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Best of August: This Month in Web Design

In case you missed any of the best posts of the month, here is a round up to keep you busy for a while.

Web Design and Development:

7 Principles of Clean and Optimized CSS Code - Smashing Magazine

Top 10 Web Typography Sins - Smashing Magazine

10 Adobe AIR Apps for Web Designers - Six Revisions

10 Tools for Evaluating Web Design Accessibility - Six Revisions

Label Placement on Forms - CSS Tricks

11 Reasons Why a Web CMS Will Make Your Life Easier and Your Wallet Fatter - Chromatic Sites

Top 7 Reasons Why It’s Better to Hire a Freelance Designer or a Small Design Firm Than a Large Design Company - Branded Designers

Top 7 Reasons Why It’s Better to Hire a Large Design Company Than a Freelance Designer or a Small Design Firm - Xemion

9 of the Best Ways to Present a Website to a Client - Just Creative Design

Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes - Noupe

How to Easily Make WordPress Archives that Rock - Putting Blogs First

Design/Development Tutorials:

Creating a Slick Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider - CSS-Tricks

Create a Tabbed Interface Using jQuery - NETTUTS

Building a Better Blogroll: Dynamic Fun with SimplePie and jQuery - NETTUTS

Learning jQuery: The Basics - Cats Who Code

Graphic Design:

How to Create Intense Light Streaks in Photoshop - Blog.SpoonGraphics

Illustrator’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide - VECTORTUTS

Working with 3D Objects and Transparencies to Make a Vector Cola Bottle Design - VECTORTUTS

Create a Citrus Fruit Design from Scratch in Photoshop - PSDTUTS

My 10 Favorite Typefaces - Veerle

300+ Best of the Best High Quality Abstract Brushes in Photoshop - Naldz Graphics

30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Illustrator - Arbenting

Adobe Photoshop: 50+ High Quality .PSD Files and Tutorials - Noupe

Free Photoshop Brushes: 40 Splatters, Strokes and Watercolor - Outlaw Design Blog

15 Free Smoke Photoshop Brush Sets - Web Designer’s Interviews

Inspiration:

Single-Page Portfolio Sites - Web Designer Wall

51 Stunning Movie and TV Posters - Outlaw Design Blog

25 Super Cool Paper Inspired Website Designs - Blog.SpoonGraphics

Ultimate Website Navigations - Hidden Pixels

Web Design: Black Layouts - Abduzeedo

50+ High-Impact Illustrated Vector Posters - VECTORTUTS

SEO:

Robots.txt vs Rel=Nofollow vs. Meta Robots Nofollow - SEO Book

8 Easy Plugins to Install to SEO Your WordPress - WebDevLounge

5 Ways Companies Half-Ass Their SEO Efforts - Cape Cod SEO

Launches:

DevSnippets

Status

Some Posts that I Wrote at Other Blogs This Month:

Inspiration: Water and Ice - PSDTUTS

When to Use Magazine-Style Themes for Blogs - Smashing Magazine

50 Photoshop Tutorials for Sky and Space Effects - Smashing Magazine

How to Make Your Portfolio SIte More Effective by Adding a Blog - Freelance Switch

7 Reasons Why You Should Pursue Your Own Projects - Freelance Switch

13 Sources for Background Patterns and Textures - DesignM.ag

Blank Themes, Frameworks and Templates: Resources to Speed Up Your Development Time - DesignM.ag

Originally Published August 31st, 2008

10 Responses

  1. Angie Bowen | September 1st, 2008 at 1:10 am

    Great rundown, thanks so much for the inclusion!

  2. Muhammad Siyab | September 1st, 2008 at 1:12 am

    Great list. Will learn a lot. Thanks for the mention! :D

  3. Matthew | September 1st, 2008 at 1:40 am

    Thanks for the list! Also, thank you for the mention.

  4. Jacob Gube | September 1st, 2008 at 6:43 am

    Steven,

    You’ve been busy this month with DesignM.ag newly launched and all your guest posts on those awesome blogs! Your piece on When to Use Magazine-Style Themes for Blogs is a must-read not only for would-be bloggers, but also for designers to help them decide what the best layout is for their client.

    Well done and looking forward to what’s in store for September!

  5. NaldzGraphics | September 1st, 2008 at 8:13 am

    thanks for the include.this list are great.totally a very nice compilation for the last month of august. Anyone should see this.thanks a lot.

    Ronald

  6. Derek Edmond | September 1st, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    Great list and I really appreciate that you felt my post was good enough to be included.

  7. Noura Yehia | September 2nd, 2008 at 9:15 am

    What a nice roundup!
    Thanks for the link Steven :)

  8. dash | September 4th, 2008 at 5:45 am

    I like the WebDevLounge best thank you for this roundup! :)

  9. Nony | September 9th, 2008 at 12:48 am

    This is really a nice post. I like the links you have posted in your post. Thanxx for sharing with us some of them really gave me some hints for my deign projects with which i am presently stuck :)

  10. xHTML Coding | September 15th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    Thanks a ton for the roundup!

    I especially liked the robots.txt vs rel=no-follow post out of seobook.

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