Resource Train January 2012
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As we press on with our internautical exploration of the universal backwaters in search of alien nuggets of wisdom that will help us achieve our online ambitions, we continue to harvest samples of our discoveries for your dialectical analysis.
Roundup articles that caught our attention:
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Even more articles that caught our attention:
What, even more articles?
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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 Content
- 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
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- 45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires
- Essential Navigation Checklists for Web Design
- Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
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