, an interactive agency. we build websites.
  Amazing and Inspirational Web Agency.
  (tags: design webdev marketing entrepreneurship nice css outsourcing interactive website flash programming web inspiration webdesign cool development blogs web2.0 blog software startup agencies studio portfolio company agency designer layout business color)
• Arbenting’s Best of the Week (11/16 – 11/22) | Arbenting
  Check out Arbentings Best of the Week! Great Collection yet again! 🙂
• Rotatecanvas – Inspiration for digital designers
  Collection of Sites for Designer Inspiration!
  (tags: digital)

jQuery Stuff

• jQuery.popeye – an inline lightbox alternative | Christoph Schüßler » Informationsarchitektur und so
  Cool InLine Alternative to Lightbox! jQuery R0x0rz
  (tags: design CSS photos foto lightbox image web javascript webdesign AJAX plugin Plugins Resources images gallery usability ui development tools webdevelopment jQuery slideshow webdev JS scripts jqueryplugin popup popeye)

Blogging Tips

• Why Can’t I Be You? Why Comparisons Are Bad For Your Blog Health
  When I grow up I wanna be just like you…
• How To Get Sponsors For Giveaways & Competitions
  Giveaways and Competitions rock! Especially if you are the one holding them 🙂

Web Developer/Designer Resources

• 10 Signs of a User-Focused Design | Web Design Ledger
  Nice Tips for Increasing Usability in Design
  (tags: design web tips article website usability help)
• 40+ Must Have Extensions, Bookmarklets and Tools for Google Chrome : Speckyboy – Web Design, Web Development and Graphic Design Resources
  The stuff to have if you use Google Chrome, Like me!
  (tags: tools list tool google extensions bookmarklets Chrome bookmarklet)
• Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 11/24/2008 – Design Float
  Web Development/Design Nerdy Daily Links For 11/24/2008 – Starting the Week off STRONG with a healthy helping of Nerdy Links! Preparing you for thanksgiving this week ;)! Go get the resources!!
  (tags: ping.fm web design development resources dev)
• Geek Daily » 4 Steps To Ensure You’re The Worst Developer Ever!
  Hilarious steps to take, to ensure you are the WORST developer ever. LoL I have seen code that makes me think the person I inherited the project from took these steps 🙂
• The creative process for the Design Cubicle's logo | The Design Cubicle
  Great Workflow Example, The Creative process behind Design Cubicle's logo!
• 47 Essential Resources for T-Shirt Designers | GoMediaZine
  Great Resources for T-Shirt Designers!
  (tags: Resources tutorial apparel t-shirt screenprinting)

Programming

• YouTube – Pointers
  This is the funniest programming video I have ever seen. Never thought someone would use claymation to teach pointers 🙂
• 20 Great PHP frameworks for developers
  Collection of some of the Best PHP Frameworks to use!
  (tags: design webdev AJAX framework php tutorial frameworks agile web-design developers lists webdevelopment links reference CSS webdesign web Resources list development programming blog tools html coding resource mvc 20 php-framework phpframework)

CSS Stuff

• Deziner Folio» Blog Archive
  Nice CSS Dither Effect!
  (tags: webdev CSS howto)
• 100 Free Icons – “Sketch’d Up” – NETTUTS
  Nice Sketchy Icons!

Contests

• Enter the PSD to HTML TO WORDPRESS Theme Contest! – The Web Squeeze
  Another great contest from FeCoding.com – PSD to WORDPRESS