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Weekly Web Roundup: The Thumbnail Edition #20

The major news of the week centered around Google Wave with pretty much every webbie wanting an invite (hint: I’m still waiting for one). It’s been called a game changer but the majority have yet to test it out so the jury remains out on exactly how much of an impact Wave will make until it opens up to a wider audience.

My personal site of the week is Woorkup which is my good friend Antonio Lupetti’s new site as he recently switched from Blogger to his own domain. If you haven’t already you should subscribe as he is one of the best web development bloggers out there, 27,000 other subscribers would agree!

I’ve called this the Thumbnail edition after the first link which was my favorite of the week as it is an amazing in-depth post on how thumbnails can be used effectively within blog design.

• Beautiful Post Thumbnails: Top Examples & Best Practices
  Your blog post thumbnail will play a big part in how your users see your website, and how they navigate it. A well designed post thumbnail can really engage your visitors and help encourage them to explore your website.
• 30+ Super Secret OS X Features and Shortcuts
  Topics covered include downloading YouTube videos using Safari, accessing an entire second clipboard, placing widgets on your desktop, and taking control of your system volume!
• Why front-end developers are so important
  An interesting article on how traditional businesses who have moved to the web regularly undervalue their front-end web developers, and are worse off because of that.
• The Art of Branding Yourself and Your Freelancing Business
  A fab article that takes a closer look at ways to define a brand for something as unique as a freelancing business.
• The History of Web Browsers
  A wonderful graphic approach to show the history and development of web browsers over the years from Jacob Gube.
• 75+ Awesome Font and Typography Tools, Tutorials and Inspiration
  As Typography is such an essential element of good design, this is a brilliant collection of good tools that make your life easier in this area.
• 30 Professional Logo Design Processes Revealed
  A collection of articles from logo designers who share their tips, tricks and secrets about the process they go through when creating a logo for a client.
• Solve any CSS problem in 3 minutes (or less)
  If you’ve spent any length of time building tableless web designs, you’ve probably come across some frustrating CSS problems. However a temporary border is the key!
• Nightmare web design clients
  An oldie but a goodie, this post has hundreds of comments because as designers and developers i think we have all worked with our share of nightmare clients!

That’s a wrap up of the twentieth edition. Were there any links you thought deserved a mention? If so drop a link in the comments so we can check them out.

Photo by manel

Related posts:

1. Weekly Web Roundup: Typography Edition #1
2. Weekly Web Roundup: The Twitter Edition #8
3. Weekly Web Roundup: The Cover Edition #12

Grace Smith is owner of the small but perfectly formed web design studio Postscript5, in Northern Ireland. To keep up to date with the latest designalicious content, then please consider subscribing.