The week in links 15/05/09
Well my crit is in three hours but I have just enough time to put out a slightly belated week in links posts, didn’t find enough designs to make a post on that though. They’re sure keeping me busy.
Graphic Design, Photography & Portfolios
20 Magazine Spread Layouts For Inspiration (bestdesignoptions.com)
Inspiring designs to have a look at.
100 (Really) Creative Business Cards (webdesignerdepot.com)
All of these are really cool.
22 Amazing Real Life Photo Manipulations (creativenerds.com)
Some familiar ones and some new ones.
15 New Ways To Use Photoshop (computerarts.co.uk)
The first one I didn’t know so that was really great.
Curiosity Killed The Portfolio: 22 Times (blogof.francescomugnai.com)
22 highly creative portfolios to be found here.
Is Information Visualization The Next Frontier For Design? (fastcompany.com)
Interesting topic to have a read about.
Web Design & WordPress
Elliot Kember dot Com (elliotkember.com)
Nice portfolio site with Snake to keep you amused. Use the Konami Code for 2 player.
25 Unique Uses Of WordPress As CMS (noupe.com)
Great ideas here.
30 Inspiring Web Design Layouts From deviantART (sixrevisions.com)
Love to see these for real.
25 Beautiful WP Themes In Blogs/Gallery/Magazine Styles (webhostingsecretrevealed.com)
Some of these were really tempting me to change my blog again, I resisted in the end.
Quick And Easy Code Snippets For WordPress (arbent.net)
Easy bits of code to make things easier for you.
6 Things To Think About When Building A Website (thecreativelab.timothybsmith.com)
Important things to remember.
Resources & Tutorials
15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts (smashingmagazine.com)
Continuing their search for the best new free fonts, here’s the latest post.
50 Incredible Tutorials From The Tuts+ Network (ae.tutsplus.com)
A history of high quality tutorials, visit other tuts sites for more.
Other & Social
Konami Code Sites (konamicodesites.com)
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Enter
15 Things You Need To Know About Windows 7 (techradar.com)
Windows 7 is shaping up to be a really good OS.
Mozilla Brings Webapps To The Desktop Challenges AIR & Silverlight (webmonkey.com)
An interesting development.
10 Ways To Put Your Content In Front Of More People (smashingmagazine.com)
Good ways to increase how many people see your stuff.
10 Simple Ways To Show Kindness Online (socialmediarockstar.com)
You might not end up being the Dalai Lama but you’ll be a lot kinder.
10 iPhone Apps I Use Daily As A Web Designer (d-lists.co.uk)
Ego looks pretty good, never heard of that before.