Vandelay Website Design Blog

Best of September: This Month in Web Design

As always, it’s been a busy month for design blogs. Here is my collection of the best articles and resources I’ve come across this month.

Web Design and Development:

How Do Cheaters Redesign and Still Win? - Pro Blog Design

Body Border 2: Fade in with Gradient - CSS-Tricks

75 Really Useful JavaScript Techniques - Smashing Magazine

30 More Must See Comment Designs for Blog Designers - Blog Design Blog

CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques, Tutorials and Best Practices - Noupe

2 Great Web-Based Alternatives to PHPMyAdmin - Primal Skill Blog

Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Design - Six Revisions

Creating Usable Website Navigation - Ifoh Designs

Add Custom Values to Your WordPress RSS Feed - Script & Style

Enhance Your Designs with JavaScript Functionality - My Ink Blog

Graphic Design:

Awesome Digital Bokeh Effect in Photoshop - Abduzeedo

How to Create a Grunge Web Design in Photoshop - PSDTUTS

How to Create a Set of Photoshop Grunge Brushes - Veerle’s Blog

Create a Trendy Typographic Poster Design - Blog.SpoonGraphics

How to Create a Juicy RSS Feed Icon - VECTORTUTS

30+ Adobe Illustrator Tutorials: Mastering Your Tools and Options - Noupe

Grunge Type Photoshop Tutorial - You the Designer

Free High Resolution Plain and Grunge Paper Textures - Fudge Graphics

Out of Focus: 30 Free Bokeh Textures - Lost and Taken

106 Delicious Water Color Illustrator Brushes - Colorburned

Inspiration:

80 Large Background Websites - Web Designer Wall

Getting Creative with JavaScript: 15 Websites with Cool Sliders and Scrollers - DzineBlog

44 Character Illustrations in Web Design - CSS Leak

WordPress Theme News:

Designredux - Blog Design Blog

Easier Theme Development with Sample WordPress Content - WPCandy

Freelance/Business:

How to Write and Effective Design Brief - Just Creative Design

10 Resources to Help You Decide What to Charge for Design Work - Acuity Designs

Posts I Wrote for Other Blogs This Month:

Top 10 Sources of Logo Design Inspiration - DesignM.ag

Improving the Quality of Leads Through Your Online Portfolio - DesignM.ag

WordPress Developer’s Toolbox - Smashing Magazine

Drupal Developer’s Toolbox - Smashing Magazine

14 Helpful Domain Name Tools - Templamatic

Legal Resources for Freelancers - Freelance Switch

Originally Published September 28th, 2008

12 Responses

  1. Grant Friedman
    September 29th, 2008

    Thanks for the mention!

  2. Thomas
    September 29th, 2008

    Thanks, for the mention Steven and great round up. I missed your article about the domain name tools.

  3. Noura Yehia
    September 29th, 2008

    Thanks Steven for the mention :)

  4. Matt
    September 29th, 2008

    Hey Steven, thank you so much for the include. Nice list, a lot I did not see. Thanks!

  5. Vandelay Design
    September 29th, 2008

    You’re welcome everyone. Thanks for your contributions over the past month!

  6. Michael Martin
    September 29th, 2008

    Thanks for the include Steven! :D

  7. Andrew Houle
    September 30th, 2008

    Great list, I’m thrilled to be a part of it!

  8. celia
    October 1st, 2008

    Excellent list! Thanks so much for posting it… you have now been added to my bookmarks!
    ;-)celia
    Artfire.com

  9. Angie Bowen
    October 1st, 2008

    Great list, way too much to go through now so I’ve bookmarked it.

  10. Arbenting’s Best of the Week (09/28 - 10/04) | Arbenting
    October 5th, 2008

    [...] This Month in Web Design: September [...]

  11. Links zum Wochenende | Wowbagger
    October 10th, 2008

    [...] Best of Month (Viele interessante Links, anschauen!) [...]

  12. Runescape
    October 18th, 2008

    thanks for sharing these links.

Leave a Reply