October’s Best: This Month in Web Design
Published October 29th, 2008 in LinksIt seems like each month there is more and more design-related content available. That means there are plenty of opportunities to learn and be inspired, but it also gets hard to sort through everything to find what you really want. Hopefully this collection of the best posts from October will help.
Web Design and Development:
50 Stunning Examples of a Great Redesign: My Top Picks – Function
10 Tips to Avoid Designer’s Block – GoMediaZine
How Much Should You Charge for a Website? – CSS-Tricks
How to Use sIFR 3 (Screencast) – CSS-Tricks
37 Ways to Design the Comment Form – Blog Design Blog
13 Awesome JavaScript Animated Flash Like Menus – DevSnippets
15 Original Menu Designs – Web Designer’s Interviews
20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know – NETTUTS
60 High Quality Free Web Templates and Layouts – Hongkiat
Tips and Hacks for Creating Your Own WordPress Theme – Lee Munroe
Does Your Website Suffer from These 7 Usability Mistakes – Usability Post
Graphic Design:
3 Ways to Apply a Line Pattern Effect on Text in Illustrator – Veerle’s Blog
Icon Design Tutorial – Designing a New Icon in Illustrator – Design Reviver
20 Exceptional Websites for Learning Adobe Illustrator – Six Revisions
How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D – GoMediaZine
50+ High Resolution Textures, Tutorials and Resources – Noupe
1000+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brushes – Noupe
Create a Vibrant Modern Blog Design in Photoshop – Blog.SpoonGraphics
208 Retro Photoshop Patterns – Well Mediacated
Lose the Color! 9 Reasons to Ditch Color – DesignFeedr
Using Layer Comps for Design in Photoshop – My Ink Blog
Smoke Type in Photoshop in 10 Steps – Abduzeedo
Inspiration:
Typography Mega Inspiration – Abduzeedo
70 Beautiful Websites with a Large Background – Francesco Mugnai
Inspiring Grunge Style Big Typography Posters – Design Shard
Blog Designs: 50 of the Most Creative – Standout Blogger
Best of: FYC Flickr Group Showcase – Fuel Your Creativity
Great Movie Posters – Inspiredology
Freebies:
15 Free High Res Rough Textures – Six Revisions
Watercolor Illustrator Brushes – VECTORTUTS
Splatter and Watercolour Brushes for Photoshop – Smashing Magazine
Site Analysis:
14 Free Tools that Reveal Why People Abandon Your Website – Conversion Rate Experts
15 Tools for Monitoring a Website’s Popularity – Six Revisions
Using MooTools to Instruct Google Analytics to Track Outbound Links – David Walsh
SEO:
WordPress SEO – The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Theme Search Engine Optimization – Nathan Rice
Posts I Wrote at Other Blogs this Month:
50+ Ways to Improve Your Productivity as a Freelancer – Freelance Switch
10 Helpful Resources for Cross Browser Testing – DesignM.ag
Adobe Dreamweaver Toolbox – DesignM.ag
Photoshop Toolbox – DesignM.ag
50 Excellent AJAX Tutorials – Smashing Magazine
Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – Best Of: Part 2 – Smashing Magazine
ExpressionEngine Developer’s Toolbox – Smashing Magazine
19 Responses to “October’s Best: This Month in Web Design”
some great links here – you totally just depressed me though since this means October is almost over!
Thanks for including my Flickr Best of Post!
Wow, yet another epic post – well done. Thanks for including my retro Photoshop patterns post in this awesome list!
Thanks for the great compilation!
Lots of useful things for me to peruse and gain inspiration from!
Great round-up from indeed awesome articles from the past month. Too bad none of my articles made it
. Better luck next time 
.
Keep on bloggin’!
Great list, unfortunately I don’t have the time to check out all of them. But I’ll make sure to visit the most promising links.
Thx again, linked you on my blog!
Thomas
Will bookmark and read through……
Gna take time to read through it all!
Thanks for the include of Efis guest post ill let her know, ill be checking some of these out.
Huge list! This one’s bookmarked for my weekend reading!
Very long list, but lots of good stuff
Thanks for mentioning my article.
Amazing list, thanks for the info.
How do you find the time to do all this. That’s a long but very interesting roundup.
Good job Steven.
Oh, and thanks for the mention
Really nice rundown with quite a few articles that I missed this month. Thanks!
Thanks again!! Priceless info here once more.
Good stuff, really useful!
Amy
http://www.corporatewebsolutions.net
Wow – I love this collection of articles. I missed a lot of these so I am glad that I caught your roundup of the best. Thanks!
Rachel
AllGraphicDesign.com
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