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Something Gorgeous
I have trouble creating beautiful designs, but no trouble identifying them. For anyone else in this same boat, here are some tools and ideas to help create respectable work, design already included:

Obsidian Dawn: beautiful PhotoShop brushes, to add a graceful artistic element to any print or web work.
Mad Mimi: prettier e-mail campaigns, with a [...]

Although my feed reader has multiple feeds in it, only a few priority reads every day:

A List Apart helps me learn about and keep pace with web standards.

Blue Flavor’s blog is where I observe the trail blazers.

Lifehack.org- Adrian Savage’s reminders that society needs to slow down is refreshing.

Lifehacker has excellent tech-related info.

Steve Olson offers [...]

Today’s theme is a Drupal crash course.
First, demo Drupal. It has a lot of possibilities, and the scalability is impressive.
The multisite functionality looks tempting. Here are a few links I found helpful, before trying to install and configure Drupal:

Linux Command Line - Learning to write shell scripts

A More Secure Drupal [multisite] Install - You did [...]

Today is also a non-technical day, filled with well-written white papers. Grasp the finer details of web development issues, from a business-oriented standpoint:

Short version of The Beekeeper - a gentle and intelligent introduction to open source and how it fits into business. James Dixon quashes misconceptions surrounding open source and illuminating the potential in the [...]

It seems web services will get no winter break. Sigh. No rest for the wicked, I suppose
Enjoy a few good links, on me:

devlisting.com - all things web developer/web designer-oriented. A resource that lists links for each subject, with the best resources are pinned to the top.
Good News for anyone who embeds Flash into [...]