Web in Review August 18th, 2009

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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