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Monday, February 1st, 2010
The team W3Avenue has posted a compilation of 40 Really Useful Tutorials You Should Have Read in January 2010. These quality tuts are culled from such well-known publications as A List Apart, Webdesigner Depot, Nettuts+, and more. Here are just a few of the featured articles:
Monday, February 1st, 2010
The folks at Webdigi have posted a tutorial for Creating a Custom Facebook Fan Page on their PHP, Web and IT stuff blog. This detailed guide provides step-by-step instructions and code snippets for creating custom tabs, a carousel, and web forms on your Facebook fan page.
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Matt Silverman at Mashable has some suggestions for How To: Build a More Beautiful Blog. If you’re looking to take your blog to the next level, you’ll want to check out this post which makes the following recommendations:
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
I’ve recently been looking for sets of icons for all of the social websites that I belong to for my website, blog, and also print handouts. In the course of my research I’ve come across some excellent icon sets that designers are giving away for free. If you have a need for social media icons for your library website, personal website, or blog, here are a few resources that I found helpful.
30 Amazingly Creative Social Bookmarks Icon Sets
This list by Speckyboy Design Magazine has screenshots of all thirty amazing 2.0 icon sets with links back to download pages.
27 Excellent Free Social Media Icons Sets
Jon Bishop rounds up 27 different icon sets, each with snapshot previews of the graphics.
The Best Social Media Icons All In One Place
Henry Jones of Web Design Ledger compiles a list of 20+ social icon sets. There is a lot of overlap between this post and the Speckybog Mag article, however there are a few unique sets listed here.
100+ Remarkably Beautiful Twitter Icons And Buttons
Hongkiat.com pulls together 20+ icon sets and individual twitter graphics available for free.
IconsPedia
This website offers a quick search of free icons, many of which are social.
FreeSocialCons.com
This resource is a collection of free social media icons. They also offer several icon sets.
I’m sure there are many more collections of quality free icon sets out there, please list your faves in the comments!
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Matt Silverman at Mashable has published an excellent tutorial detailing How-To Create Custom Backgrounds for Twitter, YouTube, & MySpace. This quick article provides a walk-through for how to create your own branded backgrounds on these popular networks, including exact column dimensions, file sizes, and layout information.
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
If you’re considering a website redesign in 2010 you may want to check out these 35+ Usability Resources for Web Designers. Steven Snell at DesignMag compiles a handy list of both premium and free usability resources to test out your new site. He also lists related websites and blogs, checklists, and articles.
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
Whether you’re putting together a conference presentation or a designing website, there’s always the question of how to create an appealing color scheme. SmashingApps has done a great job of rounding up 50 Best Free Tools To Create Perfect Color Combinations. Each one of these applications will give you much needed guidance when visualizing your color palettes.
Monday, August 31st, 2009
Sarah Houghton-Jan, the Librarian in Black, has completely redesigned her blog which she’s migrated from Typepad to Wordpress. The design and features are fantastic as is the content so be sure to update your RSS feed and bookmarks!
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Steven Snell of DesignMag outlines 17 different content management applications which can be used to create powerful websites. The article includes a brief description of each of these solutions, a screenshot, and a list of relevant resources for those interested in finding out more. There are many here which I hadn’t heard of before and I look forward to checking them out.
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Are you redesigning your website or creating a new one for your organization? Get some great advice on how to properly design and code your site for optimal usability and search engine optimization from this rap video.
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Heather Johnson at BestCollegesOnline writes about ways to improve usability in libraries. This thorough guide provides helpful links and annotations and is divided into the following sections:
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Are you thinking about a website redesign using a content management system such as Drupal or Joomla? If so, you’ll want to stop by Web Distortion where they have reviewed 13 Free CMS Options for Web Design Professionals. Each comprehensive review details the features, setup time, supported OS and other technology, as well as urls and an analysis. These are the applications they cover:
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
If you have a blog which uses the Blogger platform, you will want to check out these listings from Mashable of 70 Fresh And Modern Blogger Templates, 50 More Beautiful Blogger Templates, and 30+ Templates & Tools for Blogger.
You might also want to check out these 50 Free Icon Sets available at The Web Squeeze.
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Smashing Magazine has created a series of articles spotlighting free, first-class themes for WordPress blogs. Bloggers who use this platform will want to head over and take a look as they present screenshots for each theme.
20 More Free First-Class Wordpress Themes
100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
83 Beautiful WordPress Themes
21 Fresh, Usable and Elegant Themes
10 Fresh and Clean Themes
Friday, February 1st, 2008
Smashing Magazine has written an in-depth and illustrated guide to Web design. Anyone who is interested in usability and user-centered design may want to check out their approach:
via UX Magazine
