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• Artician
  A new community for creative professionals

• How to get clients to say yes to your designs
  A good guide to how to approach the design process with clients

• The Survey, 2008
  A List Apart's annual survey for web professionals - closes soon!

• WordPress Template Tags Reference Guide
  A handy list of WordPress functions for WordPress template builders and hackers

• Should links open in new windows
  The answer is no.

• Toejam by The BPA
  Loving this music video

• The paragraph in web typography and design
  A typophile explains how paragraphs can be used on the web

• Getting Design Approval: The Single Mockup Theory
  I subscribe to this idea, one well planned and crafted concept with multiple iterations ends up with the best results

• That design is money!
  Wells Fargo's touchscreen ATM user interface design

• Design isn't about tools
  Whether its Photoshop or straight to HTML/CSS, design is about solving problems

• Why we don't skip Photoshop
  Why 37 Signals' approach doesn't work for Jeff Croft

• Why we skip photoshop
  37 Signals doesn't use Photoshop. Can you tell?

• Muto - an ambiguous animation
  Amazing stop motion animation made from graffiti

• NES Coffee Table
  A coffee table that looks like a giant 8 bit NES controller - that works

• 15 great examples of web typography
  A round-up of some really nice type-based site designs

• Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design
  A roundup of retro and retro-inspired design

• 99designs: Bullshit 2.0
  The spec contest crap show must go on.

• Stefanie Posavec "On the map"
  Art based on mapping out structures and patterns in literary works. Very nice.

• Sark
  I'm intrigued by this small island in the English Channel, which was, up until this month, that last feudal state in Europe!

• Fun with jQuery's animation function
  Some great jQuery tips

• Spec work in the internet age
  Discussion on logo design competitions and other spec work

• A sense of non-commitment
  Working full-time at an agency and running your own consultancy on the side... professional?

• 30 tab-based website designs
  Cheb talks tabs. 4 of my designs are in this list, yay!

• URL as UI
  Good advice on building sites with nicely hackable URLs

• 10 things you need to know about Wordpress 2.5
  It's out and it looks good...

• Erratic Wisdom
  I like the look of this blog... it looks like you could play Battleship on it, and it has a cool sidebar thingy.

• BBC.co.uk
  The Beeb has relaunched, all fancy and customisable, Netvibes/iGoogle style

• A guide to web typography
  The very basics, from I Love Typography

• jQuery Tutorials for Designers
  A great beginner guide to using jQuery to make easy JavaScript enhancements to web pages

• Grid and column designs
  32 grid and column based designs at Web Designer Wall

• Nintendo Evolution
  For the game geeks, a pic showing the evolution of Mario, Link and Donkey Kong

• Internet Explorer 8 and Acid 2: A milestone
  According to IEBlog, Internet Explorer 8 leaps ahead in CSS support

• Best of CSS Design 2007
  Web Designer Wall's gongs for 2007

• Mr T. and Shatner star in ads for World of Warcraft
  This is uber nerdy. Mr T. as a "Nightelf Mohawk" and William Shatner likes to play a Shamen in World of Warcraft

• Facebook's brilliant but evil design
  Facebook have done a lot of things right. So good that we don't see the sneaky things going on in the background...

• Chumby
  Ultimate geek toy. Christmas gift idea, people!

• Q & A: Will Wright, creator of The Sims
  Will Wright discusses spore, and confirms its release on the Wii.

• Choices = Headaches
  So many choices for how to shut down Windows Vista

• 6 Keys to Understanding Modern CSS-Based Layouts
  A good checklist with useful links to conquer advanced CSS layout

• Creative Spark from Masters of Illustration
  Recent creative eye candy from top graphic artists

• YouTube-style embeddable maps
  Paste a little code on your web page to easily add a Google map

• BlueprintCSS
  A CSS framework aimed at cutting down CSS development time

• Blasting the myth of the fold
  More much needed hard data on proving that users do scroll

• Frameworks for Designers
  A List Apart advice for designers

• Facebook - Who, what and why we should care
  Lee Hopkins on the big MySpace killer