Google has launched Second Life competitor called Lively

The final installment of the Arbenting Typography series, Part 3 - The Kerning Curve, Free Fonts, and other resources.

Philip Straub. Art Director, Illustrator, Concept Art Teacher and Writer.Read the exclusive interview with him!

One feature of Wordpress is to schedule your content. Imagine there is a plugin which adds the same possibility to everything you like.

It’s complete widget-capable and supports everything up to the newest WordPress version 2.6.2. Beautiful in the inside and wild at the outside (with it’s tattoos). Tattoo is available in English or German.

Smart Hover Box new features include options to lock the x and y hover positions, a close box method, and a class architecture so you can have multiple box settings per page.

The Electric Artist is giving away free copies of “25 Essential Photoshop Moves” again. This 175 page book outlines 25 skills, tools and pieces of knowledge that all Photoshop users should know.

20 inspirational well designed logos showing off their creator’s skills in front of your amazed or admirative look.

Arbenting looks at social media networking as a powerful tool for establishing and building your blog’s readership.

This contest will hopefuly end up with a variety of great design articles as well as give you an opportunity to connect with other designers and bloggers. There is also plenty of prizes out there, so don’t miss the chance.

These Starter Themes provide a simple canvas on which you can create your custom themes.

A huge round up of over 400+ links of high quality tutorials, useful and informative articles, inspiration, designer assets (brushes, vectors, stock images etc…), designer blogs, tutorial sites, galleries and more! This contains all the vital links that are very important for a designers reference.

Really awesome and useful for design or magazine styled websites. The required plugins have been included in the theme files.

A free set of 10 “pill” icons. Free for any use

Free high resolution textures for graphic designer, web designers and digital artists. The site includes both stock photos and handmade textures.

If you checked out some awesome blog and decided to start your own little blog, you are up for a challenge. If you are serious about making money you should be aware of the difficulties you will face.