Check these out…

Welcome to Check these out for this week, I think that I may do this every week and it will be a list of some of the best articles, tutorials, interviews and anything else to do with design I came across in the week. Just a quick note to my regular readers, Help Developer is now number 1 on the blogs section of the CSStopsites, it took over the Crazy Leaf Blog so thank you all for keep coming back and to you new visitors I hope that you will become regulars, you can do so by subscribing to our RSS feed or of course, keep coming back. So the best of this week…

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Interview with Collis Ta’eed

I was going to get in touch with Collis at some point about a possible interview but felt he may be very busy, after all he does head up a company with a lot of big websites, however I was glad to see somebody got to him first. Over at Fuel Your Creativity you can find a fantastic interview with the head of Eden Creative Communities that have given us such sites as PSD Tuts and Freelance Switch, you can check out the interview here

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Abduzeedo

When I was looking for the top photoshop tutorials for June (post will be up later today/tommorow) I came across this amazing site, I really think that it is worth checking out, it has some fantastic photoshop tutorials, wallpapers and interviews, you can view the site here

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42 Creative Advertisements

June has been a very big month for advertisement based tutorials as you will probably see on my countdown of the top 10 photoshop tutorials (have I plugged this post enough yet ) Anyway, over at Smashing Apps there is a great countdown of 42 very creative advertisements, you can check it out here

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User Contributed Link Feed Tutorial with Wordpress Comments

Now thats a mouthful. If you are a follower of graphic design blogs you will have noticed this technique used a lot and they are a great invention (most of my traffic comes from these), so are you wondering what I am on about? Link feeds are a great way to link your readers to quality articles/tutorials/collections/resources etc in the field of design (or whichever niche your into) and the TUTs collection from Eden (PSDTuts, NETTuts etc.) have utilised this a lot on their sites, in this tutorial you will find out how to create you own, read it here

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43 Wordpress Templates

If you are into wordpress like me and run a website like Wordpress Island like me (wow, i’m really pluggin’ my sites tonight) then you are always looking for new wordpress templates, in this list from Specky Boy you can find 43 of the very best wordpress templates around, so if you own a blog and fancy a facelift or want some inspiration or like looking at pretty pictures then take yourself over to it here

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34 Places to Get Design Inspiration

Whenever I think I know all the places to get inspiration I find another list with another load of great sites to check out, bookmark and subscribe to, plenty of reading though in my Google reader. In this list from FreelanceSwitch you can find another 34 to get some design inspiration both online and offline, to view it go here

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36 Beautiful Business Card Designs

Much like the advertisement trend this month, business cards have been featured on many blogs, the latest is from DzineBlog and shows you 36 truly amazing business card designs for your inspiration, it is part three of a series and you can view it here

Oh, and part 1: 27 Creative business cards you should’ve seen
and part 2: 36 cool business cards you Should’ve seen

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CNET’s new design

And as I watch the end of Jimmy Cliff’s performance at Glastonbury this year on BBC 2 at 2:01AM in the morning I bring you the final check these out entry for this week, CNET’s new design, check it out here

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And that’s it, Glastonbury Highlights are over and a Doctor Who advert is on and I am going to bed before Star Trek starts (I aint a trecky, although Patrick Stewart is the chancellor of my university). Check these sites out and I’ll see you next time, for (I don’t think I’ve mentioned this yet), June’s top 10 photoshop tutorials. Good night.