Monthly Mother Lode of MacDaddy Links: August 2009
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FREELANCING
Tips & Tricks & Info to Build Your Freelance Business
My Secrets About Passive Income
Juggling Multiple Clients
3 Reasons Why Clients Don’t Choose You
Tips for Starting your Own Web Development Business, Part 2: Business Organizations Options
17 Tips for Designers on Starting a Freelance Business
6 Compulsory Qualities for Potential Freelancers
Tips To Bridge The Gap Between Clients And Designers
My Secrets To Successful Client Relationships As A Freelance Designer
Hiring a designer: a client’s perspective
6 Steps to Becoming a Freelancer
Devising your own Freelance Contracts
20 Tools For The Freelance Designer On A Shoestring Budget
17 Vital Tips and Tricks for New Freelancers
9 Ways to Commit Freelance Suicide
When You and Your Client Have Failure to Communicate
Don’t Work for Assholes
When and How to End a Relationship With a Client
9 Tips to Help Freelancers Prepare for a Vacation
6 Simple Ways For Freelancers To Increase Productivity
Time Management Tips for the Busy Freelance Designer
Web Design Cost Calculator
Outsourcing: The Path to Efficiency and Greater Income
Are Vampire Clients Sucking the Life Out of Your Business?
Refreshing Your Freelance Focus, Back-to-School Style
101 Helpful Tips and Tricks for Freelancers
20 Quick Tips For Aspiring Freelancers
How Freelancers Can Use Active Listening to Improve Business
Profitable Passion: Getting paid to do what you love
DROPPING KNOWLEDGE
Design articles from which I learned new, better or alternative ways to do things
Better CSS Navigation Styling
Semi Web Safe Fonts to Spice Up Your Web Designs
The Most 10 Common Mistakes Web Designers Make
Social Bookmarking Link Codes for 33 of the Biggest
Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch
Javascript For Designers: Getting on Your Feet Fast
Front End Design Conference Videos
11 Ways to Get Inspired – See What Best Designers Do
Plugins That Make WordPress Into A Company Intranet
Letterpress: Where, How and Inspiration!
20 Creative Hand Drawn Websites Designs
Colors on The Web: Color Theory for Designers
10 Common Design Flaws that Frustrate Your Website’s Users
Top 10 WordPress Codes Every Designer Should Know
50 Really High Quality Photoshop Navigation Menu Tutorials
40+ Awesome Tutorials and Techniques For WordPress Theme Developers
70 Must-Have CSS3 and HTML5 Tutorials and Resources
Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools
Designing and Developing for the Target Audience
8 Web Usability and Best Practices for Beginners
65 Must-Know CSS Strategies and Tutorials
An introduction to the new tags in HTML 5
Prevent password reset hacking on your WordPress blog
Nifty Navigation Tricks Using CSS
10 Simple Steps to Better Photoshop Performance
10 Important Traits of a Great Blog Design
30 PHP Best Practices for Beginners
Identify The Target Audience
Tutorials, Resources and Tips for Joomla! Template Development
6 Ways To Improve Your Web Typography
The Art of User-Centric Web Design
Practical solutions to hyphenate text on web pages
How to Effectively Organize your Photoshop Layers
Taming Advanced CSS Selectors
7 WordPress Customizations
Sexy HTML List Tricks
Create a Letterpress Effect with CSS Text-Shadow
27 Useful Logo Design Tutorials and Tips
50+ Cheat Sheets for Building WordPress Themes and Plugins
21 Really Useful & Handy PHP Code Snippets
How to implement a mobile version of your blog in three simple steps
Mastering Photoshop With Paths
10 Free sources to create mobile version of your blog or website
Corporate Blog Design: Trends And Examples
Create an Elegant Logo in 7 Easy Steps
Essential Tips for Designing an Effective Homepage
6 Essential tools to check your website Usability
Akismet 101 Guide for All WordPress Users
Build a Featured Posts Section for WordPress
Category Hacks for WordPress Theme Designers
The Top 10 Typography Rules All in One Place
25+ Great HTML 5 Resources to Get You Started
Websites like Wine: CSS Techniques to make a site Better With Age
20 Essential WordPress Caching And Performance Plugins
50 Useful New jQuery Techniques and Tutorials
60 Tutorials Creating High Quality Design Icons
9 WordPress Hacks to Encourage User Interactivity
7 examples of innovative effects and techniques in webdesign
10 Awesome Things To Do With WordPress’ Custom Fields
Essential WordPress Plugin: Add To Facebook
Preventing Widows in Post Titles
@font-face and 15 Free Fonts You Can Use Today
Most useful and must read articles on HTML 5
Identify The Target Audience Goals
20 Vital Techniques & Best Practices For Effective Web Design
Build a Client Development site with WordPressMU
ROUNDUPS
Yes, those all-important lists and roundups of inspirations, showcases and more.
25 Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career
50+ Top Free Icon Resources and Icon Sets for Web Designers
Drop-Down Menu: 30+ Useful Scripts to Enhance Header Navigation
16 Excellent WordPress Security Plugins To Secure Your Blog
11 Must-Have Digg Tools You Should Use Daily
A-Z of Free Photoshop Plugins and Filters
90+ Brilliant Packaging Designs For Inspiration
25 Examples of Mega Menus in Web Design
85 Free High Quality Silhouette Sets
35 Marvelously Minimal Websites
23+ Excellent Tutorials For WordPress Theme Developers
10 New Design Blogs You Should Keep An Eye On
15 Great And Free Photoshop Alternatives
33 Newly Fresh Web Design Layout Tutorials
10 awesome videos for designers
100 Striking Examples of Grunge Photography
Beautiful New Free Fonts For Your Designs
350+ Fresh Twitter Icons
10 Excellent WordPress Themes powered with Ajax & JQuery
10 Must Read Design Articles You Should Bookmark Right Now
The Most Linked to Pages of Top Design Blogs
Finding Fonts: Free and Premium Resources
29 Sets Of Grunge Photoshop Brushes
70+ Beautiful Damask Patterns and Textures
10 Productivity Tips for Web Designers and Developers
7 Open Source And Free URL Shortener Scripts To Create Your Own
Subscribe to 75+ Awesome Design Blogs in 2 minutes with this file via your RSS Reader
The Best Adobe Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials
32 Amazing Mini vCard Websites with Slick Javascript Animation
30 Useful Photoshop Buttons and Badges Tutorials
Big fat collection of free resources for designers
15 Tools for Testing your Website
30+ New Useful WordPress Tricks & Hacks
53 Breathtaking Typography Wallpapers
70 Best WordPress Plugins to Supercharge your Blog
Connecting Through Type and 20 Typography Inspiration Sites
11 Open source project management tools
Joomla 1.5.x Tutorials by Joomla Tutorials
50 Creative and Inspiring Left-Aligned Web Designs
100 Free Weby Icons Set
Photoshop Grunge Brushes – The ultimate Collection
38 Impressive Graphic Designer Portfolios – Wanna have an Ideal Portfolio?
50 High Quality Free Icon Sets in PSD Format
90+ Crazy Outdoor Billboard Advertisements
22 Beautiful Photoshop Web Layout Tutorial Sites
37 Great Online Photoshop Alternatives
250 Free Abstract Photoshop Brushes
65 Popular And Professional Free Fonts For Creative Typography
42 Creative & Excellent Examples Of Illustrations In Web Design
Amazing Retro Futurism Design Showcase & Tutorials
10 Excellent Feedback Tools for Web Designers
500+ Free Vector Traffic Signs
8 Free and Extremely Exceptional Icon Sets
30 Quality Sites To Easily Preview And Download Free WordPress Themes
52 Beautiful Blue Layouts in Web Design
250+ Super Cool WordPress Tutorials – Newbie To Pro
Over 70 of the best fresh red logos
25+ Excellent Free Stock Photo Sites for Designers
32 Corporate Website Designs – A blend of Best and Worst Designs!!
10 Tools For Finding, Registering And Managing Domain Names
15 (More) Free Web Tools To Simplify Your Work Life
Over 500 Layout Design Tutorials
300+ Resources to Help You Become a Photoshop Expert
Top Commercial Fonts For Print Designers
70+ Ultimate Collection Of Inspirations And Tutorial Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In August
50 Essential Web Typography Tutorials, Tips, Guides and Best Practices
Top 10 ways to stop spam in WordPress
SOCIAL MEDIA MADNESS
Articles and info about the social media rollercoaster ride
Why CIOs Need The Transformative Power Of Twitter
62 Ways to Use Twitter for Business
LazyFeed: Real-time Content Discovery
An Alternative Approach to Measuring Social Media ROI
How I Disconnected From Social Media For A Day – And Survived!
17 Awesome Firefox Plugins For Twitter
3 Steps to Attract Fans to Your Facebook Page
5 Tips For Getting Started with LinkedIn
33 super engagers to follow
Corporate Twitter Toolbox: Twitter Tools for the Enterprise
Twitter Tips Ultimate Guide
Using LinkedIn Groups To Drive Website Traffic
Social Media Integration: Examples and Tips
Free Twitter Backgrounds: 26 Sites To Get Them
Which Social Media Channels Should You Be Using?
15 Twitter Netiquette Rules You Must Know
How To Measure Your Social Media ROI: Don’t
How to Create a Share of Voice Report
What Does Your Twitter Avatar & Background Say About YOU?
150 Useful Twitter Tools and Apps
Best 5 Social Bookmarking Plugins For WordPress
The five most important things you must know about social media
SEO TIPS
Ways to optimize your website for search engine goodness
Marketing Your Website with Search Engine Optimization
The 30 Free SEO Tools You Must Know
Top 20 SEO Blog feeds you should subscribe to
100 Free online seo tools
18 observations on Twitter and SEO
Web Content Optimization Guidelines and Techniques
5 SEO Mistakes I Learned from as an Online Marketer
45 Link Baiting Resources: Ideas, Techniques, Case Studies & Drawbacks
12 Web Design Directories To Improve Your SEO
Natural Link Building : Create an Online Presence and Linkable Brand
Protect Your Site Reputation: Avoid these Unethical SEO Tactics
9 Free Tools to check Social Media Backlinks & Popularity of your website
10 Proven Useful Search Engine Optimization Guidelines, Tips and Tricks
Out of the box link building ideas
How Domains and URLs Relate to Search Engine Optimization
EVERYTHING ELSE
A hodge podge of stuff that doesn’t fit in the above categories
How to Create a Memorable Super Secure Password
20 Simple Productivity Tools for Bloggers
Death To Creatives!!!
IE6 MUST DIE: 70+ Sites Unite to Kill IE6
10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Blogging
21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
How to Create a Tutorial
Silent Shapers: Why Web Workers Have the Most Important Jobs of the 21st Century
A simple guide to blogging etiquette
The 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging
The Very Basics of Blogger Outreach
Why web designers shouldn’t work for free
Creative Tattoo Designs
How to Blog Effectively
Tips for Turning Unintended Traffic Into Ambassadors
How to Write an Outline for a Post, An Ebook or Your Thesis Paper
The Pomodoro Technique
What to do when your design is stolen?
10 Ways to Generate Ideas for Web Development Articles & Tutorials
Corporate Identity for Directed Edge: Logo Design Process
Don’t Stick With What You’ve Been Taught; You’re a Creative So Get Creative
Should There Be a Unified Set of Styles For Web Interfaces?
4 Powerful Reasons to Start Guest Posting
Logo and Identity Design Tips – Study the Competition
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