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Link Tank: April 19th

Jen — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:32:58 +0000

Here are some delicious links for your enjoyment and edumication:

6 hi-res wood textures | highresolutiontextures.com – 6 high quality images of various sorts of wood or bark.

Lost and Taken – Lost and Taken – A Little Dirty: 8 Subtle Grunge Textures – A Little Dirty: 8 Subtle Grunge Textures

Photoshop Light brushes | Qbrushes – Photoshop Brushes – Blurry light Brushes (Bokeh), 3 shapes (circle, hexagon, octagon), 9 brushes total.

Photoshop Skyline Brushes | Qbrushes – Photoshop Brushes – A set of 9 wonderful city skyline brushes for Photoshop 7 and up. Sizes range from 1000px to 1300px.

Grungy Brushes from QBrushes – Valley of the Dry Bones is a set of grunge brushes by seudavi with an average size of 1500px/

Link Tank: April 14th

Jen — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:00:20 +0000

Here are some delicious links for your enjoyment and edumication:

Function Web Design & Development [ Blog ] » How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips – Tips from the folks at Function Web Design & Development on what constitutes quality web design. I don't agree with everything written but there are some things that they bring up that make a whole lot of sense. Especially the whole "attention to details" part. It's the minutiae in design that takes it to the next level.

Versions – Mac Subversion Client (SVN) – Versions, as the title says is a Mac Subversion client. However, that's not why I bookmarked this site. The simplicity of the design astounds me yet it's so well done and has quite an impact. You're to notice their brand, and boy, do you.

Of course, it's also a useful piece of software for those of us Mac users who want to use version control.

Link Tank: Humpday Linkage

Jen — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:01:57 +0000

David Seah: The Printable CEO
Keep track of your work with paper.
Getting Real: Use Real Words
37 Signals writes about why using real text for dummy text is better than using standard lorem ipsum.
Tweak!
Tweak! is a podcast created specifically for the creative entrepreneur by a creative entrepreneur. Each episode we discuss topics related to living the oh so wonderful life of a freelance creative type.
Web Design is 95% Typography
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.
CSS Cheatsheet

Link Tank—Humpday Linkage

Jen — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:50:57 +0000

Urban Curators
The goal of the Urban Curators project is to engage the public in the celebration of the decaying urban environment, recog- nizing its inherent aesthetic qualities as well as the important role that it plays within our cultural habitat. The project achieves its goal by elevating common, overlooked objects and spaces within the city of Providence, Rhode Island to the level of high art.
Circle Six Blog: DiggProof Your Wordpress Blog
ScoreboardMediaGroup: How to Generate Targeted Traffic Without Search Engines
PortfolioBase.com: Showcase your portfolio
Ziki: Ziki sponsors your name on Google, Yahoo and MSN for free
Andy Rutledge: Web Misunderstandards
As I referenced in my last article, the benefits and characteristics of Web standards are not being effectively communicated to many who need to hear and learn about them. The result is that some understandably leap to inaccurate conclusions while gross mischaracterizations are allowed to fester among members of the design and development community.

Link Tank—Humpday Linkage

Jen — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:11:56 +0000

Poolie Studios: Iconize Textlinks with CSS
Links are fun, but sometimes we don’t know where they take us. With this little CSS technique a user can identify a link by it’s icon. This whole thing was inspired by the “Showing Hyperlink Cues with CSS” article of Ask the CSS Guy.
The Montoya Herald: CSS Techniques I Use All the Time
I’m always learning new things with CSS. It’s interesting because I’ve thought of myself as a CSS expert for a while now (I’ll challenge anyone to a competition, seriously) but I still keep learning and improving. I’ve come across some techniques lately that are extremely valuable and worth sharing.
Smashing Magazine: Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
Below you’ll find a list of hand-picked Illustrator tutorials you can use to achieve some special visual effects in your designs.
Go2Web20: The complete Web 2.0 Directory

Link Tank—Humpday Linkage

Jen — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:44:11 +0000

Share concepts with other design professionals at Concept Share.
Network with other designers at ComputerLove.
BoxCloud: BoxCloud is a dead simple way for design and media professionals to share files with clients, vendors and colleagues. It’s faster and easier than email and can handle files and folders of any size.

Link Tank—Humpday Linkage

Jen — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:47:38 +0000

Noisy Decent Graphics: The Design Disease
It seems to me that if you’re a designer, a proper designer not someone who learnt Photoshop in between phone calls, then design runs through your veins like Pantone 7418. But more than that, it’s there in every aspect of life. You can’t stop looking at things through your designer eyes. Everything you do is clouded by this thing that lives inside you.
Are you a Green traveler? Heading to Linz, Austria? Stay here.
Want to improve your Illustration skills? Why not visit IllustrationClass.com.
Need inspiration? Visit Illustration Mundo.
Continuing on with the Illustration theme, Real World Illustrator.
Book cover^{1} design blogs.^{2}

Link Tank—Humpday Linkage

Jen — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:15:57 +0000

From Communication Nation: How to win a deal after it’s already been lost
Some tips on how to close a deal after it has been lost.
From BrainFuel: Five Tips for Overcoming Burnout
“Burnout. It’s the word that strikes fear into the heart of every designer and it is something that ~~almost~~ all designers have experienced.”
From A List Apart: Better Invoices for Better Business
Invoices are a critical component of every business. They serve as a bill of services, closure for projects, a legal paper trail, and an opportunity to strengthen the rapport between you and your customer.
From Communication Arts: Freelance Clients Talk Price
In an informal survey of freelance clients, two pricing issues are clearly important to know before your next assignment. The first one is, how are budgets for outside creative services determined? The second, what do clients like and dislike about the way freelancers handle pricing?
From Lussumo: Want to Integrate Vanilla Forums with Wordpress? Here’s how.
Programmer Meet Designer
This site was created to unite programmers and designers because rarely is a person good at both programming and designing. PMD helps programmers and designers partner up to make websites and web applications that look and work great.
Designers Who Blog
At ‘Designers who Blog’ you’ll discover people sharing thoughts, ideas and creativity about their industries. You’ll find off-the-rack blogs amongst well designed, amazing sites.

Link Tank—Humpday Linkage

Jen — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:00:47 +0000

Protolize
This is a place where web designers and developers collaborate to create an ultimate collection of web-tools. Only the most useful and current tools will be considered to be on the list.
TheBlogScoop.com
A fledgling newsletter that hopes to be the source on helping bloggers blog.
Copyblogger: How to Create Content That Ranks Well in Search Engines
Here’s the deal… most of what determines the ranking position of any particular page is due to what happens off the page, in the form of links from other sites.
Creative Guy: Hide multiple Photoshop layers quickly with this shortcut
Nice Photoshop tips from this site and who doesn’t need to know how to hide multiple layers at once?
Tubetorial: Internet Marketing Videos
FREE screencast videos that help you get things done and make more money online.
Circus Posters
If clowns scare you, you may not want to visit this link but if you’re into great graphic design, take a gander, you won’t be sorry. For your enjoyment, our online show, now has nearly eight thousand circus posters from 1880 to the present, from the Netherlands to America, from A2 format to several square metres.

Link Tank—Humpday Linkage

Jen — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:26:53 +0000

Gridding the 960:
Background image grid + pixel ruler + column divisions for 960px-width layout, all in one mean little package.
Forget “best”, aim for “worst”?:
Having the courage to ask “What’s the worst possible site we could create for our project?”
How to organize your cluttered desktop and regain your sanity:
I’ve always been known as the messy kid, so it’s no surprise that zillions of random files and folders often litter my desktop. Every time I clear my desktop, it gets congested again a few days later, each icon reminding me how much I suck at organizing. What I lack is a system.
Creating prototypes with OmniGraffle:
A few months ago a few colleagues asked me if I could turn a design document into a low-fi clickable prototype to demonstrate interaction design on an application we were developing. I also talked to an IA recently who had the same need to demonstrate interaction, but lamented over the tools at our disposal.
Wrestling Stars from the 50’s:
Plan59, “If there’s one thing a Web site devoted to mid-century illustration isn’t complete without, it’s … a gallery of 1950s pro wrestling stars.”