Web in Review August 18th, 2009
Posted August 19, 2009 in Links and tagged bookmarks, Links, useful, WebInReview
Web in Review is a post of links that I collect from RSS feeds, links provided by my lovely Twitter friends, and sometimes links I happen upon by accident. I haven’t done a list in quite a long time, so there are quite a few great links here. Check them out!
- The Webs Best Designers And Their Favourite Fonts | Web Design Blog by Union Room Web Design — See what fonts the top-notch designers rely on.
- Neenah Paper’s Against The Grain — A great interview with illustrator Ron Glitschka, aka Vonster.
- Design Observer — Some interesting notes regarding the men vs. women situation in the design world.
- Freelance Design Contracts and Templates — Freelancer Pricing, Invoices, SEO: Sessions.edu — Information regarding the legal aspects of your design business.
- My Secrets To Successful Client Relationships As A Freelance Designer | bkmacdaddy designs — Some great tips!
- 40 Free and Useful GUI Icon Sets for Web Designers | Icons — More icons for use in your web projects.
- 25 Must-Read Books For Designers, Developers And All Creative Types | Spyre Studios — Sometimes a good design book is great to have on hand.
- How to Ethically Edit Imagery for Your Marketing Material – FreelanceSwitch — Photo manipulation and retouching can be tricky. Some good guidelines for making sure you don’t misrepresent people or products.
- 50 Free High-Quality and “New” (X)HTML/CSS Templates | Noupe — Some lovely new themes that are free to download.
- Photo: free photo and free stock photo — Photoxpress — Open source stock photos for use in design work.
- 15 Freelancer Design And Development Creative Job Boards | Graphic and Web Design Blog — Inspiration, Resources and Tools — A great list of places for freelancers to find projects.
- Feed My Inbox ~ RSS to Email ~ Feed to Email — An automatic service to get all your feeds delivered straight to your email inbox.
- TiltShift — An iPhone app to simulate tilt-shift photography.
- Pano for iPhone — A nifty app for the iPhone that assists in taking panoramic photos, and stitches them together.
- 50 Photoshop Postwork Actions by ‘manicho on deviantART — Post-processing made easy.
- How to Tweak Your Home Office to Be Productive Full-time – FreelanceSwitch — Being neat and organized goes a long way, especially for working at home.
- 365icon.com — A Collection of The Web’s Highest Quality Free Icons — Tons of free icons for use in your design projects.
- 30+ New Useful WordPress Tricks & Hacks | WordPress — A ton of new tips and tutorials for WordPress.
- 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine — Another huge list of free WP themes.
- Awesome Brochure and Print Design Inspiration | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials — Some lovely examples of print work.
- The Best Adobe Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials | Creative Nerds — A few nice typography how-tos for Illustrator.
- Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools | CSS | Smashing Magazine — A nice list of tutorials.
- HowPack — Some sweet templates for cool paper packaging.
- Devising your own Freelance Contracts | RoH Blog — Some great sample photography contracts that can be adapted for many freelance purposes.
- DTP Tools — History plugin for InDesign similar to the one in Photoshop. Would have saved my bacon today!
- 5 Secrets of the Photoshop Crop Tool — Some great little-known uses of the Crop Tool.
- Beautiful New Free Fonts For Your Designs | Fonts | Smashing Magazine — A new collection of lovely fonts.
- Bean: An OS X Word Processor — A free alternative to Word or Pages.
- 50 Illustrator Tutorials Every Designer Should See — A great collection of Illustrator tutorials.
- CutePDF — Create PDF for free, Free PDF Utilities, Edit PDF easily;. — Don’t want to shell out for the full version of Acrobat if you’re on Windows? Try this free PDF creator.
- Literature and Latte — Scrivener — A great tool if you do a lot of writing.
- 17 Tips for Designers on Starting a Freelance Business — Nice article on how to balance out some of the pros & cons to starting out freelance.
- Are All PDF Files Created Equal? | Published — Different types of PDFs for different purposes, find out how to use them correctly.
- How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial — This is a great new walkthrough for creating a WordPress theme from scratch.
- A Month In The Creative Community: A July Roundup | Fuel Your Creativity — An awesome roundup from FYC with inspiration, tutorials, resources, and more.
- Client Liaison – FreelanceSwitch — Some information for the client’s benefit.
- From Print to the Web: A Designer’s Guide — New Media Campaigns — A nice tutorial for print designers looking to get into web design.
- Design for Life — Recycled Wine Bottle Torch | Effective and Highly Creative Design Using Minimal Resources — These torches are gorgeous, useful, and easy to make.
- 20 Must-Know Websites for Web Developers | Dev | Fish in the River — A collection of great development resources.
- Download Free Repeat Patterns — Part 3 — A huge gallery of repeating patterns.
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Thanks for the contracts list!
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