Linkswitch: Coders FTW

So–you’re the kind of guy who knows AJAX is not just a household bleach. Or maybe you’re the kind of gal who knows CSS really stands for Cascading Style Sheets, not Cansei de Ser Sexy. You also know PHP is a scripting language, not a hallucinogenic drug, that jQuery is definitely not a rap artist, nor is Ruby on Rails the latest power-metal band to set public radio on fire.
No, you know the truth–you know it because you’re a coder. To say thanks, here are a bunch of nifty links for you (and a handful of equally awesome links for us proles everyone else).
- Learn how to craft a very nice image slider using jQuery at Help-Developer.
- Connor wrote a really good tutorial over at NETTUTS (geez, that’s an awesome site, who made it?) on how to build a sliding panel with jQuery. Yes, jQuery again, but only because you dig it.
- Discount offer: Creative Briefcase offers a library of resources and advice for new graphic design businesses. Mention Freelance Switch in the “How you heard about us” portion of the membership form and receive a 10% rebate on your membership dues.
- Carousels are way fun, but unfortunately, few of them fit adults. Luckily, they live on elsewhere: here’s a simple yet elegant image carousel built using Mootools. Our child-reader demographic (surprisingly large) can obviously have the best of both worlds.
- Scotty Iseri is a 7-year freelancer turned office job guy. He makes productive use of ‘down-time’ in this video diary, aptly titled ‘Scotty Got an Office Job‘.
- Adobe Air is a booming development platform. Check out these 10 excellent Adobe Air applications.
- Perhaps you’re a CSS white-belt rather than a black-belt. (FYI, white-belt is the beginner belt in Karate. I know that because I can use Google do karate all the time). Do not fear freelancer-san, you’ll be a CSS master someday, especially with the help of this anatomy of a CSS stylesheet. When you’re mastered that lesson move on to this one from Grand Master Smash: 7 principles of clean and optimized code.
- Here’s a gallery of some excellent single-page portfolio sites that will make you feel really inspired. Or the green eye of envy.
- Scott Gledhill recently quit his day-job to work fulltime as a freelancer. “Who hasn’t?” you might say, but the difference is that Scott is blogging his experiences day by day.
- Whether you’re a blogger or whether you’re developing web applications, you need to know what people are clicking when they get to your site. Here are 8 heatmap tools to satisfy your healthy (unhealthy?) addiction to stats.
- Rounded corners are soo out. OK, that statement is based on zero evidence, but it may make the following link more attractive: a short and to the point tutorial on creating rounded corners with CSS 3.
- Wanna know how to dynamically embed Flash fonts? Wanna no longer.
- UI design is definitely an art and a science (both subjects people totally fail at. Don’t be those people). Here are some great tips on using light, color and contrast.
- HostedFX web hosting will be donating 100% of its August proceeds to charity. Neat idea!
- Coded Preview is a very nice tool for designers who want to show design mock-ups to clients.
- If you think you’re an awesome web designer, here are 12 ways you can make your designs even better.
- Alex Charchar interviewed myself and the (much cooler) Traci Yau on the ins and outs of the home office experience.
- Brad Fitzgerald has written a useful guide on starting your own business as a young person.
Two new items for your web dev feed collection:
- Devsnippets (by Noura, who also runs Noupe.com)
- Script and Style (by Chris Coyer of CSS-Tricks.com and David Walsh davidwalsh.name)



Thanks for the link Skellie! I look forward to hearing what FSW readers think about my series.
Heya! I saw you mentioned my website, and specifically mentioned child reader demographic! Well I actually run that website quite succesfully, being 14
Cheers!
Hey, thanks for including my site in the list, much appreciated.
Simon North – Help Developer
Realy nice post is beatyfull tocount on you guys
Congrats Lachy, it would be nice to talk to you and learn something
What does FTW? Stand for? I looked it up and saw a thousand definitions.
Thanks, i liked much “12 Ways to Improve your Websites Designs”.
I’m in doubt about the Javascript Frameworks tutorial..
@Jack: FTW means ‘For The Win’
(ok it also means ‘f*ck the world’ but in this case I guess it’s ‘for the win’ hehe)
are you seirous??
I need to login to see: a sliding panel with jQuery
And the very first I click to see the demo “this” it says- and abosolutely no gallery shows up…??
I’m off
Sandie, you should be able to se demo without any login. Demo is as it is – panel sliding from top with controls to close it, that’s it.
After reading it, I’ve checked it and was fine to see demo & download the source.
Or maybe I’m not getting you properly .. :/
Otherwise look on webdesignerwall.com -> there was a nic jQuery tutorial for designers.
Great post Skellie
Hey, thanks for the mention. Great article.
Thanks Dude. Nice Article