Yes, this week I am late. I would be worried about catching some flack for this, but my faithful readers are above ridicule (right guys?…) and my non-existent readers are incapable of humiliating me… except for continuing to not read my blog… So much shame for me… Either way, this week I am featuring a nice little mix here; some links are philosophical, some are evaluative, some are giant resources, and others might be entirely useless. But then, that is up to you now, isn’t it?

• Critical Tips For Your Blog Design: This is just a little collection of links about what I like to call “Design Philosophy.” Oh, and check out David’s new design. Pretty sweet, no?
• Tips To Hire A Web Designer: I found this particularly useful from a designer’s stand point. You should always be aware of what your client is looking for, and this is a great article about that. (found via Listerate)
• Top 10 Web Development Applications: There were a couple of programs that I hadn’t heard of. Other than that, there are the usual suspects here, but I like the list and the website in general. Give it a look see. (found via Listerate)
• Clean CSS: This is a site that takes your CSS and well, cleans it up. It eliminates any duplications and redundant CSS commands.
• Tables With Style: This comes from the site 24 ways. It walks you through using CSS to style tables. Remember, not all tables are bad! Just the ones that you use as design frameworks.
• Top 10 Sites For Web Designers: This is again, pretty self-explanatory. Some of these sites were not on my usual browsing schedule, but they will be now!
• Ultimate Links: This is a really, really, really big list of links from Deziner Folio; almost to the point of being useless… almost…
• Website Grader: This is a great SEO tool. Just pop in your URL and let your site be graded. Mine pulled in a 97/100. How did everyone else do?