We’re starting a new series of posts, called FTW (For The Win) Friday. What we’re going to do is have five links for five categories. I hope you find assistance, beauty, help, and laughs from each of these links.

Design

• Why Your “Neat” Ideas Usually Suck: I wish they wrote this post several months ago when we were redesigning our site. We’ve since dropped four or five of our “neat” ideas.
• Forty Super Sleek Fonts: The right fonts for a clean design.
• Fifteen CSS Galleries to Promote Your Designs: Just because showing off is what everyone wants to do.
• Twenty Inspiring Website Footer Designs: Pretty awesome bottom of the page designs!
• Fifty Mind-blowing Retro-style Photoshop Illustrations: I love the Old School Retro look.

Development

• How to Create an Flash XML Playlist Music Player: Just something really cool that you can make for your site/blog.
• Useful AJAX Suggest Scripts Collection: Auto Suggests just make your life easier. What can I say?
• Twenty Expert WordPress Tips: WordPress is becoming a more and more used blogging platform and CMS. Any tips can always help.
• Twenty-four Great Blogs for Javascript Developers: I think Javascript is God’s gift to developers so I figured these would just be icing to the cake.
• Using CSS and Mootools to simulate Flash Horizontal Navigation: I don’t personally like to use Flash, so anything that gives me a way to NOT use it makes me a happy camper.

Business & Freelancing

• 15 Websites To Sharpen Your Business Skills: A pretty comprehensive lists of websites to read that help you with various aspects of running a business.
• Five Tips for Better Online Surveys – Seth Godin: An interesting take on how best to do online surveys.
• Design and Operate a Referral System: The best way to get business is through referrals, so any guide on how to master the art form is always a good idea.
• The Four Flavors of No: Knowing the different ways a potential client/consumer says no and how to deal with it can make or break a deal.
• Five Business Tips for Young Entrepreneurs: Since we’re a young company here at Border7, any tips telling us that we’re young and to use that to our advantage usually comes with some other good advice.

Nerdy Geeky Entertaining

• Beautiful and Creative Cake Designs: These are some awesome examples of nerdy cakes. The Millenium Falcon and the Amazon Kindle are really well done cakes.
• My Little Pony Mods: Allucard Hellsing, Cthulhu, and Predator are really awesome.
• Creative and Unusual MP3 Players: Really only listed because of the Soundwave MP3 player. Yes, Soundwave from Transformers. I’m going to be trying to get my hands on one of these.
• Watchmen Movie Review: Anything that has to do with the Watchmen will always be a big deal for me.
• The Bible Timeline as Diagrams: Just really really nifty! It not only does the perspective from the church going types, but also includes historian accounts.

Absolute Fail – Either really bad stuff, or really funny stuff that its so bad.

• moot, the founder of infamous 4chan is actually broke and jobless: He has the same issue as Twitter and Facebook, but even more surprising.
• Flying Scorpion: Some people have too much free time.
• The Best Fail Commercial that Will Make You Laugh: Durex, takes their condom commercial a step further.
• When a Child’s Misspelling Makes For Laughs: Hores are funny.
• How Not to Fail at Life – Epic Nerd Edition: I don’t think I agree with this, but the fact that someone came up with this deserves some sort of props.

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