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!
Create a Vibrant Modern Blog Design in Photoshop and
Encoding a Photoshop Mockup into XHTML & CSS (Blog.SpoonGraphics)
Most used elements in collage artwork (Marcofolio.net)
30 Beautifully Blue Web Designs (Six Revisions)
Pattern inspiration: Daniele De Nigris (Abduzeedo)
Icon Design Tutorial - Designing a New Icon In Illustrator (Design Reviver)
Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers (Blog.SpoonGraphics)
How to: CSS Large Background (WebDesignerWall)
Arbenting’s Social Media Directory for Designers Launches! (Arbenting)
100+ Resources & Inspiration for Hand Drawn Design (Designm.ag)
25 Hot Female Web Designers (Lee Munroe)
7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET (Encosia)
Using jQuery to enhance ASP.NET AJAX progress indication (Encosia)
Thought Driven Development a Methodology of Abile Development (LittleTutorials)
Is it important to write good code? (Fredrik Normén)
Sending email with jQuery and a web service (RiderDesign)
Microsoft Web Application Installer - Open Source Web Apps Delivered and Installed (Scott Hanselman)
Create simple tooltips with CSS and jQuery (kriesi.at)
Is Code Coverage Really All That Useful? (Kevin Pang)
Track your visitors using an HttpModule (.NET slave)
jQuery plugin for Twitter (coda)
Experience vs. Function — a Beautiful UI is Not Always the Best UI (Usability Post)
Online Project Management Tools (Designer Folio)
Non-English URLs (Keyvan Nayyeri)
You should never use flags for language choice
Handycons - a free, hand drawn social media icon set
Building better web forms: Validation best practices
Janko is a UI designer, software engineer, blogger, speaker and artist. You can read more about him and warp speed blog here.
Best of the web - my pick for October 2008 (via @jankowarpspeed)
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Max | Design Shard 01 Nov 2008 #
Some great articles here, im getting more intrested in jquery so ill be sure to check those ones out.
Marco 01 Nov 2008 #
Great round-up Janko! I've already seen most of the articles since I'm subscriber to their blogs, but some are really interesting that I haven't seen before. Thanks for including one of my articles, glad you liked it. Keep up the good work!
Angie Bowen 01 Nov 2008 #
Great rundown! WebDesignerWall's tutorial is great and I love your handycons. Thanks for including the directory as well.
Jin 02 Nov 2008 #
Thanks, I found some new blogs to subscribe to. Does it make me vain that "25 Hot Female Web Designers" was the first thing I saw out of this whole list??
Dainis Graveris 04 Nov 2008 #
man..great list from You again nice jquery stuff
Canon_5D 04 Nov 2008 #
great
gMoney 06 Nov 2008 #
Holy smokes...this is enough to keep me reading for the rest of the month! The 30 beautiful blue designs is really quite inspiring. Thanks for this!
Best websites 06 Dec 2008 #
Awesome article, my favorite - most used elements in collage artwork
