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This week, our web design agency is bringing you the best links for inspiration this week. Designers, copywriters and online marketers have to tap endless amounts of creativity to do their job– if your creativity is drained, check these out!

On A List Apart, David Sherwin shows us why it’s okay to be imperfect, and why imperfection might make your design better.

Think Vitamin tells us their 44 favored web designers to follow on Twitter. In a jam for inspiration? Maybe one of the 44 will save you with 140 characters.

Web Designer Wall tells us what kills their creativity and how to avoid it. (Example: take off the pajamas and don’t work from home!)

And finally, Smashing Apps just straight up lists their favorite places to find inspiriation across the web. From resources to trends, they’ll give you something to get the ball rolling.

And that’s it for us this week!

Here are the articles that came to our web design agency’s attention this week! Read about creative web design, how to make it better, and how make sure people see it.

The Social Path’s David Griner confronts fear and loathing in social media, in this presentation.

The Skittles brand foregoes a traditional web site in favor of directing you to all the different facets of their web presence. Clearly, they’re not afraid of social media!

Smashing Magazine helps you navigate Adsense, so skip the trial and error.

Sometimes, the sitemap and footer of a web site get overlooked– here are some modern ones from Web Designer Wall.

Six Revisions show us how to use illustrated elements in our designs, without getting too cheesy.

And that’s it for us this week!

It’s Friday the 13th, and there’s a full moon out tonight. But our web design company is bringing you links to bring you good luck in your web design endeavors!

If you’re a design and copy writing isn’t your stronges suit, Web Designer Wall offers some good tips to help you write right.

Pro Blog Design shows you how to market your own blog by showing what’s coming up next, and we like it. 

We Function gives tips on how to use Wordpress to your best advantage. We’re taking notes– you should be, too.

Get inspired by Six Revisions, who this week shows us some great retro and vintage web designs.

And finally, if typography is your thing, check out this post on Just Creative design; it documents the 100 best fonts of all time.

And that’s it folks. Have a lucky Friday the 13th!