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End of the Year Links of the Week: December 31st

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

How Entrepreneurs Can Survive a Cash-Flow Crisis
BusinessWeek discusses ways for small business owners to deal with cash-flow difficulties from the current recession and credit crunch.

Outdated Security Threatens Web Commerce
Researchers have successfully faked the digital certificates that Web browsers use to verify a site’s authenticity, spotlighting the failure of some security firms to upgrade their technology (Bits Blog – NYTimes.com).

Adobe’s Flash and Apple’s Safari Fail a Privacy Test
In a test of the privacy protections in major Web browsers, Adobe’s Flash and Apple’s Safari performed poorly (Bits Blog – NYTimes.com).

Use Flickr to Find Images Free and Easy
A nice basic walk-through on different license restrictions for use of Flickr imagery in personal and/or commercial projects.

Google 2009: The Painful Details
Ian Lurie’s follow-up on the reasoning and methodology behind his “SEO 2009″ post.

SEO 2009: Adapt or Die
Portent Interactive’s Ian Lurie makes a great argument for the changing face of search engine optimization (SEO).

9 Year End Tax Tips | Dumb Little Man
Some good end-of-year advice for ways to save during the upcoming tax season.

Flexible Fuel: Educating the Client on IA
(A List Apart): A great introduction to working with clients on understanding information architecture issues related to web design and development projects.

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Links of the Week: December 19th

Friday, December 19th, 2008

How To: Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks
A handy tutorial for editing WordPress blog comment structure.

WordPress “Art Direction” Plugin
This new WP plugin, currently in beta, allows you to individualized styles for each post (ala Jason Santa Maria’s redesign of his personal website).

Viewzi: Rich Interactive Search Results for WordPress
Derek Punsalan’s review of a new search plugin for WordPress.

Ajaxload – Loading GIF Generator
This is a handy little free web app to quickly crank out animated GIF loaders for websites.

45 Beautiful Free Fonts for Modern Design Trends
Six Revisions offers a nice round-up of free fonts available online.

Flexible Fuel: Educating the Client on IA
A List Apart provides a great introduction to working with clients on understanding information architecture issues related to web design and development projects.

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Links of the Week: December 12th

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Mobile Awesomeness
This one is an excellent gallery website showcasing mobile website and web applications.

Amazing Myspace Pages
This is a good roundup of some really solid design work on custom MySpace pages.

20+ Great WordPress 2.7 Compatible Plugins
This is a handy reference from Mashable.com on some of the top plugins that are fully supported with the latest WordPress release (ver. 2.7).

Force Targeted Links into New Tabs in Safari
Make Safari open targeted links in new tabs instead of new windows.

For Web Designers – Website Design Resources
Hundreds of useful links for website designers and developers.

Local Development on Mac OS X
Setting Up a Killer, Local Web Development Environment on a Mac with MAMP and VirtualHostX.

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You’ve Got Something Stuck Between Your Teeth…

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Well, this is certainly an attention-getter. Saatchi & Saatchi New York created this unique guerilla marketing piece for Glide dental floss in New York City. The exact metaphor isn’t clear, but it must be playing off the notion of having something (a piece of ham, in this case?) stuck in your teeth.

Image courtesy Commercial Archive

(via Coudal)

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Exceptional Student Design

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Penguin has posted its list of 2008 Design Award winners (for book cover design) and there’s some amazing work to be seen. My personal favorite is Jez Burrows‘ On The Road cover concept (pictured at right), but I think the typewriter seatbelt buckle is a bit of a clichete. Nonetheless, it’s great work.

Check out the full set of winners here.

(via Coudal)

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