50 Fantastic Textures for Your Toolbox

When creating art you will often need a various selection of textures to give your resulting design some much needed oomph. It could be that you need them for that extra grungy feel, maybe you are trying to design a logo with a denim background, or want to give a… read more

5 Fresh Digital Media Trends to Watch

The Modern Media Agency Series is supported by IDG. The line is fading between social media and traditional media. IDG’s Matt Yorke talks about the rise of social and how IDG helps marketers create social campaigns. Read more.

Digital media, as many a Mashable reader is aware, is… read more

What Should Mashable Ask Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley at SXSWi?

I will be interviewing Dennis Crowley, Foursquare’s CEO and co-founder, on the big stage at SXSW Interactive. The featured Q&A will take place on Monday, March 14, at 12:30 p.m. CT at the Austin Convention Center.

I’m going to start the conversation with questions about the changing face… read more

A Cool Photoshop Business Card Tutorial for Print Ready Cards

Designing for print is a little tricky—okay, really tricky, especially for people new to printing. After all, you can spend countless of hours perfecting your design and then still end up revising it because the printer said you need to include bleeds. What is a bleed anyway? Does… read more

Your #TechLife Digital Photo Collages on CNN iReport & Mashable [PICS]

We asked you last week to get creative with your digital photo tools and send us a collage showing the role technology plays in your life.

We teamed up with CNN iReport to consider submissions from Instagram with hashtags #techlife and uploads to iReport’s assignment page. After viewing… read more

Art of Type: How Fine is Too Fine

InDesign offers fine control over your type, but there’s such a thing as too fine: You can waste lots of time making minute changes that yield little. In this column, we’ll look at some of those controls to see just how fine is fine enough.

The basics
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Create an A-10 Warthog, Character Illustration – Vector Premium Tutorial

Today, we have another Vector Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to learn how to create branding suitable for a young boy’s bicycle line, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Use Illustrator CS5 to create a classic war plane filled with boyish character. Follow… read more

Mediocrity vs. Excellence: What Separates Good From Great?

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Logo Design: Whales

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with glasses… today it’s all about logos with whales!

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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond, Logo Faves,… read more

Get Your Q&A on With Kroud

If you’ve managed to tackle the mighty task of making your own web app, chances are that your users are going to have questions. If you’ve recently launched, you’re probably not going to have had time to imagine every situation your users are going to face, and then provide a… read more

Mashable Geek Games: Get Your Geek On for a Good Cause

The countdown is on for the Mashable Geek Games on Sunday, March 13, and Monday, March 14, at the Mashable SXSWi House in Austin, Texas.

At the two-day, single-elimination tournament, geeks from all over will test their skills at skeeball, Twister, shuffleboard and trivia for all the geek… read more

Then and Now Portrait Photography by Irina Werning

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Useful PSD Files For Your Creativity

PSD files can be used to create beautiful, stunning, vibrant and very creative business cards, icons, characters, website layouts, photo manipulations and much more. With Adobe Photoshop’s convenient interface, even newbies can understand how to work with some of the basic tools and options that this fantastic program has to… read more

When the Web and Real-Life Collide: Creative Uses of Internet Symbolism in Daily Life

We are so used to online reality that we even manage to transfer it into our real life. On a subconscious level people utilize Internet symbols in decor and interior elements, use them in design, ornamental furniture with Web signs and will even create outstanding accessories dedicated to online themes…. read more

Meet the Developers: Gedeon Maheux of the Iconfactory

Today’s interview is with Gedeon Maheux, Principal / Designer at the Iconfactory team. World-renowned for their design work, the Iconfactory offer thousands of free icons, Mac and iOS software, royalty-free stock icons, and much more.

We’ll be talking about the history of the Iconfactory, why the company started developing software, how… read more

20 Remarkable Logo Design Portfolios – Make An Impression!

20 Remarkable Logo Design Portfolios – Make An Impression!

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20 Amazing 3D And Creative Logo Designs

20 Amazing 3D And Creative Logo Designs

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6 Mobile Games That Beat Playing on a Console

The Social Gaming Development Series is supported by Level 3 Communications, an international provider of fiber-based communications services. Level 3 is committed to carrying digital media from anywhere to anywhere, in whatever format needed.

The kinds of games available on your mobile device have come a long way…. read more

50+ New WordPress Themes: March 2011

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Photoshop Tutorials To Suit Your Taste

What do you do when you have an idea? Well, a good thing would be to write it down first. The next step would be to ask yourself how to actually implement it and bring it to life. With Adobe Photoshop, almost everything is possible. As you will see from… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.75)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook, on Stumbleupon or by… read more

Robust Development Roadmapping With Interstate

When you’re working on a large development project, it can be a painful task trying to organize each aspect of the development work and the more traditional methods of handling this, like jotting down notes as to what you need to do on the back of a coffee receipt, can… read more

Huge Collection of Professional PSD Logos

Huge Collection of Professional PSD Logos

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How Great Clients Can Help You Become a Better Designer

I’m not entirely sure why it is that, when we talk about clients, so often it seems to be with a certain negative connotation. Clients from Hell is, of course, probably the single greatest example of this particular trend, collecting hundreds of anonymously submitted stories about the things that a… read more

Logo Design Trend Showcase: Retro Emblems & Badges

Logo Design Trend Showcase: Retro Emblems & Badges

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9 Apps To Make You Super Productive on Windows, Mac & Linux

The Cross-Platform Apps Series is supported by VMware Fusion, the best way to run Windows on your Mac. Click Here to learn more about VMware Fusion. To keep up with VMware Fusion updates, follow the “TeamFusion” blog or on Twitter or Facebook.

You may think you’ve reached the… read more

HOW TO: Implement a Social Good Campaign on Facebook

The Facebook Marketing Series is supported by Buddy Media, Power Tools for Facebook. Have something new to tell 500 million people? Learn the best way to launch a new product or service on Facebook with this webinar.

You want to do good, and you want to use Facebook…. read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 4, February

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers from… read more

Best of the Vector Web – February 2011

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on music cover creation, using Illustrator and InDesign to create affordable self promotional material, and more. We have loads of tutorials, in addition… read more

Showcase of Textured Web Designs

So after we’ve featured some texture packs to spice up your designs, we’d like to show you what’s actually possible with these various, attractive textures. They do not only add depth and dimension into your Web designs but also embody your creative approach towards website designing. Although textures can be… read more

10 Iconic Fonts and Why You Should Never Use Them

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10 Essential Guides, Resources and Tools for Getting Started with HTML5

HTML5 is an effective language for web developers and designers to use to structure and present content on the web. It’s increasingly used more and more, whether to make websites more functional and user-friendly, deliver video faster, or build desktop-level web apps.

No doubt you want to jump in and join… read more

Urban Interventions by Specter

Art should be created only for stetic purposes or it should have a deeper meaning? This is a question that will probably never be answered, but in my opinion I think art should be always a way to express our feelings and ideas.

Lately, many art critics have questioned… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Feb 21-Feb 27, 2011

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Good, Better, Best: 3 Free iPhone Apps for Finding Cheap Gas

Gas prices have risen drastically this week, thanks to that ongoing revolution in Libya. This could get expensive, but we can ease the pain. All you need is an iPhone and one of the three free apps we found to help you locate the cheapest gas near… read more

Best of the Week #160

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Comics of the Week #66

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Smart Logos

Smart Logos

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Do you REALLY think you have a logo?

Do You REALLY Think You have a Logo?

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Calling All Geeks for the Mashable Geek Games

At Mashable, we love geeks, all types of geeks, and we know that geeks have many different skills — nunchuku skills, bow-hunting skills and computer skills. But do they have what it takes to compete in the Geek Games at the Mashable SXSWi House in Austin,… read more

Viral Video Stars: Where Are They Now? [COMIC]

Web video superstardom can be a cruel mistress. One day your kazoo-based cover of an NKOTB classic is totally crushing it in the blogosphere, the next you’re kicked to the curb by an adorable three-legged cat who is surprisingly good at roulette.

But what becomes of those in the greater pantheon… read more

21 Beautiful Art Gallery Websites for Inspiration

Art galleries are in the business of aesthetics, yet it’s amazing how generic and uninventive many of their websites can be. Minimal graphics, fonts, and color schemes are designed to keep the viewer’s focus on the art itself, often at the expense of creativity and attractiveness. As in any business,… read more

An Outstanding Artist’s “One Wish to Change the World”

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Logo Design Proposal Template for Download

Logo Design Proposal Template for Download

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Fresh new February Photoshop Tutorials

Fresh new February Photoshop Tutorials

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Daily Inspiration #754

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

MTV Dubs Its Digital Music Awards Show the OMAs

Last month, we heard word that MTV would be launching a new awards show focused on digital music and social media.

We didn’t know much at the time, but now MTV has announced that it will occur on April 28, and it will be called The O___ Music… read more

How 5 Companies Are Using the iPad to Increase Productivity

The iPad for Business Series is supported by LogMeIn Ignition, the #1 third-party Productivity app for iPad and iPhones in 2010. Get one-touch access to all your applications and files, on all your remote computers with LogMeIn Ignition for iPad/iPhone.

If the iPad follows in its iPhone predecessor’s… read more

Logo Design: Glasses

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with letters… today it’s all about logos with glasses!

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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond, Logo Faves,… read more

Designing Pages in Dreamweaver with CSS3

 All the hype about HTML5 and CSS3 has Web designers chomping at the keyboard to make the Web more beautiful. With all of the warnings that these cool new features may not be ready for prime time, what should you do today? Here are a few of my favorite new… read more

Box.net Raises $48 Million to Take on Enterprise Software Giants

Cloud collaboration and management company Box.net announced Thursday that it has closed a $48 million Series D investment round.

Meritech Capital Partners led the round, which included previous investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Scale Venture Partners and U.S. Venture Partners. New investors included Andreessen Horowitz and Emergence Capital Partners.

We… read more

Creating Flash Websites with Wix

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HTML5 & CSS3: Take Your Design to Another Level

While both languages for HTML5 and CSS3 aren’t fully complete yet, taking the time time to familiarize yourself with some of the pointers in this post can really help you achieve that clean look and feel for your site. Let’s take a deeper look at them.

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Huge collection of free Icons Download

Huge Collection of Free Icons Download

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HOW TO: Change Your Business Model From Paid to Freemium

Umberto Milletti is the CEO of InsideView, the social CRM application which brings comprehensive sales intelligence gained from social media and traditional sources directly into any CRM platform for increased sales productivity and revenue.

Much has been written on the pros and cons of the freemium model by… read more

42 Creative Logos With Human Expressions

42 Creative Logos With Human Expressions

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Advice for dealing with design clients

Advice for Dealing with Design Clients

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Ruby on Rails: Scaling Your App for Rapid Growth

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

Gowalla CTO and co-founder Scott Raymond knows a thing or two about Ruby — and about Cocoa, scaling, handling huge amounts of location data, mobile apps and… read more

Over 300+ free textures from 10 Ravens

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10ravens is brand new website where designm.ag readers can find more than 10.000 of royalty-free textures and photo resources with high resolution up to 100Mpx. All readers can use them for personal or even commercial use.

Our website also contains high quality products such as 3D models, hdri skies, textures, basemeshes and much more… read more

The Mark Zuckerberg Comic Book Has Arrived

The biographical comic portraying the life of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg hits shelves today.

Canadian comic production company Bluewater Productions released the “giant-sized” 48-page issue, which freelance journalist Jerome Maida wrote Sal Field illustrated.

“Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire on the planet and created something that has already… read more

Create a Realistic 3D Sphere Logo from Scratch Using CorelDraw

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to make a realistic 3d sphere logo. This tutorial is for designers who use CorelDraw as their main software. This kind of logo works well for technology focused companies, as it has a high-tech feel. After working through this tutorial you’ll be able to… read more

WikiLeaks Opens a Gift Shop [PICS]

Aiming to raise funds for both the controversial website and leader Julian Assange’s legal defense fund, WikiLeaks this month opened an online gift shop.

The shop, run by German company Spreadshirt AG, features T-shirts, duffle bags, umbrellas and buttons with the WikiLeaks logo, pictures of Assange and the… read more

30 of the Best Font Foundries

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Interview with Illustrator and Artist Pirecco

It’s a great pleasure to know that we have very talented illustrators and fine artists in Brasil. The first time I got in touch with Pirecco’s work was during the Cowparade 2010, as myself, he also participated of the event as an invited artist and made his own cow…. read more

WDL Premium: TabletFolio – A Single Page Portfolio Template

If you’re a WDL Premium Member, we’ve got something very nice for you, today. TabletFolio, from WeGraphics, is a single page portfolio with a unique design, an awesome illustration of a graphic tablet. This HTML/CSS template is very easy to customize. You’ll find comments inside the code and a… read more

Mind Blowing Character Designs And Tutorials

Today we have collected some awesome character designs. Enjoy! You may also want to check out our previous post on 25 Outstanding Character Illustrations

T-Shirt Designs

Ray-Ban Rare Prints Poster

T-Shirt Designs

Da’ Monk

vector fun vector death

Super Mega Fun

Squiky

Characters

personal illustrations 2010

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The Get Fresh Crew & The Milk Carton Clone Army

Synth Eastwood

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits, a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

As the mobile application space continues to explode, developers… read more

The Influence of Social Gaming on Consoles

The Social Gaming Development Series is supported by Level 3 Communications, an international provider of fiber-based communications services. Level 3 is committed to carrying digital media from anywhere to anywhere, in whatever format needed.

From the first time you beat your sister’s high score in Tetris to that… read more

Beautiful Creative Typography Tuts from Vectortuts+

Creative Typography is more than just a fancy font, it’s an expressive form of typography that transforms letters into works of art. Using the letter-forms as a medium for expression and storytelling, Creative Typography takes words or phrases and matches them with illustrative and artistic finishes that further enhance the… read more

The Art of Saying “No”

For the most part, working in the design and development communities can often leave you feeling like somewhat of a ‘Yes’ person. That person who stands behind the client, nodding in agreement and understanding as the path to the project unfolds before you. For in this business, it pays to… read more

The Art of the Facebook Page Design

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What Does Your Business Card Say About Your Brand?

Business cards are often overlooked or tucked away for later. But when properly done, a business card is the first thing potential clients will look at after meeting you. It will identify your business, and provide a way to get in touch – which makes your card an essential part… read more

Moo Business and Greeting Cards [REVIEW]

Not only does Moo have one of the easiest web addresses to remember (moo.com) they also have created an assortment of products useful to photographers. They are not a all-in-one printer who handles cards, calendars, books, flyers, etc… What they lack in breadth, they make up for in… read more

Design Makeover: Monster Ball

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Swing Goth www.swinggoth.com

Before

Swing Goth was born out of an attempt to marry partner dancing with modern music. “We dream of a future where dancing with each other is once again the norm, but we’re unlike other partner dancing clubs in that we dance to modern music,” said Brian… read more

Examining The Design Process: Clichés and Idea Generation

Where do good ideas come from? It’s a question that matters a great deal to designers, yet seems to be curiously discounted in the common perception of graphic design. Any time I talk with, say, an uncle at Thanksgiving about my work, I’m reminded that, in most people’s minds, the… read more

3 Facebook Commerce Success Stories

The Facebook Marketing Series is supported by Buddy Media, Power Tools for Facebook. Have something new to tell 500 million people? Learn the best way to launch a new product or service on Facebook with this webinar.

To be honest, there aren’t a whole lot of Facebook commerce… read more

Clever Logo Designs That Speak For Themselves

A creative logo design plays a vital role in portraying the brand identity of any company. It is not only the name of the company, but also the brand’s message that communicates with the customers. Therefore, you should keep in mind that it is also the logo design that makes… read more

Common Design Styles Used in Album Artwork

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30 Examples of Big Typography in Web Design

Last year we showcased 55 Examples of Huge Typography in Web Design and since typography is always an important aspect of web design, we decided to gather a new list of websites that use big typography. From tag lines, to headers to whole texts, there are plenty of great examples… read more

Linkswitch #57, Typography Tips, Freelance Startup, Getting More Work

The Netsetter: Web Pages vs. Web Sites

A couple of weeks ago, I was trying to explain to a friend why links from high PageRank sites are often overrated. When he then insisted that I was contradicting advice I had given him earlier, I was confused for a moment, until he… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Feb 14-Feb 20, 2011

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Using SEO to Generate Web Design Clients the Non-Spammy Way

Most web designers aren’t very familiar with SEO (Search Engine Optimization), which is the process of ranking specific web pages as high up in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Positions) as possible. It’s understandable, web design and SEO are only loosely connected. The only time when SEO enters the mind… read more

Wallpapers of the week #2: Comic Wallpapers

Wallpapers of the Week: Comic Wallpapers

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10 Fascinating YouTube Facts That May Surprise You

YouTube is huge. Humongous, even. More video content is uploaded to YouTube in a 60 day period than the three major U.S. television networks created in 60 years.

The average YouTube user spends between 15 and 25 minutes a day on the site, but how much do we… read more

Popular Websites Redesigns Examples #1: Alexa.com

Popular Websites Redesigns Examples #1: Alexa.com

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Comics of the Week #65

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HTML5 Website Designs Examples

HTML5 Website Designs Examples

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How Social Media Helped Toy Story 3 Win at the Box Office

The Behind the Social Media Campaign Series is supported by Oneupweb, an award-winning agency specializing in search marketing, social media and design for mid-to-enterprise level brands. Download Oneupweb’s free whitepaper, “The Bloody Truth about Social Media.”

Toy Story 3 was one of the biggest films of 2010. As… read more

Five and a Half Habits of Highly Effective Designers

We have theories about everything: why the sky is blue, why apples fall, why bees buzz (and do other unmentionable things), why my boss said a certain thing, why that girl in the restaurant looked at me, why didn’t that girl in the restaurant look at me…. We’re wired to… read more

7 Elements of a Great Movie Poster Design

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20 New and Free Professional Drupal Themes

Drupal has perhaps one of the most misunderstood reputations within web design. It is generally thought of as an overblown and hard to learn CMS that is aimed only towards large corporate/business websites. Yes, it can handle very large and complex web sites, but the truth is Drupal can be… read more

Free fonts of the week #3

Free Fonts of the Week

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Britney Spears’ Hold It Against Me Pimps Tech Brands [VIDEO]

Britney Spears’ new music video for “Hold It Against Me” encapsulates a growing trend in the music video business: blatant product placement for dating websites and big tech brands.

The much-anticipated video for Spears’ hit song debuted just a few hours ago on YouTube and Vevo. It… read more

Clever Examples of Negative Space in Logo Design

We talk about negative space quite a bit here on WDL. It can be a very important element in a design, especially in logos. Clever designers can create shapes around and inside the main elements to help reinforce the meaning or message of the logo. When done well, it’s a… read more

Logo Design: Letters

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with stars… today it’s all about logos with waves!

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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond, Logo Faves,… read more

What Happened Thursday at the Mobile World Congress

The Mobile World Congress Series is supported by Snapdragon by Qualcomm. Inside your smartphone beats the heart of a dragon.

As is often the case at events such as this one, the last day of the Mobile World Congress was largely uneventful, with most company representatives hurrying to… read more

Announcing Initial Speakers for Mashable Connect 2011

Mashable is excited to announce the initial lineup of speakers for Mashable Connect 2011, an invite-only conference that will recreate the Mashable web experience on the grounds of Walt Disney World. Mashable Connect 2011 will be an intimate experience that brings together leaders from the digital world… read more

How The iPad Is Helping Businesses Go Green

The iPad for Business Series is supported by LogMeIn Ignition, the #1 third-party Productivity app for iPad and iPhones in 2010. Get one-touch access to all your applications and files, on all your remote computers with LogMeIn Ignition for iPad/iPhone.

Apple’s iPad tablet device is helping businesses take… read more

How the WordPress SEO Plugin Can Help Your Blog [INTERVIEW]

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

If you use or manage a website that runs off of a self-hosted WordPress.org instance, you’re probably using (or have used in the past) a plugin developed… read more

Twitter Must Have Followed Design Community Bloggers #5

Twitter Must Have Followed Design Community Bloggers #5

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