Another month full of great articles. But, less talk, more action - here are twenty great articles I really enjoyed reading in November.

Web development

jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 and New ASP.NET Charting Control

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I am happy to present you my first wooden texture pack. It consists of ten, not so common wooden surfaces. The most interesting texutres are actually areas on my drum that I got from Africa and that have weird holes all over it. Those holes are caused by some insect, as I understood well. There are three shots of my sister's drawing table, but you'll find other surfaces as well.

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There were a lot of high quality articles dawned in my Google Reader last month. Chris Spooner (Blog.SpoonGraphics) posted two awesome tutorials on how to create a modern blog design. Angie and Robert Bowen (Arbenitng) launched Social Media Directory for Designers. Dave Ward (Encosia) shared & of his favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASAP.NET. I published Handycons, free hand-drawn social media icon set, and I'm working on Handycons II.

So... enjoy!

Web design

Create a Vibrant Modern Blog Design in Photoshop and

Encoding a Photoshop Mockup into XHTML & CSS (Blog.SpoonGraphics)

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Handycons is a free, hand drawn social media icon set that contains 12 icons. Package contains icons for del.icio.us, Digg, Mixx, DesignBump, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Developer Zone, DesignFloat, Technorati, Twitter and RSS feed & Email icon, of course. All icons are available in four sizes: 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48 pixels.

I made it using ArtRage and my Wacom Intuo 3 ;)

Download icons (zip, 166kb)

Note: This post has disappeared for a couple  of days. I blame Windows Live Writer for this. Sorry!

There were enormous number of really great stuff in September. When I was choosing articles for this post I realized it's going to be enormous as well. So I am giving you just a few of the best web development and web design articles in September 2008.

1. Websites We Visit: How They Look Like 10 Years Ago

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