April's Unstoppable Resource Train
22/04/11 08:55 Filed in: Resource Train
Standing Room Only On This Very Good Friday
Welcome to this month's Resource Train, which is as usual crammed to the rafters with so much webdesign goodness you'll be tempted to lock yourself away in a darkened room and gorge yourself silly on this gargantuan feast of protein-enhanced articles and design-rich resources.
(For those of you already addicted to our daily resource tweets, some of these goodies may be familiar... but by no means all.)
Articles that caught our attention:
- Effective Communication: Getting All You Can Out of What You’ve Got
- Eight Ways to Combine Typefaces
- Seven Questions You Aren’t Asking that Will Cost You the Sale
- Freelance Proposals and How to Make Them Effective
- F*ck You. Pay Me.
- From Leads to Clients: Tips for Increasing Conversion Rates
- Taking Credit Card Payments Online: What’s Involved?
- How to bring in more design clients without dropping your prices
- The Secret Of Successful Minimal Font Usage
- Preventing a Bloated Homepage
- How to Choose a Typeface
- Using “Preventive Medicine” Against Bad Clients
- Relationship Engineering: Designing Attraction
- Looking Beyond Google PageRank: Alternative SEO Metrics
- Useful Dropbox Tips for Designers and Bloggers
- How to Make the Most of Google Alerts
- Use Gestalt Laws to improve your UX
- How to make users scroll down your page
- Secrets to Online Selling
- Tips to Redefine a Freelance Designer
- How to: Go back to Skype 2.8
More articles that caught our attention:
- Thursday Theory: 6 Ways to Make Your Work More Original
- Twitter Marketing Guide: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- Is Your Search For Inspiration Getting in the Way?
- Visual Direction in Web Design
- What You Need to Know About Agile UX
- Lessons from mobile web design
- The Ultimate 20 Usability Tips for Your Website
- When Clients Attack
- The Two Essential Elements of Irresistible Content
- The Simple 5-Step Formula for Effective Online Content
- Why Freelancers Don’t Really Need a Business Plan
- Why IE9 is a Web Designer’s Nightmare
- Will The Dotcom Kingdom Collapse?
- Write Better Copy with Set-ups, Open Loops, and Emotional Payoffs
- Drupal vs Joomla/Mambo vs WordPress: An Experienced Developer’s Perspective
- Designing for the Web
- Curing the Navigation-itis Syndrome
- Crash Course: Design for Startups
- Blasting the Myth of the Fold
- Avoiding Unscoped Work from Unreasonable Clients
- Add a Mobile Landing Page to Your Site
- Active vs. Passive Approach to Design Business Development
- A List Apart: Articles: Orbital Content
Even more articles that caught our attention:
- A List Apart: Articles: Conversation is the New Attention
- A Guide To Seamless Website Redesign
- 5 STEPS TO HTML5
- 7 Basics to Create a Good Design Brief
- 7 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Starting A Project
- 10 Excellent SEO Tips That Will Improve Your Web Design
- 10 Lessons from My First Million-Dollar Launch
- A 6-Step General Process for Producing a Website
- 10 Tips for Troubleshooting a Lackluster Design
- A Commonsense Approach to Improving SEO of Images and Videos
- 13 Serious Mistakes No Freelancer Should Ever Make
- A Designers Guide to Stay Focused
- 15 Tips on How to Retain Designer’s Creativity
- 26 details designers should know about clients before starting a project together
- 113 Design Guidelines for Homepage Usability
- 6 Big Mistakes You Should Avoid When Designing a Website
Fonts & Typography
- A Crash Course in Typography: The Basics of Type
- A Crash Course in Typography: Principles for Combining Typefaces
- A Crash Course in Typography: Pulling It All Together
- 30 Best Creative and Professional Free Fonts For Designers
- CSS Typography: Examples and Tools
- 40+ Beautiful and Fresh Free Fonts for Download
- Design Charts for Better Typography and Color
- Best Free Script Fonts for Download
- Eight Ways to Combine Typefaces
- Handy Collection of Minimalist and Modern Fonts for Designers
- 10 Elegant High-Quality Fonts for Your Designs
Icons
- 25 Best Fresh Icon Sets From 2011 All In One Place
- 25 New Free High Res Icon Sets
- 40+ Free Creative Social Bookmarking Icon Sets
- Free Vector Icons
HTML5
- 5 STEPS TO HTML5
- 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web
- Dive Into HTML5
- HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5 awesome.
- HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML5 today
- HTML5 and CSS3 Cheat Sheets
Photoshop
- Seven Typography Shortcuts for Photoshop
- 20 Photoshop Tutorials for Beginners
- 500+ Free Watercolor Photoshop Brushes
- 30 Time Saving Photoshop Actions
- How to Make Your Freelancing Website More “Cutting Edge”
- The Shy Freelancer’s Guide for Face-to-Face Networking
- Huge Collection Of Abstract Grunge Photoshop Brushes
- 20 Photoshop Video Tutorials
Design/CSS
- 6 Useful CSS Button Recipes You Can Copy & Paste
- Powerful New CSS Techniques and Tools
- Speed Up with CSS3 Gradients
- How to Add Three Dimensional Form to Your Web Design
- Visual Direction in Web Design
jQuery
- 9 jQuery Scripts to Enhance Your Website
- 10 Useful jQuery Plugins
- 165 Awesome jQuery Sliders and Other Useful jQuery Effects
- Attractive Design Enhancing jQuery Plugins
- jQuery postMessage: Cross-domain scripting goodness
- Cross-Browser HTML5 Placeholder Text
- jRumble | A jQuery Plugin That Rumbles Elements
- Lettering.js - A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.
- Useful JavaScript and jQuery Tools, Libraries, Plugins
- 28 Fresh jQuery Tutorials
- Animated Scroll to Top
Resources
- 10 Sites to Download PHP Scripts for Your Dynamic Web Site
- 40+ Useful Free Web Design Elements PSD Files
- A set of Terms and Conditions Relevant to Design Work | Web Resources
- Ceaser - CSS Easing Animation Tool
- Collection Of 600+ Free Ink & Paint Photoshop Brushes
- CopyPasteCharacter.com
- CSS3 Buttons
- Daily Drop Cap
- loads.in - test how fast a webpage loads in a real browser
- lorempixum - placeholder images for every case
- Newsletter Sign-up Forms (PSD)
- Ultimate vector icons set – 512 Icons
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