Kick-Ass Squeeze – April 2009

Kick-Ass Websites

Love Typography

We Love Typography – If you love typography, designing or just want to look at beautiful signage, this site is one you will enjoy for hours. This is a gallery filled with beautiful examples of fonts, logos, signage of the finest quality. The creativity of the entries kick ass!  It will open your mind to unlimited possibilities.

Creattica

Creattica -Creattica has given us a new place to attain design inspiration. This site features only the best designs in a wide range of area. Creattica.com has inspiration for flash, posters, logos, business cards, and more. This is one site you’ll want to bookmark!  Because you can find inspiration for all types of web/design works this site certainly earns the title of “kick ass”.

Kick-Ass Links

Divine CSS

Divine CSS – “The Divine CSS website showcases some of the world’s best designed websites (Flash & CSS) from around the world. The team at Divine CSS are made of a mixture of graphic and web designers, programmers and developers with a combined 25 years experience in the industry.”

siteInspire

siteInspire – “Browse 591 websites by style, theme, and type, or view a random selection. You can also see the very best.”

Smoking Apples

Smoking Apples – “From Macs and iPods to the iPhone and Apple TV, we strive to be your one-stop solution for any and everything related to Apple Inc. and its products. Throw in a podcast, few great authors, regular blog posts and reviews, some screencasts, and various other extra-curricular activities and you’ve got yourself a full fledged website. Yeah, even we were surprised.”

Fantastic Contraptions

Fantastic Contraption – Admit it! You do so! You can’t sit there and try to say that you haven’t wasted relatively large chunks of time playing Flash games online. It’s a guilty pleasure we all partake in. This physics based Flash game is addictive, clever and oh-so-much fun! Rig up a trebuchet and launch your ball to the goal or create a monster tank to bully it in. The choice is yours but the possibilities are endless. If you don’t lose a few hours to this game you’re working too hard.

Invoice Machine

The Invoice Machine – “The Invoice Machine is ideal for freelancers and businesses who want an easy way to manage, create and send their invoices. It’s great for anyone who has a service or product to sell.”

Kick-Ass Articles / Tutorials

How To Exclude Specific Tag from Query Posts

How to exclude specific tag from query_posts – “On the upcoming theme I’m working on I needed to have a featured section on the left side, and normal posts on the right. Usually I would put the featured posts in a category, and excluded that from the normal posts. But for the end user, it is much easier to just tag the posts they want to be featured with “featured”. That way they don’t have to create a category called featured, select that in the options panel etc.”

Find Your Flow and the Money will

Find Your ‘Flow’ and the Money Will Follow – “The well-worn phrase “Do what you love and the money will follow” leaves a lot to be desired. Even if you could get paid to watch episodes of LOST (you can’t), you’d probably yearn for more rewarding work. There is a marked difference between things you love that could make money and things you love that won’t. As a general rule, if it helps you enter a ‘Flow state’, it’s a winner. If it doesn’t, it won’t make for gratifying or lucrative work.”

Simple Flower and Decorative Curl Shape in Illustrator

Simple flower and decorative curl shape in Illustrator – “Today I talk about two very simple shapes I’ve used in the pattern examples: a simple flower shape and decorative curl. Some of you might find this a bit too basic, but I thought it might be useful for people who are just starting out with Illustrator.”

Magento E-Commerce

Getting Started with Magento Ecommerce! – “Magento is the next generation of eCommerce! It is incredibly well architectured, fully flexible, scalable, and fun to work with. If you’ve ever thought about creating an online shop, Magento is your choice! Today we are going to install it locally with XAMPP Lite and review the essentials.”

Excellent examples of hand drawn web designs

17 Sets of Excellent Hand Drawn Design Elements – “Last year, we saw the hand drawn style in web design become very popular, and this year it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Hand drawn or sketched elements can make a web site inviting, and add an overall fun factor to a design. I’ve hunted down some excellent hand drawn photoshop brushes and vectors to aid you in your own hand drawn designs. ”

Kick-Ass Fonts

Black Chancery  Font

Black Chancery

Hot Pizza Font

Hot Pizza

The Real Font

The Real Font

SF Atarian System Bold Font

SF Atarian System Bold

Walk way Rounded Font

Walk way Rounded

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