It’s been a busy week on the interwebs, full of all kinds of useful new articles and information. This week’s compilation of links is loaded with wonderful tidbits of advice, information, tutorials, downloads, applications and more! I have loosely organized them in topical sections to aid in your browsing.
All of these links are taken from my personal bookmarks I save on Delicious. You can also browse all my Delicious bookmarks HERE. Also be sure to browse my searchable database of all the links I tweet HERE.
*Hint: if you want to receive daily updates of links that I bookmark, all you have to do is subscribe to my RSS feed and they’re yours!
So here are this week’s links. I hope your enjoy them and find them useful.
FREELANCING
Tips & Tricks & Info to Build Your Freelance Business
20 Not-So-Obvious Blogs For Freelancers
Free and Open Source, Cross-Platform Solutions for Freelancers
10 Reasons Why Freelancing is the Best Job Security
Do You Have a Can-Do or a Can’t-Do Attitude?
10 Tips To Help Freelancers Prioritize Tasks
The freelancer’s toolbox: 33 useful apps & websites for the freelance designer
10 Ways To Gain More Design Work by Building Trust and Relationships
35 Useful Twitter Applications a Freelancer can make use of
Landing a Web Development Gig
DROPPING KNOWLEDGE
Design articles from which I learned new, better or alternative ways to do things
3 Easy and Fast CSS Techniques for Faux Image Cropping
7 Rules for Mixing Multiple Fonts in Good Web Design
Become an Awesome WordPress Theme Developer
Style a List with One Pixel
10 Ways to Customize and Personalize your Wordpress Blog
Putting Together a Web Development Toolkit
9 Things You Can’t Forget When Designing a Blog
Practical Tips for Taking Design Inspiration without Copying
Moodboarding Methods for Web Designers
The Encyclopedia of Typographic Contrast
How to Use the FAT-P System to Streamline Your Workflow
CSS: Design Out Of The Box
The Secret to One-Page Designs
Ultimate Guide To Speed Up Your Website
Wordpress Hacks and Tweaks to Visually Empower Your Website
Checklist For Better Forms
WordPress Cheat Sheet
100 Ways To Improve Your Blog
ROUNDUPS
Yes, those all-important lists and roundups of inspirations, showcases and more.
99+ Links To Lists With Even More Links
30 Free Fonts Which Are Perfect For Professional Logo Designs
Clean VERSUS Grunge: Best Full Website Design Tutorials
50 Clever Tutorials and Techniques on Traditional Drawing
75 High-Quality Free Wood Textures
50+ Useful Resources for Web Designers and Developers
20 (More) Daily Sources for Design and Dev News, Tips & Tricks
30+ New & Free Web Tools You Should Know
Top 50 Design Blogs To Get Inspiration
Acrylic Brush Strokes: 57 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes
40+ Business Card Tutorials, PSD Templates and Inspirational Showcases
SOCIAL MEDIA MADNESS
Articles and info about the social media rollercoaster ride
25 Useful Twitter Applications based on window platform
WordPress Enters Real-Time: 7.5 Million Blogs Reach Twitter Speed
Twitter Guide Book
How to track inbound links from your social media profiles (Twitter, Facebook, etc)
Stop Twitter Spam
Social Media is About People, Not Logos
SEO
Tips for better Search Engine Optimization
SEO Software Rank Tracker Review – Check ranks on multiple search engines automatically
17 Ways Search Engines Judge the Value of a Link
EVERYTHING ELSE
A hodge podge of stuff that doesn’t fit in the above categories
5 Ways To Be Incredibly Persuasive On The Web
Pushing Your Blog to the Top — 10 Ways to Make it Happen
Real-Time RSS Feeds Coming Soon to Your Favorite Feed Reader
Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: The Real-Time Web
5 Ways to Pimp Your FireFox Address Bar
8 useful time tracking tools and application
Blogging Focus: Are You Losing Yours?
CSS Wishlist: New Ideas, Debates and Solutions
12 Tricks To Increase Your Firefox Speed By A Noticeable Amount
Do you have some other links you would like to share? Drop a comment or tweet it to me any time. I’d love to discover more!
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Comments ( 2 )
Wow, and you still have time for a family? I think my weekly links wrapup had a whomping 3. Good stuff brian.
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printedproof added these pithy words on
Sep 12 09 at
8:58 am
Hi Brian,
I looked at the title and I thought this one’s good for 5-10 useful links. Then I saw @printedproof’s comment. Wow. Thanks for sharing this extensive (for a weekend post) high-value list, I’ll be checking out the previous ones, too.
Manny
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Emmanuel Gonot added these pithy words on
Sep 13 09 at
12:49 am
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