Best of August: This Month in Web Design

In case you missed any of the best posts of the month, here is a round up to keep you busy for a while.

Web Design and Development:

7 Principles of Clean and Optimized CSS Code - Smashing Magazine

Top 10 Web Typography Sins - Smashing Magazine

10 Adobe AIR Apps for Web Designers - Six Revisions

10 Tools for Evaluating Web Design Accessibility - Six Revisions

Label Placement on Forms - CSS Tricks

11 Reasons Why a Web CMS Will Make Your Life Easier and Your Wallet Fatter - Chromatic Sites

Top 7 Reasons Why It’s Better to Hire a Freelance Designer or a Small Design Firm Than a Large Design Company - Branded Designers

Top 7 Reasons Why It’s Better to Hire a Large Design Company Than a Freelance Designer or a Small Design Firm - Xemion

9 of the Best Ways to Present a Website to a Client - Just Creative Design

Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes - Noupe

How to Easily Make WordPress Archives that Rock - Putting Blogs First

Design/Development Tutorials:

Creating a Slick Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider - CSS-Tricks

Create a Tabbed Interface Using jQuery - NETTUTS

Building a Better Blogroll: Dynamic Fun with SimplePie and jQuery - NETTUTS

Learning jQuery: The Basics - Cats Who Code

Graphic Design:

How to Create Intense Light Streaks in Photoshop - Blog.SpoonGraphics

Illustrator’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide - VECTORTUTS

Working with 3D Objects and Transparencies to Make a Vector Cola Bottle Design - VECTORTUTS

Create a Citrus Fruit Design from Scratch in Photoshop - PSDTUTS

My 10 Favorite Typefaces - Veerle

300+ Best of the Best High Quality Abstract Brushes in Photoshop - Naldz Graphics

30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Illustrator - Arbenting

Adobe Photoshop: 50+ High Quality .PSD Files and Tutorials - Noupe

Free Photoshop Brushes: 40 Splatters, Strokes and Watercolor - Outlaw Design Blog

15 Free Smoke Photoshop Brush Sets - Web Designer’s Interviews

Inspiration:

Single-Page Portfolio Sites - Web Designer Wall

51 Stunning Movie and TV Posters - Outlaw Design Blog

25 Super Cool Paper Inspired Website Designs - Blog.SpoonGraphics

Ultimate Website Navigations - Hidden Pixels

Web Design: Black Layouts - Abduzeedo

50+ High-Impact Illustrated Vector Posters - VECTORTUTS

SEO:

Robots.txt vs Rel=Nofollow vs. Meta Robots Nofollow - SEO Book

8 Easy Plugins to Install to SEO Your WordPress - WebDevLounge

5 Ways Companies Half-Ass Their SEO Efforts - Cape Cod SEO

Launches:

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Some Posts that I Wrote at Other Blogs This Month:

Inspiration: Water and Ice - PSDTUTS

When to Use Magazine-Style Themes for Blogs - Smashing Magazine

50 Photoshop Tutorials for Sky and Space Effects - Smashing Magazine

How to Make Your Portfolio SIte More Effective by Adding a Blog - Freelance Switch

7 Reasons Why You Should Pursue Your Own Projects - Freelance Switch

13 Sources for Background Patterns and Textures - DesignM.ag

Blank Themes, Frameworks and Templates: Resources to Speed Up Your Development Time - DesignM.ag