This week featuring:

jQuery plugins and libraries, freelance tips, and CSS .

Complete/Non-Queuing Animations with jQuery

Chris Coyier teaches a better way to use jQuery for animations in a Screencast.

Creating rounded corners with CSS2 & CSS3

Get those round corner designs working in both CSS2 and CSS3. This will enable your sites to look good no matter what browser the visitor is using.

jQuery imageless buttons a la Google

jQuery plugin that creates buttons, with different states, without the use of any images. The buttons also adapt to padding and other styling you wish to use.

Top 10 jQuery Snippets (including jquery 1.4)

Ten great jQuery snippets for you to use in your next plugin, including new snippets released with jQuery 1.4.

Helium CSS: JavaScript Library to test your CSS usage

This library will test your site for unused CSS styles. It is a quick way to optimize your CSS.

What to Include In Your Design Contracts

Contracts are very important when it comes to protecting your business. Brian Hoff tells you what you should include in your design contract.

UKI – Simple UI Kit for complex web apps

Uki is a fast and simple JavaScript user interface toolkit for desktop-like web applications.

This week featuring:

Firefox plugins, mobile web design, jQuery plugins, freelance tips, tips on how to grow as a designer, and the best way to advertise on your blog.

10 Must-Have FireFox Plugins For Web Designers

Firefox has quickly become one of the most popular browser. It has won many hearts thanks to the huge amount of themes and plugins that are available. There are plenty of great plugins that enhance your browser experience. In this article you’ll find 10 Firefox plugins that could be useful for web designers.

Best Practices To Develop Perfect Websites for iPhone and Mobile Devices

A large article about mobile website design. A variety of popular mobile sites are dissected and analyzed to see how it works so well.

CSS3 Gradient Generator v2.0

A web app that easily generates the CSS for 100% css3 gradients compatible in Firefox and Webkit.

Coda-Slider 2.0

An updated version of the popular Coda Slider jQuery plugin. This updated plugin features variable height panels, video support, and a variety of methods to access the different panels.

Future of Interface Design

An interesting article on where interface design is going to be in a few years.

How To Generate Leads For Your Business

One of Small Business Branding’s older articles, but it still offers sound advice on gaining leads for your business.

10 Keys to Growth as a Designer

Staying in one spot as a designer won’t get you anywhere. Here are 10 simple ways to grow as a designer.

Which ad network should work best for your blog?

Different ad networks cater to different areas. Picking the ad network that works best for your blog will maximize results.

Designer seeking Developer, Developer seeking Designer

Collaboration is often the best way to get a quality product out in a timely fashion, but finding someone to collaborate with may be the hardest part. This article features a few sites to help you out.

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This week featuring:

jQuery plugins, WordPress plugins, 100,000+ free icons, free fonts and a showcase of 90+ creative agency websites

35 More Useful jQuery Plugins and Techniques

A variety of jQuery plugins to make your website look great while cutting down on production time. Plugins range from tables and forms to navigation or images.

More than 115,000 icons in one place

Icon Finder has always made it easy for a designer/developer to find nice looking icons for their projects. They took that one step further and showcased over 100,000 icons.

12 Essential Plugins that Extend WordPress as a CMS

WordPress has become a very popular content management system (CMS) for almost any site. These 12 plugins will make it even more easier to use.

A Beautiful Apple-style Slideshow Gallery With CSS & jQuery

A tutorial and source files on how to recreated Apple’s slideshow gallery they use on their website using CSS and jQuery.

50 creative web agencies

A showcase of 50 creative web agencies and their websites.

Friday Fresh Free Fonts

Friday Fresh Free Fonts is an amazing weekly feature on Abduzeedo that showcases and offers downloads to free fonts.

25 Clear And Beautiful Comparison Tables

A showcase of 25 comparison tables. Great inspiration for your next project.

44 Amazing Agency Websites

Another showcase of creative agency websites. This list includes graphic design and advertising agencies, and only repeats a few of the sites that were featured on Indeziner.

AutoSprites – A jQuery Menu Plugin

A jQuery plugin that makes it easy to create animated menus using CSS sprite sheets.

Web UI Treasure Chest v1.0

Version 1.0 of the Web UI Treasure Chest includes over 100 elements in a full, layered .PSD file. Most of the elements are editable, which makes it a perfect resource for your next web project.

5 Steps to winning any client project

FreelanceFolder published this excellent article for freelance designers. Being a freelance designer not only requires design skills, but also salesman skills. This articles gives you five steps to win clients, including why the step is needed and how to achieve it.

Keyboard shortcut for Photoshop CS3 and CS4 Toolbox

Whether you are new to Photoshop or a veteran user, these PDF sheets are a nice reference to all keyboard shortcuts. Using shortcuts in any application can greatly increase your productivity. Save or print these sheets as a quick reference.

Compress WordPress output and speed your blog’s load speed

WPRecipes offers a quick and simple solution to compress your WordPress site to speed up loading times. This technique enables zlib compression for all of your files stored on your site.

WordPress Website Design Process for IT-IS Ltd

Chris Spooner wrote this excellent article showcasing his design process for his most recent project. It includes background information, his thought process and even a nice time lapse video of the website creation, from the graphics to the coding.

Plugins And Tutorials To Enhance The Images Of Your Website With jQuery

An excellent resource on how to enhance the images on your website with jQuery. The plugins give you an easy to use feature that will take your site to the next level.

The Best Adobe Air Apps to Increase Productivity

Angie Bowen from Fuel Your Creativity wrote a nice article on Adobe AIR programs that can increase your productivity. The best part about it is they are all cross platform programs thanks to Adobe AIR.

25 Hand Picked Best jQuery based WordPress Plugins

These jQuery plugins are all specifically for WordPress, so using them on your blog or website is as simple as can be.

111 CSS Gallery To Submit Your Design

Ever wanted to submit your site to those design showcases, but didn’t know how many there are? Listelog took care of that for you, and compiled a list of the 111 CSS galleries to submit your design to.

10 Ways a designer can make some extra money

Sometimes a designer will go through a period with no projects. Don’t worry, here are 10 more ways that you can make money.

I will be posting everything from website showcases for inspiration to tutorials and even my favorite tweets. Aside from my blog, you can also follow me on twitter: @cameronbaney where I tweet about everything web design.