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Sunday roundup of roundups

by TutsArena - Resources

Today we are continuing our last week’s experiment and present you the best roundups that we have seen last week online.

1. Critical Mistakes Freelancers Make

If you are in the web design business, try to learn on the others’ mistakes and avoid doing them yourself. Read more about it at the Smashing Magazine’s site.

2. 30+ High Quality Adobe Illustrator Brush Sets

Naldz Graphics has rounded up a nice collection of Illustrator brushes that will fit a lot of different needs.

3. 35+ Free Photoshop Action Sets to Improve your Photos

For photographers, BlueBlots has a nice roundup of very useful and artistic Photoshop actions: from getting a cross-processed look to subtle photo enhancements for wedding shots. Check them out.

4. 66 Excellent Photoshop Web Design Layout Tutorials

Instant Shift has a list of 66 good web design tutorials not to be missed. We are proud and humbled that a few of our tutorials have made the list, too.

5. 84 of the best vector wallpapers

For your inspiration, Design Your Way has a collection of 84 outstanding vector-based wallpapers. Do not miss.

6. 33 creative and unusual WordPress themes.

DesignBeep has a collection of, yep, 33 creative and unusual WordPress themes for your inspiration.

If you like the themes in the list, be sure to also check out our sister site, ThemesTube, where we also feature creative and well-designed themes on a daily basis.

7. Advanced power tips for WordPress theme developers

Another goodie on advanced WordPress development by Smashing Magazine. If you develop anything for WordPress, be sure to read the article.

8. Top 20 MySQL best practices

Not everyone who is writing database software has taken a databases basics class. Unfortunately, oftentimes it shows. If you develop in MySQL and you are not yet very sure of yourself, check out this article by NetTuts and start writing better code.

Fresh Web Development Goodies Bag

9. Fresh Web Development Goodies Bag

A list of useful new tools for web development by Noupe.

10. 35+ Photo editing tutorials

A list of 35 tutorials on photo enhancement and manipulation, courtesy of Vandelay Design.