FTW Friday – 06 March 2009
March 6th, 2009 by @kamylynnSo today, we’re not going to be in the office that much. Watchmen comes out. Yes, I’ve already seen it once and am about to watch it again. So here’s today’s links, and I hope you enjoy the movie as much as I have.
Design
- 20 Fantastic Wallpapers from Deviant Art: The worlds full of great artists and creative individuals.. I’m jealous.
- 7 Tips to improve your online portfolio: If your a freelancer then your portfolio is going to be your strongest selling point, make it count.
- 42 Awesome twitter background: I know you have one, thinking about making it your own? Get inspired!
- 10 Innovative Blog Layouts: You could fill a library with great blog designs, but heres a look a some interesting structures used in the blog world today.
- 12 Best Premium Vector Packs: Yes Vectors! They are all the rage. And if you want the best of the best, go here.
Development
- 20 useful PHP components & tutorials for everyday project: a really good list of nifty PHP, AJAX, and frameworks.
- HTML Validation: Does it matter? When was the last time you ran across a perfectly valid site? Hows yours? What does validation mean anyway?
- Guidelines for highly effective websites: Exactly what it sounds like.
- 4 Tools to prevent hard drive failure: Last thing you need is your computer to go toast, so make sure you backup in addition to all this.
- Tip – 3 Useful JavaScript functions: Nice ways to create new elements, style those elements, and toggle those elements.
Business & Freelancing
- Why you should bill everything: this explains why when someone asks for a favor, you should say no, and then some.
- 50 free press release submission sites: another really good resource to have.
- 13 steps to a successful website launch: checklists and to-do’s are a good way to ensure you don’t miss something.
- How much is your site worth? Come on, you know you wanna know…
- Four Old-School Reasons Why You Can Thrive in this Recession: The economy is down, oh woe is me, make sure you come out on top.
Nerdy Geeky Entertaining
- Small asteroid misses the Earth: I wonder if NASA had a team of oil drillers prepared, just in case…
- Miniature Cities: Holy crap, they are so detailed you just want to stomp on it like Godzilla.
- 25 Sites to have fun with your photos: So you have a bunch of random photos from that party last week, now what?
- 10 Best Photoshop-like iPhone apps: Need Photoshop on your Iphone? Well tough luck, there’s not a photoshop app just yet, but heres some that come close.
- Playfield diagram for the bases: So next time you tell your homies you got to 2nd base with that girl from the party you can actually draw it out.
Absolute Fail – Either really bad stuff, or really funny stuff that its so bad.
- Pedobear makes an appearance at a basketball game: Why does Pedobear insist on being everywhere?
- Hardcore Bacon Lover?: I have no words.
- Cop attacks a 15 year old who kicked her shoe: I don’t think kicking a shoe at you constituted this. At all.
- Detective “forced alleged gang-rape victim to have sex in police station”: Homeboy is terrible. Raping a rape victim, and also raping another person.
- Rapist asks for death, fears rape in prison: this is what I call irony.







