Essential Links for 5-15-08

I have been doing so much blog design and customization lately, my head is beginning to spin. One of these days soon, I will share some links to my recent work. But in the meantime, how about I share links to some essential reads for the week?

• Deb at Freelance Writing Jobs asked if I would give her a guest post this month. Since her site is about writing and mine is about design, I wrote about a few of the differences in for writing for the web vs. writing for print.
• Even if you are not a non-profit, 47Media’s Non-Profit’s Guide to Websites is an excellent article.
• Dawud Miracle wants to know if Email Marketing is Dead? What’s your take?
• I like ChrisG’s post on Building Your Online Brand with Social Media Tools.
• By way of Laughing Lion Design, I found the link to 100 Photoshop Tutorials at 3D Total. Definitely bookmark-worthy.
• Pearsonified is back with a great post on How You Can Use WordPress Functions to Run a Smarter Blog. Note to self – read and re-read.
• Are you interested in buying domain names? Personally I have quite the collection and would have loved to have had this guidance earlier on. Digital Inspiration has some very sound advice on buying domains.
• Just for fun! Do you love fonts? Are you good at identifying them? Take this quick quiz from I Love Typography and see how font savvy you are.
• And while we are at it – 15 Signs You May Be a Geek. Wendy at Sparkplugging shared this link to the geek quiz and I am proud to say that we are both very geeky – a cool 13 out of 15 geek points.