Resource Train 2012
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Roundup articles that caught our attention:
- 3 Key Business Lessons From Steve Jobs: Intuition, Reinvention, Focus
- 4 Essential Elements of Freelance Business Planning
- 5 Ways to Kill Information Overload and Start Making Progress With Your Marketing
- 6 Things I Learned About Print Stylesheets From HTML5 Boilerplate
- 6 Tips for Effectively Dealing with Client Demands
- 7 Common Mistakes Made by New Freelancers
- 7 Strategies to Make Facebook SEO Friendly
- 7 Warning Signs That You Are About to Lose a Client
- 8 Counter-Intuitive Ways to Improve Your Well-Being & Creativity
- 9 great resources for keeping your skills fresh
- 10 New Guidelines for Web Designers for 2012
- 10 Twitter tools for better social networking
- 20+ Helpful Google+ Brand Page Resources for Freelancers
- 22 Memorable Podcasts Focused on Web Design
- 24 Professional Examples of Web and Mobile Wireframe Sketches
- 25 Google+ tips and tricks
- 30 Top Facebook Apps for Business
More articles that caught our attention:
- You’re Not As Busy As You Think
- A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
- A Guide To Heuristic Website Reviews
- A List Apart: Articles: Say No to SOPA
- A simpler and faster alternative to wireframes
- All About Deadlines
- Anatomy of a Designer's Brain
- Anatomy of a Perfect Mobile Email
- Are you being innovative?
- Are You Using Gmail to Your Best Advantage as a Freelancer?
- Backing up Your Website: The Ultimate Guide
- Ban the Bloat: 5 Reasons to Watch Your Page Weight
- Be Ready When Someone Asks, “What Do You Do?”
- Boost traffic with local search
- Choosing the Right Font: A Practical Guide to Typography on the Web
- Content Marketing 101: How to Build Your Business With Conten
- Content Strategy Within The Design Process
- Creating Websites Optimized for Google’s Panda Algorithm
- Data Reveals a Social Media Success Formula
- Designing for the Mind - Design Informer
- Designing for your target audience
- Don’t Give Clients What They Want
- Easier Is Better Than Better
- The Ten Commandments of Writing Copy That Wins Clients
- TheFWA - The Industry - Thoughts on Flash
- Tips in Using Handwriting Fonts for Stunning Web Designs
- Tips on Designing Layouts Focused around Content
- Web design predictions for 2012 | Webdesigner Depot
- What Makes Someone Leave A Website? The Infographic
Even more articles that caught our attention:
- Eye Tracking Could be the Next Natural User Interface
- Facts About Marketing for Freelance Designers
- Five killer ways to style lists
- Fluidity Of Content And Design: Learning From Where The Wild Things Are
- Font Management Tips for Web Designers
- Forget Natural Talent, Practice and Do the Boring Things
- Freelance Rates Survey, 2011
- Get Inside Your Client’s Mind
- Give Yourself a Raise in 2012
- GoDaddy Supports SOPA – Here’s How To Transfer Your Domains
- How Colors Affect Our Purchases [Infographic]
- How Much Does Facebook Know About You?
- How to Develop Task Management Skills as a Freelancer
- How to Devise the Perfect Freelancing Social Media Strategy for You | FreelanceFolder
- How to Find Your Individual Design Voice
- How to guarantee return clients
- How to Identify and Learn from Your Mistakes
- How to Improve as a Graphic Designer
- How to Properly Design a Print CSS Stylesheet
- How to Use a Ghostwriter in Your Own Business
- How to Use Instagram to Tell and Sell Your Marketing Story
- How to Write Weapons-Grade Copy
- HOW TO: Measure the ROI of a Content Marketing Strategy
- How You Can Simplify Your Freelancing Business
- Tony Schwartz: The Myths of the Overworked Creative | creativebits™
- Transfer Big Files: The Top 7 Tools You Should Use
- Turning Small Projects Into Big Profit, A Case Study
- Tweet late, email early, and don’t forget about Saturday: Using data to develop a social media strat…
- What’s new for designers, December 2011
- What’s the Difference Between Margins and Padding?
What, even more articles?
- Five web design clichés to never use again
- I Am Not a Web Designer
- In Mobile Advertising, Does Size Matter?
- Is Google Dart on Target or Does It Miss the Mark?
- Is Social Media Marketing Worth All the Effort?
- It Works For "You": A User-Centric Guideline To Product Pages
- Judgment Be Damned
- Line25 Sites of the Year: The Best Designs of 2011
- Making Money
- Meditation and The Art of Writing
- Reduce Noise to Encourage Flow
- Reviews Of Blog Designs In The Wild
- Sales Strategy: Why Free Consulting Is a Bad Idea
- SEO is Dead
- Sex, Lies, and the Art of Commanding Attention
- Stalled Out with Your Online Marketing? This May Be All You Need to Move Forward
- Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows
- The 3 T's of Social Media Time Management
- The 5 Keys to Content Marketing Mastery
- The Anatomy of a Perfect Website [Infographic]
- The Art of Non-Conformity » The Tower: A Free Report for a New Way of Life
- The Best Customer Relationship Tip You’ll Ever Hear
- The Big Think: Breaking The Deliverables Habit
- The Data-Pixel Approach To Improving User Experience
- The Designer’s Guide To Blogging
- The Designer’s Guide to Improving
- The Difference Between “Block” and “Inline”
- The Domino Project
- The emergence of talent: genius and precocity : The New Yorker
- The Flinch and The Future of Publishing
- The Fundamental Elements of Design on Vimeo
- The Future of Long Form Content
- The Lede: 7 Marketing Links for Smart People
- The Myth Of The Sophisticated User
- The Perfect Paragrap
- The Prioritization of Design
- Freebies & Icons
- Amazing Packs of Free and Premium Christmas Vector Graphics
- 18 Cool Dribbble Freebies to Download
- 50 Free Social Media Icon Sets
- Free Icons: Apple Icon Devices
- Free Icon Set For Web Designers: Aroma (250+ PNG Icons)
- New Google+ Free Icon Set
- Simple Mini Black Social Media Icons
- You Don’t Have To Be First, You Just Have To Be Better
- 20 Most Useful Free Icon Set for Web Designers
- 21 Sets of Free Social Media/Bookmarking Icons
- 30 Sets of Free Twitter Icons to Download
- 50 Free Social Media Icon Sets
- Freebie: Free Vector Web Icons (91 Icons)
- New Year Graphics and Icons Pack for 2012
- Resource: Free Killer Social Media Icons Set
- Social Media Icon Set
- Top 20 Best Sites To Download Free Icons
Resources
- 45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires
- Essential Navigation Checklists for Web Design
- Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
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November 2011 Resource Train
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As always this month's Resource Fest is laden with all the richest pickings of webdesign news, articles and resources we've stumbled upon in the last few weeks since last you crossed our tracks.
Roundup articles that caught our attention:
More articles that caught our attention:
Even more articles that caught our attention:
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Design/CSS
Fonts & Typography
Icons
Photoshop
jQuery
Resources
Roundup articles that caught our attention:
- 5 Ways to Get Web Content from Your Client on Time
- 6 Ways to Sell Without Selling Your Soul
- 7 Reasons NOT to use a Content Delivery Network
- 7 Reasons to use a Content Delivery Network
- 7 Signs That It’s Time to Simplify Your Freelancing Business
- 7 Sins of Website Copywriting That Send Prospects Fleeing
- 7 Ways to Tell a Client He's Wrong
- 8 Photoshop Tricks I Wish I Knew when I was a Student
- 9 Amazing New Features Of Google+ That You Will Surely Love To Use
- 9 Resources That Make You a Better Marketer on Twitter
- 10 Key Points Freelancers Must Know About LinkedIn
- 10 Ways to Win Back a Former Client
- 16 Pixels: For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake
- 19 Resources for Getting Design Feedback
- 15+ Things You Can Do In 5 Minutes to Help Your Freelancing Business
- 20 websites that engage users with social media icons and links
- 21 Resources for Effective Facebook Fan Pages
- 25+ Must-have Chrome extensions for web designers and developers
- 33 Ways to Stay Creative
- 45+ Free Lessons In Graphic Design Theory
- A 20-Step Process For Finding Your 1,000 True Fans
More articles that caught our attention:
- A case study in responsive design
- A List Apart: Articles: Banishing Your Inner Critic
- A round-up of great vlogs and podcasts for designers
- Adopting Feng Shui in Web Design
- Are Your Spending Habits Stunting Your Freelance Business’s Growth?
- Asymmetrical balance in web design
- Better First Impressions Through Design
- Client Follow Up Tips for Freelancers
- Compilation of Well Designed Donation Pages
- Content Prototyping In Responsive Web Design
- Design is About Solving Problems
- Designing a Website’s Introductory Text: Tips and Examples
- A List Apart: Articles: Demystifying Design
- Do designers need to code?
- Earn money in your sleep!
- Elements Of A Viral Launch Page
- Hacking Google Analytics: Ideas, Tips and Tricks
- Health Tips for Web Developers
- How Responsive Web Design becomes Responsive Web Publishing
- How to Deal with Design Criticisms Positively
- The Guide To CSS Animation: Principles and Examples
- The Latest Google Update is Fantastic News for Freelance Writers
- Why All Great Marketing Contains the Power of the Placebo Effect
- Why I Need Great Design
- Why is Design the Body Language of the Web?
- Why It’s Okay to Be Small
- You Should Build Websites That Empower Site Owners
Even more articles that caught our attention:
- A List Apart: Articles: Being Human is Good Business
- A Roundup of Valuable Facebook Tools
- Are Media Queries the answer to the Fold?
- A List Apart: Articles: Marry Your Clients
- Comprehensive Review Of Usability And User Experience Testing Tools
- Design With Dissonance
- Developing Balance in Web Design
- Do’s and don’ts of call to action pages
- A List Apart: Articles: Reigniting Your Creative Spark
- Facebook Studio
- Five Lessons from a Year of Tablet UX Research
- Focusing on Good Design, Not (Just) Good Decoration
- Freelancers: Fix Your Communication Errors Now
- Google+ Buttons in CSS
- How Disregarding Design Limits The Power Of Content
- How to Create An Effective Complex Footer: Content Design and Examples
- How to Get Paid
- Humble Freelancer, Assertive Businessperson
- Improve The User Experience By Tracking Errors
- Interaction Design Tactics For Visual Designers
- Staying Passionate and Motivated as a Web Designer
- Straightforward SEO for Webdesigners
- Striking the First Impression in Web Design
- Surviving Design Blog Saturation : Is The Future in the Niche?
- Tackling Stress with the "Breathe and Reboot" Method
- Take Control of Your Web Presence with Ten Top Tips
- The 3 stages of design maturity
- Why You Sometimes Must Fail Before You Can Succeed (and How to Recover)
- The 7 Essential Elements of Effective Social Media Marketing
- Traits of Successful Website Welcome Pages
- Types of Designers Not to Be!
- Understanding the Sales Cycle: Prospecting 101
- What Popular Movies Can Teach Us About Design
- You’re Doing it Wrong: Common HTML Tag Misuses
What, even more articles?
- How to find better clients
- How to Fire Bad Clients
- How To Make An eBook
- How to Make More Unique Images
- How To Turn A Scanned Image Into An Scalable Vector
- How to Turn Yourself Into a Damn Fine Writer
- Improving The Online Shopping Experience, Part 1: Getting Customers To Your Products
- Introducing The 6 + 1 Model For Effective Copywriting (Better Than AIDA!)
- Keys to Effective Web Design Proposals
- Less Distractions = More Pageviews. Go Figure.
- Live Together or Die Alone : Spec Work vs the Community
- Mobile SEO is a Myth | Search Engine Journal
- Mobile: The Web's New Minimalist Movement
- Official Google Blog: Giving you fresher, more recent search results
- Optimise your email for mobile devices
- Practicing Perfectionism as a Web and Graphic Designe
- Reliable Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Internet Explorer
- Responsive Web Design Demystified
- Taking A Customer From Like To Love: The UX Of Long-Term Relationships
- The 10 Best Books for Freelancers about Social Media
- The Dangers of Designing for Context
- The Designer’s Guide to Branding
- The Difference Between Design and Art
- The Whys And The Hows Of Textures In Web Design
- Things to Consider in Choosing the Right Color Scheme
- Tips for Using Design Freebies to Promote Yourself
- Tips in Achieving a Better Landing Page Design
- To Five Smashing Years… And A Free Anniversary eBook Treat!
- Top 4 Reasons Your Beautiful Website Doesn’t Convert
- Top 10 Easy Ways to Squeeze Optimum Productivity from Your Day
- Understanding Visual Hierarchy in Web Design
- Web Analytics - 45+ Scripts & Services To Analyse Your Website Traffic
- Web Design Basics You May Have Forgotten
- Web Designer, Be Your Best Promoter
- Webpage Speed Dating
- What Bestselling Fiction Can Teach You About Writing Better Landing Pages
- What Is Influence and Do Freelancers Really Need It?
- Solutions to Freelance Income Fluctuation
Design/CSS
- A Farewell to CSS3 Gradients
- Ceaser - CSS Easing Animation Tool
- Create a Responsive Web Design Template | Onextrapixel - Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch
- CSS Crush — An extensible PHP based CSS preprocessor
- CSS3 Image Styles
- CSS3 Please! The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator
- CSSDesk - Online CSS Sandbox
- CSSPrefixer
- Fold Out Popups
- How to Create 3D Text With CSS3
- Normalize.css: Make browsers render all elements more consistently.
- The Guide To CSS Animation: Principles and Examples
Fonts & Typography
- 11 jQuery Plugins That Can Enhance Your Typography
- How to Bulletproof @font-face Web Fonts
- How to Use Typography Effectively in Web Design
- The Ultimate Collection of Professional Free Fonts
- FontDropper 1000
- Free Fonts : A Walk on the Grunge Side
- The most popular fonts used by designers
- Freebies
- 20 Useful Free PSD files and Templates
- Freebie: Twitter GUI PSD
- Exclusive Free PSD Web UI Elements Kit (Set)
Icons
- 20 Fresh Free Icon Sets
- Faviconist: Create Beautiful Favicons with HTML5
- 28 Free Icon Sets Designers Will Most Likely Use
- Slick But Clean Free Social Media Icon Set
- Web icons
Photoshop
- Freebie: Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD
- Photoshop Mastery: 25 Techniques Every Designer Must Know
- 33 Useful Photoshop PSD Freebies for the Web
- A Photoshop Free Instagram Action
- PNG Masking: How to Dynamically Shape Any Image on Your Website
- 15 Photoshop Lighting Effects Tutorials
jQuery
Resources
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28/08/11 15:07
Weekend Reading
As always this month's Resource Train is loaded with all the latest and greatest webdesign news, articles and resources we've stumbled across in the last few weeks since last you crossed our tracks.Articles that caught our attention:
- Reasons Why You MUST Move Out of Your Comfort Zone
- Great Reasons to Start Your Facebook Page Right Now
- Self-Promotion Tips That Aren’t Sleazy
- Steps for Taking on Something New
- Mind Your En And Em Dashes: Typographic Etiquette
- Steps to Instant Motivation
- Tips for Emailing Important People
- Things you need to do to be supremely productive
- Ways to Beat Online Obscurity
- Ways to Extend Your Blog
- Brilliant Articles on How to Get More Referrals
- Best Google+ Guides and Tutorials to Get Freelancers Up and Running
- SVG uses that will make your jaw drop
- Ways to Stay Creative [Video]
- The Most Useful Google Products You Should Consider Using Daily
- Questions to Ask Yourself after 6 Months of Freelancing
- A CRAP way to improve usability
- A Graphic Design Primer, Part 2: The Principles of Design
- A Guide in Making Your Own Design Process
- Making up Stories: Perception, Language, and the Web
- Picking A Mobile Support Strategy For Your Website
- Art and the Web: Form
- Art and the Web: Line
- Ask Questions to Build Relationships: Successful Facebook Marketing
- Basix: Common Mistakes in Web Design
- Beginner’s Guide to Responsive Web Design
More articles that caught our attention:
- Free Tools for Monitoring Your Freelance Reputation
- Popular Social Media Myths Freelancers Can Ignore
- Contrast Rebellion - to hell with low-contrast fonts!
- CSS3 Border-Image
- Current SEO Tips & Tricks
- Customer Service Lessons Learned from Outsourcing
- What Is the Difference Between a Hobby and a Business?
- The UX of LearningArt and the Web: Form | Think Vitamin
- Designing Websites with SEO and Conversions in Mind
- The Neglected Necessities Of Design
- Diving Into Site Search Analytics
- Don't think you'll use Google+? It's only a matter of time
- Email marketing services reviewed
- Emphasis in Design
- Enhancing Design Through Details | Onextrapixel - Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch
- Four Motivational Mind-games for Freelancers
- Five Copywriting Errors That Can Ruin A Company’s Website
- Guy Kawasaki’s 5-Step Guide to Becoming an Enchanting Authority
- Headscape
- 7 Steps to an Email Opt-in Page That Works
- Designers Using Freebies to Grow Their Business
- Helpful Tips & Tools for Web Design Experiments
- How the Art of Screenwriting Can Make You a Better Web Writer
- How To Design Headlines and Subheadings
- How to protect your site from hackers
- How To Sell Your Designs Without The Sales Pitch
- How to Set Freelancing Goals that Really Make Sense
- How to Successfully Localize Your Design Business
- HTML5’s Microdata, Search, and the Collaboration of the Search Giants
- Is Google+ the Ultimate Content Marketing Platform?
- CSS3 Bling in the Real World
Even more articles that caught our attention:
- Is It Time to Rethink Website Navigation?
- Is Your Social Media Strategy Stalling Because You’re Not Doing This One Thing?
- It’s Official: IE Users Have a Lower IQ!
- Lessons Learned: Productivity Tips For Running A Web Design Business
- Living a Dual Life - A View on the Coding Designers Debate
- Marketing 101: The Sales Process
- Popular Mistakes in Universal Web Design
- Process. - Russian Carpet
- Quoting a Ballpark: Home Run or Strikeout?
- Reasons Why Designers Should Try Google+
- Reasons Why Some Web Designers Use Monochromatic Color Scheme
- Responsive Web Design
- Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design Strategies
- Ribbons and tags in web design
- Set Aside Time to Worry to Reduce Stress and Anxiety
- Seth's Blog: The heckler
- Should Freelancers Worry About Bad Reviews?
- Streamline Your Design Workflow | Think Vitamin
- Techniques For Gracefully Degrading Media Queries
- The 7 Deadly Sins of SEO for Business Owners
- The Best Email Newsletters for Designers
- The do's and don'ts of Flash
- The Fold Exists but Does it Matter?
- The Medium Is The Message
- Be Inspired, But Don't Copy
- The Ultimate Guide to On-Page Optimization
- Things Worth Paying For as a Freelancer
- Trying to Navigate Website Navigation
- Unique Selling Proposition as It Relates to Freelance Designers
- Unity in Design » General, Layout
- Useful Ideas And Guidelines For Good Web Form Design
- Using the Black Box Model to Design Better Websites
- Using Your Voice for Maximum Impact
- Web design inspiration from the history of art
- Web Typography for the Lonely
- Websites Shouldn't Look The Same Across Different Browsers…Here Is Why
- What will the Internet be like in 20 years?
- When to Break Creative Boundaries
- Where You At? The Art of the Half-yearly Review
- Why designers should seek chaos and complexity first
- Why I Don’t Care About SEO
- Why the Client’s Directions Are Even More Important Than You Think
- Why unfollowing is a good thing and why you should make lists on Twitter
- Why You Can't Buy Creativity
- Time vs Money vs Quality
Design/CSS
- Examples of Thumbnail Usage in Web Design
- Balance in Design
- Media Queries
- Tutorials That Will Improve Your CSS Skills and Make You a Better Coder
- Excellent CSS3 Tutorials
- Color Animate Any Shape with a Knockout PNG
- Create a CSS3 Wheel Menu
- Learning To Use The :before And :after Pseudo-Elements In CSS
- Little CSS Stuff Newcomers Get Confused About
- The future of CSS layouts
- Beautiful Minimalist Websites
- Beautiful Navigation Menus
- Interesting 404 Pages
Fonts & Typography
- Freebies
- 40+ High Quality Free Icon Sets in PSD Format
- 50+ PSD UI Web design elements
- 100 Sets of Free Photoshop Brushes
- Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Super Hi-Res Gutted Book Cover Textures
- Funky Cool Star Circle Photoshop And Vector Pattern
- Various Vector Packs You Might Use In Design Projects
Icons
- 14 Fresh Free Icon Sets | Freebies
- 40+ High Quality Free Icon Sets in PSD Format
- Apple OS X Lion Buttons in CSS | Improve your UI | Pixify
- E-Commerce Icon Set | Web Icon Set
- Google Plus free interface Icons
- Freebie: Professional E-Commerce Icons Set (20 Icons) - Smashing Magazine
- Social Postage Stamps | MediaLoot
- Wooden Social: Free Icon Set
Photoshop
- 50 Free High Quality PSDs | SpyreStudios
- Creating Reusable & Versatile Background Patterns
- Freebie Friday: 5 Leaves and Branches Brush Set | BittBox
jQuery
- 7 jQuery Plugins You Might Not Know
- 25 Useful jQuery Tooltip Scripts
- Chosen - makes select boxes better
- Freebie: Responsive jQuery Slider Plugin Flexslider
- Grumble
- Orbit and Reveal: jQuery Plug-Ins For Image Sliders and Modal Windows
Resources
- 7 Boilerplates, Templates & Resets for a Fresh Start
- CSS Lint
- Dummy HTML snippets for webdesigners
- Fount · Identify any web font you see.
- Google Web Fonts
- NoisePNG - Generate noisy PNG-images with alpha-transparency
- One Page Apps I Actually Use
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