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Link Love for September 23rd

mm_admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:22:38 +0000

Check out these awesome web design links that we found:

10 Incredible CSS3 Drawing You Must See – As if I didn't have enough projects for the weekend, now I have to play around with this.
Top 10 Free Poll and Survey Widgets for your Website – I was going to save this for myself to refer to later, but this is as good a place as any to save it. Enjoy.
Amazing Tips for Improving Web Typography – Nice post about getting serious with your web typography
HTML5: The Facts And The Myths – Excellent round-up on HTML5
A responsive mind – Beautiful examples of adjustable width design techniques.

mm_admin — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:10:19 +0000

Check out these awesome web design links that we found:

Scientific American redesign – Beautifully done.
Are You Losing Business By Being Clever? – Excellent essay about clarity and simplicity.
Top 10 CSS3 Buttons Tutorials – I love CatsWhoCode (the original article) and this is another great collection. Use for learning or inspiration or both.
A good CMS gives you total markup freedom – Great rant, and I second the notion. As someone who once tried to skin a DNN 4.0.3 web site, junk HTML output is a nightmare.
960 Grid System is Getting Old – Interesting take on updating the 960 grid – but one of the commentors hit the nail on the head – fit the design.
Elements of an awesome facebook page for your design business – Nice article about customizing you’re businesses Facebook area.
How To Create a Stylish Content Slider using CSS3 & jQuery – I like this. I think I will take this lesson and use something similar in a new project.

mm_admin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:31:14 +0000

Check out these awesome web design links that we found:

25 jQuery Drop Down Menu Scripts – Wow – another great group of mini-tutorials. This one for navigation/jQuery
Top 10 CSS3 buttons tutorials – Ah, I’ve finally found a nice little button tutorial collection.
How To Use Typography Effectively in Web Design – Nice essay on the importance of typography. Too often this is the last thing worked on in development.
On Designing Tumblr Themes: 7 Ways to Design a Useful & Customizable Tumblr Theme – Tumblr themes is something I’ve been wanting to work on for a while – this is a great article to help me get started.
PHP Variables: The Ultimate Guide – Nice intro to PHP variables. Use this as an overview, then learn more by doing.

mm_admin — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:52:13 +0000

Check out these awesome web design links that we found:

The mod_rewrite and the magic of rewriting the URL (second part) – The second part.
The mod_rewrite and the magic of rewriting the URL (first part) – Nice introduction to the mod_rewrite. A must for all designers. I’ll add part two here as well.
50 List of Free Online Photo Editing Tools – This is a pretty hearty list – though personally I think you only need Aviary, but I’m biased
Creating A Custom HTML and CSS Framework for Rapid Development – We use something like this in our WordPress Development.