HD Todaily - 25/08/08

Hello and welcome back to Help Developer. I’ve spent most of the day trying to set up jQueryIsland, (it’s getting there gradually) and redesigning and relaunching WordpressIsland (please check it out and let me know what you think). Over the weekend and today I found quite a nice number of items which may interest you today. And apologies for not posting over the weekend, I had a contract which I needed to do, freelancers don’t have weekends off

I did take Sunday afternoon off though to watch the closing ceremony and highlights of the Olympics, it was great this year congrats to all countries competing especially Great Britain (my country) we got 21 gold medals. And a big congratulations to Michael Phelps of the USA, 8 golds and 7 world records. My country is hosting the next Olympics in 2012 in our famous city of London and we’ve got a lot of work to do to compete with China’s stunning performances.

OK back to the design world, today on FreelanceFolder, Mason Hipp started an open thread asking freelancers to declare their Least Favorite Part of Freelancing?. And Tutorial9 published a nice tutorial on creating a great Moon Shine Text Effect in Photoshop

If you are an avid user of twitter like I am becoming, then check out this post listing a good selection of twitter tools, and if you want to create something like to the left of this text then visit TwitStamp, the site allows you to create an image that automatically updates with your latest twitterings, you can add it to your site, blog or even your signature in a forum as it is simply an image.

Woork have published a few great posts over the last week including; part one and two of a series introducing MooTools through teaching you basic tips and a collection of 10 Awesome typewriter fonts for web designers

SpeckyBoy has put together a collection of 13 Essential Wordpress related Firefox Extensions to make blogging easy and finally, Noupe have redesigned their site.

That’s it for today, as I said at the top if you get chance please check out WordpressIsland and let me know what you think. Thanks and I’ll see you all tomorrow