Round-up: Good reads from the last few day you might have missed

Things have seemed a little quiet in the webdev and design the the last while, but I still have a backlog of articles and resources that caught my eye. Here are some great reads that you might have missed ...

5 Simple But Useful CSS Properties (Web Designer Wall)
10 Fantastic and Creative Web Design Styles (Inspect Element)
26 Must Have Resources for the Web Developers Toolbox (Fuel Your Creativity)
What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like (CSS Tricks)
CSS Resources, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets, Conversion Tables and Short Codes (Specky Boy)
55 Striking Website Headers That You Must See (Smashing Buzz)
Latest High Quality Free Fonts for Your Designs (Instant Shift)
Color and CSS Tools for Web Designers (InDeziner)
Ways to Avoid Common Web Design Mistakes (Five Finger Coding)

Rest of the Best: for November 2 2009

If you've had a busy day and didn't have time to keep up with the best web design and development articles, here are the ones that caught my eye today ...

40 Fresh and Free Icon Sets for Web Designers and Bloggers » (Specky Boy)
31 Creative Uses of Typography in Web Design » (Designm.ag)
Rounded Corners in Internet Explorer » (Dave Woods)
55 Extremely Useful Online Generators for Designers » (Balkhis.com)
Best Creative Bookmarks of October » (Tutorial 9)
Impressive WordPress Themes Released in October 2009 » (WPMash)
Selling Ad Space Tips from Top Design Blog Owners » ( Line 25)
50 Outstanding Free Design Textures » (Design Shack)
Designing Above the Fold » (Five Finger Coding)
15 jQuery Slideshow and Plugins » (Web and Designers)
Logo Design Tutorial » (Just Creative Design)

For a Friday: Numbered List Round-up

There is never any shortage of numbered lists out there in the webdev blogosphere. If you've had a busy week and haven't kept up with your reading, here's a round-up of the best of the lists from this week past:

Typography and Fonts:
50 Examples of Vintage Typography » (Webdesigner Depot)
10 Incredible Sites to Improve Your Typography Skills » (Web Design Ledger)
25 High Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designs » (Six Revisions)
17 Remarkably Professional Looking Free Fonts » (Web Design Ledger)
40 High Quality Hand-Drawn Fonts » (Hongkiat)

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Create a Fancy Share Box ... and more!

Using CSS and jQuery, turn an unordered list into a fancy "Share This" box. A nice "how-to" for a good looking share display.

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Morning Coffee Links: The Design Edition

Today's Morning Coffee Links contain some great resources for design, web design and just general all-round design inspiration. Hand picked and well worth browsing and/or bookmarking!

60 Most Stunning Typography Inspiration of All Time

More below ...

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ETC. 31 Great Resources You Might Have Missed

So I decided I wanted a numbered list today. Everyone else has one :) So here it is ... 31 Great Reads and Resources You Might Have Missed in the last couple of days. Hand-picked. Not actually counted but I think I'm close.

Best Grunge Textures and Photoshop Brushes All in One Place »

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Wednesday Good WebDev Reads Round-up

Free and Fonts. Two of my favourite words. Presidia Creative has a nice round-up of 26 free fonts. Definitely worth browsing for new font finds.

26 Must-Have Free Fonts »

More articles not to miss from today:
Vertically Center Multi-Lined Text » (CSS Tricks)
Styling Your Lists: 20+ Brilliant How To's and Best Practices » (Dev Snippets)
56 CSS Tabs & Navigation Menu Scripts and Examples » (TechFlaps)
15 Free Functionality and Load Testing Tools for Web Applications » (WebResources Depot)
The Ultimate Guide to .htaccess Files » (Nettuts)
WordPress Resources: wpazo: the best WordPress stuff »

Caught My Eye This Morning

"Tired of your old fashioned dropdown?" Try this new image combo/dropdown powered by JavaScript.

JavaScript image combobox »

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Today's Numbered List Round-up

From Web Design Ledger, a look at the hand-drawing design trend with 17 Sets of Excellent Hand Drawn Design Elements »

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Latest Great Reads and Links

I never seem to tire of seeing new image gallery scripts and nettuts has a nice round-up of some great ones, worth browsing. 50 Excellent Image Galleries You Can Use Today

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Monday's Good Read Round-up

Web Designer Wall has a look at the modern site footer, where site information is displayed to enhance footer site usability. A nice article with a bunch of examples. Worth a read. Modern Sitemap and Footer »

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Pi Day Edition of Good Reads

In the mood for a new Desktop Wallpaper to celebrate Spring? 1st Web Designer has a nice round-up. 33 High Resolatuion and Eye-catching Spring Desktop Wallpapers »

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Two nice articles, 33 great links

First, from Technically Personal, a nice round-up of typography tutorials for Photoshop, worth browsing.

22 Stunning Typography Tutorials on Photoshop »

From Web Design Ledger, 11 Excellent Solutions for Creating Tooltips for all your tooltip needs. 11 Excellent Solutions for Creating Tooltips »

Bonus: Check out the Periodic Table of Typefaces »

Recently Caught My Eye Links

From Designm.ag, a tutorial that will walk you through a "quick and simple way to allow users to switch page layouts" using CSS and jQuery. Easy Display Switch with CSS and jQuery »

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Today's Numbered List Round-up

Despite the title, this point contains cheat sheets for WordPress, htaccess, Usability and more. Worth browsing. 7 Essential SEO Cheat Sheets »

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Tuesday's Good Reads

From the always readable Web Design Ledger, a round-up of some useful design cheat sheets. You'll find cheat sheets for Photoshop, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript and Flash. 14 Most Useful Web Design Cheat Sheets »

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Wednesday Good Reads Round-up

I've been otherwise occupied for a couple of days, so I have more than the usual amount of good reads collected up. So grab a coffee and browse the list of the articles and sites that caught my eye in the past few days ...

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3 Day Weekend Link Digest

While the US celebrates President's Day today, here in Ontario, we are celebrating "Family Day" - a totally made-up holiday just so we can have a 3-day weekend to try to cheer us up as winter drags on (and on). But, whatever you're celebrating (Monday?), here are some links that have caught my eye in the past couple of days ...

For the Photoshop brush collectors out there, a nice round-up of lighting effect brushes. 18 Photoshop Brush Sets for Creating Incredible Lighting Effects » (Web Design Ledger)

From noupe.com, 40 Useful and Handy Web Designer's Web Services and Tools », chock full of ... useful and handy stuff. (noupe.com)

I tweeted about this last week, but for the benefit of those that don't follow me on twitter, CSS Drive has a nice Colour Pallete generator that extracts colour palletes from any image and offers up a number of different palettes in different color tones. Nice tool, worth bookmarking. Image to Colors Palette Generator »

From NETTUTS, an interesting CSS article 5 Ways to Instantly Write Better CSS » including the suggestion to alphabetizing the properties in your stylesheet. Not sure about that one, but might try it and see if it grows on me.

From Best Photoshop Tutorials, 50 Brilliant Typography Designs to Inspire You ». So go forth and be inspired!

Site Developer Snippets has a big round-up of over 60 Stunning Scriptaculous Applications. jQuery seems to be getting all the love these days but scriptaculous has some nice apps as well, worth browsing.

From Web Designer Depot, 10 Web Typography Rules Every Designer Should Know »

CSS-Reset.com provides you with a quick and easy way to include a css-reset stylesheet simply by linking to it in your html. Hosted on Google's App Engine, CSS Reset is fast and reliable. CSS Reset Stylesheets currently hosted include Eric Meyer's, YUI Interface Reset, Ed Eliot's Reset and the "Everything Reset". CSS-Reset.com »

And that's all for now.

End of a Couple of Days Link Round-up

If you didn't have time to catch the best articles and resources of the past weekend, here are the ones that caught my eye ...

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Groundhog Day Link Round-up

Around these parts, it really doesn't matter what the Groundhog says (or sees, I guess that is). We're having 6 more weeks of winter no matter what! So moving on, here are the articles that caught my eye today ...

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End of a Couple of Days Link Digest

I have a lot of links collected from the past couple of days, so it's a long list this time (Note to self: Don't wait so long to post them next time!)

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Recently Caught My Eye Links

(I just loved the duct tape from the sticky footer site!) Sticky Footer sticks to the bottom of the page, "even when thin on content". Very nice and works in all major browsers. New CSS Sticky Footer - 2009.

• Clearing CSS Floats without extra mark-up details a clearing method that uses overflow:hidden to clear floats.

• Cats Who Code has a nice round-up of free stock image sites, worth browsing for some new finds. 50 Sites to Find Free Stock Images.

• Build Internet has a nice tutorial, detailing How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery.

• Nice, from Web Designer Depot, 30 Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2008, definitely worth browsing.

• Finally, from 1st Web Designer, a big round-up of image-related scripts. 57+ Free Image Gallery, Slideshow and Lightbox Solutions.

Today's Good Links Round-up

A little bit of floral design inspiration from Design Shard. Pretty! Amazing Floral Typography Inspiration (Design Shard)

With the magazine style layout very hot right now, you can browse some fine examples for inspiration at Vandelay Designs. 25 Outstanding Magazine Style Website Designs (Vandelay Designs)

Always great to find new free apps! Worth browsing this list for possible new finds. 13 Free Web Apps to Simplify Designer's Work Life (Optensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers (Smashing Apps)

Lots and lots of web dev links! Sure to be some new finds in this bunch. Web Designer Heaven.

Sexy Curls jQuery Plugin - jQuery script to easily create page curls.

I'm always looking for more sources for Free Stock Photos. Here's a new one (to me). Some good stuff here, worth bookmarking. - Photl.

A nice round-up of the best of the free for 2009. PC Magazine's Best Free Software of 2009.

P.S. I'm trying to start posting regularly to my long-neglected Twitter account. My plan is to post found links throughout the day, as I find them. You can Follow me on Twitter, if you like.

End of the Weekend Link Digest

The weekend is just about over and I have a bunch of links collected up. Here they are, in no particular order ...

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Monday Morning Coffee and Links

Don't you just love typography?! A couple of typography font related resources caught my eye ...

21 Typography and Font Web Apps You Can’t Live Without (SpeckyBoy)

15 Awesome Free Fonts (Abduzeedo)

And my quest to completely fill my hard drive with Photoshop goodies continues ...

High Resolution Grungy Paper Textures (Six Revisions)

12 Common Photoshop Mistakes, Misuses and Abuses (The Design Cubicle)

Mess Watercolours: Free Hi-Res Photoshop Brushes (Fudge Graphics)

A few nice script-related finds in the past couple of days (really liking the pageSlide!) ...

jQuery pageSlide (Halobrite.com)

Best of 2008 - JavaScript (Design Shack)

The 20 Most Practical and Creative Uses of jQuery (NETTUTS)

For CSS lover, a few nice CSS articles as well ...

12 Really Handy Css Framework, Template and Snippet Sites for Smart Web Designer (1st Web Designer)

Top 50 Best CSS Articles and Resources (Toxel.com)

Super Fantastic CSS Navigation Image Rollovers (Jorenrapini.com)

And finally, a round-up of assorted web-dev articles and resources ...

12 Really Handy Web Design Template and Snippet Sites (devSnippets)

Clean Accessible Forms (Matt Varone)

Using White Space Effectively in Web Design (Web Design Tuts)

56 Websites with Awesome Footers (CSS Tea)

Bright! Free Stock Vector Icons (IconEden)

That is all. For now. Carry on.

Today's 10 Best

1. Free resources collection available for designers to download (Design Your Way)

2. If you're looking to add to your Photoshop plug-in collection, there are some nice ones here. Free Photoshop Plug-ins Collection (Web Resources Depot)

3. A look at the action button and how to style it to promote desired action. Web Design Trends: Call to Action Buttons (Lee Munroe)

4. DD Roundies (a Javascript library that makes creation of rounded-corner HTML boxes, easier, with a focus on Internet Explorer)

5. Style Inspiration - a new design inspiration site, nicely presenting designs categories by style.

6. An informative article on how to start selling stock photos and where to do it. How to Sell Stock Photos (Part 1) (Web Designer Depot)

7. More goodies for Photoshop users, this time a nice round-up of Photoshop Actions for photo enhancements. 60 Photoshop Actions for Photo Touch-Ups and Enhancements (Designm.ag)

8. A nice round-up of tutorials for getting started with Photoshop. 35 Basic Tutorials to Get You Started with Photoshop (Six Revisions)

9. Just as it says, how to embed any type of file into your website. How to Embed Almost Anything in Your Website (Digital Inspiration)

10. Interesting article, highlighting minimalist typography. 70 Minimalist Typography Examples (Back to Essentials)

Today's Numbered List Round-up

There's no shortage of numbered lists today, so here is my round-up of them - 6 of them, to be exact.

1. 36 Must Have Backgrounds and Patterns Resources for all Designers (Speckyboy)

2. 8 Interesting CMS for E-commerce Websites (woork)

3. 35 Photoshop Tutorials for Realistic Results(VandelayDesign)

4. 10 Ways Twitter Will Change Blog Design in 2009 (Mashable)

5. 60 Most Wanted Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes, PSDs and Resources (noupe.com)

6. 23 Unforgettable Resources of 2008 You Couldn't Live Without (smashing apps)

Today's Best Reads

1. A nice article on creating a double background with CSS. Double Body Background CSS Trick (Joren Rapini.com)

2. Six Revisions rounds-up some nice Analytics programs that are worth browsing. 10 Promising Free Web Analytics Tools (Six Revisions)

3. While I have take Chrome for a spin, the lack of add-ons was a definite deal-breaker for me. Turns out that common bookmarklets can bring the add-on experience to Chrome.
Make Add-ons for Google Chrome Using Bookmarklets (ReadWriteWeb)

4. A nice round-up of good-looking blogs, worth browsing for some inspiration. Top Ten Most Beautiful Blogs of 2008 (Blankanvas)

5. Lots of great stuff on this list, in case you missed them the first time around. The Best Tutorials and Freebies of 2008 (NETTUTS)

6. An interesting article on CSS class names. My Top 10 Most Used CSS Class Names (CSS Globe)

7. A good read for anyone interested in jQuery navigation examples. 8 Sites with Excellent jQuery Navigation (buildinternet.com)

8. Some great twitter goodies in this round-up from hongkiat. 100+ Remarkably Beautiful Twitter Icons and Buttons (Hongkiat.com)

New Year LInk Round-up

Happy New Year!

Here are a some of the links that have caught my eye in the last few days ...

A great round-up of Photoshop learning tools. 10 Steps to Improving Your Photoshop Skills (PSDTUTS)

From I Love Typography, a list of their favourite new typfaces from 2008. My Favourite Typefaces of 2008 (ilovetypography.com)

A round-up of some great design articles from the past year, in case you might have missed some along the way. 25 Fantastic Design Articles from 2008 (DavidAirey.com)

NETTUTS shows how to use the golden ratio principle in web design in this nice article. The Golden Ration in Web Design (NETTUTS)

A nice tutorial from CSS Globe, using CSS Sprites to create rounded corners. CSS Sprites Rounded Corners (CSS Globe)

A good article on how to deal with font-sizing with CSS> Dealing with CSS Font-Sizes (brenelz.com)

Another script round-up, worth browsing for some new finds. 40+ JavaScript and jQuery Resources that will make you a better Web Developer (reindel.com)

Predictions for the coming year makes for an interesting read. 2009 Web Predictions (ReadWriteWeb)

A nice round-up of color scheme tools for web designers. Color Scheming for Designers (Styl.etim.me)

Some interesting add-ons in this list, worth browsing. 21 Amazing Firefox Add-ons that you must have in 2009 (smashing apps)

If you're looking for new design blogs to add to your feed reader, this list offers up some nice options. 9 Design Blogs to Follow in 2009 (tutorial9.net)

Today's Good Links Round-up

1. The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008 (Photoshop Lady)

2. From Six Revisions, a guide for giving your website a tune-up. 10 Ways to Improve Your Web Page Performance (Six Revisions)

3. A look back at the best of 2008 in the area of design.
2008 Most Popular Design posts, Tutorials and Resources (noupe.com)

4. Absolute Columns (24 Ways)

As the title implies, we are indeed going to be discussing columns today—more to the point, a handy little application of absolute positioning that may be exactly what you’ve been looking for…

5. How to Master Photoshop In Just One Week (Elite by Design)

So you want to master Photoshop huh? You’ve come to the right place. This is the first part of a three part series that will help you to master Photoshop in and out in just one week. Today’s part is all about getting to know the basics of the program and how to operate the complex software - nothing amazing, but you need to crawl before you can walk!

Good Links from the Last Few Days

I've been busy with the whole pre-Christmas thing so I have a backlog of quick links to post. Here are the ones that caught my eye in the last couple of days:

1. sIFR lite - a "lite" version of the Flash Image Replacement script, bringing it down to about 4kb from 22kb. (allcrunchy.com)

2. 5 Easy Ways to Tackle IE6's Transparency Issues - because some people are still using that nasty browser. (NETTUTS)

3. Advance CSS Accordian Effect - a nice effect, worth a look. (CSS Newbie)

4. Juice Firefox Add-on - the intelligent discovery engine. Highlight and move a chunk of text, and Juice directly delivers a set of rich, relevant content to you.

5. 45 Beautiful Free Fonts for Modern Design Trends - because fonts are good and beautiful free ones are even better! (Six Revisions)

6. Fonts and the Web - a great article from Web Designer Wall. Worth reading, if you haven't seen it yet. (Web Designer Wall)

7. 960 CSS Framework - Learn the Basics - lot of talk about css frameworks lately so if you're looking to get a handle on the basics of the 960 CSS Framework, head on over for a read. (Divitodesign)

8. Achieving Double Backgrounds with CSS - a nice how-to, worth a read. (Sohtanaka.com)

9. Freebiesdock - free design resources. A new freebie site, featuring design resources like icons, vectors etc.

10. 10 Ways to Cut Down on Web Development Time. (Six Revisions)

11. Columnizer jQuery Plugin - a jQuery plugin to create newspaper-like columns. (Welcome to the Internet)

Today's List of Lists Round-up

1. From Six Revisions, over 40 cheat sheets for designers. "Whether you need to learn something quickly or need a quick refresher on how to do certain tasks, cheat sheets allow you to do either one with relative ease. Print them out and decorate your workspace or save/bookmark them for later use, whichever way suits you best."

40 Useful Cheat Sheets for Designers

2. From Photoshop Roadmap, 60 Impressive and Free High Resolution Textures and Backgrounds.

3. From Smashing Magazine (in case you didn't see it already), 100 Free High-Quality XHTML/CSS Templates. Some really nice templates here, worth browsing.

4. From toxel.com, 24 Free Christmas Photoshop Tutorials, in case you're in a festive, creative mood.

5. From VandelayDesign, a look at websites that use colors sparingly. A nice collection, worth browsing for some design inspiration. 35 Websites with Minimal Color Schemes.

6. From SmashingApps, 31 Incredible Resources and Inspirations for Designers Like You to Discover the Best of the Web in November. This one wins the award for the longest title of the day but a nice round-up worth a look.

7. From PSDTUTS, a nice article that looks at information design for web sites. "It's probably the least glamourous part of web design, but information design is by no means the least important. Locating and consuming information is the quintessential web task, far surpassing buying, playing and communicating, all of which include a good portion of information design themselves."

9 Information Design Tips to Make You a Better Web Designer.

8. From Resource Labz, more Photoshop Brushes, in case you haven't collected enough yet. 19 Useful Photoshop Brushes Resources and Tutorials Collection.

9. Finally, snap2objects.com rounds-up some nice, free fonts worth browsing. 25 Hottest Free Fonts of the Moment.

The Rest of the Best of Today's Links

From woork.com, a nice list of lesser-known and free Content Management Systems. If you're one who likes to play with software and different systems, this is a post worth browsing for new finds. 10 Free powerful Content Management Systems.

Even if you can build your own CSS template, sometimes it's just nice to start with a pre-coded one, for a quick project or a head start. There are a bunch to be had at Free CSS Templates.

Finally, a nice CSS article from dbug, Six indispensable CSS tips and tricks I use on every project.

The Rest of the Best Links for Today

Get some design inspiration from this round-up of nice blog footer designs. 50 Excellent Blog Footer Designs, from Hongkiat.com

19 Photoshop tutorials to design your own business card | DeveloperFox.

Lorem is a handy for design mockups and now there's a new Lorem in town. Lorem2 offers easy access to long and short lorem paragraphs as well as short and long lists.

PrettyGallery is another way to display image galleries, based on jQuery.

75 Best Free Graphic Design Icon Sets, a nice round-up of free graphics.

From Designm.ag, a round-up of tutorials worth browsing. Top 10 Tututorials for Converting PDDs to HTML/CSS.

Good Link Round-up

Scripts

Another nice round-up of Ajax goodies from noupe. Most Wanted Ajax Techniques: 50 Examples and Tutorials (Noupe.com)

CSS

Equal Height Columns with Cross-Browser CSS and No Hacks - always worth adding a nice CSS layout to the bookmarks! (matthewjamestaylor.com)

Web Design

Encoding a Photoshop Mockup into XHTML and CSS - a nice tutorials worth a look. (Spoon Graphics)

1001 Free Fonts for Windows and Mac.

5 Designers Speak Up About Overused Techniques
We all are guilty… It usually comes with the territory of graphic design. Almost all of us could say we started out in Photoshop, and who can deny their old love for the infamous Drop Shadow? And for the inner-photographer in us all, no one can say they didn’t try some kind of Selective Color tricks. Here are five designers who spoke up about what they think are the most overused techniques in graphic design. Be sure to share your opinion on the subject down in the comments..

70+ Cheat Sheet Resources for Web Designers - for anyone in need of some cheat sheets.

iPhone

Fresh Apps for the iPhone - for all your iPhone needs.

Windows

Top Free Media Converters for Windows - always handy to have a look at what's out there in the converter market in case the need arises. (MakeUseOf)

Internet

50 Websites You'll Wonder How You Lived Without - sure to have something new for everyone! (TechRadar)

End of the Weekend Link Digest

Some nice links that caught my eye over the weekend ...

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Weekend Link Round-up

From instantshift.com, 21 Most Used Fonts by Professional Designers.

We spent last whole week reviewing dozens of font reservoirs and typography articles about fonts usability and popularity. Finally we end up with a list of 21 Most Used Fonts by Professional Designers in Web Designing World.

Tips and tricks to turn you into a faster, smarter web designer.

From Hongkiat.com, 60+ Tools to Enhance Your Flickr Experience.

From Elite by Design, 23 Most Incredible Photoshop Tutorials.

Also for Photoshop, from 1st Web Designer.com, an Easy Brush Text Nature Effect Tutorial.

From DailyCoding.com, Purely CSS Callouts, a simple trick for creating callouts just using CSS and without images.

Flickrin makes it easy to embed flickr phots with a nec effect.

Finally, a CSS sticky footer that just works.

We've all tried to use a sticky footer one time or another, but they never seem to come out right, do they? Well, the days of a hard to understand CSS-based sticky footer are thankfully over. In just a few simple CSS classes with minimal extra HTML markup, I've fashioned a sticky footer that even beginners can get a handle on. It's been tested in IE 5 and up, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

Morning Coffee Links for October 14, 2008

So here in Canada we've just had our long Thanksgiving weekend and I have a bunch of links stored up to share ...

1. A nice round-up from Dzineblog.com, 30+ Animated Tab-Based Interface and According Scripts.

2. JasonBartholme.com has a big round-up of CSS resources to share and gets today's prize for the best post title. 101 CSS Resources to Add to Your Toolbelt of Awesomeness.

3. Still looking for the perfect LightBox script? Coders.me has released Sexy Lightbox 2 that looks nice and is worth checking out.

4. Also on the script front, Web-kreation.com has a round-up of 48 Incredible Mootools Scripts.

5. And more script goodness again from JasonBartholme.com, 70+ JavaScript Resources for Every Web Developer.

6. From Techradar.com, an in-depth look at Google Analytics and how to use it to benefit your site's traffic. Complete guide to Google Analytics.

Weekend Link Round-up

1. Abduzeedo has a great round-up of typography with "frilly bits" that's worth browsing for some inspiration. Fantastic Frilly Bits Typography Inspiration.

2. From site Paintbits, a collection of website background pattern links.

3. From 1stwebdesigner.com, 15 Useful Color Mixers for Effective Designing.

4. Another nice round-up from the good folks at PSDTUTS, this time showing 50 Dirty, Filthy Grunge Photoshop Effects.

5. Speaking of Grunge, site Function has a Photoshop Brush set to offer, featuring 33 subtle grunge textures and effects.

6. From site webSemantics, how to create a Cross-fading disjointed image rollover.

7. For jQuery users, from DesignReviver, a jQuery and CSS Dropdown Menu how-to.

8. Site Designm.ag rounds-up some of the best resources for Photoshop in their Photoshop Toolbox.

9. From Perishable Press, a Killer Collection of Global CSS Reset Styles.

10. Finally, if you've got some spare time this weekend, site PHP Four will show you how to become a Kick-ass PHP ninja.

Weekend Link Round-up

Scripts and Coding

1. From Bulletproof Box35 Essential jQuery Tutorials, Code Chunks and Plugins for Designers.

2. From devSnippets, 22 JavaScript Frameworks.

Web Design and Development

1. From Design Reviver, 5000+ Color Gradients Sets for Photoshop.

2. Find some tips and tricks for great logo design at 45 Rules for Creating a Great Logo Design.

3. From "You The Designer", get some blue web design inspiration by browsing this collection of blue based website designs. 25 Refreshingly Blue Website Designs.

4. Not new but worth re-visiting for a comprehensive look at the use of colors in web design. Colors On The Web.

5. From Smashing Apps, 11 Free and Helpful Web-based Tools that Every Designer May Want to Know.

6. 22 Free Fonts from MyFont, a round-up of free offerings from Myfont.com at Fudge Graphics.

7. Again, not new, but worth revisiting for the motherlode of cheat sheets. The Cheat Sheet of Cheat Sheets. Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets.
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8. From Web Designer's Interviews, a round-up of some of the best web design podcasts out there this year. 10 Great Web Design Podcasts of 2008

CSS

1. From devSnippets, 23 Free CSS Frameworks.

2. From divitodesign, The Paragraph and Typography Guide looks at using CSS to style paragraphs.

3. Site Friendly Bit demonstrates how to highlight the current element using a yellow fade technique using CSS and a simple image. (No javascript required). Yellow Fade with CSS and a Simple Image.

4. Explore CSS Based design and be inspired at CSS Based.

5. From Dev.Opera, a CSS method for numbering. Automatic Numbering with CSS Counters

Morning Coffee Good Links

Here are a few links that have caught my eye while I enjoy my morning coffee:

For A Beautiful Web tackles the notion that designs need to look the same in all browsers and argues that this isn't the case. Five CSS design browser differences I can live with.

From CSS-Tricks has a nice how-to, this time showing how to create a body border with a fade-in gradient.

From Design Reviver, 22 Firefox 3 Plugins Web Designers Can't Live Without. Worth browsing.

From Interesting Things, 5 Mistakes New Web Developers Often Make. Worth reading just to be sure we aren't making them :)

PSDTUTS has a great tutorial, showing step-by-step how to make a Grunge Web Design in Photoshop.

From position:absolute, a better html anchor using jQuery. Why jump through a page when you can smooth scroll?

Finally, from Design Mag, 500+ Photoshop Brushes for Creating Textures.

Today's List of Lists Round-up

There is never any shortage of numbered lists to round-up. Today's lists total an even "90".

15 Amazingly Free Magazine and Headline Fonts

from woork.com, 10 Beautiful Icon sets for web developers and designers.

Keeping on the icon sets theme, noupe.com has a round-up of 40 hand-picked icon sets from deviantART.

Finally, from JonTangerine.com, 12 Examples of Paragraph Typography.

End of the Weekend Link Digest

Here are some links that caught my eye in the past couple of days ...

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Today's List of Lists Round-up

Quite a few lists out there today worth browsing. Today's list goodies total a large 134.

Janko At Warp Speed has collected a nice bunch of sketchy fonts for web designers.

From VECTORTUTS, get inspired with this collection of 40 Stunning Vector Landscape Illustrations.

From PSDTUTS, a big list of Photoshop Text Effects at 50 Creative Photoshop Text Effects.

From Bulletproof Box, 14 More Free CSS Template Resources.

From Noupe.com, 20 Firefox Add-ons to Enhance your Web Development.

End of the Day Link Digest September 2, 2008

From NETTUTS, 10 Challenging But Awesome CSS Techniques.

CSS Menu Builder - for when you want a menu fast!

From Web Designer Wall, Javascript in Modern Web Design - a great round-up of popular Javascript plugins that web designers can use to enhance their sites.

Today's List of Lists Round-up

Today's round-up of lists, totaling an even 100 goodies ...

From Hongkiat.com, part 2 of a nice collection of nice Photoshop Photo Effects, worth browsing. 30 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects, Part II.

From noupe.com, 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques for Form Elements.

From Arbent.net, 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Illustrator, in case you're looking to learn.

Today's List of Lists

Today features a number of numbered lists, totaling the number 160 (which I added in my head, so it may or may not be correct). Nonetheless, some good stuff in here, worth a browse.

50 Articles to Make You a Better Web Designer. (DesignMag)
45 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Wallpaper (Vandelay Website Design)
10 Handwritten Fonts You Can't Miss (Woork.com)
19 Most Essential Open Source Applications That You Probably Want to Know (Smashing Apps)
36 Font Resources You Should Have In Your Bookmarks (DZineBlog)

Daily Link Digest for August 11, 2008

If you're interested in the new kid on the Image Replacement front, FLIR (Facelift Image Replacement), NETTUTS has a great introductory how-to implement tutorial, worth a look. How To Use Any Font You Wish With FLIR.

CSS Tricks has a nice article today on the Specifics on CSS Specificity.

From woork.com, 25 Awesome Tutorials for Web Designers, is a list worth a look for some new tutorial resources.

Today's List of Lists Round-up

Here are the lists that caught my eye today ...

17 Free Flash Gallery Solutions for Your Images (Visual Blast)

42 Resources of Inspiration for Graphic Designers and Lovers of Design (SpeckyBoy)

3 Cool Sites to Bookmark Your Favorite Images on the Web (ReadWriteWeb)

Five Amazing Color Palette Generators (ReadWriteWeb)

End of the Day Link Digest July 9, 2008

Grab some free stock textures for your graphic design and photography projectsLost and Taken or if it's grunge you're looking for, check out Grunge Textures.

From Tablosign, a nice round-up of Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials. 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects.

Learn how to make a Navigation Bar with Tabs using CSS and Sliding Doors Effect, from woork.

For Firefox 3, Features You Probably Don't Know About and 12 Quick Hacks for Firefox 3.

Link Digest for May 20, 2008

So many links and not enough day left. Here are a few links that caught my eye today.

From CSS Newbie, a tutorial to create a horizontal CSS dropdown menu. Horizontal CSS Dropdown Menus.

From WebTecker, a Guide to Stay on Top of Web Design Trends, a nice list of links to web design related sites and resources.

Not Twittering yet? You might like Michael Hyatt's Beginner's Guide to Twitter.

When Veerle speaks about design, it's always worth a look. Her latest tutorial deals with Creating Geometric Patterns in Illustrator.

Finally, 10 Things You Can Do When Windows XP Won't Boot, for when it happens because it eventually will.

End of the Day Link Digest

I have more than a days worth of links here. Things IRL have been busy for me, so I've got a backlog to share ...

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Daily Link Digest April 21, 2008

It's that time again. I have far too many tabs open and it's time for a link dump. It's a mixed bag ...

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3 Nice List Articles Worth a Look

List of JavaScript Tab Navigation Scripts (WebTecker)
33 Most Beautiful Javascript and Flash Image Galleries (Vivalogo)
65 Resources for Grid-Based Design (Vandelay Website Design)

End of the Day Digest: March 31, 2008

At the end of every day, I'm always left with a few links I thought were worth noting. In the interest of not making too many posts and cluttering up your feed readers, I thought I might just digest them at the end of the day once in a while.

Pure CSS Animated Progress Bar (CSS Globe)

Two CSS Vertical Menu with Show/Hide Effects (woork)
3 Layouts that Handle Screen Resolution with Dignity (Bits O'NewMedia)
5 Questions to Ask When Evaluating a Web Site Design (Joshua Clanton)

A List of Lists

I'm having a hard time keeping up with all the "lists" I see around any more. Seems to have become the way to blog these days. I'm trying to be a bit more discriminating in the ones I link to, though as so many are just a list of things that most people already are likely to know about or a "list for list sake". So that said, here are three I came across this morning that I think offer good value for your browsing time:

13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design.

100+ Tools for Flickr Users from the Mashable folks.

Also from Mashable, 6 Online Editors Compared is a great read. The online editor market seems to be adding new ones daily so this is a great way to see what's out there and how they stack up.

Weekend Quicker Links Mar 10, 2007

A little late this weekend, but here are this week's leftover links ...

FeedFlash A Web widget, a free online tool to create feed readers and place them everywhere on the Web. Feed auto-detection and opml supported.

Smugglr Firefox Extension Photo migration from flickr to Smugmug with an easy to use wizard. Migration of all flickr photosets to SmugMug albums and photos retain titles, descriptions and tags. Apparently SmugMug is offering 50% off a user's first year, as well.

LastTab Firefox Extension "modifies Ctrl-Tab to switch to recently selected tabs, rather than always go from left-to-right. When pressing this key combination a window appears showing you a list of your tabs, and optionally a preview of each tab's contents if using Firefox 1.5 or higher. In addition it puts a tab menu in your tab bar for easier access to your tabs. It also focuses the most recently selected tab when a tab is closed or clicked."

Common Fonts to all versions of Windows and Mac equivalents - list with the standard set of fonts common to all versions of Windows and their Mac substitutes, referred sometimes as "browser safe fonts".

Favicon Validator "is a free online service that can be used to validate favicon files, link tags and related items on web pages. If you'd like to double check the favicon on your web page or if you're having trouble viewing it, enter your web page address and click "Check"

Instacomment A service allowing website owners to add an instant comment system to their pages. Use it wherever you think comments would come in handy.

Digg me later! Greasemonkey Script Adds a small bar at the top of articles linked from digg. This allows you to digg the article directly from the article page after you read it without having to return to digg!

CueFlash is a virtual flash card web program that you can access from anywhere. If you want to learn almost anything, from psychology terms to a foreign language you can learn it with cueFlash.

Vidconverter - convert (YouTube) FLV format to MPG.

Zattoo - brings live TV to your desktop.

toggl is a free, online timetracker perfect for anyone who needs to manage their work hours: consultants, programmers, designers, etc.

Freelance Tipster Hourly Rate Calculator - figure out how much you should be charging for your freelance work.

Getting the Most out of PNG - good read on the benefits of using PNG image format and how to use it most effectively.

Logo Trends 2007 a look at current trends in logo design.

LogoSauce - a gallery of logo design for inspiration.

Code Formatter Prepares code snippets for inclusion in a blog post. Code is formatted with line numbers, indentation is preserved and special characters are replaced with entities where necessary.

Top 100 Popular Pages on Wikipedia - interesting!

Firefox Tips for Power Users - some good tips.

FeedMiner - RSS Search Engine.

Accordion Madness - a bunch of ways to add accordion effects to a page.

That's it for now.

Weekend Quicker Links Feb 25, 2007

Time once again for this week's Weekend Quicker Links, links that I didn't get around to posting this week.

Web Design
Choosing Color Combinations - from Veerle's Blog, a look at how choosing the right color combinations can make or break your web design.

Free Vector Downloads - nice list of freely available vector files around the web.

Free Photos - free stock photo site

CSS
12 Lessons for those afraid of CSS and Standards "The cries of frustration I hear from other developers about CSS are only an echo of the ones I made for years. As a result I like to think that I can relate, and I’m writing to convey the most important lessons I’ve learned so far."

CSS Hacks "Hacks necessarily lead to potential complications and should be avoided whenever possible, but when the circumstances require hacks to be used, it's best to know what your options are and weigh the consequences appropriately. The purpose of this article is to describe some of the CSS hacks, also called CSS filters, with the least significant potential consequences."

Print Style Sheets: The basics "There are no excuses for not having at least a simple print style sheet. Period. And if you’re already on the web standards track, things are dead simple. (There’s just no need to force users to disable style sheets, open Print Previews, select pages they want to print, and finally print.) " See also Printing the Web: Solutions and Techniques

Top CSS Tips - from Snook, so worth a read. Some interesting stuff in that list! See also CSS Techniques I use all the Time.

Overlapping Tabs - css menu how-to.

Misc
OpenID - What is it and why everyone is talking about it "People have been talking about OpenID quite a bit, in the last few weeks, and there are many out there, who don't even know what OpenID is or what it's about. So I'm here to tell you what it is, and why it's so big. "

Digital Book Index: The World's Virtual Library " This index is intended as a "Meta-index" for most major eBook sites, along with thousands of smaller specialized sites.Digital Book Index provides links to more than 130,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 90,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost. "

Top 10 Gmail Tips and Hacks " Since you can do so much with and to Gmail, I thought I would round up my favorite tips and hacks for users both old and new."

Guerrilla Mail - disposable, temporary email addresses which expire after 15 minutes.

Proxygiga - Totally free web-based proxy tool for anonymous surfing.

Webpage to RSS Yahoo Pipe " generates RSS from any webpage which doesn't have native syndication. It utilizes a data mining service called Feedity ( www.feedity.com ) to dynamically build the RSS, and then only return unique items."

Software
Best Free Software List - from PC Magazine.

Free Digital Image Enhancer - " Free DCE does the hard job of noise reducing and automatic balance control for you. And it is free!"

WebDev
Google's Robots Exclusion Policy " This is the second in a short series of posts about the Robots Exclusion Protocol, the standard for controlling how web pages on your site are indexed. This post provides more details and examples of mechanisms to control access and indexing of your website by Google." Link to Part One of this article in the linked article.

Secrets of Self Taught Web Developers - 115 Resources to Help You Develop on the Web.

The People's Toolbox Tools for Web Developers and Designers - lots of links to lots of tools.

Tutorials on Microformats - "Microformats enable you to enrich your web pages (HTML, XHTML, RSS, Atom, Blog, XML). They don't affect how your web pages are rendered by a browser. But they have a huge (positive) impact on the ability of web tools to collect, understand, and process the information in your web pages. "

Just for Fun
HTML Tags Illustrated - real world, photo representations of html tags.

Snowball Game - some online winter fun.

And that is all for now!

Weekend Quicker Links Feb 17, 2007

This weekend's edition of links that I never got around to posting this past week ...

Google
Google AJAX News Bar is a Google AJAX Search API application that lets you easily add news search results to your web pages or blog. This tool provides bars of news results that are highly customizable: you can specify the news bar's orientation, the number of results it displays, the list of search expressions that drive it, etc.

Google Cheat Sheet - 2 PDF pages meant for printing and handy reference to all things Google.

Google Translate Quick Translation Browser Buttons - just drag the ones you use most to your toolbar for quick and easy translation

Digital Photography
Daily Tips to Improve Your Photography - as advertised, a daily blog chock full of digital photography tips from equipment to post-processing to composition.

Cool Tools
Email Riddler - email address encrypter tool. Just put in your email address and the text you'd like to appear in the link and the Riddler will encrypt it so it can't be read by those bad spammer folks.

Flavicon - generate a site favicon icon from any image (gif, png, jpg). The tool will automatically resize the image to 16x16 icon sizing as well.

WebWait - tool will tell you how long your site takes to load.

Zoho Show - Online presentations made easy. Create presentations from anywhere, present it remotely. Export it offline - it's simple and free.

RSS
myFeedz - not just another feed reader. This one, from the Adobe folks, bills itself as a social newspaper. From the site "myFeedz uses an innovative way to show you personalized news based on your reading habits. It learns from what you like and helps you keep up with your interests."

CSS
CSS Basics - a nice CSS beginner's guide.

CSS Layouts - a nice collection of 1, 2, 3 and even 4-column CSS Layouts.

Even More Rounded Corners with CSS - another approach to produce rounded corners with images and CSS.

John's Essential Guide to CSS - a nice collection of links to CSS articles.

Photoshop
Stencil Grafitti Art Video Tutorial

Portable Adobe Photoshop Project (26MB) How to create a legitimate, portable Adobe Photoshop & ImageReady CS2.

Nice Collection of Free Photoshop Brushes - lots of them. Definitely worth a look.

How to make a vector glass button in Illustrator - a tutorial.

Misc
The cost of leaving your PC on - the cost in dollars and it might be more than you think!

How to use Process Explorer to identify unknown processes in Windows

Updated List of Places to Watch TV Free Online

Updated "Digg This" Buttons - now with more smarts.

How C.R.A.P. is your design? - a nice article on how to create Contrast in your designs.

Easiest way to PNG support in IE6

WiiCade - a bunch of games that can be played online through Wii and with the Wiimote.

Ultimate Getting Things Done (GTD) Index - lots of GTD links!

YouTube Hack: Change Size of Player - how to bump up the size of the YouTube video when embedding it in your website.

That's all for now!

Weekend Quicker Links Feb 10, 2007

Every day of every week, I collect interesting links in a file on my Bookmarks toolbar. I post a lot of them here but inevitably, I end the week with a number of links I just never got around to posting. So in the interest of keeping my bookmarks under control, I've decided to start posting these leftover links at the end of each week in one post, which I'll call "Weekend Quicker Links". So without further ado, here are this week's links ...

Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo Pipes Tips from O'Reilly Radar

CSS
CSS Vertical Centering using float and clear - a visual demo that is pretty cross-browser. It even works in Mac IE5!

Getting in to Good CSS Coding Habits - excellent article, with lots of useful ideas. Worth a read.

Multi-column Layouts Climb Out of the Box - A List Apart looks at the current state of multi-column, equal height column layouts.

Flickr
FlickrSpy - watch the photos that are being uploaded to Flickr right now, in real time.

WebDev
A big list of Color Tools - there's bound to be a new one in there!

Web Design
Free vector web page elements - for those who are design challenged, here are some nice free buttons and bars for web design. See also Free Buttons and Bars and Free Vector Diagonal Stiped Bars and more on this site.

Porfolio Base - showcase of portfolios from around the web.

List of Nice, Free Photoshop Brushes - definitely worth a look for anyone into PS Brush collecting.

RSS
Feedity is a web feeds generator for web pages without an existing syndication format like RSS or Atom.

RSSInclude - integrate any RSS feed in to your website.

Misc
Cellblock Send in photos and videos from any email-capable device - computers, camera phones, and PDAs and have it appear immediately in a widget on your web page.

Turn Google into an Internet Radio Station how to play live music for your valentine (and friends) using Google Talk, Skype, Yahoo Messenger and other IM software.

Making PDFs with Free Software - as demand for producing documents in PDF format grows, people are looking for some solid, free solutions to create them. This article covers some of the options.

Windows OS
Useful Desktop Shortcuts to Help Save you Time "The icons that lay cluttered on your Windows Desktop aren't just for running programs - you can do other things like shutting down the computer, chat using Google Talk, quickly compose an email, open multiple websites at once or just run your favorite programs faster."

How to install Windows Vista in a dual boot configuration with Windows XP useful as I can see a lot of people wanting to do this. Does involve disk partitioning, though.

Google
Getting things done with Google "I’ve tried several different methods and applications for managing my action lists and projects, with various degrees of success. I spent the last year using paper (the Hipster PDA) for my action lists, with project information stored on the computer. Now I am entirely online — on Google to be specific — and I only carry paper for capturing new items."

Web 2.0
Daylife - another new news site, ala Newsvine etc.

TVTonic - subscribe to video podcasts and sit back and watch.

25 Ways to Grow Your Business - links to a lot of useful sites/services for managing your business.

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