Weekly News and Links Round Up

Find out what’s going on this week in web design.

• Adobe Opines on how the web is changing Hollywood.
• Another good Adobe article about developing a magazine from start to finish with CSS and WordPress. Sidenote: Please ignore that the authors of this article talk about CSS like it’s some new technology and something you could develop a non-Flash site without.
• More from Adobe about their Spry framework and Ajax
• Firewheel Design has a great article about hiring your first employee. I think this article would also be used to anyone beginning their own business or going out to freelance.
• 37 signals decides less isn’t more and gets an investor.
• 20 tips for an aspiring web designer.
• Creating includes with Javascript.
• Feedburner has acquired Blogbeat.
• An audio player plugin for WordPress
• Seth Godin’s How to Live Happily With a Great Designer
• Finally, mobile web best practices 1.0 and a mobile web best practices checker.
• Particletree has an intro to processing online credit card transactions
• What is the 1% rule?
• Vitamin has a feature on how to get good press.
• For the best in Flash design and development in the UK check out Flash on the Beach