Webdesign, CSS, Social Media, Tech News

• Web 2.0 Badge Creator
  Collection of web 2.0 badges text and video tutorials, plus a neat Web 2.0 graphic generator
  
• Huge list of sites offering Photoshop Rescources and Tutorials
• Univers revolved: a 3-D font
  “The revolved letters create a new alphabet that recaptures the element of experimentation the Latin alphabet held in its early days. Encountering it for the first time, we re-experience the excitement of learning to form words from letters as children.”
• Retro Arcade Museum In Upstate New York
  If you can’t get to NYC here’s the blog version: the Retro Thing
• fractalsponge.net: 3-D space ship art
  This site is seriously cool as it shows highly detailed 3-D views of Star Destroyers, T.I.E. Fighters and a All-Terrain Shock Enforcer (AT-SE) i.e. They alsoprovide download links to the 3ds, maya, max6, lw.8x project files.
• Building your own tiny URL with wordpress
• CSS Cheat Sheet
  The basics. One one view.
• Star Wars Fine Art prints
• Igarashi Design: Futuristic studies
  Radical and freaky studies of a helicopter, motorcycle and high speed snow mobile
• Cardboard Endoskeleton T-800
  Blogger made a T-800 papercraft from the Teminator films in the scale 1:2, which looks really awesome. Behold of the Judgement Day!
  

Looking for informations, advices, strategies or hints guiding you on your paths through the social media djungle?
Here you’ll find a composition of free ebooks that might be helpful on your efforts to successfully use social marketing mechanisms for building a brand, attract traffic or gain significance on a certain topic.

So these Links will keep you busy for a while…

Instructions and sum ups

The Art of Listening and Engagement Through Social Media
Brian Solis about new tools and philosophies, how to effectively listen and engage with customers and in turn, cultivate a more significant community, enhance your brand and build relationships.

Social Media and Social Networking Starting Points
Social Media expert Chris Brogan gives you starting points how to inroduce your organization into social media and social networking

What is Social Media?
“a short, sweet summary of the phenomenon called social media”

The Essential Guide to Social Media
A sum up of some essential guidelines, written by Brian Solis

The Art and Science of Social Media and Community Relations
Interesting example of a company entering the realm of social media communities

Social Media Marketing Kit
Tips and tricks for the survival in the social mediasphere, plus a video Webinar

The Zen of Blogging
Really amusing story about a guys efforts to dive into the higher spheres of blogging – with a slight wink of an eye

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I searched for free to use web 2.0 icons of social media sites, but I did not find anything nice except some stock icons.

So I’ve made my own ones and I like to share them with you!

Feel free to use, modify and integrate them on your blog or website.
There is no need to link back, if you’d like to do so anyway, it is appreciated.

Here’s the download for the .psd containing templates for 256×256 pixel buttons and a 40×40 pixels iconset:

Social Media Icon Set

Social Media Icons (PSD)

Have fun folks!

Back from a long winter nap, in the new year I decided to do some clean up, upgraded that wordpress thingy and got a new face for this blog.
The basic layout was taken from Derek Punsalan from 5thirtyone.com, called “Grid Focus“, just had to edit some graphics and add some SEO stuff like tag display. The categories in the posts are still missing, I’ll add them later. Besides that, it’s a really nice, clean and tidy layout, which is easy and comfortable to modify.

Hope you like it.

Here is an interesting opportunity to get your advertisement displayed on ten differents blogs for free:The AdSpace Contest

The idea is simple: Get as many entries as you can (very easy to do) before October 15th. The more entries you get, the better chance you have of winning! Shortly after the 15th, they’ll announce the winner.

The prize?

A 125×125 pixel ad spot (above the fold) on at least TEN DIFFERENT BLOGS that will run for one month. That’s at least a $100 value! Last month’s prize grew to be ad spots on 45 blogs!

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