Best of August: This Month in Web Design
Published August 31st, 2008 in LinksIn 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
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:
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
10 Responses
Great rundown, thanks so much for the inclusion!
Great list. Will learn a lot. Thanks for the mention!
Thanks for the list! Also, thank you for the mention.
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!
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
Great list and I really appreciate that you felt my post was good enough to be included.
What a nice roundup!
Thanks for the link Steven
I like the WebDevLounge best thank you for this roundup!
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
Thanks a ton for the roundup!
I especially liked the robots.txt vs rel=no-follow post out of seobook.