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This weeks Squeezy Links focuses on Resources, Articles and Blogs. We’ve included some blogs from around the world that we found interesting as well as two incredible articles from Smashing Magazine. This weeks installment really has a lot for both the web design and web developer!

Resources

Creattica Daily – “Creattica Daily is a site of daily news and links for creatives and designers. They cover a broad range of creative inclinations from graphic to product design, interactive to motion, advertising to articles.”

Hongkiat.com – “A blog filled with tips for designers, tech users and bloggers. And when I say filled, I mean filled!! Grab your favorite beverage and prepare to be educated!”

WPScoop.com – “This is a website dedicated to bringing you WordPress related News, Reviews and Stories. All the latest and greatest information on the WordPress blogging platform can be found on the pages of WPscoop. User’s control the content. Members can make submissions, vote, or join in the discussions.”

Articles

WordPress Developer’s Toolbox – With all of the WordPress development that is going on, there is a need for an organized collection of resources to educate, inspire and equip developers to improve the quality and efficiency of their work. This post provides all kinds of WordPress-related resources to do just that.

Drupal Developer’s Toolbox – “A collection of resources that will aid designers and developers working with Drupal-powered websites. This collection is intended to simplify your tasks and save you time when working with Drupal.”

Designing a CMS architecture – “This author spells out why he feels it’s important to create your own CMS and explains step by step how to plan it and why to give your clients the best CMS for their needs. ”

8 CSS Techniques for Charting Data – ” This article explains 8 techniques for styling elements to create beautiful, accessible charts and graphs.”

Blogs

Redo The Web – “A webblog for web developers! This author is extremely knowledgeable about web developing and especially symphony. Topics in the archive range from ajax, symphony, to php, frameworks and much more.”

Fresh01 – “Is a weblog by a South African web designer named Cobus Bester. Some of his blog topics are web design, web design tools, and wordpress. He also offers FREE wordpress themes!”

MyInkBlog – “MyInkBlog is the creation of Andrew Houle and is designed to be a resource for web and graphic designers alike. This site is designed to equip you with some tools and inspiration to help you get things accomplished.”

This weeks Squeezy Links focuses on the JS Framework, blogs and SEO. Some great little plugins for your site through jQuery and MooTools and some help getting your site optimized for search engines. In the Blogs section, some great site with tons of articles and tutorials on helping you create a site and keep in interesting.

JS Framework

Jcrop – “Jcrop is the quick and easy way to add image cropping functionality to your web application. It combines the ease-of-use of a typical jQuery plugin with a powerful cross-platform DHTML cropping engine that is faithful to familiar desktop graphics applications.”

MochaUI – “MochaUI is a web applications user interface library built on the MooTools JavaScript framework.”

LiveValidation – “LiveValidation is a small open source javascript library for making client-side validation quick, easy, and powerful. It comprises of two main parts. Firstly, it provides developers with a rich set of core validation methods, which can also be used outside the context of forms. Secondly, it provides your visitors with real-time validation information as they fill out forms, helping them to get it right first time, making the forms easier, quicker and less daunting to complete.”

Starbox – “Starbox allows you to easily create all kinds of rating boxes using just one PNG image. The library is build on top of the Prototype javascript framework. For some extra effects you can add Scriptaculous as well.”

FancyUpload – “FancyUpload is a file-input replacement which features an unobtrusive, multiple-file selection menu and queued upload with an animated progress bar. It is easy to setup, is server independent, completely styleable via CSS and XHTML and uses MooTools to work in all modern browsers.”

Blogs, Resources and Tools

WPCandy – “WPCandy was created on October 1st, 2007, as a blog on everything about WordPress, from the latest themes and plugins to tutorials and tips. Already on it’s 3rd redesign, WPCandy is one of the top sites about WordPress and still kickin’ ass.”

Blog.SpoonGraphics – “Blog.SpoonGraphics is the personal project of Chris Spooner, a UK based Graphic/Web Designer. The site acts his digital playground where he presents Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials, Free Vector Resources and Articles on the topic of Graphic Design.”

DesignM.ag – “DesignM.ag is a new site that is aimed at providing a wide variety of resources for web designers and developers. The purpose of the site is to keep many useful elements, such as a blog, community news, design gallery, and job board all at one place.”

Six Revisions – “Six Revisions is a weblog that provides practical, useful information for the modern, standards-compliant web designer and web developer. It seeks to present exceptional, noteworthy tips, tutorials, and resources that the modern web professional will appreciate.”

Stripemaker – “Generate colorful striped patterns infinitely”

SEO

SEO Dictionary – “The world of search engine marketing and optimization is a growing one with new terms and definitions popping up every single day. SEO Dictionary can help you figure out what all those technical and online marketing terms mean.”

Free Keyword Suggestion Tool – “This keyword suggestion tool will help you with the choosing of the right keywords for your website. You can see which keyword combinations are more popular and also get ideas for more keyword combinations.”

Self SEO – “The idea of this website is to combine various SEO tools, internet tools and webmaster tools in one place and help webmasters to build a successfull website. In addition to that, you will find some webmaster articles here with great internet related tips and tricks.”

Website Grader – “Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors.”

Word Tracker – “People use different words when they search for your products online.  Use these ‘keywords’ in your website copy and people will find your site when they search. No matter what business you are in, Wordtracker will tell you the words people use when they search – and how popular each word is.”

Keyword density analyzer – Analyzes the keyword density of pages on your website.

And we are going all over the place this week with links on Frameworks to Typography! Be sure to check them out and let us know which cool link you found this week!

Frameworks

jParallax – “Parallax turns a selected element into a ‘window’, or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way.”

Cappuccino Web Framework – “Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with.”

Typography

Typechart – “Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS.”

Typetester – “The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.”

Amanda’s Scrapbooking Fonts – Free fonts

Textures and Brushes

TextureKing – “Free stock textures: grunge, dirt, plaster, concrete, rust and more”

CGTextures – “CGTextures strives to be the worlds best texture site. Being a 3D artist myself, I know how hard it is to create textures without good photo materials. Making textures should be about creativity, not about spending hours looking for the right image on the internet. I hope that by supplying good quality textures in an organized manner, your everyday work will be easier and more enjoyable.”

PSBrushes – “Photoshop Brushes, We offer over 500 photoshop brushes all for free, with those kind of numbers why would you search for photoshop brushes anywhere else?”

Tutorials

tutsearch – “This is a custom search engine to search the web for tutorials ONLY. Great resource for finding tutorials on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, web design, and more. The sites are hand-picked. There are currently 80 site. You can submit a tutorial”

PSHero – Photoshop tutorials

Total Tutorial – “Total Tutorial is one of the largest directories of free online tutorials and articles for internet and design based technologies and software, and is growing all the time.”

Business

docstock – “Docstoc is the premier online community to find and share professional documents. Docstoc provides the platform for users and businesses to upload and share their documents with all the world, and serves as a vast repository of documents in variety of categories including legal, business, financial, technology, educational, and creative. All documents on docstoc can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded for free.”