The May edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins, grid tools, CSS tools, WordPress resources, productivity and business tools, responsive design resources, and some really great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there. As always, if we’ve missed something you think should have been included, please let us know in the comments.
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What’s new for designers, May 2012
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter , however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week. 
Smashing Magazine has just released their third Smashing Book, Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web , featuring all-new content for web designers and developers. This book differs from the previous two books in that it has a distinct theme throughout: redesigning websites. It starts out with the business side of redesigns, and then progresses to the technical aspects, including chapters on CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript, as well as mobile design. 
Site speed is one of the most important things about creating web content, and web applications. In fact, it has been noted by various analysts at Google that people don’t often sit through the first 30 seconds of a video, much less the first 15, so it would be wise of you to get the content of your site loaded as fast as you can so that people can make a judgement and agree to either use it or not
Ten Dollar Fonts is a online source for low cost experimental fonts / typefaces.
Designed by a group of designers from all around the world, from New Zealand to Mexico
It’s rare nowadays to find a web designer who can’t code his own designs. With so many resources online and in print that teach the basics of HTML and CSS, and due to the fact that these languages aren’t rocket science, there are now a lot of graphic designers who have at least basic knowledge of markup and styling. But with an HTML and CSS foundation comes great responsibility. 
Have a look at this wooden letterpress calendar (without expiry) designed by Pavel Emelyanov at
Bespoke type by Village creates a range of custom types in styles, from more traditional (for American Express’s Membership Rewards program) to very contemporary, (for the Syfy television network,) with stops in-between, including the work for the Alliance for Climate Protection, to the typeface we created for the New York City Opera, which IS their brand. To see more visit: Bespoke Type by Village and Village