This will end my Year with the links for the day or Week. I will start the new year with a completely new format for these type of links. I would appreciate any critique or comments on how you would like to have these links formatted for your convenience.
CSS
- The 1KB CSS Grid
- 15+ techniques and tools for cross browser CSS coding
- Better CSS Font Stacks
- Override Inline Styles with CSS
- 35 CSS-based Layouts that Look Awesome
- 5 Advanced CSS Techniques To Increase Your Skill Set
- 15 Extremely Useful CSS Grid Layout Generator For Web Designers
Start a web application from scratch
- Part 1 – Planning the App: Basic Idea and Design
- Part 2 – Planning the App: Database Architecture and Development Approach
- Part 3 – Designing the App: Workflow Map and Photoshop Design
- Part 4 – Designing the App: HTML and CSS
- Part 5 – Developing the App: User Interaction
- Part 6 – Developing the App: Adding AJAX Interactivity
- Part 7 – Developing the App: List Interaction
- Part 8 – Security & The Future
- Part 9 – Bugs, Security, and Other Tweaks
- And finally…. the application! Colored Lists
Worpress
- 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9
- 10 Easy ways to fix common WordPress headaches
- 20+ Tutorials and Resources for Working with Custom Fields in WordPress
- 45+ Essential WordPress Plugins for Pro Blogging
- 25 Unique uses of WordPress as CMS
- 13 Simply Useful WordPress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier
- WordPress Theme Frameworks – A Comprehensive Overview
- 20+ Brand New and Incredibly Useful WordPress Plugins
- Stupid WordPress Tricks
- 12 Essential Security Tips and Hacks for WordPress
- 16 WordPress Sites to Help You Build a Better Blog
- 10 Must Have Hacks For WordPress Development
Php
- Getting Clean With PHP
- phpanywhere.net
- PHP: Display Adobe PSD files on a web page
- 43 Must Read PHP Articles and Resources
- 16 PHP Frameworks To Consider For Your Next Project
User Experience/User Interface
- 5 Damn Easy Ways To Improve User Experience | Spyre Studios
- UX pattern Explorer
- Factors That Affect Usability
- 10 Signs of a User-Focused Design
- UX Booth
- Inline Validation in Web Forms
- 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To
- Forgiveness in UI design
- Usability tips for visualizing Ajax requests
- 40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns
- Create and collaborate interactive UI mockups for your software and websites.
Web Design and development
- Beautiful Hand Drawn Websites
- 50 Inspiring Examples of Minimalism in Web Design
- What makes a website successful? It might not be what you expect!
- 60 Trendy Web Design Interfaces Created In October
- 75+ Truly Remarkable Typography Resources
- Quick reference search in HTML, CSS, JS, Ajax and other developer documentation
- Firediff is a Firebug extension that tracks changes to a pages DOM and CSS.
- The Evolution of a Website Design
- 50 Helpful iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers
- Creating a Usable Contact Form
- Speed Up Your Website with Better Image Optimization in Photoshop
- 22 Awesome Adobe AIR Applications for Designers
- 50 Creative and Inspiring 404 Pages
- 50 Brilliant Design Articles of 2008
- 10 short ‘n’ sweet tips on how to design for web
- [PDF] 25-point Website Usability Checklist
- 40+ Beautiful Patterns and Textures
- If Content is Really King, Then What is Design?
- The Benefits of Experimentation
- 25 Must-Read Blogs for Freelance Designers
- Pagination is dead
- Use Sprites to Create an Awesomeness-Filled Navigation Menu
- Create a Twitter-Like “Load More” Widget
- Color: The Next Limited Resource?
- 40 Beautifully-Designed Navigation Menus:
- Usability testing userfly.com
- 35+ Horizontal Websites for Your Design Inspiration
- CometChat is the first integrated inline chat script which works straight from your website
- More Stencil Fun For Designers
- 25 Awesome Facebook Apps for Designers
- Minimalist Web Design: When Less is More
- Solutions to 5 Common Ajax Problems
- http://zentextures.com/
- How important are web standards?
- ColdFusion Coming Back???
- On Web Typography
- 10 Tips for a Fast Website | Layers Magazine
- Designers Predict Design Trends for 2010 – Part I
- Logo inspiration gallery
- 13 Must-Have Add-ons To Strengthen Firebug
- The Unusable and Superficial World of Beer and Alcohol Websites
- Web Application Interface Design Guide
Tutorials/Tips/Opinions
- Integrating Prototyping Into Your Design Process
- Everything You Ever Want to Know About Creating Seamless Patterns in Illustrator
- 5 Articles To Understanding Your Websites Bounce Rate
- Adaptable view – how do they do it?
- 7 Tips To Make Your Web Site Mobile-friendly
- Fireworks vs Photoshop Compression
- The Future Of The Web: Where Will We Be In Five Years?
- 15 Helpful Blogs No Freelancer Should Forget
- Ultimate Guide To Grid-Based Web Design: Techniques and Tools
- ColoRotate: browse and create your color palette in 3D
- How to manage a small web project: a simple approach
- Search Engine Optimization 101
- Real-Life Twitter Business Success Stories
- Benefits of Increasing Communication in the Development Process
- http://www.prettyloaded.com/
- Love what you do and they will listen – my Pecha Kucha talk for Webdirections East in Tokyo
- Web Design is Dead! Introducing a much improved web design process.
Tools
- 25 Free Must Download Design Programs
- Website Analytics Toolbox
- Here’s an nteresting drawing application called LiveBrush (free download):
- 20 Tools to Make the Life of a Web Developer Easier
- Don’t Be Stupid – Typographic Poster for Download
- Typekit looks sharp! Some really cool fonts as well
- ui-patterns.com – design patterns
- ConceptShare is a simple, cost-effective tool for gathering feedback from team members and clients.
- open source data visualization
- 35 Absolutely Useful Firefox Plugins For Web Designers And Developers
- Adobe Browserlab An easier, faster solution for cross-browser
- Site-Specific Browsers: Turn Websites Into Desktop Applications
- An open source web application meant to help manage & create invoices in a simple, straightforward way.
- 10 Amazing Tools for Sharing Visual Inspiration through Screenshots
- Tracker is an story-based project planning tool that allows teams to collaborate in real-time.Links for today
- Eight Robust Tools To Simplify Developer’s Worklife
- Pencil an animation/drawing software
Wireframing/ Prototyping
- Mockingbird Wireframes on the fly.
- The Importance Of Wireframes In Web Design And 9 Tools To Create Wireframes
- The Guided Wireframe Narrative for Rich Internet Applications
- 20 Steps to Better Wireframing
- 21 Prototyping, Mockup, and Wireframing Tools for iPhone App Development
- Online wireframing tool with a core strength in content formatting and page structure.
- A Collection of Useful Web Design Wireframing Resources
- 35 Excellent Wireframing Resources
- Practical Prototyping Tips
Flash
- Away 3d Realtime 3d Engine for flash
- GeneralRelativity Flash Animation Library
- Why Flash Might Not Be Good For Your Website
- Client-Side File Generator with Javascript & Flash 10+
- AS3 tween Engine
- Swiz is a framework for Adobe Flex that aims to bring complete simplicity to RIA development.
Javascript
- Ajax Push Engine – Real time data streaming
- Learning Advanced JavaScript
- Tiny JS is an online directory of small but powerful plugins for popular JavaScript/Ajax libraries
- 7 Powerful image carousels for web designers
- Produce Interactive Charts of Time Series with dygraphs
Productivity
- 10 Ways for Designers to Boost Productivity
- 27 Must-Have Starter Kits For Web Designers
- How to Effectively Organize your Photoshop Layers
- Reinventing the Color Picker
Iphone
- iUI: iPhone User Interface Framework
- 43 iPhone Development Resources
- UI Stencil Kit for iPhone App Designers
- iPhone App Site Design Trends