1. Do you wonder what some of your favorite blogs looked like back in their humble beginnings? Royal Pingdom covers a visual history of 11 successful blogs.

2. Smashing Magazine has the ultimate collection of useful Photoshop actions that can help save tons of your time! (An action is a recording of a sequence of commands and operations that you can save and then access later on.)

3. FreelanceSwitch has a helpful list of 50 ways to improve your productivity as a freelancer.

5. Graphic designers and typography lovers rejoice at this collection of vintage posters!

6. I never realized that famous French lifestyle boutique Colette has a blog.