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As you may notice 1stwebdesigner has started to change a lot throughout past few months. We will also start to cover Design Community news and do monthly (maybe weekly in future) reviews of top design links, articles, websites. Now you may find it all only by reading your feed regularly, checking Twitter daily and being constant visitor of social news sites – Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Delicious. We want to give you some relief and do this time-consuming part ourselves and put it in easy to read and scan article.
This is only the first article, in future we will also ask for you help and assistance finding all those great new articles which may slip our eyes, we have a long way to grow – but let’s start enjoying little things!
There was huge buzz around SmashingMag when they asked for help and redirected all their posts to sales page. Such move of course got big attention, many opinions and a lot of loyal readers responded! For me it was interesting experiment from SmashingMag side, however I am not sure if they were expecting such attention, but discussion evolved. Visit their article and few more articles discussing this topic and sharing interesting opinions:
The final version of jQuery UI 1.8 just got released a few days ago. This article will go through all new features and also show you some examples with the new widgets.
New premium design resource toolbox site launched by Spyrestudios. Read what they are saying about themselves: “MediaLoot was created by Jon and Mason because they got tired of buying dozens of individual graphic resources. It was their dream to build a single collection of awesome resources that would be the ultimate designer toolbox.” I think their product is great success already!
Adobe Creative Suite CS5 will launched on Monday, April 12,2010!! Get some sneak peek videos about all suite softwares and also read comprehensive article from DesignShack just about new Photoshop – Photoshop CS5: A Sneak Peek to learn more.
In two years one gathers more than just days and months. Visit their site to see collection of events, facts, impressions, gigabytes, followers, links, features, countries & a lot more in the first BSA infographic.
FindIcons has really huge icon collection and sophisticated search engine, icons are very easy to find and download – my favorite site lately.
In May 1, 2010 we can await for new release from WordPress announcing version 3.0. What changes and improvements we can expect? Ready for some sneak peek insight? In screenshot below you can see new WordPress default theme called “Twenty Ten”. Read more in original article!
Update – WordPress 3.0, Beta 1 is out!!, download and check out all upcoming features now live!
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Want to learn everything about UX, head out to this site where experienced Joshua Brewer the Director of User Experience at Socialcast.com will teach you it in 52 weeks! Love the idea and site!
5 really well explained must do things right now to be up to date, be organized and competitive! Very good!
If you want to create really interesting and unique presentations, you must read this post! Watch also presentation video at the end of article, Alex Hunter really knows what he is talking about.
This is the first part of explaining how to use Google Analytics more effectively, I bet you will learn something there!
Learn everything about tactics you need to use to successfully deal with your clients.
Dedicated and uniquely design page just to answer this long-lasting question.
What is happening and what’s gonna happen? “Print is dying, digital is surging – everyone is confused” – very thoughtful article.
Tumblr is set to become the blogging tool of 2010 with its massive growth, yet still many people don’t fully understand what Tumblr does, or how it works.
Handy WordPress plugins for advertisements, you have great chance to read explained reviews about each banner to easily pick one the most suitable for your site.
Kind of short article, but very easy reading to understand how to write valuable blog post from marketing point of view as well.
Brian Mclovin is going mad into interviews, he will do 55 interviews in upcoming months. Head out to his site to 26 interviews already, I am reading each interview with excitement. While you are on his site, I suggest you to read also Killing The List Post article and discussion in comments.
Want to see beautiful and inspiring sites designed in HTML5? Visit this new web showcase site.
Letterpress type appearance in printed business cards is simply amazing! Get inspired and have your own business card created!
Mobile world is used more and more, designers need to think about this format as well – let’s see creative and well done examples of such designs!
Read about new HTML5 features and improvements you can do now! Tutorial and tips type of article.
Looks like now designers will code all images they do in Photoshop ;D Cool article and tutorial recreating Opera logo using just plain CSS3.
Learn about color perception and color psychology in website design, the way different brands use colors and what’s their message.
Understand how to plan your website redesign in right and planned way! This article will help you make clear your goals and get you inspired with successful redesigns.
Two part article, which leads you though designing stylish button in Photoshop and then continue with CSS and even add spice with jQuery. View finished demo here.
Image saving and squeezing without loosing quality is very crucial part in web designs, learn how to lower file size and decrease page loading times using CSS sprites.
Learn how to take good things from 960 Grid system and other CSS frameworks, but to remember about clean code in the same time too. Frameworks always offer more, because it is meant to cover almost everything you could use – understand what it represents and what you really need to use!
In short 4:12 min video you will learn about new CSS hack how to target IE8 and lower versions, which may be not the best practise, but fun to do!
There are four parts published in Spyrestudios explaining some simple and advanced features in CSS – must read all four!
Here are 47 of specific solutions in many common problems you may face in daily development proess. 47 CSS Tips, Tricks, and Techniques to add to your CSS toolbox.
If you want to create unique wp themes, it’s necessary to know how to call out different arrangements of posts from WordPress database. Read this article for learning what query_posts command in WordPress is and how to use it in your upcoming theme.
Advanced WordPress Comment Styles and Tricks
Read this in-depth article to learn the advanced techniques on styling of WordPress Comments sections.
Even wondered how to create WordPress blogs which have Tumblr functionality in them? Learn the basic techniques used behind the recently released Tumblog themes from WooTeam.
“I don’t get why people invest in SEO. I am not trying to start an argument. I just want to explain my doubts so somebody can correct me.” – interesting way of thinking from Paul Boag and I completely agree with him – read there why you don’t need to invest big money in SEO, why it’s just not worth it.
Find several Facebook fan pages and communities now and also read several short tips how to promote your Facebook page. By the way, 1STWD has it’s own fan page as well, we are not promoting it a lot for now though
“Social media is just a buzzword until you come up with a plan. Using a word is easy — coming up with a plan past “register for this site” is not.” Interesting reading.
Adam from SocialMediaToday has pulled together extremely useful list of must read articles if you want to get better on social media, blogging, Google and more.
This version takes form in CSS. All shapes are rendered by the browser, using a combination of background color, border width, border radius, and a heavily reliance on absolute/relative positioning. You can get a better idea of how the letters were formed with the Inspect display option.
HTML5 and CSS3 are bringing new features to us and in this article you’ll be able to find some great tools, cheat sheets and much more you could need to master these new features.
This is a pretty handy tool for bookmarklets that need jQuery to execute their function. It helps in situations where you don’t know if the specific minimum required version of jQuery will already load in the page.
An awesome write up by Noura Yehya on comparison of different PHP frameworks. If you are a beginner then I will highly suggest you to read the article.
Designing a web application? Familiarize yourself with Rich Internet Application technologies and the best UI controls for creating your application.
Huge list of webdev tools showcased in 10 categories, very easy to scan and useful for later reference.
Beautiful idea and CSS rule generator, where you can modify CSS3 rules and see preview right away on the box. Very good tool to test and understand new CSS3 features.
Jean-Baptiste Jung has collected stunningly creative examples of CSS3 use in modern webdesign. 
Speckyboy always offer great and useful list articles, which can help greatly in your daily development process. Need some help with jQuery in order to remember some short code snippets or read guides as references? 
Have you wanted to learn more about color correction? The focus of this tutorial is to help you delve deeper into color correcting to up the production value of your images. Learn a few simple techniques while creating.
If you haven’t opened Photoshop for some time and what to increase your skills with it, check out this massive tutorial collection from Spyrestudios. 
Get a handy collection of free templates to help you in wireframing, print sketching and with taking notes. Must bookmark! Update – Sketchbooks of Web Developer, one more excellent article with different approach and showcase. 
Download and print out this handy reference sheet as reminder what colors mean and how they relate together. Was released on January but so useful!
What do you think about this type of articles? Would love to see in future suggestions for top links in the next month! Maybe we should do such article weekly?
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Dainis Graveris is 23 years old blogger and designer, founder of 1stWebDesigner, now more silently managing everything behind the scenes. He usually hangs out in Twitter tweeting design related links and chatting with people. If you have any questions or feedback that's the best place to start! Cheers!
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 09:33
Really helpful web site for web professionals
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 01:52
Thanks for the include! Great post, what a list of resources!
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 14:52
nice..
very inspirative..
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010 22:02
A very interesting compilation, good job
I love this site.
isut
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 14:52
nice..
very inspirative..
:)
Shane Jeffers
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 01:52
Thanks for the include! Great post, what a list of resources!
nihar
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 09:33
Really helpful web site for web professionals