Funky Friday Collection – 8 May 2009

Hope everyone had a good week and is looking forward to the weekend. Here’s a selection of great web content that I found in the last week.

Design Inspiration

53 Mind-blowing Uses Of Typography – Psdtuts+

A great collection this. A demonstration of typography as art, showcasing what great visual impact “just writing” can have.

cologorize

I’m fascinated by the different color focuses used in website design. So colorize is a perfect site for me. Sort websites by color, with a powerful and easy to use search engine. Great for inspiration.

40 Stunning And Creative Graffiti Artworks – Smashing Magazine

Oddly, while I love typography, I generally don’t like text in graffiti. On the other hand I’m a sucker for other good graffiti art, and Smashing Magazine put together a brilliant collection.

Design Technique

50 Posts You Should Read – IzzatAzizDotCom

Not only is this a collection of invaluable resources and tutorials, I love the way that it was laid out. The blog article is set up in the structure of a website, so it’s divided into tutorials and articles on header, navigation, design and footer.

20 CSS Short Hands You’ll Love – WebHostingSearch.com

Useful for both the beginner and the CSS expert. Starts off with some very simple techniques, but by the time you reach the end of the article it’s outlining some really complex techniques but in a clear and time saving way.

Why Does Clean Markup Matter? – Webdesigner Depot

I’m sure it’s something every web designer has experienced. As you style a site, you tweak the site code to help out your aesthetics. By the end of the task, you’ve got a good looking site with really messy markup. Not easy to clean up, but it’s well worth doing so.

Social Media

Biggest Ever List Of Graphic Design Blogs – proofHQ

Exactly what it says on the tin. A hugely extensive list of over 150 graphic design blogs, with a brief summary of their focus (thankfully!). Well worth spending an afternoon going through and finding some great new writers to keep tabs on.

The Ugly Truth Behind Starting A Web Design Blog – noupe

The blogging thing’s easy. You write a blog and thousands of people will see what you write. Not exactly that simple, of course. One of the best articles I’ve seen about how tough it really is to make a blogging impact, and techniques for overcoming those difficulties.

SEO

17 Statistics To Monitor On Your Blog – ProBlogger

I worked through as much of the ProBlogger “31 Days To Build A Better Blog” challenge, and still have some of the tasks to go through. It was an invaluable experience, but I wanted to highlight this post in particular as great advice for examining how your blog is doing and areas to improve.

Top 25 Commonly Believed SEO Myths – DailySEOblog.com

Everyone knows the basics of SEO, the importance of robots.txt, what PageRank is for. Except maybe we don’t. This article outlines some of the commonly accepted SEO beliefs and why they aren’t necessarily true, with some real eye-openers.

In addition to all the web pages linked to here, I’m choosing one of my favourite Flickr images from the past week available under Creative Commons. This week’s original image is by Flickr user Idea-Listic.