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This Month in Web Design: Best Links of November

Published November 28th, 2008 in Links

Now that November is winding down it’s time to take a look at the best items from the month. I hope this re-cap provides you with some new and helpful content that you hadn’t seen before.

Web Design and Development:

CSS Tip #1: Resetting Your Styles with CSS Reset – Six Revisions

CSS Tip

Getting Ready for WordPress 2.7: Really Simple Category Styling – Devlounge

Most Wanted WordPress Hacks: 11 New Requests (2) – Noupe

Most Wanted Ajax Techniques: 50+ Examples and Tutorials – Noupe

The Best Cheat Sheets for Web Developers – WebAppers

Six Indispensable CSS Tips and Tricks I Use On Every Project – d’bug

5 Ways to Break Your Design Habits – Just for Fun – Spyre Mag

Building Custom WordPress Themes – Web Designer Wall

The CSS Gallery List – A great resource if you’re submitting sites to galleries

Graphic Design:

20 Typefaces to Start a Designer’s Career – Just Creative Design

20 Typefaces

25 Color Palette Generating Resources – The Web Squeeze

Tutorials:

Flying Girl in Photoshop – Abduzeedo

Flying Girl

Old School Clock with CSS3 and jQuery – CSS-Tricks

Building a Shopping Cart in ASP.NET – NETTUTS

User Membership with PHP – NETTUTS

Create a Burberry Style Plaid with Illustrator in 4 Steps – COLORBURNED

Design a Shiny Bass Guitar Illustration Using Photoshop – PSDTUTS

Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Clean Website Layout – VECTORTUTS

Awesome Floral Type in Fireworks and Photoshop in 5 Minutes – Abduzeedo

How to Shoot Textures Outdoors – Mostly Lisa

Inspiration:

Typographic Madness: 30 Brilliant Pieces of Work – Noupe

Typographic Madness

Inspirational Design from Extreme Sports Sites – Blog.SpoonGraphics

30 Stylish Examples of Doodles in Web Design – Blog.SpoonGraphics

Flourished Websites – Inspiredology

Cropped Logo Design Inspiration – David Airey

25+ Sites that Use Typography as the Only Design Element – 3.7Crea.tv

Business/Freelance:

How to Get and Use Customer Feedback – Freelance Folder

Freelance Folder

Setting Your Prices: 10 Questions to Ask Yourself – Outlaw Design Blog

Post I Wrote for Other Blogs in November:

40 Tutorials for Working with Wacom Tablets – DesignM.ag

Top 10 Tutorials for Converting PSDs to HTML/CSS – DesignM.ag

30+ Useful Resources for Improving Your Photoshop Efficiencey – PSDTUTS

Billboard Top 40 Design Showcase – Smashing Magazine

Newspaper Website Design: Trends and Examples – Smashing Magazine

Textpattern Developer’s Toolbox – Smashing Magazine

10 Signs of a User-Focused Design – Web Design Ledger

16 Responses to “This Month in Web Design: Best Links of November”

Noura Yehia November 28th, 2008

Thanks Steven for the mention.
You have done some great posts this month Steven, i specially loved “Billboard Top 40 Design Showcase”. Very well done :)

Mostly Lisa November 28th, 2008

wow! i feel honoured to be included in your best November links! thanks :D

Vandelay Design November 28th, 2008

Noura,
You’re welcome, and thank you for the compliments.

Lisa,
You’re welcome. Thanks for the tips, I can use all the photography tips I can get.

Nice list. Keep up the good work.

Jacob Cass November 30th, 2008

Thanks for the write up Steven and for the picture too :) You really do get around the blogosphere :)

Dainis Graveris November 30th, 2008

I don’t understand how can You be so active and do all that job. I wonder how You organize Your workflow, because coming up with something new and creating big roundup is very time consuming.

Great job – big fan of this list.

Angie Bowen November 30th, 2008

Nice rundown. Some great reading that I missed this month. Thanks!

Vandelay Design November 30th, 2008

Dainis,
Throughout the month I star items in Google reader as I come across them, and then at the end of the month I just go back through the starred items and half of them are already there. I also go back through my Delicious bookmarks for the month. The majority of these items each month come from those two sources. It saves a lot of time.

Xavez December 1st, 2008

Thanks a bunch, found a lot of interesting websites in general in this list. I’ll be feedreeding you ;) .

John Pash December 14th, 2008

I’m in the research phase of buying a drawing tablet and all signs point to Wacom. Also, the bamboo seems like it’s an entry level piece of equipment that will quickly outlive it usefulness to a semi-professional. Meaning the intuos is the way to go.

I would be very interested to read your opinions on drawing tablets in general, and your recommendations.

Vandelay Design December 14th, 2008

John,
I’m only researching them myself. I’ll probably be buying an Intuos.

Chiang Mai Web Design January 27th, 2009

Great job, thanks.

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