New Design/Development Links

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I have been a blogging slacker lately, this I know. In an effort to make up for my undesirable behavior, I am posting a new collection of awesome Design and Development links for my readers. Apology Accepted?

Design Links

• Spoon Graphics Blog provides 270+ High-Res Rough and Grungey Photoshop Brushes for all of you brush junkies out there. For more brushes, be sure to check out my post that covers Free Photoshop Brushes.
• Web and Designers blog has gathered 20 sites for free stock images for every pocket pincher out there.
• The latest web design trend to hit the web? According to Line 25 it is Horizontal Bands, which they display and discuss the usage of in this recent post.
• Function outlines How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips for everyone to see. There are a few really useful guidelines to apply to upcoming projects.
• PSD Tuts gives us 50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory, which will be especially helpful for design beginners, but is also an excellent tool for professionals looking to reiterate design principles.

Development Links

• Desizn Tech shows us the Essential PHP Techniques for Web Designer and Developers. With 30 incredibly awesome PHP resources, this article is a great tool for anyone trying to shake things up in their development work.
• For anyone trying to gain more knowledge of web development, check out The Personal Web Design Degree, a program that covers the basics of web development through an outlined reading list and key concepts.
• Dream CSS gathered 19 Awesome Scriptalicious Tutorials that are sure to come in handy and are even more sure to impress.
• For all the jQuery addicts out there, Build Internet has collected several Sliding Boxes and Captions with JQuery for your use.
• HTML Remix show us how to implement the Curved corner (border-radius) cross browser. An awesome tool for CSS gurus.

More useful links covering SEO after the jump!

SEO Links

• Seth's blog points out some important SEO facts and information on How to make money with SEO.
• SEO Moz has outlined Google Search Engine Ranking Factors using a great hierarchy and a few useful charts and graphs.
• For an awesome analysis of your website, check out Website Grader. This is an all-around informative SEO tool for analyzing your web pages from the bottom up and outlining ways to improve SEO on each page.
• SEO Book gives us The Blogger's Guide to SEO, an outline of the essential SEO elements for bloggers.
• The Web Designer Wall has gathered an all-important SEO Guide for designers. Outlined n this article are some fairly simple and still useful SEO tools and tricks to implement on your websites.