July 2009′s Monthly Mother Lode of MacDaddy Links!

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July 2009′s Monthly Mother Lode of MacDaddy Links!

This is it! For all you linkmeisters, the ultimate roundup of this past month’s MacDaddy links! You can get the same links in the weekly roundups but I thought it might be helpful for some to have them all in one place at the end of each month. Loosely organized by categories, these are the links I have found useful and bookmarked myself out of the thousands I have discovered in my online travels throughout this month.

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Enjoy!

FREEBIES

Free downloads I found useful
Yummy Envato Freebies: Modern Web UI Set + More!
Helveticons
72 Sets of Free Social Bookmarking Icons
Free Pattern and Texture Resources For Web Designers
25 High Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designs
Another great list of free social icons
Social Network Icon Pack · Komodo Media
39 Amazing New Social Media Icon Sets
40 Free High Quality Hand-drawn Fonts
20+ High-Quality Free Fonts for Retro and Vintage Design
45 Mega Free Social Icon Sets
60+ Free Fonts for Big, Bold and Beautiful Headlines

FREELANCING

Tips & Tricks & Info to Build Your Freelance Business
9 Marketing Tips from a Six-Year Old’s Lemonade Stand
Who Else Wants Higher Paying Clients?
5 Must-Have Qualities to Become a Top Freelancer
3 Stereotypical Clients and How to Handle Them
8 Days to Become a Stress-Free Freelance Designer
12 Tips on Pricing your Web Work
The ‘Hows’ of Pricing Your Design Work
Keeping Freelance Finances Straight: Opening a 2nd Bank Account
My Secrets To Successful Client Relationships As A Freelance Designer

DROPPING KNOWLEDGE

Design articles from which I learned new, better or alternative ways to do things
10 strike plan to grease your site for speed
3 Innovative Ways To Show Off The Social Buzz In Your WordPress Comments
15+ CSS Tips and Tricks
60+ Must Have jQuery Toolbox
What to Include In Your Design Contracts
30 Handy Cheat Sheets and Reference Guides for Web Professionals
10 Handy WordPress Comments Hacks
30 Information Packed UX and IA Resources
Best free PHP learning resources for beginners
The longest list of CSS frameworks you probably ever seen
10 Greatest Web Design Tools for Web Standards
CSS3 box-shadow property
Ten Simple Rules for Choosing the Perfect CMS + Excellent Options
Different Ways To Format CSS
12 Essential Security Tips and Hacks for WordPress
Beyond Design, 10 Skills Designers Need to Succeed Now
55+ Questions to ask when designing a logo
Does Your Design Flow?
150 Worth Knowing Web Developer Tools and Techniques
27 Must-Have Starter Kits For Web Designers
100 Amazing Design Blogs To Subscribe To
Free Website Style Guide Photoshop Template
12 Essential WordPress Plugins And Why They’re Useful
HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using
Recommended Books for your User Experience and Usability Library
Create letterpressed type using only CSS
Four Methods to Create Equal Height Columns
Essential WordPress Hacks to BOOST your Blog
Beautiful CSS: Organizing Your Stylesheets
Protect your privacy on Facebook -10 privacy settings you should consider
7 New Essential CSS 3 Techniques Revealed
8 WordPress Plugins to make your 404 error pages user friendly & efficient
12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo
45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires
Five Minute Upgrade – Making Your Design Pop
Best Practices For Effective Design Of “About us”-Pages
10 informative web design presentations
10 Principles Of Navigation Design And Why Quality Navigation Is So Critical
Create The Fanciest Dropdown Menu You Ever Saw
The Ultimate Round-Up of Fireworks Tutorials and Resources (yes, I use Fireworks)
The Definitive Guide to Using Negative Margins
50+ Different Ways To Vastly Improve Your WordPress Blog
Designing "Read More" And "Continue Reading" Links
9 Characteristics of Well-Designed E-Commerce Websites
13 Tips For A Better E-Commerce Website
21 Amazing CSS Techniques You Should Know
5 Ways to Become a Better Designer, Right Now
10 Simple Ways to Make Life Easier for Your Website’s Users
HTML 5 Reset Stylesheet
How to Make Your Web Design Stand out from the Crowd

TWITTALICIOUS

ROUNDUPS

Yes, those all-important lists and roundups of inspirations, showcases and more.
25 extraordinary typography illustrations
40 Most Creative Business Cards You Will Ever See
50 Social Service and Bookmarking Icon Sets for Bloggers
The Ultimate A-Z of the Best Design and Development Related Sites
55 Niche Web Design Galleries for Your Inspiration
The Big Collection of Apothecary Inspiration
In choosing a CMS: 40+ Great CMS Theming Tutorials
90+ Outstanding Layout Designs For Inspiration
16 Gorgeous Web Safe Fonts To Use With CSS
40 Eye-Catching Registration Pages
Simple Web Design: 75 Sites Featuring Minimalist Interfaces
1000+ Free Grunge Background Textures
57 Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires
40 Free and Essential Web Design and Development Books from Google
The Logos of Logo Designers
40 Great Adobe AIR Applications for Designers and Developers
80+ Texture Resources for Designers
101 Killer WordPress Plugins to Meet Anyone’s Needs
50 Creative and Inspiring 404 Pages
Business Card Design: 100+ Creative Examples, Useful Tutorials and Templates
Essential Checklists For Successful Website Launches
100 Outstanding Login Forms
26 Websites for Tutorials Starting out in Website Design & Development
Top Ten Effective Habits of a Highly Successful Networker
Design Your Own Icons – 25 Tutorials and Articles Designers MUST Have
15 great navigation design resources
50 Best-Of Designer’s (NEW) Download Picks and Resources
14 Brilliant Tools for Evaluating Your Design’s Colors
Tons of Web Design, Development And Inspirational Great Articles
25 Incredibly Useful WordPress Cheat Sheets & Checklists
85 Resources providing NEED to HAVE Photoshop Brushes
Web Design Tutorials: The Ultimate Roundup
54 Brilliant Wordplay Logos For Inspiration
80+ Must-Read Design Blogs to Enhance your Creativity and your Career
20 Ways To Promote Yourself As A Web Designer
7 MooTools Plugins You Should Use on Every Website
5 Must Read Career Blogs for Web Designers
60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers
107 WordPress Twitter Plugins
30 Essential Tools for Web Designers
20+ Resources and Tutorials for Creative Forms using CSS
30 WordPress Development Tutorials
50 Ways to Get Your Site Noticed
Arbenting’s Weekly Inspiration and Best of the Web #11
160+ Mega Web Design Tutorial Roundup
75 Beautiful Free Social Bookmarking Icon Sets
Massive Compilation of Designer Tools
Mega CSS Resource Roundup
E-Commerce Icons Collection
WordPress Resources – 48 Resources, Tips, Tricks & Themes
200+ Free Exclusive Vector Icons: ‘Primo’
Essential List of Resources for Graphic Designers – Part 1
Ultimate Collection of Smoke Effect Tutorials,Brushes and Textures
July 2009, 50+ Bookmarks To Collect the Best Of Web
52 Really High Quality Free Fonts For Modern And Cool Design
45+ Minimal Web Design Examples
Loads of Essential PHP Tools & Resources For Web Developers
Roundup of CSS Grid Generators & CSS Grid Layout Generators

TWITTALICIOUS

SOCIAL MEDIA MADNESS

Articles and info about the social media rollercoaster ride
The A-B-C’s of social media
StumbleUpon Guide to Discovering New Sites
Need a job? Show them you can Twitter
The Razorfish Social Influence Marketing Report
Be Stubborn With Your Social Media Vision, but Flexible With Your Plan
Should You Hire a Social Media Expert?
10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media
12 Ways to Use LinkedIn Today
35 Tips for getting started with social media
The Ready, Fire, Aim, Reload Strategy for Social Media Success
When is outsourcing social media okay and when is it not
SAP Social Media Guidelines 2009
Social Media Explained Visually
New Technology Does Not Require New Manners
Consistent branding for social media marketing
3 Common Social Media Mistakes
Social Media Profiles for Online Reputation Management
How to create a fanpage for your business on Facebook
Measurement Strategies For 5 Social Media Goals
Understanding Facebook’s Vanity URLs, Profiles, Groups, and Pages
Yes, Your Social Media Strategy Needs Design
20+ mind-blowing social media statistics
23 top social media tips, strategies and techniques from corporate America
An Alternative Approach to Measuring Social Media ROI
How I Disconnected From Social Media For A Day – And Survived!

SEO TIPS

Ways to optimize your website for search engine goodness
The Ultimate List of Basic SEO Resources for a Kick-Ass Start
Back to Basics: 13 Things to Know SEOwise as a Web Designer
44 Top SEO Blogs
9 Must-do WordPress SEO Tips that you might have missed
150+ killer SEO tips
A Dozen Don’ts for SEOs

EVERYTHING ELSE

A hodge podge of stuff that doesn’t fit in the above categories
18 Powerful Linking Strategies – Internal, Inbound, & Outbound Linking
7 Steps to successful migration from Blogger to WordPress – Daily SEO blog
Cameron Adams on Designing Google Wave [Design Principles]
10 Steps to Advanced Keyword Research
Creating Movements
25 Essential Reads for Web Pros
5 Reasons Freelancers Need to Blog
How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself
An A to Z Smorgasbord of Overused Graphic Concepts and Resources
Web 0.2 in the Web 2.0 World
10 Productivity Tips That Work Surprisingly Well
How to Client-Proof Your Work Schedule
Passive Income for Freelancers: Build Today for a Strong Tomorrow
Freelance Design Contracts and Templates for Designers
Do Email Newsletters Have a Place in Freelancing?
How to Get Web Design Clients: Five Factors You Must Address
Pattern Recognition with Google Analytics
10 Usability Lessons from Steve Krug’s Don’t Make me Think
3 Super Simple Ways To Increase Your Visitors And 40 New Places to Spread Free Your Articles
PR 2.0 will double your workload
Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Great Designers Steal?
Small Business Marketing Does Not Work for Freelancers
Online consumers trust real people, not companies
Pricing Skills and Services as a Freelancer: Part 2, Tips and Quotes
What Happened To Accountability?
Marketers: Consumers Just Aren’t That Into You
How to Handle a Missed Deadline
Top 18 Self-Promotion Tips for Web Designers
Tips for Starting your Own Web Development Business
How To Charge More For Your Freelance Projects
Search Engine Traffic vs Social Media Traffic? Which is Better?
11 Handy Tools for Websites Analysis
Resources for Authenticity: Being vs. Understanding
Pricing your skills and services as a freelancer: Part 1, Negotiation Theory
24 Most Ridiculously Thought Out Storefront Signs
13 Tips To Skyrocket Your Marketing Campaign
20 Questions To Ask Clients Prior To Designing A Logo
How to Turn Your Blog Into a Business
Timing Is A Critical Success Factor for Blog Posts
Ways For Designers To Work for a More Productive Workday
The Untapped Marketing Technique: Your Personality
10 Excellent Services To Get Feedback For Your Design Works

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!

Categories Weekly Links | Tags: bkmacdaddy designs, creative, freelance, Graphic Design, links, resources, Social Media, tools, Twitter, Web Design

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Nice!!! I will just bookmark your site to delicious so then I could come back for more
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Wonderful list! Great for resources.
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These link collections are getting bigger and better, thanks for including my Layout Designs For Inspiration.
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great list macdaddy a huge one. stumbled
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Awesome list! Nicely organized.