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Links for Web Designers : May
June 19th, 2007 | 
Author: As the end of the month approaches lets take a look at the usefull articles and resources for web designers that have been popular over the month of May.
Freelanceswitch – Hourly rate calculator
Free Stock Icons – Icons from the Crystal Clear icon set by Everaldo Coelho
Educate Your Stakeholders – Most of the important decisions of website development are not made by design professionals. They’re made by the business owners and middle managers who hire us
Creative Bits – Cool business card designs
CSS Slicing Guide – How to turn a Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro or Fireworks template into a fully sliced, coded and XHTML and CSS valid web page
Contrast and Meaning – If you’re a designer, you work to communicate and convey meaning. So it’s important that you understand the mechanisms by which things and ideas acquire meaning
Vecteezy – Free vector downloads from some top designers
Make your site mobile friendly – How do your web pages fare in today’s mobile browsers ?
Freelanceswitch – 10 signs you may be charging too little
Deziner Folio – Web 2.0 layer styles for photoshop
Sitepoint – Breaking out of the box
Smashing Magazine – Ideas for better CSS coding
E Logo Design – 50 logo tutorials
roScripts – Best CSS tools of the month
Nill Photo Album – Fake HDR tutorial
CSS Dock menu – An apple-inspired menu for use in your websites
Color Schemes – Huge list of color-related resources
BBC News – Helvetica’s 50th Birthday
How to think like a client – Having trouble getting clients to see things your way? Maybe it’s time you spoke their language
MB Web Design – Nightmare Clients!
Liquidicity – 77 vector buttons
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Top 10 Map Tools and Mashups
Since the excellent Google Maps was created there has been loads of usefull tools and sites created which use their API, today we’re going to be taking a look at the best and most helpfull examples …
Google Maps for WordPress – Handy plugin which allows you to easily embed google maps within your wordpress pages. Usefull for a contact page or to illustrate somewhere you are talking about in a blog post.
Goggles – Google maps flight slim, useless but a cool use of the api all the same
Streetview – New from google, allows you to virtually explore certain cities around the world
Real Estate Auctions – Ebay real estate auctions mashup
Wikimapia – Lets users tag an area and add notes about it
GeoNews – GeoNews is a auto updated Google Map of Google News with user comments
Petrol Prices -Shows the cheapest petrol station near to you, UK only
Housingmaps – Mashup of craigslist and google maps to help you find somewhere to live
Simply Hired – Find a job near you, searches job boards, classifieds and company sites
Hotmaps – Hot or Not + Google maps mashup
25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part6)
We’re back with Part 6 of our code snippets series sees us take a look at more handy pieces of html, css, javascript and other usefull things to a web designer …
amCharts – Animated pie and doughnut charts made in flash and javascript
Digital Web – Creative uses of PNG in web design
Filament Group – Styling buttons with the CSS Sliding doors technique
456 Berea Street – Accessible expanding and collapsing menu
Clean CSS – CSS Formatter and Optimizer
Sky Rocket – Semantic Horizontal forms
CSS Play – Menu builder
SEO Moz – 15 CSS properties you probably never use
24 Ways – Gravity-Defying Page Corners
HTML – Special Characters
Colly Logic – 7 Steps to better handheld browsing
Content with Style – A CSS Framework
24 Ways – The correct way to markup a tag cloud
Smashing Magazine – 70 Coding ideas for CSS
24 Ways – Rounded Corner Boxes the CSS3 Way
Dynamic Drive – Ajax tabs
Skuer – CSS Search engine
Tanfa – CSS Image Rollover Map
CSS Play – Vertical Scrolling tables within a div
Web Graphics – Float mini tabs menu
Qooxdoo – Comprehensive and innovative Open Source multipurpose AJAX frameworks
Positioniseverything – Delux CSS Dropdowns and flyouts
Relay – Ajax directory manager
Color Jack – Sphere color picker, free to use for non-commercial projects
Drag and Drop – Javascript to move: DIV, TABLE, IMG, basically anything you can throw at it
15 of the Best CSS Zengarden Designs
The CSS Zengarden is a great project and helped the web standards cause. Today I’m going to be taking a look back over the hundreds of submissions and choose some of my favourites …
Pinups – Emilano Pennisi
Obsequience – Pierce Gleeson
ParAvion – Emilano Pennisi
Invasion of the Body Switchers – Andy Clarke
The Final Ending – Ray Henry
Some Leafs – Michael Tupy
Burnt Offering – Jonny Blair
Austrian’s Dark Side – Rene Grassegger
Revolution! – David Hellsing
Edo and Tokyo – Daisuke Sato
Corporate Zenworks – Derek Hansen
Oceans Apart – Ryan Sims
Start Listening – Liz Lubowitz
This is Cereal – Shaun Inman
si6 – Shaun Inman
Free Egyptian Font: Mido
I came across this excellent free egyptian font today, named Mido , It’s created by Eva Grinder at Konstfack, Stockholm 2007. Its available in opentype format and free to download. What are you waiting for? Go grab it …
Photoshop Plugin Reviews From Jay Nelson – June 2007
Here are the latest Photoshop Plugin Reviews by Jay Nelson, the editor-in-chief of Design Tools Monthly. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)
Photoshop Video Training From Total Training Goes Online – Get It Free For One Year With A DVD Purchase Of $150 Or More
This super special is a little tricky. If you buy any DVD training from Total Training that amounts to $150 or more, you will receive the Total Training Online Adobe Library absolutely free for 1 year — that’s over $1,000 worth of DVDs that will be accessible online. The offer expires June 15, 2007. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)
Photoshop Masking And Montage Tutorial From Photoshop Expert Mark Galer
Mark Galer has sent us a new sample chapter from his book, Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills. This tutorial shows you Photoshop techniques that use selections and Photoshop masks to create amazing effects that can be applied to landscape images. As a bonus, you can also download high resolution versions of the images that are used in the tutorial, so you can work along with Mark. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)
