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links for 2010-08-31

The Wilderness Downtown Wow. HTML 5 has a lot of potential. And this is a great song too. (tags: html resources)

links for 2010-08-25

Spritely.net This is awesome. No flash needed to create scrolling background effect. All HTML & jQuery. (tags: jquery)

links for 2010-08-20

jQuery Quicksand plugin Quicksand. Great jQuery filter & reorder plugin with a smooth animation. Awesome. Definitely check it out. (tags: resources jquery)

links for 2010-08-18

Targeting for Flexibility with Media Queries | Unmatched Style Adapt your site for multiple screens sizes. Great article. (tags: resources mobiledev)

links for 2010-08-17

website design and development by squaredesign Checkout the interactive square background when you move your mouse. Nice. (tags: jquery) Paul Irish Great resource & blog to read. (tags: resources)

links for 2010-08-14

HTML5 Boilerplate – A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome. Probably the best base HTML/CSS/JS skeleton template system I've seen to-date. This thing has everything. Amazing. (tags: resources html)

links for 2010-08-12

UX Myths This is a great resource / read for many UX Myths, debunked (I love that word) with solid facts. (tags: resources reference)

links for 2010-08-05

Home | The wedding of Shannon MacDonald & David Hanas on The Ninth of October My own personal website for my upcoming wedding. (tags: resources inspiration)

links for 2010-08-04

Context: Web design and SEO Blog (tags: resources)

links for 2010-08-03

How do I add a Google Maps directions tool to my site? :: Free Tech Support :: Ask Dave Taylor!® More coolness with Google maps. Great article, check it out!!! (tags: resources google)

links for 2010-07-22

Unwrongest great, awesome jquery plugin. (tags: javascript jquery) http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/external/mozilla/firstrun.php?ver=2 Change your firefox theme on a rollover. I wonder what the JavaScript looks like for this feature. (tags: javascript) JavaScript Compressor and Comparison Tool This is a great tool for minifying your JavaScript. Try it out! (tags: javascript)

links for 2010-07-13

CrossFont Details Even better piece of software (tags: software) TransMac Details Great little piece of software. (tags: sof)

links for 2010-07-10

Tabula Studio :: Creative Communications Wonderfully inspiring website. I absolutely love the design. (tags: studio)

links for 2010-07-08

How to: Zucchini > Start Cooking I love Zucchini. (tags: cooking) Frying Onions > Start Cooking I've recently taken up a joy in cooking. And I found this recipe for frying onions to be awesome. Take a look. (tags: cooking) Pricing Tables: Examples And Best Practices – Smashing Magazine Design inspiration for price comparison charts. [...]

links for 2010-07-03

Sencha – Introducing Sencha Touch – HTML5 Mobile App Framework Interesting development framework for mobile development. (tags: mobiledev) Theme Development « WordPress Codex Theme development file checklist (tags: wordpress) DIYthemes — Run a Killer Website with the Thesis WordPress Theme From the page: "The Thesis Theme for WordPress is a premium template system designed to [...]

links for 2010-07-02

Nate Williams Illustration, Lettering, Print Patterns This is some amazing work. Great find. (tags: inspiration illustrator illustration)

links for 2010-06-29

Evening Tip: Use jQuery To Retrieve Data From An XML File | Nettuts+ great tut for developing & retrieving data from XML with jQuery (tags: resources jquery)

links for 2010-06-25

.text() – jQuery API Bookmarked & noted for later. This one was helpful. (tags: resources javascript jquery) How to convert a Title to a URL slug in jQuery? – Stack Overflow I found this post helpful when doing some research on text replacement with jQuery. (tags: resources) Creating a “Filterable” Portfolio with jQuery | Nettuts+ [...]

links for 2010-06-16

The Art and Craft of Advertising | EMRL Very inspiring website (tags: resources)

links for 2010-06-13

Final Eyes: Jen Schuetz, Proofreading, Copyediting, and Quality Assurance | San Francisco, CA I love this site. (tags: resources)

links for 2010-06-03

jQuery Mega Drop Down Menus – Small Roundup | Kreative Garden Great roundup of tuts & demos for mega drop down menus. (tags: jquery resources tutorial) Mega Drop Down Menu w/ CSS & jQuery | Dropdown Menu | drop down menus | CSS Menu Tutorial | Drop Down Menu Tutorial | jQuery Tutorials | Web [...]

links for 2010-05-21

Coda-Slider 2.0 – Niall Doherty's dot biz Awesome demos on how to create the coda slider effect. (tags: resources jquery javascript ajax)

links for 2010-05-20

Using .htaccess file Great resource for setting up, using, and expanding your knowledge base of .htaccess (tags: htaccess resources)

links for 2010-05-18

Custom Themes – Posterous for Developers Everything you need to know about developing a custom Posterous theme. (tags: resources blog) Posterous – The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email. A new way to blog. (tags: resources blog)

links for 2010-05-13

PrimerCSS I love this little tool – so awesome! (tags: resources css)

links for 2010-05-07

Top Trends in Innovation Blog – BusinessWeek Amazing article summing up the value of design in our world today, and why it matters. (tags: design resources) A List Apart: Articles: Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style An oldie but goodie:) (tags: css webdesign javascript html web tutorial)

links for 2010-05-01

Jonathan Salem Baskin's Dim Bulb — Analysis & Musing from a Global Brand Strategist: PowerPoint Makes Us Stupid A brilliant, simple essay. (tags: marketing) MoneyMolder.com – Buy, Sell And Invest in Websites (tags: domainnames sites)

links for 2010-04-30

Understanding Toxic Hunger (tags: healthcare)

links for 2010-04-28

DC Dublin Core META Tags: DCMI Dublin Core Metadata Initiative All about DCMI metadata… and how it's not being supported just yet. (tags: html) Banner printing | Large format printing | Art reproduction & store signage Great large format printing company located in Brooklyn, NY. (tags: menucompanies)

links for 2010-04-27

Pizza Menu Design – Printing – Excellent Prices | Cherry Hill, NJ (tags: menucompanies)

links for 2010-04-23

jMar's Blog: jTruncate in Action Awesome jQuery plugin for truncating text. (tags: jquery)

links for 2010-04-21

SexyLightBox 2.3 – www.coders.me Great lightbox – check it out http://www.coders.me/lang/en/web-html-js-css/javascript/sexy-lightbox-2 (tags: javascript jquery)

links for 2010-04-20

Promoting your Facebook Page | Facebook Promo guidelines for Facebook advertising. Need to keep this one bookmarked. (tags: facebook)

links for 2010-04-09

Cooper Graphic Design – Print and Web Design – Philadelphia Some great web design inspiration for Thursday. Enjoy. (tags: studio inspiration)

links for 2010-04-07

Facebook Fan Pages – Marketing Tips – Online Marketing Blog Interesting article for marketing with Facebook. I found it helpful, with a couple of good suggestions. (tags: resources social)

links for 2010-04-03

Sides Media Daily design inspiration for Friday. (tags: resources desing-studios) Online Printing Company | Print Online at UPrinting.com! UPrinting.com is another online printing service similar to 48 Hour print or OverNight prints. Prices look affordable, and the reviews seem great. I'm getting my sample pack in the mail, so let's see how the quality is. [...]

links for 2010-04-01

Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) Usability study on mega drop-down menus and why they work for some purposes. Wonderful article. (tags: resources) Poker Affiliate Solutions – Poker Rakeback, Revenue Share and Cost Per Action (tags: inspiration)

links for 2010-03-31

Class Reference – Google AJAX Feed API – Google Code Here's a great reference for skinning the Google AJAX API (tags: twitter) Sidebar Feed Control – Google AJAX Feed API Sample Great example of using the Google AJAX API for Twitter feed control! (tags: twitter)

links for 2010-03-24

Why doesn't Z-Index in IE render the way it's supposed to over a Flash Movie? – Stack Overflow (tags: flash resources) A jQuery inline form validation, because validation is a mess « Position Absolute, resources for the web developer (tags: jquery)

links for 2010-03-16

Oliver James Gosling – Freelance Web Developer (tags: inspiration desing-studios)

links for 2010-03-11

Abiah. – Christian Branding (tags: resources)

links for 2010-03-09

Michigan Web Design – Professional Web Site Development From Ann Arbor based Firm Boxcar Studio (tags: inspiration)

links for 2010-03-03

InfoGraphic Designs: Overview, Examples and Best Practices | Showcases | instantShift (tags: infographics resources inspiration)

links for 2010-02-25

Business Names and Brandable Domain Names For Sale | BrandBucket A marketplace for brandable business names and unique domain name (tags: domainnames freelance logos)

links for 2010-02-18

Home | I Wear Your Shirt wow, I wish I would have thought of this. Simply brilliant. (tags: resources) Best man speeches and best man speech content Another great website. (tags: resources) Hundred10 Design Great inspirational website. (tags: resources) Dry-Erase Board Paint for the Home | Kids Room Paint Ideas | IdeaPaint This stuff looks [...]

links for 2010-02-08

Ning | Create and discover Ning Social Networks for your interests and passions. Better keep an eye on this one – create your own branded, social network, for free? Very interesting. From what I can tell, this could definitely challenge FaceBook. (tags: resources social)

links for 2010-02-02

jqPlot Charts and Graphs for jQuery This looks like a great Jquery chart plugin. Check it out! (tags: resources jquery)

links for 2010-01-31

John Resig – Easy Retweet Button Awesome retweet script. (tags: resources javascript jquery)

links for 2010-01-30

PremiumCards.net – Business Cards & Postcards – Short Run Business Card Printing Interesting business card service. (tags: resources)

links for 2010-01-28

NJ Web Design, NJ Logo Design, Website Design New Jersey, NJ Graphic Designer, New Jersey Logo Design, Graphic Design NJ | Graphic D-Signs, Inc. I like these guys. They do really great work. Check out their site. (tags: inspiration)

links for 2010-01-22

404/403 Website Error Pages With PHP Auto-Mailer | Nettuts+ Create custom error pages with an automailer feature so that you'll be notified. (tags: php resources) How to brand your website’s URL: custom file extensions | creative briefing Simple tutorial for custom-branding of your website's URL. Check it out. (tags: php resources)

links for 2010-01-13

Tracking Referring Sites in report – Analytics Basics | Google Groups

links for 2009-12-31

Hardest Part Of Being a Graphic Designer… One of the best articles I've read this year. A must read. (tags: inspiration)

links for 2009-12-20

The Footer Copyright Notice | Design Shack Update your footer's copyright notice with a simple bit of php: <?php echo date("Y"); ?> But you should still read the full article. (tags: php)

links for 2009-12-18

Capturing subscribers from an existing form – Articles & Tips – Campaign Monitor Great example of integrating Campaign Monitor & existing PHP contacting form (tags: php) There will not be a beta for Flash Professional CS5 (Adobe Flash Platform Blog) Adobe pulled the plug on a beta for Flash Professional CS5. Bummer, but oh well. [...]

links for 2009-12-16

Adding Flash files to your blogger website Great article on adding flash files to your Blogger blog. Please note: You don't need to use Amara Flash Software to create SWF, you can use whatever animation tool you like, as long as it can export a SWF. (tags: blogger google)

links for 2009-12-15

AgentPress Theme › Real Estate WordPress Themes Really amazing, well done WordPress theme for Real Estate agents. (tags: wordpress) E-junkie Shopping Cart for selling downloads & tangible goods Interested in selling digital good online? E-junkie is definitely the way to do it. Take a look. (tags: resources ecommerce)

links for 2009-12-12

jQuery YouTube playlist plugin This is truly awesome. Make a YouTube channel / playlist right on your site with jquery. A complete scrollable navigational system Amazing example of a jquery-based navigation system for photo galleries. (tags: jquery) jScrollPane Custom jquery scrollbar (tags: jquery) Simple JQuery Accordion menu Another great jquery plugin for an according menu [...]

links for 2009-12-11

Google Code Blog: Google Analytics Launches Asynchronous Tracking Awesome news. Can't wait until I can really test it out and use it. (tags: google)

links for 2009-12-10

Testing Software for Web Professionals – Litmus From the page: "Want to save time on boring compatibility testing? Litmus will help you get your website designs and email templates to work correctly. Faster." – I need to check this out. (tags: email marketing resources)

links for 2009-12-08

Password protect a page – Totally PHP Simple script to password protect the contents of a page. (tags: php)

links for 2009-12-04

Dave Harper Design: Web, Print and Motion Graphic Design Check out Dave Harper's work – great stuff for some inspiration. Veins of Life : What is organic? on Vimeo "MFA Graphic Design Thesis project of Dave Harper" – I found David's work to be truly inspiring. Great stuff. You should really check it out and [...]

links for 2009-11-25

myows | Online Copyright Management Solutions Creatives, are you looking for a way to copyright you work? You should take a look at this. From the page: "Myows seeks to not only make the process of verifying works as attractive and efficient as possible, but to add in tools that will help rightsholders deal with [...]

links for 2009-11-17

Car Insurance (tags: car insurance, insurance quote, auto quotes, online)

links for 2009-11-15

School of Visual Arts – MPS in Branding – Program From the page: "THE MASTERS OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES IN BRANDING IS A ONE-YEAR GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAM THAT WILL EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DESIGN AND STRATEGY, AND THE POWER OF DESIGN THINKING AS A WAY TO COMBINE CREATIVE SKILLS WITH THE PROBLEM-SOLVING AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES OF [...]

links for 2009-11-11

Cameron Chapman On Writing – Part 1 (tags: inspiration)

links for 2009-11-10

andCulture Amazing website / agency. (tags: inspiration design) 45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires – Smashing Magazine From the page: "Designing websites can be a long and complicated process. Dealing with clients, designing prototypes, coding, programming, and testing – there’s a lot to keep track of and a lot to make sure gets [...]

links for 2009-11-05

Color Psychology in Logo Design – Free Logo Critiques From the page: "Color offers an instantaneous method for conveying meaning and message in your logo designs. It’s probably the most powerful non-verbal form of communication we can use as designers. Our minds are programmed to respond to color." (tags: inspiration logos)

links for 2009-11-03

WeSeed Wants to Make You the Next Peter Lynch Looks like an interesting web 2.0-ish site for learning the ropes of the stock market. (tags: investing business) Junta42 blog: Personal Branding Success in 15 Steps From the page: "Dan Schawbel has put together a first-rate magazine about personal branding called (of course) Personal Branding Magazine. [...]

links for 2009-11-02

Adding Custom Google Maps to Your Website · Stiern.com Adding and customizing Google Maps on your website. (tags: google resources) Adobe® BrowserLab I just tried out the Adobe BrowserLab, and it's pretty nice. It's not as extensive as browsershots.org, but it covers all the major versions. (tags: resources)

links for 2009-10-31

55+ Extremely Useful Online Generators for Designers From the page: "As I searched for a complete resource of online generators, I did not find any. I found multiple different categories of online generator lists such as favicon generators, css generators, badge generators, color generators, and so on. So I decided to create this ultimate list [...]

links for 2009-10-29

Net Neutrality Worst Case – – Gizmodo This is what will happen if Net Neutrality Fails… (tags: blog inspiration) Tips and Tools to Pick the Best Domain for Your Blog From the page: "Picking the right domain name for a blog is an essential step to success. Think of a domain name as a brand [...]

links for 2009-10-28

iA | Information Architects, Inc. From the page: "iA is a user experience design agency. We plan, build and manage websites and applications. We make things simple, fast and clear." (tags: inspiration) Webtrendmap.com's Top Trending Links – Web Trend Map From the page: "The Web Trend Map community curates meaningful link trends by choosing sources [...]

links for 2009-10-22

Baskin Dim Bulb branding advertising social media business strategy I attended a webinar today, and the speaker was Jonathan Salem Baskin. Incredible. I think this guy is a genius. (tags: marketing inspiration)

links for 2009-10-19

FREE Payment Gateway & Fraud Protection Online Credit Card Merchant Accounts from CDG Commerce CDG Internet Merchant Accounts (tags: ecommerce)

links for 2009-10-17

| Little Box Of Ideas (tags: design inspiration blog webdesign)

links for 2009-10-05

StrawberryFrog | Your Friendly Neighborhood Global Advertising Agency Advertising Agency (tags: designresearch)

links for 2009-10-01

Top 10 Most Common Errors Made Using Photoshop Great list of common mistakes that we all at sometime have made. Check it out. (tags: design resources) 55+ Questions to ask when designing a logo | Graphic Design Blender From the page: "There are lots of questions to be asked when preparing to design a logo. [...]

links for 2009-09-29

Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex There are times when you need to move WordPress around within your server, and times when you need to move WordPress from one server to another. You don't need to reinstall. WordPress is flexible enough to handle all of these situations. (tags: wordpress)

links for 2009-09-22

Introduction (Google Checkout shopping cart documentation) This is the greatest little place on the internet for people looking to find some good documentation on Google checkout. (tags: ecommerce Google,)

links for 2009-09-19

Giving WordPress Its Own Directory « WordPress Codex From the page: "Many people want WordPress to power their site's root (e.g. http://example.com) but they don't want all of the WordPress files cluttering up their root directory. WordPress allows you to install the WordPress files to a subdirectory, but have your blog exist in the site [...]

links for 2009-09-18

Burke Plumbing & Heating, Philadelphia, PA, 5598 Newtown Ave. Great local Philadelphia Plumbing company (tags: plumbers plumbing service)

links for 2009-09-17

Inspiration: web design trends in 2009 (and probably 2010): Where are we heading? | webtoolkit4.me Inspiration: web design trends in 2009 (tags: inspiration design)

links for 2009-09-02

Ronin: Online invoicing and time tracking From the page: "Simple online invoicing and time tracking. Perfect for creative teams and solo freelancers. Designed to make you look professional." (tags: tools software) Creating a PayPal Payment Form – Nettuts+ From the page: "Although it can have some issues, PayPal does provide a very simple way to [...]

links for 2009-08-27

30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners – Nettuts+ I've been digging deeper into PHP lately, trying to learn more and more every day, and this tutorial on NETTUS I thought was great. It taught about some best practices, better ways to do things, and some hidden tricks that I never even knew about. A definite [...]

links for 2009-05-19

Elance | Find jobs. Deliver great work. Get paid for results. Find work. Deliver results. Get paid. (tags: freelance jobs)

links for 2009-05-10

Profiles Sales Solutions – Sales Training and Performance Management From the page: "Profiles Sales Solutions – Mavericks in On-line Sales Training" (tags: performance management sales Training)

links for 2009-05-07

4 Books on Freelancing every Freelancer should own – gofreelance.org From the page: "Getting started as a freelancer ain't easy. Fortunately there are several good books and e-books available that help you get your business on its feet." (tags: freelance)

links for 2009-05-04

301 Redirects with .htaccess .: Knowledge Base (tags: mosso) 301 Redirects .: Knowledge Base (tags: mosso)

links for 2009-04-28

110+ Awesome Resources for Popular Adobe Products | Spoonfed Design From the page: "In the design community, there are so many resources at our finger tips to help us express our creativity. Here are of 110 excellent websites, tutorials, and articles, and scripts to help you work with the more popular Adobe products including Photoshop, [...]

links for 2009-04-20

How to: Show related posts without a plugin From the page: "Displaying related posts is a very great way to help visitors staying longer on your blog. You can use a plugin, but you also can use tags and a custom code to show related posts. Let’s see how to do!" (tags: wordpress code php [...]

links for 2009-04-08

Events | Me and my Mac reate a list with events/appointments/concerts/future happenings and show them on your site. The plugin features a straightforward user interface in the WordPress dashboard to add/edit and delete events and set some options. Thanks to Ulisse Events now also ships with a widget for even easier integration in your theme! [...]

links for 2009-04-05

How to display random content from external .html file? – jQuery (English) | Google Groups (tags: jquery) A simple AJAX (JQuery) Contact Form with PHP Validation From the page: "The aim of this tutorial is to help you to create a simple (tableless) contact form using AJAX, JQuery & PHP. We will have a HTML [...]

links for 2009-04-01

The new way to communicate – .tel domains This a great video to watch about why you should by a .tel domain name. A little edgy, but more funny than anything. (tags: domainnames) DotPrice – Appraisal price Want to see how much your website domain name is worth? Check out here. BTY: I looked up [...]

links for 2009-03-30

How-to create a simple PHP mail contact form with MySQL – The Tech Labs From the page: "This tutorial will be like an intro to a more detailed and complex series of php articles that in the end will result on the interaction of php and flash in a cms system. Hope you enjoy the [...]

links for 2009-03-27

GD WordPress » Blog Archive » WordPress development with NetBeans IDE 6.5 for PHP WordPress development with NetBeans IDE 6.5 for PHP (tags: wordpress) In the Woods – Diving into PHP: Day 3 I’ve decided that this series won’t be 100% “by the book”. Though you MUST learn the fundamentals, I think it might be [...]

links for 2009-03-25

wordpress campaign monitor plugin | Instinct Entertainment WP Campaign Monitor – By Dan Milward | April 21, 2008 – The WordPress Campaign Monitor Plugin is an email newsletter / SMS tool built for WordPress. Users can send campaigns, track the results and manage their subscribers. Sending emails has been modified and now works on WAMP [...]

links for 2009-03-20

PHPMYCSS / Add variables & dynamic options to your CSS Several CSS developers have wished for the use of variables in the past. Come on, let's face it, typing in the color #d8a1d9 several different times isn't exactly saving you time. But what if you could define the variable lightpurple and have something automatically paste [...]

links for 2009-03-19

Did You Know That StumbleUpon Is Bigger Than Twitter? Social discovery site, StumbleUpon is not the most hyped or talked-about site in the social medium. Yet, it has reportedly accumulated over 7 million users, making it almost 50% larger than the much-hyped Twitter. (tags: social marketing)

links for 2009-03-18

bbPress bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress. (tags: php software wordpress) WordPress › Flexi Quote Rotator « WordPress Plugins Based on Luke Howell's quote rotator plugin, the flexi quote rotator plugin allows you to add the quotations to your site using a shortcode or php snippet in template instead [...]