In this post there are 22 well written tutorials that will teach you techniques for designing your own icons using various tools such as Illustrator and Photoshop.

 

This is a good tutorial for people just learning on how to use a key-value store instead of a usual relational database. And this tutorial is great as demonstrating a fully working Web 2.0 service, including security. It is based on the new key-value store http://code.google.com/p/redis/ a non-volatile memcached-like store written in ANSI-C for Posix systems.

Related: An overview of modern SQL-free databases

There are specialized terms referring to all sorts of aspects of web design. For someone just getting started in web design, or someone looking to have a site designed, all the technical jargon can be overwhelming. Especially the acronyms.

And do not forget to also checkout the free iPhone development course offered by Stanford.