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5 for Friday | The Week's Best Blogs (3/14/08 Edition)

March 14th, 2008 in Friday Blog Clips

by: Matthew Griffin

SXSWi 2008 is over, and somehow I managed to read all my blogs and put together 5 for Friday during the fray. It was actually a great week for web design blogs and I was almost late for a few panels because I couldn't stop reading. I had an inspiring and rejuvenating time in Austin and I'm excited to present this week's list. Here we go.

Offline Sources for Design Inspiration - Vandelay Website Design
Looking to the web for all your design inspiration can get monotonous. If we don't get out of our world sometimes and see what's happening in other design disciplines, our design can get stale. Steven Snell lists some places we can go to get inspired off the web.

Starting a Blog that Isn't a Time Sucking Money Pit - Courtney Tuttle
Blogging can be a very effective tool for a variety of purposes—building a reputation, building traffic, getting business. But most blogs are ill-conceived and ill-managed. In this article Courtney explains how to avoid creating a blog monster.

45+ Fresh Out of the Oven jQuery Plugins - Noupe
Javascript tricks are cool and it's always nice to have a list of little bells and whistles to bring your websites alive. This is an impressive list of scripts built on the popular jQuery code-base.

Help Someone with B.S.O.S. - Logic+Emotion
This is my comical link this week. I'm afraid I'll ruin it if I say anymore than that.

Creating Halftone Effects in Illustrator - Vectips
I'm sure this tutorial will help expand your Illustrator knowledge. It discusses several techniques that can be used in a variety of applications.

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