* job listings from design sites
- 37 Signals' Job Board
- CSS Monster (part of CSS Beauty)
- Authentic Jobs (from Cameron Moll)
* job search websites
- Thingamajob
- CareerBuilder
- Monster
- HotJobs
- Dice - Tech Job Search
- Simply Hired
- Indeed
- Craigslist.org
- Use frames to create your own custom Craigslist job page, like this: http://www.johnriviello.com/cl/
- RSS Jobs
- 5 Saved Searches and up to 10 results each for free. Use this with Monster, Careerbuilder, and Dice, in addition to their job search agent emails.
* job social network
- LinkedIn
- O'Reilly Connection
* jobs - freelance
- Craigslist.org (links to my frame template page)
- Elance Marketplace
- Rent A Coder
blog software and tools
- Movable Type
- WordPress
- Textpattern
- Blogger
- Feedburner - Stats for your RSS Feed
- 56 RPC and RPC2 Services to Ping
blogs - css and web standards
- Jeffrey Zeldman
- Eric Meyer
- David Shea
- Molly E. Holzschlag
- Roger Johansson
- Digital Web Magazine
blogs - flash
- Aral Balkan
- Colin Moock
- Guy Watson
- Grant Skinner
- Tinic Uro
- Flash Insider
blogs - new entrepreneurs
- Mike Davidson
- of sIFR, ESPN.com, and iPod-A-Month fame
- Shaun Inman
- of Designologue, ShortStat, Mint, IFR and SXSW Blog of the Year '05 fame
books - business
- The Business Side of Creativity, by Cameron S. Foote
- Excellent guide if you want to be a freelancer in any creative field
- The Creative Business Guide to Running a Graphic Design Business
- Another book by Cameron S. Foote, specific to graphic design firms
- The Automatic Millionaire, by David Bach
- Not related to design, but valuable information on why and how to save your money at a young age
books - css and web standards
- Designing with Web Standards, by Jeffrey Zeldman
- Web Standards Solutions, by Dan Cederholm
- Bulletproof Web Design, by Dan Cederholm
- The Zen of CSS Design, by Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag
business resources
- 101 Essential Freelancing Resources
- Great list of links... it's growing to beyond 101
- How Much Does a Web Page Cost?
- Great article to help explain web page costs to clients
- Web Design Contracts: Why Bother
- The Why and How of Web Design Contracts
- Pricing a Project
- Excellent article from Blue Flavor
- Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer
- Great article for anyone looking to go freelance
- Client Progress Template
- My template for freelance projects
- Blinksale
- Online invoice management
- Creative Commons
- nonprofit organization offering a flexible copyright for creative work
- SideJobTrack
- Web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting & project management
- About.com Graphic Design Pricing & Salaries
conferences
- South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW)
- March 7 - 11, 2008 in Austin, TX
contests
- Build Your Campus in 3D
- use Google SketchUp to build a 3D model of campus
css
- CSS Reboot
- Biannual event to redesign websites with web standards
- CSS Help Pile
- Position is Everything - Modern browser bugs explained in detail
- glish.com : CSS layout techniques
- CSS Zen Garden
css showcase
- CSS Beauty
- Stylegala
firefox extensions
- Firebug
- edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript
- Web Developer Extension on chrispederick.com
- Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. A must have.
- Html Validator
- Toolbar icon alerts if HTML validates or not, and explains errors when you View Source
- View Rendered Source
- Displays color coded and styled rendered source (includes HTML generated by JavaScript and XML)
- MeasureIt
- Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage
- ColorZilla
- Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies
- Aardvark
- Hover over parts of a webpage to view HTML element type and its class or id (if they exist)
- Venkman JavaScript Debugger
- Website also includes extensive tutorial on how to properly use it
- Screen grab!
- Take a screen shot of the entire webpage, even if it is larger than the screen
- Feedview
- Makes your RSS feeds nicer to read in the browser
- SearchStatus
- Display the Google PageRank and Alexa ranking with search-related tools
- PDF Download
- Choose to view a PDF in the browser (as PDF or HTML) or download it
- Greasemonkey
- Lets you to add customized "user scripts" to any web page to change its behavior
flash
- Flash Pearls Resources Page
- Resources page from my Flash showcase website
- FlashObject: Javascript Flash detection and embed script
- Use this EVERY time you embed a flash movie on a webpage. EVERY time.
- Flare - free ActionScript decompiler
rss readers
- Bloglines
- Google Personalized Homepage
- Use "Create a Section" to add custom RSS Feeds
social bookmarking
- digg
- del.icio.us
- Scuttle - del.icio.us for your own server
- Today's popular del.icio.us sites
- Populicio.us - del.icio.us popular sites
web hosts
- NEIT Solutions
- Not a lot of storage, but most reliable host i've dealt with
- Dreamhost
- Lots of storage space, great price and reliable service
- Dathorn Internet Services
- Shared & Reseller Hosting, for the advanced user
web standards
- Ten reasons to learn and use web standards
- The Dollars and Sense of Building to Standards
- The Web Standards Project
- A List Apart
- sIFR: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses
- 10 Reasons Clients Don't Care About Accessibility
website tools
- Campaign Monitor
- Awesome email newsletter and list management tool. Freelance clients will love you for it.
- Comprehensive guide to .htaccess
- useful to know this if you have your own website hosting
- Mint
- Shaun Inman's ShortStat reborn
- SlimStat
- A simple (and free!) web stats analyser based on ShortStat
- Refer
- tracks incoming referrers to your website
~ web projects of mine
- IntraSmart Flash Presentation
- Smarter Fuel
- Flash Pearls: Flash Website Showcase
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