Awesome Handpicked List of 19 Awesome Handpicked Lists
Yes, you sense sarcasm. How could you tell? Before I hop on the bandwagon and “handpick” lists of amazingly useful free fonts, css tips, jquery scripts, and more, I would like to make fun of everyone who does it. And if you recognize most of these from the time you’ve spent perusing Design-News and Smashing Magazine, then right you are! That’s exactly where I got them, and I would suspect that’s where a lot of people get their “handpicked” content. Come on, fess up people. I know, I know, this is not the way it usually works. Seldom do people take the time to poke fun at the very thing they fully intend to do. But it’s kinda funny, right?
So you may be asking, why sellout? Why propagate totally mindless, aggregated content for your blog? Why not write influential, illuminating articles instead? Well, I’ll be honest; I kind of like those lists. Yes, there’s a lot of repetition, but they can be handy if you are looking for a little inspiration. And they are certainly a key indicator of what the hot new trends are in design, which is a handy thing to have on your radar, because depending on the client, you can adopt the trend or totally buck it. And perhaps most important to blogging, they seems to works as a way to build up your search engine rankings.
This last point is what I am the most curious about. I’m only assuming that’s a key payoff to assembling these lists. You can build up your network of linkbacks pretty easily, which only makes your site more valid in the eyes of search engines. This is just a theory of mine based on my basic understanding of SEO, so we’ll see what I learn about the benefits of throwing your net wide across the… net. Anyways, onto my Awesome Handpicked List of 19 Awesome Handpicked Lists:
1) 50+ Fresh and Unique Personal Portfolio Websites
2) 50 New Beautiful Blog Designs
3) 23 Extremely Helpful Wordpress Help Sheets And Resources
4) Three Innovative Ways To Show Off The Social Buzz In Your Wordpress Comments
5) 10 Usability Rules You Need to Follow
6) The Ultimate A-Z of the Best Design and Development Related Sites
7) 20 Great Examples of the Use of Brown in Web Design – This title just cracks me up! What don’t we think about?
40 Most Creative Business Cards You Will Ever See – It’s pretty ridiculous that an “8″ followed by a “)” is rendered as a smiley face on some browsers. :/
9) 40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out of the Box
10) Get more visitors: 29 sites with community news form
11) 10 Biggest Stock Photography Cliches
12) Collection of Remarkable Logos from Top Logo Design Galleries
13) 45 Excellent Code Snippet Resources and Repositories
Okay, now I’m kinda making fun of people. Pay attention to how many of the following lists “handpicked” the same fonts.
14) 25 High Quality Free Fonts for Professional Design
15) 35 Brilliant High Quality Free Fonts To Boost Your Designs
16) 25 High Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designs
17) 15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts
18) 30 Brilliant Typefaces for Corporate Design
19) 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts
Well there you have it. Now go and find some inspiration!
Posted: July 23rd, 2009 under Graphic Design.
Tags: fonts, inspiration, layouts, list, scripts