Web Development Nerdy Daily Links For 3/18/2009 – HUGE POST!

How was your St. Pattys Day?? If you are like me then you are recovering! Why not recover with a HUGE daily links post?? Enjoy yourselves today!! Thanks everyone for all the love and support, I appreciate you all! Now Get your Daily Nerdy Web Development/Design Links!!

Web Development/Designer Resources, Inspirations and Entertainment!!

• IllustrationClass.com » Blog Archive » Vector Build Methods 1
  Great quick and easy tutorial for building vectors – nice methods
  (tags: design tutorials tutorial illustrator howto tutoriais inspire)
• 15 Highly Recommended Apps for Twitter Web Professionals
  Great twitter apps for pros
• Computer science major is cool again – Network World
  CS Is cool again! yay!
• 40 Web Design Artists And 102 Websites Worth Watching | 1stwebdesigner – Love In Design
  Freaking awesome Web Designs – Inspirational – Stunning.
  (tags: webdesign design inspiration web showcase layout portfolio artists)
• How To De-Stress For Better Sleep…Starting Tonight
  Get your stress relieved.
• 300+ Online Reputation Management Resources : Todd And… Marketing | PR | Media | Web | History | Stuff
  great resources for managing your reputation online
  (tags: tools resources blogging list monitoring reputation)
• Why Is Facebook Trying To Be Twitter?
  Stick to your guns facebook
  (tags: twitter internet blogging blog humor facebook community rant)
• 30 Entrepreneurs That Lost Lots Of Money This Recession | Income Diary
  Dang, these people lost a lot.
• Good design: The ten commandments of Dieter Rams
  10 commandments of Design. NICE
  (tags: design art inspiration advice reference innovation rules)
• » A Basic Guide to Printing & Having a Successful Press Check BoDo: Business of Design online » Blog Archive
  Good guide for printing designers
  (tags: design printing)
• Useful scripts to plot charts in web pages
  Awesome chart plotting scripts!
  (tags: webdesign jquery javascript charts graph graphs)
• Creative Counter & Surface Material Designs | WebUrbanist
  freaking awesome counter and surface designs – inspirational
  (tags: design architecture materials decorating industrialdesign)
• Pitch Black: 25 Inspirational Black Websites | WebDesign.fm
  Awesome black websites! Good trend lately apparently
  (tags: webdesign inspiration web article web_design list layout black)
• Hairy Brushes – Free Photoshop Brushes at Brusheezy!
  Nice hair brushes!
• TweepMe – An App for Mutual Twitter Following | Please Retweet Me: Twitter News, Apps, Articles, and Links
  Good app for mutual following!
• PSHERO.com | Wrapping Text Around An Object
  Quick photoshop trick – wrapping text around objects
  (tags: graphics tutorials photoshop tutorial text tutoriel)
• YouTube – How-To Customize Shoes/Cpt. Jack Sparrow Dunks
  Awesome shoe customization video
  (tags: youtube videos how-to video customize diy custom)
• Custom Shoes Tutorial | Abduzeedo – design inspiration and tutorials
  Awesome shoe tutorial!
  (tags: tutoriais paint fashion)
• iPhone finally gets copy and paste!
  iPhone gets Copy and Paste! Hell just froze over.
  (tags: iphone)
• 10 Ways to Automatically & Manually Backup MySQL Database | Noupe
  Backup your MySQL DB!!
  (tags: howto reference software database mysql backup automatic)
• The New Hard Times – The New York Times
  A Look at our economy
• 25 MORE Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer | BittBox
  Good reasons you are hardcore! funny
  (tags: webdesign design fun list funny humor designer)
• iPhone OS 3.0 – Coming “This Summer” | FSMdotCOM
  Info about the iPhone OS coming soon
• 25 Awesome Illustrator Cartoon Tutorials | Minervity
  Awesome Illustrator Cartoon tutorials!! Good collection
  (tags: graphics tutorials illustration illustrator texture text)
• Display Beautiful Image Captions – jQuery Captify Plugin | Greepit.com | Open Source Resources for Designers & Developers
  Nice image caption jQuery Plugin
• 30+ Most Weirdest Animal Photo Manipulation | Naldz Graphics
  LOL Crazy animal photomanipulations – they are really good
• 8 Powerful Mac Audio Tools « AppStorm
  Awesome audio tools for mac
• Heat Up a Dark Composition – psdfix
  Awesome photoshop tutorial!
• 8 Tips To Use Twitter More Effectively
  Use twitter more efficiently!
  (tags: twitter web2.0 socialmedia howto media)
• Live blog: iPhone OS 3.0 preview | Apple – CNET News
  Nice OS 3.0 preview for iPhone
• Blackberry bold PSD | PhoNuts Photoshop Tutorials
  Awesome blackberry PSD
• Twitter OAuth open to all developers | Webware – CNET
  Twitters OAuth available for all devs now
  (tags: twitter)
• Create a Magic Night Themed Web Design from Scratch in Photoshop – PSDTUTS
  Awesome night themed design tutorial!
  (tags: webdesign tutorials photoshop tutorial web layout)
• 100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration
  Great design inspiration resources!!
  (tags: webdesign design art inspiration resources gallery reference)
• Nokia job cuts become reality | Wireless – CNET News
  Nokia Cutting thousands of jobs
• 7 Websites To Check Your Influence On Twitter | Brian Cray's Blog
  Check your Twitter Influence with these sites – nice!
  (tags: marketing twitter socialnetworking analytics influence)
• Applications of usability principles on a social network | creative briefing
  Great read – Social Network Usability Principles
  (tags: design socialnetworking usability web+design)
• 8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams
  Nice tools for extracting insight from twitter streams
  (tags: twitter socialmedia media social analytics measurement)
• Freebies: 20 High-Resolution Underwater Photoshop Brushes | Best Design Options
  Awesome underwater Brushes
  (tags: photoshop brushes hi-res)
• Top 5 Sites To Learn Some CSS Programming | MakeUseOf.com
  Great places to learn CSS
• 20 Sensational pictures claiming NOT to be Photoshopped!! | Graphic Design Blog
  Awesome NON photoshopped pictures
• How To: Update Your WordPress Database Name
  Update your WP Database name
  (tags: tutorials wordpress)
• Microsoft Sustainability | Fubiz™
  This is just inspirational interface design
  (tags: design interface inspiration microsoft video visualization)
• Ohio.com – Customer relations a top priority for small business success
  Customer Relations = Small Business Success
• Sites Without Menus: Do You Really Need a Main Nav? | Devlounge
  Do you really need that menu? Good read
  (tags: webdesign design interface inspiration menu navigation ping.fm ia)
• jQuery Plugin Development – 10 Tutorials To Get Started
  Great tutorials for developing jQuery plugins
  (tags: tutorials jquery plugin javascript plugins tutorial resources development)
• Wal-Mart Gives Its Store Brand a Makeover – BusinessWeek
  Walmart brands getting a redesign?
• Irresistible | WooThemes
  Irresistably free wordpress theme
  (tags: webdesign inspiration web2.0 wordpress theme themes lifestream)
• Playoff Creative | Design You Trust. World's Most Famous Social Inspiration.
  Couple of really creative images!
• 110+ Awesome Resources for Popular Adobe Products | Spoonfed Design
  Awesome resources for adobe products
  (tags: webdesign design tutorials photoshop resources products)
• 35 Black Web Designs That Show Us That Once You Go Black, You Never Go Back | Abduzeedo – design inspiration and tutorials
  Freaking awesome black web designs!! STUNNING!
  (tags: design color inspiration web graphic inspiración black plantillas)
• Top WordPress Resources to List Your WordPress Blog & Build Links
  Great resources to build your links for your wordpress blog!
  (tags: websites wordpress todo blogs directories)
• 5 Tips to Make Your 404 Page More Usable | UX Booth
  Make 404 more usable
  (tags: dev j 404 usabilidade)
• 60BAGs: Sustainable Alternative for Retailers | Design You Trust. World's Most Famous Social Inspiration.
  Freaking awesome bag design lol
• Technical illustration – Kevin Hulsey Illustration, Inc.
  AWESOME Technical illustrator. Very nice work.
  (tags: design graphics tutorials art illustration illustrator portfolio technical)
• brandonacox shared http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/50-monochromatic-website-designs/
  Awesome monochromatic designs!
• How to opt out of Google Targeted Ads
  Opt out of google targeted ads – good read
• Twitter Experimenting With Text Advertising
  Twitter going text ad route?
  (tags: twitter socialmedia socialnetworks advertising online microblogging monetization)
• Saturday Geek Links – 3/14/09 | Geeks with Tricks
  Need more links? Here are some good PHP/Wordpress/Jquery/JavaScript/AJAX links
  (tags: web development links)
• Hugs For Monsters :: The Work of Visual Artist Joe Lifrieri
  Cool illustrator personal site
  (tags: webdesign design art illustration inspiration portfolio designers)
• Tips For Freelancing: How To Impress | Blellow!
  How to impress as a freelancer
  (tags: tips freelancing)
• You the Designer – Graphic Design Blog
  Awesome light brushes FREE
  (tags: photoshop free brushes light photoshop-brushes)
• 20 T-shirts Roundup | Fubiz™
  Awesome places to get design/inspirational t-shirts
  (tags: design graphics inspiration shop t-shirts fashion)
• Twitter Suspending Re-follows – Is Your Account in Danger?
  If you RE-Follow your account could be in danger
• TweetDeck Joins The Facebook Connect Army
  TweeDeck + Facebook
  (tags: twitter internet socialmedia desktop facebook tweetdeck)
• Fancybox | Fancy lightbox alternative
  jQuery lightbox alternative – another one
  (tags: webdesign jquery plugin javascript ajax gallery slideshow lightbox)
• Don’t Pay to Manage Your Money – Stepcase Lifehack
  Don't pay to have your money managed Freelancers!
• Bring Down IE6 | The Everyday Web Expert!
  Kill IE6 – no one likes it
• HTTP Status Codes: A Little Refresher | .eduGuru
  Quick and easy status codes – Refresh your memory
• 50 Great Photoshop Tutorials for Clever Beginners – PSDTUTS
  Awesome tutorials – beginner
  (tags: webdesign tutorials photoshop howto photography images)
• Quality Assurance Tools for PHP – Sebastian Bergmann
  Quality assure your PHP
  (tags: webdev tools software php bestpractices quality)
• Using jQuery and Ajax To Create PHP Sessions | Steve Reynolds Blog
  jQuery and Ajax with PHP Sessions – Good read – I had issues with AJAX and PHP Sessions before, tricky if you use too many at once.
  (tags: jquery ajax php)
• Silverlight for PHP Developers | Think Vitamin
  Silverlight for PHP developers
  (tags: webdev web development microsoft php application silverlight .net)
• WPress'd – Your Source for Social News and Networking
  Design float for the WordPress World! Cool new site
  (tags: tips wordpress networking cms social articles)
• Lifelounge Magazine Covers :: Typography Served
  Awesome typography covers
• Thuiven :: Creative Web Design and development :: Notebook :: Web Design: Self-Taught or Formally Educated?
  Self taught or Formal Education?
• MyAlltop
  Create your own Alltop page with feeds. Grab your vanity URL quick before its gone!!
  (tags: ping.fm reader twitchboard feed custom socialnetwork alltop)
• Twitter Now Growing at a Staggering 1,382 Percent
  Twitter is kicking butt and taking names
  (tags: twitter myspace socialsoftware 2009 socialnetworking networking statistics twitchboard social ping.fm)
• GissiSim.com | Learn more about #Hashtags
  Need to learn more about #hashtags?
  (tags: list internet article reference twitter)
• Loic Lemeur Explains the Future of Seesmic [sxsw]
  Inspirational and Informational Read – Future of Seesmic
• Tweetmeme – Hottest Stories on Twitter
  Twitter the new Digg?
  (tags: resources social analysis tracking rss socialnetworking links community aggregator meme microblogging software web2.0 twitter blogging internet mashup memes)
• Tweet Dreams: Some Stars Saying No to Twitter
  Stars too good for twitter? PFftt!
• Tuts+ is Now Print-tastic! – PSDTUTS
  you can print your plus tuts now! Awesome!
• NOOP.NL: Top 100 Blogs for Developers (Q1 2009)
  Some great developer blogs in this list!
  (tags: design people developers top100 interesting 2009 developer programming development tips blogs web2.0 software twitter ping.fm top weblog)
• Ultimate Guide to WordPress SEO – META Descriptions :: Nathan Rice
  Great read – ultimate wordpress SEO Resource
• An Interview With David & Marc Perel of Obox Design | Line25
  Interview with some cool guys! Great designers!
  (tags: later read)
• 10 Useful articles about Database design
  EXCELLENT Reads to improve database design
  (tags: design tips dev read howto databases lists resources tutorials articles reference list webdesign development database mysql sql webdev programming article tutorial php blog db)
• GTD: Beginner's Guide to Using Gmail Tasks with Your GTD System
  Get it done with GMAIL
• 30 Photo Manipulation Tutorials for Photoshop | Vandelay Design Blog
  GREAT Photo manipulation tutorials – Photoshop
  (tags: design inspiration creative creativity graphicdesign photomanipulation tutorials tutoriais photoshop tuto)
• 20 Facebook apps to try | Webware – CNET
  Nice facebook apps to try!
  (tags: facebook webapps)