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:
What, even more articles?
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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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