Yesterday the 9rules network released their list of accepted sites from round 7. And guess what: Marcofolio.net made the list and is now a 9rules member. I made it in round 7, together with a couple of blogs that I personally like too, like Fuel Your Creativity, Freelance Folder, Designer-Daily and Tutorial9 .

Examples of blogs that already are member of the network are SmashingMagazine, EliteByDesign and PSDTuts. These are examples of the high quality sites on 9rules.

If you're a 9rules member, please share the experience with us (What are the benefits for you?). Or what is the reason you don't want to join this network? Discuss.

Almost the end of the month, but the start of a weekend. What's a better way to start up your weekend with a lot of cool images to cheer you up and make you laugh? Here's a small collection of the best, funniest or coolest images from August 2008.

If you missed it, check out part 1 of this month. Also, don't forget to check out the other imagedumps!

CSS-Tricks is a great website from Chris Coyier (I've mentioned it before) that I'm sure you've heard of. Next to the high quality of articles, the design of the blog is simple, yet really good. One of the things I really like about the design, is the way Chris shows his feedcount in a sentence, that will change every time you refresh your browser.

I was wondering how he created this funny RSS show-off and wanted to recreate the technique. Using Feedburner, PHP and some CSS, I managed to achieve the goal.

You can download the source code in the download section and you can view what we're going to make in the demo section.

Use this technique to pimp your website, making it a bit more funny and attractive for your visitors.

Q-dance is one of the leading harder styles dance festival organizers of the world. I really love these harder styles (hardstyle / hardcore) of music and already visited a couple of these great dance events.

Every festival from Q-dance has their own logo. These logos are already really good, but what I like most about it is the fact that Q-dance changes the logo of the festival to the theme of the festival. This theme changes every year, which means that there will be continuously new logos for the parties.

These logos are great to look at and will surely get your design juices going. You'll recognize the logos over each year, but each time with a different touch (theme). You can try it out for yourselve: Pimp your own logo (if you have one) to own-chosen theme! Get inspired by these logos to get a good idea on how great this can look like.

Hi there people! Just a quick personal note from me. School is about to start over here in a couple of days and I was always stuck with a 3-and-a-half-year old 800 MHZ laptop. I think you can imagine that this was a bad thing for me, being a programmer / designer.

With lots of thinking and checking out resources if it'll benefit me, I decided to buy a MacBook Pro. Yesterday, I received my new laptop.

I've never worked with an Mac before, but I hear a lot of positive sounds about it. If you own a Mac, what do you think is one of the greatest features of the machine / OS? And if not, what's holding you back to buy one (Next to the ridiculous high price tag)?

Anyway, I'm pretty happy with my new laptop. I'm now able to work (a lot!) faster and this will probably mean more (web)design articles for you too! I'm already working on a new design for Marcofolio.net.