Heather Flyte

• 51 Web Apps for Web Designers and Developers – Web.AppStorm – HUGE list of apps. Nice to see Aviary make the cut – it is an awesome and powerful suite. Not sure why CrazyEgg didn’t make it, but it was mentioned in the comments.
• What You Need to Know About Page Fold | ClearType Press – Building a Better Government Web – Excellent article translating the “fold” from newspapers to digital. I will argue that there is no fold (spoon either) and that the average user will start scrolling without even being aware of it. But this is where heat maps and usability testing give you a real-world perspective on how people use your site.
• jQuery for Designers – Tutorials and screencasts – Like bacon, jquery is something that I use, but don’t think about what it really is. This site may help me delve further into jquery and become an expert in no time. Or maybe a little bit of time.

• 10 Useful WordPress Coding Techniques « Smashing Magazine – Great list of techniques to trick out your WordPress install. Some of these I’ve seen in various themes, but a few are new and delightful to me.
• || Dummy Text Generator | Lorem ipsum for webdesigners || – This is quite awesome. While I’m a fan of loremipsum.com, this site will almost make me switch from TypeTester. Hmmmmm.

Happy Birthday Aunt Patti!

• What Every Graphic Designer Should Do Right Now | Jad Graphics Blog | Long Beach Web & Graphic Designer – Nice article about reminding us all that sometimes freelancers have to take care of themselves – not just their clients.
• 5 Rules To Write More Readable CSS Files – woorkup.com – Interesting article. I know my code is a mess because I list my CSS horizontally. For some reason I find it easier to scan across the page than to scroll through lines and lines of blocked-out code. I may try this on my next project though.
• 10 Best Content Management Systems for Designers | Web Design Ledger – Any “10 Best” list will have some people disagreeing with your list – but this is a good round-up of CMS that most may develop with. I’m partial to WordPress, but have happily used Joomla & Drupal in the past. Will be checking out ModX (from comments) and ExpressionEngine soon.
• Creative Corner: My Favorite Firefox Tool | Minervity – Really nice article to see what other designers are using out there to enhance their development with Firefox