Monthly Mother Lode of MacDaddy Links: September 2009
This is it – you’ve struck the Mother Lode of MacDaddy links! All my Delicious bookmarks from September 2009 compiled and somewhat organized by subject matter. Not claiming to be the TOP links of the month (whatever that is) but these are links I have saved to my own personal bookmarks because I have found them valuable and useful.
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FREELANCING
Tips & Tricks & Info to Build Your Freelance Business
Dealing with freelancers: five common mistakes
5 Tips for Charging Clients for Services
8 Web Conferencing/Meeting Apps for Freelancers for Real-time Collaboration
Taste the flavor of freelancing – You gotta love it!
10 guerrilla marketing tips using your business cards
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
The Business Name Checklist for Freelancers
Handle Design Clients Correctly using a Design-Line
Tools to Help you Estimate Price for your Web Work
3 Reasons Why YOU Should NOT Become a Freelancer
Extremely Important Tax Rules for Freelance Designers in the United States
9 Myths About Freelancers And Freelancing
8 Job Seeking Tips for Web Designers and Developers
A Sexy Business Card: 6 Reasons Freelancers Need One
10 Things You Don’t Know About Scoring Web Design Clients
5 Tips to Survive the Freelance World
10 Tips On Communicating with Difficult Web Design Clients
50 Essential Web Apps for Freelancers
DROPPING KNOWLEDGE
Design articles from which I learned new, better or alternative ways to do things
25 Incredibly Useful CSS Tricks You Should Know
35 Excellent Wireframing Resources
The Ultimate Guide to Version Control for Designers
Backgrounds In CSS: Everything You Need To Know
The Definitive Guide to About Me Pages
How to Create a Valid Non-Javascript Lightbox
Simple CSS Tricks to Greatly Improve Site Typography
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
Wireframes and Concept: Planning a Website
How To Integrate Facebook With WordPress
24 Great Tips & Tutorials To Get The Most Out Of WordPress
15+ Tips & Resources for Learning and using .htaccess – An Intro for Web Designers
10 Things a Web Designer Should Consider
10 code snippets to interact with Twitter
Easy Custom Feeds in WordPress
32 Most Useful Worpdress Comments Page Hacks
10 useful WordPress theme hacks
Why Your Next Website Should be Designed with Wireframes
How to implement a perfect multi-level navigation bar
How to Accurately and Effectively Research a Web Design Style
12 Vital Tips and Tools to Combat Comment Spam in WordPress
10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines
10 Really Useful WordPress Code Snippets
WordPress Web Optimization: 15 Tips And Plugins To Monitor, Speed Up And Optimize Your WordPress Blog
Bulletproofing Your Firefox For Web Design
ROUNDUPS
Yes, those all-important lists and roundups of inspirations, showcases and more.
20 of the best icon packs
250+ Light Effect Brushes for Photoshop
95+ Exceptionally Useful jQuery Plugins, Tutorials and Cheat Sheets
225+ Ultimate Drupal Theme Collection
36 Examples of Textures used in Web Design
25 Examples of Web 2.0 and Traditional Design Rules Coming Together
91 Trendy Contact And Web Forms For Creative Inspiration
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
22 Awesome Adobe AIR Applications for Designers
45 Interesting Web 2.0 Services And Applications That Can Make Your Life Easier
A Massive Collection of Free and Premium WordPress Theme Websites
21 more items all design geeks must have!
12 Masters of Web Design
20 free WordPress themes with premium-like functionalities
25 eye-catching retro and vintage inspired designs
TOP 35 Grunge Websites
800+ Most Wanted Free RSS Icons for Bloggers
300+ Resources to Help You Become a WordPress Expert
72 Creative And Smart Typographic Logo Inspiration
250+ Free Stock Photography Sites
21 Awesome @font-face Embeddable Typefaces
10 Excellent and Free Blog Editors for the Desktop
14 Best Online Typography Tools for Web Designers
Bundle of Fresh, Elegant, Beautiful and Excellent Themes of WordPress
77 Inspiring Blog Comment Form Designs
Definitive List of Free WordPress Theme Frameworks
75+ Awesome Font and Typography Tools, Tutorials, Generators and Inspiration
Massive Collection of Stunning Photoshop Actions
50+ Ultimate Photoshop Tips
20 great free fonts for designers
460 Free High Quality Icons For Web Designers
Beautiful Post Thumbnails: Top Examples & Best Practices
33 WordPress Plugins To Power Up Your Comment Section
SOCIAL MEDIA MADNESS
Articles and info about the social media rollercoaster ride
Social Media Glossary
80% Social Media Adoption: Are You the Last of the Mohicans?
A Framework for Branding Through Social Media
Gone fishing: Seven tips for providing customer service support via Twitter
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
A Social Media Strategy Checklist
Timing Is Crucial To Maximize Exposure With Social Media
How To Get Clients Using LinkedIn
10 Fortune 500 companies doing social media right
How to Get Noticed on Twitter
10 steps to help you become a social media ninja
SEO TIPS
Ways to optimize your website for search engine goodness
How to Plugin SEO to WordPress : 9 Great Plugins
10 Firefox Addons for SEO Every Webmaster Should Have
EVERYTHING ELSE
A hodge podge of stuff that doesn’t fit in the above categories
Six Fonts That Piss People Off
Another 30 Designers that Shaped the World
5 Tips for Effective Guest Posting
Determining Your Website’s Traffic On The Social Web
How much information should be contained within your brand guidelines?
The Design Recession: Stock Market Crashes in Branding for 2009
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
The Real Live Search Engine is not Bing, is not Google either!
Your First 30 Days of Blogging
How To Write Effective And Engaging Design Tutorials
How to Export Google Analytics Data to Excel via the API
7 Reasons Why Designers Need to Blog
The Tortoise or the Hare approach to blogging?
Design Trends: The Single Purpose Homepage
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