June’s Best: This Month in Web Design

Since it’s almost the end of June, here is a quick recap of 34 posts you shouldn’t miss, from a variety of design and development-related blogs.

Web Design and Development:

15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages from Six Revisions.

CSS Editors Reviewed from Smashing Magazine.

Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes from Noupe.

13+ Fantastic Tools for Knowing How They’re Doing It from Noupe.

Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positioning from CSS Tricks.

Design and Code a Website in Gimp, HTML, and CSS from Help Developer.

10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and How They Did It from 3.7Crea.tv.

Coaxing Web Content: How to Get Your Clients to Get You the Content You Need from Mirificam Press.

12 Tools I Use Every Day as an Independent Web Designer from Mirificam Press.

37 Free Must-Have Fonts from Francesco Mugnai.

16 Things to Look for in a Website Health Check from ViperChill.

A Semantic List-Based CSS Calendar from CSS Newbie.

5 Great Website Traffic Monitoring Methods from You the Designer.

Fuel Yourself Up for Creative Design Ideas with Inspiration from 16 Designer’s Community Websites from Smashing Apps.

Grid Masking from Veerle’s Blog.

Business and Freelancing:

Should You Accept an “Ugly Duckling” Project? from Freelance Folder.

The Innovative One Page Resume and Portfolio from Just Creative Design.

Freelance Web Designer Tools and Productivity Management from Dustin Brewer.

Originally Published June 29th, 2008

17 comments from readers

1 Simon North Jun 29, 2008 at 4:32 pm

Hey, thanks for including my tutorial. Nice list btw
2 Vandelay Design Jun 29, 2008 at 4:42 pm

You’re welcome Simon.
3 Simon Ward Jun 29, 2008 at 5:15 pm

Sweet, I even got a screenshot. Cheers Steven. Thanks for the great list of links, now if only I could find time to have a look through them.
4 Design Reviver Jun 29, 2008 at 6:56 pm

Thanks for this article, and including my post on vintage textures.
5 adelle Jun 29, 2008 at 8:13 pm

Steven, thanks for including my 15 hottest portfolios on behance!
6 Vandelay Design Jun 29, 2008 at 9:31 pm

You’re all welcome. Thanks for taking a moment to comment.
7 Dustin Brewer Jun 30, 2008 at 1:07 am

Thanks for the link, great list of links. The article from David Airey is a must bookmark, it is impossibly detailed and has some amazing resources.
8 Noura Yehia Jun 30, 2008 at 8:16 am

Thanks for the links Steven, you missed your own post “71 Gradient Resources for Web Design” which i think is one of the best this month.
9 Hendry Lee Jun 30, 2008 at 12:37 pm

I especially like the inspiration section. Great list, btw. Bookmarked.
10 Christina Jun 30, 2008 at 6:50 pm

Thanks for the love!
11 Gene Jul 1, 2008 at 1:27 pm

Your link: Fuel Yourself Up for Creative Design Ideas with Inspiration from 16 Designer’s Community Websites from Smashing Apps.

seems to lead to 404 page.
12 Matthew Griffin Jul 1, 2008 at 3:35 pm

Thanks for the link, Steven.
13 Vandelay Design Jul 1, 2008 at 5:58 pm

Gene,
Thanks for the heads up. From the looks of their homepage they must be changing hosts at the moment.
14 Fatih Hayrioğlu'nun not defteri » 02 Temmuz 2008 web’den seçme haberler » Aspnet'de, önermeli, alanları, Bağlantı, jQuery, ATOM, geliştirin, çubuğu, Jquery, Kaynakları Jul 2, 2008 at 7:11 am

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15 mike Jul 2, 2008 at 11:06 am

Keep up the great articles. Awesome!!
16 Jacob Gube Jul 3, 2008 at 8:48 am

Whoa, what a comprehensive list! Thanks for the mention!
17 An Jay Jul 11, 2008 at 5:47 am

Thanks for adding our link at this page.

Gene > SmashingApps has been online since last week. I hope you will like all the articles there. Sorry for the downtime.

Thanks

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17 comments from readers