Resource Train March 2013
03/03/13 10:38
It's been a slow train coming and a long train running but now it's finally docked, switch the world to pause and come explore this uneartly wealth of metaphysical data mined from the universal backwaters of web design these last few metaphorical lifetimes. There are some valuable gems in here that will enrich you in more ways than one.
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Roundup articles that caught our attention:
- 3 Alternative Solutions to Replace the Google Feedburner Service
- 3 Best Ways to Say No
- 3 Storytelling Tips From "Breaking Bad" Creator Vince Gilligan
- 10 Laws of Productivity
- 10 Ways to Build Authority as an Online Writer
- A Better Way to Practice
- A Customer Development Process for WordPress Developers
- Being Real Builds Trust
- Caring for Your Introvert
- Changing Perspective: A New Look At Old Problems
- Content Marketing: How to Build an Audience that Builds Your Business
- Could Bad SEO Bring Down Your Business?
- CSS Baseline: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
- How an Enterprising Author Sold a Million Self-Published Books
- How Google’s PageRank Algorithm Screwed the Online Writer (and What They Did to Fix It)
- How To Accomplish More By Doing Less
- How to Write an Effective Freelancer About Page
- Implementing Off-Canvas Navigation For A Responsive Website
- What Ate the Periodical? A Primer for Web Geeks
- How to Analyze Your Facebook Insights
- How to Bake Content Strategy into Your Web Design Process
- How to Create More Profitable Websites
- In search of the perfect radius
- Internet Users Demand Less Interactivity
- Is It Time for Content Marketers to Abandon Facebook?
- Sara Wachter-Boettcher: The Emerging Field of Content Strategy
- Six Sales Axioms to Help You Win More Business
- Step-By-Step Landing Page Copywriting
- Stop chasing screen resolutions
- Typography affects the quality of your marketing communications
- Ultimate list of Google Authorship resources
- Useful JavaScript Libraries and jQuery Plugins For Web Developers
- Viewport Resizer: a Better Responsive Web Design Bookmarklet
- What does the future hold for the mobile industry?
- What Every Content Marketer Needs to Know about Mobile Marketing
- What Freelancers Need to Know About Google Analytics
- What Is Content Marketing, and Why Does Your Business Need It?
- What’s In Your Sales Funnel?
- What’s old is new again when it comes to SEO essentials
- What’s the Deal with Pop Tarts? Jerry Seinfeld Explains How to Write a Joke
More articles that caught our attention:
- 5 Quick Ways To Improve Your Website's Usability
- 5 Reasons Why You Should Never Drop Your Price
- 6 Good Tips for Your Freelance Design Contracts
- A 53-Installment Content Marketing Course (Free, and Right Here)
- A is for Audience | Stemmings
- Designing Contracts for the XXI Century
- Analysis of a Landing Page
- Are you being Clear, or Clever?
- Creating Exciting And Unusual Visual Hierarchies
- CSScomb: Sorting CSS Properties, The Better Way
- Deposits to Start Work: Deciding How Much to Ask For
- Browser Testing Becomes Easier with modern.IE
- Designing For The Reading Experience
- Email Marketing: How to Master the Campaign Platform of Kings
- Happily Ever After: How To Build Long-Term Client Relationships
- Happy Birthday, Bukowski: On Going All The Way
- Uncle Sam Wants You (to Optimize Your Content for Mobile)
- Browserhacks
- How to Be a Better Procrastinator
- How To Build A Trustworthy Website
- How To Create Your First iPhone App (2012 Edition)
- How to Weave a Story that Instantly Captivates Your Audience
- Understand the Favicon
- Latest Social Media Research Findings: How They Affect Freelancers
- Lessons We Learned from Our Biggest UX and Design Mistakes
- Logical Breakpoints For Your Responsive Design
- Stop Costing and Start Pricing
- Strong SEO Strategies: Social Signals, Co-Occurrence & More
- “Write Every Day” is Bad Advice: Hacking the Psychology of Big Projects
- Style, hand pick & download icons of your choice.
- Reinventing Consumer Capitalism – Screw Business as Usual
- The Inconvenient Truth About SEO
- The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time
- The New CSS3 Relative Font Sizing Units
- The new design methodologies
- The opportunities and challenges of responsive design
- The progress element
- This Is Responsive | Tips, Resources and Patterns for Responsive Web Design
- Three Basic Elements of Content that Spreads
- Top Design Trends Business Websites Should Avoid
- What The Heck Is SEO? A Rebuttal
- When You Shouldn’t Use Fitts’s Law To Measure User Experience
- Where will I see you in 6 months? | Graphic Design Blender
- Why Content Marketing is the New Branding
- Why The Fold Is A Myth - And Where To Actually Put Your Calls To Action
- Why You Need a Seriously Fast Website
- wireframe.cc - minimal wireframing tool
- Yaron Schoen - But what about soul?
- You Already Know How To Use It
Even more articles that caught our attention:
- 6 User Experience Statistics You Should Pay Attention To
- 7 Pricing Strategies Based on Research Studies
- 7-Step Process All Designers Should Follow To Complete Every Project
- 10 Years of Teehan +Lax
- 12 Common Online Video Marketing Mistakes
- A 6-Step Content Marketing Research Process
- Mo’ Pixels Mo’ Problems
- Advanced LinkedIn Techniques for Getting More Clients
- Book Review: The Scientific Sherlock Holmes
- Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
- Dig deep into CSS linear gradients
- Divide Your Writing Project into Manageable Tasks
- Give a crap. Don’t give a fuck.
- Giving Our Clients The Best Deal In Mobile
- Adding A Personal Touch To Your Web Design
- It’s a Write/Read Mobile Web by Luke Wroblewski
- The Web Aesthetic
- Best practices for navigation on the mobile we
- Encouraging Better Client Participation In Responsive Design Projects
- Explore – One of the great things about [journalism today]...
- Five steps to gettin’ flexy in responsive web design
- Four signs of lazy marketing – and how to fix them
- Guy Kawasaki: Google+ Is The Mac Of Social Networks
- Get Over Yourself and Get On Google+
- How to Create Content Maps for Planning Your Website’s Content
- How to find your USP
- How To Guarantee Your Income With Agile Billing
- How to Use Responsive Web Design to Support Old Browsers
- Looking Beyond Common Media Query Breakpoints
- Making A Better Internet
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Make the web faster with mod_pagespeed, now out of Beta
- Perhaps Your Site Isn't Illegal in Europe?
- Re:Focus: How To Innovate Like A Shark
- The Designer Will Make It Pretty
- The Essentials of Web Design That Works
- The Immersive Web And Design Writing
- The Personal Disquiet of Mark Boulton
- The right size of legalese: 5 design contracts for diverse needs
- The top 50 books for web designers and developers
- There Is No Mobile Internet!
- Think Again: Assumptions About Mobile To Reconsider
- Why Email Marketing is King - Arthur Middleton Hughes
- Why Should Web Design Be A Profession?
What, even more articles?
- 8 writing triggers you should never ignore
- 9 Amazing CSS Rules that Save Designers and Developers
- 9 mistakes designers make when creating a logo
- 20 Must See Infographics For Web Designers
- A 3-Step Process for Painless Keyword Research
- Responsive Comping: Obtaining Signoff without Mockups
- A roundup of great icon fonts
- Achieving Online Video Success in 6 Steps
- Avoiding The Pitfalls Of Free
- Bandwidth Media Queries? We Don't Need ’Em!
- Best Google Web Fonts
- Gallery of free HTML snippets for Twitter Bootstrap.
- Your Content, Now Mobile
- everyfuckingwebsite.com
- Finding Your Tone Of Voice | Smashing UX Design
- Freelancers: it’s not you, it’s them
- A List Apart: Articles: The Infinite Grid
- Get Converting! Surefire Tips For Increasing Website Goal Conversion
- Google+ Hangouts For Business
- How to Keep Your Audience Interested by Writing Long-Term Story Arcs
- How to Raise Your Freelance Pay Rates in the Next 60 Days
- How to upsell your clients
- Renata Salecl: The Paradox of Choice
- Responsive web design: the war has not yet been won
- Retiring The Portfolio Screenshot
- Riding Out the Storm as a Freelancer
- The 5 Most Persuasive Words in the English Language
- The Best of Copyblogger in 2012
- The Code Side Of Color
- The Science of Why Comment Trolls Suck
- The Semantic, Responsive Navicon
- The State of Facebook: What’s Working Now |
- The Surprising Secret to Selling Yourself - Heidi Grant Halvorson
- The Synergy Between Web Design and SEO
Freebies & Icons
- 50 of the Best PSD Freebies
- Art Professions Icon Set (34 Icons, PNG)
- Best Free UI PSDs of 2012
- Free Christmas Icon Set (10 Quality Icons, 256×256px PNG)
- Free Download: Web Icon Set
- Free Icons: Candy UI Icon Set
- Free PSD UI Kit: Super Buttons
- Chunky Pika Icon Set (42 Icons, PNG, AI)
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Resource Train August 2012
25/08/12 21:58
Bigfoot News
Now that my Olympian dreams lie thrashing in the dust I no longer have a valid excuse to bodyswerve my responsibility to the horde of Bigfoot users who would have me fashion a Bigfooter that is wholly responsive to their device needs.
To this end — and rather than reinvent the wheel — I have held extensive discussions with Stacks Supremo Joe Workman, who has kindly granted me permission to incorporate his Responsive Layout Stacks in my Responsive Suite of Bigfooter Templates. This will mean that as long as you have Joe's Responsive Layout Stacks installed, the new Responsive Bigfooters will respond responsively. Expect more news later in September.
In the meantime, here's this month's Intergalactic Resource Train, where you'll find some great articles to inspire your weeks ahead.
Roundup articles that caught our attention:
- 3 Strategies for Determining a Project Budget for Clients
- 5 Economic Trends that Affect Freelancers
- 5 Lessons Learned About My Finances as a Freelancer
- 7 Habits of Highly Creative Minds
- 7 Proactive Ways to Promote Your Design Services
- 7 Ways to Come Up With New Ideas, Backed by Psychology
- 8 Habits Of Conversion-Focused Copywriters
- 8 Steps To Knock Out An Impossible Punch List
- 10 Reasons Why Your Content Doesn’t Attract Links
- 10 things you need to know about Google Panda and Penguin
- 17 Great Wireframing Tools for Web Designers
- 25+ Professional Resources for Getting Your Book Published
- 101 Ways to Improve Your Freelance Brand
- A filmmaker’s guide to a better website
- A Case for Responsive Résumés
- A Minimum Viable Service: A Better Way to Start Freelancing
- Are You Trapped in a "Shadow Career"? The Artist vs The Addict
- Ars Technica fights through hassles to sell John Siracusa’s OS X review as an ebook
- Asking for the Budget: A Flawed Approach?
- Better Product Pages: Turn Visitors Into Customers
More articles that caught our attention:
- Product Management for the Web
- Can negative SEO really get your site penalized?
- Choosing a Business Name that Acts as a Marketing Tool
- Community: The best local SEO strategy you’re not using
- Content: A Blessing, A Bubble, A Burden
- Dear Web User: Please Upgrade Your Browser
- Design for Readability
- Design Tip: Never Use Black
- Designing For Device Orientation: From Portrait To Landscape
- Give and take: user engagement with mobile sites
- How Content Creators Benefit From The New SEO
- How to Generate Good Ideas
- How to Qualify Your Business Leads Like a Top Agency
- How to Track if your Sent Email has been Opened in Gmail
- The Psychology of Color Discover why certain colors are used and when.
- Login vs Sign In
- Old Browsers Are Holding Back The Web
- Overcome Writer's Block Forever
- Should You Go with Your Gut?
- 3 tips for PNG optimization
- 7 Tips for Creating Your Own Destiny
- HTML5: Don't Believe the Hype Cycle
- Motivate Yourself in 30 Seconds
- The Art Of Staying Up To Date
- The Difference Between Information Architecture and UX Design
- Towards A Retina Web
- Why Failure Is the Foundation of Innovation
Even more articles that caught our attention:
- Do fonts affect people's opinions?
- Do Mobile And Desktop Interfaces Belong Together?
- Freelancer's Guide to Building a Brand Identity from Scratch
- From Business Plan to Business Planning
- Future of Books & Publishing
- Get More Engagement on Your Facebook Page
- Getting Real: Copywriting is Interface Design
- How to choose a colour scheme
- How to Get Your Clients to Write Their Own Quotes
- How to Live a Recommendable Life
- How to Take Time Off and Actually Earn More
- .htaccess For All
- HTML5 Tutorials for Keeping Your Design Skills Tight
- It’s Time To Stop Blaming Internet Explorer
- Perils of Google Panda and Penguin & How To Overcome Them
- Power of Consistency: 5 Rules
- Responsive Advertising
- Secrets of a Master Negotiator
- Seth's Blog: Seven marketing sins
- Setting Breakpoints in Responsive Design
- The Beginner’s Guide to Creating Landing Page Content that Sticks
- The Best Times to Tweet and Post to Facebook
- The One Question Your Prospects Really Want You to Answer
- Pixar story rules
- The Smart Way to Accomplish Big Goals
- Top 25 Lessons Learned In 25 Years Of Freelancing
- True Secret to Success: Gratitude
- Two Lists You Should Look at Every Morning
- W3CLove :: Top 100 markup validation errors
- Web Design Client Follow-Up: Post Site Launch Strategy
- What Bad Designers Know That You Don't
- What web designers can learn from music album artwork
- Why The Next Big Thing Won't Come From A Fortune 500 Company
- Why Your Clicks Don’t Convert to Clients – and a Quick Fix
What, even more articles?
- Sizing type with Lucas Sequences
- Speed Awareness Month - Make the Web a Faster Place
- Strategies for Effective Tweeting: Data on best practices for Tweeting
- The 8 Laws of Being of Service
- The Art Of Staying Up To Date
- The Best Google Features You're Probably Not Using
- The Personality Layer
- The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers
- The Strive for Balance is a Journey Not a Destination
- The top responsive web design problems ... and how to avoid them!
- The Ultimate Productivity Tool
- Time management: How an MIT postdoc writes 3 books, a PhD defense, and 6+ peer-reviewed papers
- Tips For A Finely Crafted Website
- Typography Is The Foundation Of Web Design
- Use YouTube Videos to Turbocharge Your Marketing
- Useful Legal Documents For Designers
- What Everyone Needs To Know About Good, Bad & Bland Links
- What's your content marketing plan of attack? [infographic]
- Why All Freelancers Really Need a LinkedIn Profile
- Work, Life And Side Projects
- Coding Q&A With Chris Coyier: Responsive Sprites And Media Query Efficiency
Freebies & Icons
- 30 Sets of Free Bag Icon to Download
- 30 Sets of Free Box Icon
- 30+ Unique Free Social Media Icons Sets
- 40 High Quality Free PSD Icon Files
- A Roundup of Free Sport Icons for Designers
- A Collection of High Quality Free Food and Drink Icons
- Collection Of Free Download Web Icon Sets For Designers
- Freebie: Academic Icon Set (10 Icons + PSD Source)
- Lovelicon Set (PSD/PNG
- Ultimate Collection of Free Hand Drawn Icons:27 Excellent Sets
Resources
- Free Terms of Service & Free Privacy Policy Generator
- FFFFALLBACK - A simple tool for bulletproof web typography.
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Resource Train June 2012
17/06/12 12:21
We've been bending time and folding the universe quite a bit since we last crash landed on Terra Weaver One. Blame it on galactic storms and black holes on the track. But our travels have not been in vain. We return this time with a wealth of precious links and resources mined and harvested from our internautical exploration of the nebulous backwaters of universal webdesign. Power up your processors.
Roundup articles that caught our attention:
More articles that caught our attention:
Even more articles that caught our attention:
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Miscellany
CSS
Freebies & Icons
Resources
Roundup articles that caught our attention:
- Damn Good Advice' From One Of The Real 'Mad Men
- Create Zenhabits
- A List Apart: Articles: The Best Browser is the One You Have with You
- Insights You Can Learn About Your Freelance Business from Google Analytics
- Reasons Why Online Advertising is the Worst Model for Your Startup
- Simple Ways to Turn Your Website Archive into Profitable Books and eBooks
- Ways to Fix Your Broken Marketing
- Primary Questions to Ask a Potential Client
- Reasons to Spend Time with Other Freelancers
- Reasons Why Metaphors Can Improve the User Experience
- Marketing Secrets of the Master Sommeliers
- Features that Make Google+ Better than Facebook and Twitter
- Social Media Mistakes to Avoid
- Reasons Why You Should Quit Blogging
- Qualities of Successful Entrepreneurs
- Lessons Seth Godin Can Teach You About Blogging
- A Ridiculously Simple Way to Get More Revenue and Build Your Audience
- Essential Elements of a Well-Designed Marketing Ebook
- Websites for Code Snippets
- Negotiation Tips Freelance Writers Can Use to Earn More
- Ways to Make Idea Generation a Daily Habit
- Grammar Goofs That Make You Look Silly
- Pricing Principles for Freelancers
- The Best Alternatives to Helvetica
- 44 Must Read Resources on Content Marketing
- 48 Elements of Persuasive Written Content
- A (not so) jilted English professor’s guide to creative web design
- Application Cache is a Douchebag
- Fanfare for the common breakpoint
- Applying Macrotypography For A More Readable Web Page
- Author Erin Kissane On Content Strategy
- Big Design in Small Spaces
- Color and cultural design considerations
- Cookies law changed at 11th hour to introduce 'implied consent'
- Change aversion: why users hate what you launched (and what to do about it)
- Designing With Audio: What Is Sound Good For?
- Docracy - Free Legal Documents
- Effective Presentation of a Website’s Navigation
- Focus on the right-hand side
- Footer Design Trends
- Forget the perfect logo
- Freelance Guidelines for Getting Paid on Time
- The Procrastinator’s Guide to Creating a Cover Image for Your Facebook Timeline
More articles that caught our attention:
- Tinker, Tailor, Content Strategist
- 8 Reasons Users Don’t Fill Out Sign Up Forms
- 10 Trends to Beat Digital Darwinism
- Artistic Distance
- 5 Steps to Getting More Targeted Website Traffic with SEO Copywriting
- 12 Breeds of Clients and How to Work with Them
- A 5-Step Technique for Producing Ideas circa 1939
- Applying Dieter Ram’s ten principles to web design
- 58 Ways to Create Persuasive Content Your Audience Will Love
- Are comments 'bad business' for online media?
- Bing & Google Recommend Responsive Web Design
- Build a Better Freelance Business with Strategic Branding
- Challenge: More Profits in Less Time
- 20 Mistakes that Will Undermine Your Call to Action and Cost You Sales
- Clients or Grinders: The Choice Is Yours -- Understanding the Three Market Types
- Getting Clients
- Common Typography Mistakes
- Designing Engaging And Enjoyable Long-Form Reading Experiences
- Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"
- Get More Fans: 5 Tips to Promote your Facebook Page
- How the 5 Ws of Journalism Can Help You Become a Better Freelancer
- How To Choose The Right Face For A Beautiful Body
- How to Craft an Exciting Marketing Message … Even for a Boring Product
- How to Prevent Scope Creep
- Ignore the design, please
- Is Responsive Web Design the Right Path to Minimalism?
- Jason Fried, 37 Signals, Marketing by Sharing
- Keep Scammers & Bad Clients Out of Your Freelancing Business
- Live from #SXSW: How to become a powerful visual storyteller
- Microsoft and Skype set to allow backdoor eavesdropping
- Migrating Side Projects into your Work Schedule
- MUD: Minimum Usable Design
- No Cookie Law - Hate the new EU cookie law?
- Social Media: LinkedIn vs. Facebook
- Startups, This Is How Design Works
- Stephen King’s 20 Tips for Becoming a Frighteningly Good Writer
- Respect Thy Typography
- ROT: The Low-Hanging Fruit of Content Analysis
- Rounded Corners and Why They Are Here to Stay
- Separate mobile site vs. responsive design
- Seth's Blog: When should we add marketing?
- Social Media Is A Part Of The User Experience
- The Copyblogger “Secret” to Creating Better Content
Even more articles that caught our attention:
- 10 Ways Specificity Helps You Build a Profitable Audience
- For a Future-Friendly Web
- Deal With Stress in a Positive Way
- Dear ICO: This Is Why Web Developers Hate You
- Design Process In The Responsive Age
- Engagement ain’t nothing but a number – why 1% isn’t good enough
- 21 Warning Signs You’re Becoming a Social Media Snob
- Helping Your Clients Build an Effective Mobile Strategy
- How One Man’s Passion Created 500,000 Profitable Fans
- How to Break Away From Boring Design Standards
- How to Craft an Offer That Can’t Be Refused
- How to Leverage Inbound Marketing to Make Clients Claw At Your Door
- Say No to Faux Bold
- Device-Agnostic Approach To Responsive Web Design
- How to Use Webinars to Create Great Relationships with Prospects and Customers
- Idea fail: why it’s hard to push innovation
- Improving 404 Page Design
- The Upside of Being Ordinary And Obvious
- Is The Way We Communicate With Clients All Wrong?
- Ken Burns: On Story on Vimeo
- Lists of Note
- Make this very important change to your design contract today!
- Not Just Pretty: Building Emotion Into Your Websites
- Perfect Pricing Part Deux — More money from fewer sales
- Piecing Together Your Online Marketing Puzzle
- Posting a price list on your web site: does it work or fail?
- Two, Not Three: Boost Sales By Offering Less
- Quick Course On Effective Website Copywriting
- Read to Lead: The Secret Code for Cracking 'Tough' Books and Reading Above Your Level
- RSS: Your Social Media Monitoring Secret Weapon
- Say it quick, say it well – the attention span of a modern internet consumer
- Selling Isn’t Just for Sales People
- Seth Godin on When You Should Start Marketing Your Product, Service, or Idea
- Setting the Bottom Line for your Web Projects
- Should Web Design and Development Trends Be Focused on Social Networking?
- Six Must Have SEO Basics
- Stock Photos: Pros, Cons, Fixes, and Strange Examples
- Stop Doing the Same Things and Expecting Different Results
- Being Very Good at Anything Involves Being Somewhat Addicted
- Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends
- Taming The Wild Mind
- Technology, Art, And Why The Future Of Branding Is Nonfiction
- Telling stories with your designs
- The "Hell Yes!" Approach To Better, Bolder Decision Makin
- The 10-Minute Technique to Becoming a More Productive Writer
- The Art of Structuring Information Effectively
- The History Of Usability: From Simplicity To Complexity
- The Keys For Keeping Your Brand Relevant In The Post-Occupy Era
- The Ultimate Conversion Optimization Reading List
- The Web Needs to Get Ready for the High-Resolution Future
- UI vs UX: what’s the difference?
- The Naked Marketing Guide to Compelling Copy that Closes Sales
- Why Your Freelancing Business Must Have a Brand
What, even more articles?
- Publication Standards Part 2: A Standard Future
- How to Create an Exceptional Workplace
- Why Your Marketing is Missing the Mark (And How You Can Fix It)
- Redesigning With Personality in Web Design
- Stop the Abuse! 7 Steps to a Well-Trained Client
- Stop Waiting to Be Picked
- Stop Wasting Time with Prospects Who Aren’t Serious
- The 7 Deadly Sins Of Content Promotion
- The 10 Commandments of Landing Pages That Work
- The Art Of Content Marketing
- The Tao Of "No": 3 Guidelines For Politely Declining
- The ultimate guide to web type
- The Un-Cool Virtue That Defines Entrepreneurs
- To Thine Own Brand Be True
- Traditional Advertising is Truly Dead
- Uh-Oh: Science Says Creativity And Dishonesty Go Hand In Hand
- The Ultimate Photoshop Web Design Workspace
- Video Pick: A New Way to Think About Creativity
- What Does It Mean to Have “Balance” in Your Life?
- Why Minimal Web Design Works? Examples and Analysis
- Why Quality is King: Interview with Sonia Simone
- Why smart authors are cutting Amazon out
- The Ultimate Guide to Publishing Your eBook on Amazon’s Kindle Platform
- Why Subtle Typographic Choices Make All The Difference
- Why Working More Than 40 Hours a Week is Useless
- Will Your Freelancing Business Rest in Peace?
- Writing A Creative Brief: Dragging The Right Information Out Of A Client
- You’re a terrible client
- You’re losing clients by committing this one critical web site mistake
Miscellany
CSS
- 20 Fresh CSS3 Tutorials
- Animated Buttons with CSS3
- CSS buttons
- Icon Fonts are Awesome
- Mastering CSS3: 7 Cool text-shadow Samples You Can’t Miss
- Simple Styles for Horizontal Rules
Freebies & Icons
- 25 Gorgeous and Free Badges And Stickers PSD Files
- 40 Useful PSDs From Dribbble
- 80 Free High Quality Social Media Icon Sets
- Preparing for Earth Hour: Vectors, Icons, Stock Photos, and Inspiration
- Subtle Textured Grunge Noise Social Media Icons
- 10 Free Icon Fonts for a New Kind of Web Design
- 50 Amazing Free Icon Sets
- A Clean Mini Social Media Icon Set
- Flat Icons & Icon Fonts
- Free Set of Photography Icons
- Free Zocial Button Set: Social CSS3 Buttons
- Fresh Free Icon Sets
- Mix Collection Of Free Icons For Almost Every Kind of Design Project – 30 Sets
- Web Design Inspiration – 10 Free Icon Sets
- Free Photoshop Patterns
Resources
- hextone: convert hex to rgb
- Demonstrating Responsive Design
- Fool.js — I pity the user!
- IcoMoon
- Infographics and charts - interactive data visualization
- Mixpanel Flow | Mobile and Web Analytics
- Responsive Design Testing
- The Responsinator
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Resource Train March 2012
04/03/12 11:41
Here are the results of our Expeditionary Force's exploration of the universal backwaters of web design these last few aeons.
Roundup articles that caught our attention:
More articles that caught our attention:
Even more articles that caught our attention:
What, even more articles?
Miscellany
Roundup articles that caught our attention:
- 3 Best Ways To Attract Better, Higher Paying Clients
- 3 More Reasons You’re Going to Lose that Sale
- 4 Ways To Increase Productivity & Optimize Your Social Media Schedule
- 5 SEO Trends Writers Should Target in 2012
- 5 Steps To Guarantee Client Payment
- 5 Unbreakable Rules of Landing Page Design
- 6 Steps to a More Marketable LinkedIn Profile
- 8 Quick Tips for Writing Bullet Points People Actually Want to Read
- 10 Hard-Hitting Link Building Tactics That’ll Boost Your Rankings
- 10 Resources for Creating Website Color Schemes
- 13 Inspiring Typography Videos
- 14 Tips to Help You in Your Future Creative Projects
- 21 Times for a Freelancer to Say “No”
- 22 Ways to Create Compelling Content When You Don’t Have a Clue [Infographic]
- 97 Ideas for Building a Valuable Platform
- 98 Content Marketing Articles to Make You an Insomniac
- 100 Ways to Become a Twitter Power User
More articles that caught our attention:
- A Craft Of Consequences: Reader, Writer And Emotional Design
- A Fun Approach To Creating More Successful Websites
- A List Apart: Articles: A Pixel Identity Crisis
- A List Apart: Articles: An Important Time for Design
- A List Apart: Articles: Audiences, Outcomes, and Determining User Needs
- A List Apart: Articles: Every Time You Call a Proprietary Feature “CSS3,” a Kitten Dies
- A List Apart: Articles: Future-Ready Content
- A List Apart: Articles: Pricing Strategy for Creatives
- A List Apart: Articles: The Vendor Prefix Predicament
- Are You Making These 7 Mistakes with Your About Page?
- Are You Making These 8 Marketing Mistakes?
- Be Better at Twitter: The Definitive, Data-Driven Guide
- Building a High Performance Website
- Building a Solid Client Base for Repeat Projects
- Content Chemistry - The Periodic Table of Content
- Content Marketing and the War of Attrition
- Content Marketing Goals Worth Pursuing
- Copywriters: Never try to change your prospects’ minds.
- Creating Consistent Content - A Content Marketing Plan
- Creating Minimalist Designs Makes You a Better Designer
- Dan Kennedy’s Depression-Proofing Lesson
- Google+
- David Mamet’s Master Class Memo to the Writers of The Unit
- Design Masterminds Aral and John's Interesting Debate on Browsers
- Designer Myopia: How To Stop Designing For Ourselves
- Designing for search engine optimization
Even more articles that caught our attention:
- Designing The Well-Tempered Web
- Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps
- Discovering and Focusing on High Leverage Business Tasks
- Do You Make These 5 Common Negotiating Mistakes?
- Does Your Freelance Business Have the “Wow” Factor?
- Effects of Information Overload & How to Deal with it
- Google Panda in Plain English (Infographic
- How To Avoid Imitation When Being Inspired
- How to Create Smarter Content Using Semantic Keyword Research
- How To Deliver Exceptional Client Service
- How to Find and Apply Vision to Your Freelancing Business
- How to say No . . . especially to things you want to do
- How to Set Personal Boundaries When You Work From Home
- Internet Blackout Aftermath - Is the Threat of SOPA/PIPA Over?
- Is Routine Undermining Your Productivity?
- Layering: Multitasking That Actually Works
- Leo Burnett’s Short, Sweet Guide To Creative Satisfaction (And Making Money)
- Making Mondays Work for You
- Mike Matas: A Next-generation Digital Book
- Moral dilemma: My company steals from other creatives
- My Useless Design Portfolio
- On Criticism, Cynicism & Sharpening Your Gut Instinct
- Pictos - using Icon Fonts
- Proposals are for Wimps
- Realism in UI Design
- Redefining Hick's Law
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- Seth's Blog: Reject the tyranny of being picked: pick yourself
- Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'
- Tailor Your Sales Style to Fit Your Clients’ Needs
- Talk Yourself Up … Without Sounding Like an Egomaniac
- The “New” SEO Secret Weapon
- The 5 Most Valuable Places for Keywords on Your Website
- The 5-Step Approach to Gathering and Using Client Testimonials
- The Elements of a Clean Web Design
- The Freelancer’s Ultimate Introduction to Google+ Hangouts
- The Hidden Nuggets of WCAG2: When Not to Use ALT Attributes
- The Lost Art of Becoming Good at Things
- The One Skill that Makes an Online Entrepreneur Unstoppable
- The Problem with SOPA (And How to Stop It)
- The Proxority Principle in Web Design
- The Secret Structure of Great Talks – Video
- Things You Can Do Today to Become a Better Designer
- Three Easy Tips to Help You Effectively Estimate Project Time
- Tips on How To Improve Your Website – Checklist
- To Innovate, You Have To Stop Being A Slave To Dat
- Transactional vs. Consultative Selling: Knowing the Difference Makes All the Difference
- What Makes Someone Leave A Website? The Infographic
- What Should You Charge? 4 Methods to Avoid
- What Successful Products Teach Us About Web Design
- What Zappos Can Teach You About Becoming Irresistible to Customers
- When The Project Is Over – Getting Organized
- Who are You: Freelancer or Business Owner?
- Who decides what gets sold in the bookstore?
- Why Google+ is an Inevitable Part of Your Content Marketing Strategy
- Why Having a Mentor is Important for Freelancers
- With MegaUpload Down, Who’s Next? RapidShare? SoundCloud? DropBox?
- Writing Seductive Offers | Everything You Need To Know In Seven Steps
- Your homepage Call to Action
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- Simple Styles for Horizontal Rules
- Free Photoshop Patterns
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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
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- 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?
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- 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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