Sweet Tweets is a weekend feature to The Design Cubicle highlighting some of my favorite, and other Twitterer’s design-related links discovered via Twitter throughout the work week – because having resources and staying up-to-date is important in growth and development.

Week of 9-7-09:

15 CSS Tricks That Must Be Learned
“The list of these techniques is an ever expanding one, however, there are certain tricks that are essential to achieve your goal. Today, we will review 20 excellent css techniques to keep in mind when developing your theme.”

5 Important Things to Remember when Designing a Site
“Redesigning sites is an important part of website design as technology and the web is constantly evolving. Staying with a design for too long risks falling behind competition. There are a number of things to consider when redesigning website so don’t think of a redesign as just changing the visuals.”

WorkAwesome: A blog for people who want to be awesome at work
“The best way to make work feel like not work is to do something you enjoy, and do it damn well. That’s why we’ve created WorkAwesome, a blog for people who want to be awesome at work. After all, if you’re going to spend eight hours a day doing something, you may as well put some heart into it!”

20 Daily Sources for Design and Dev News, Tips and Tricks
“Today we’re offering a huge roundup of creative sources. No less than 20 websites you should check whenever you’re eyeballs feel like dancing. Please use the comments area to suggest other goodies.”

Top 10 Identities That Should Never Change
“In this regard, identity practitioners are perfectionists, always unsatisfied with the status quo. We feel compelled to look at a new identity and immediate identify the flaws, the missed opportunities and the technical shortcomings. Critics abound in our profession, not because we are a negative bunch, but out of a genuine yearning to make things better.”

Heroine Typeface by Fountain Type Foundry Trailer
“A promotional trailer for the typeface Heroine by Fountain Type Foundry.
Due to be released on Sept 15, 2009.”

16 Favorite Cheat Sheets for Web Design and Development
“In this post I’m sharing some very excellent cheat sheets to help web designers and developers. These cheat sheets includes Photoshop, CSS, HTML, JQuery, PHP, MooTools, MySQL, Ruby on rails, Flash AS and much more.”

The Business Name Checklist for Freelancers
“While many of us go into business with nothing more than our names, there are others who prefer to use a company name. There are many good reasons for doing this, but it’s not for everyone. You need to know what sort of name will suit you best, and this article provides you with a checklist to see if you have good reason to ditch the given name in favor of something more impersonal.”

Graphic Design Books For The Creative Designer
“In this first part, I’m going to show 10 great graphic design books, follow by web design books, logo design books, typography books, branding books and freelancing books over the next few days or week.”

10 Non-Design Blogs You Should Check for Daily Inspiration
“Most of them are not even related to design, but there’s a chance to inspire you more than the others.”

Jonathan Hoefler and Steven Heller on “Please Explain: Typography”
“Our latest Please Explain is all about typefaces and typography. Typeface designer Jonathan Hoefler, type designer and president of Hoefler & Frere-Jones and Steven Heller, co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts and author of the VISUALS column for the New York Times Book Review, will explain how typefaces are created and why typography is important to communication and design.”

New 9/11 Memorial Logo
“Coinciding with the opening of the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site — a space devoted to showcasing the plans and progress of the memorial and museum, as well as serving to collect stories and artifacts for future preservation — comes the release of a new identity in the long road of this venture in preparation for its opening in 2011. The identity has been designed by Landor in New York.”