Best of the web - my pick for October 2008

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

blogspoongraphics

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)

Web development

 encosia

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)

Usbility & Other

usabilitypost

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)

My articles in October

handycons

Creating a Slide-In jQuery Contact Form (Another tutorial I wrote for Design Shack)

You should never use flags for language choice

Handycons - a free, hand drawn social media icon set

Building better web forms: Validation best practices

Read the complete post at http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JankoAtWarpSpeed/~3/439020182/post.aspx

Published Saturday, November 01, 2008 1:35 PM by Janko At Warp Speed
Filed under:
Powered by Community Server (Commercial Edition), by Telligent Systems