Daily Inspiration #453

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

5 Free Android Apps for Web Developers

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If you’re a web developer on the go, you may sometimes find the need to test some code, fix an error, or manage remote files when you’re away from your desktop…. read more

WordPress vs. ExpressionEngine: Apples and Oranges?

This post has been a long time coming. Whether on Twitter or in the blogosphere, the question often arises, and I have been asked numerous times for my opinion on the ExpressionEngine vs. WordPress debate, and why one would choose one content management system (CMS) over the… read more

50 Examples of Creative 404 – Page Not Found Pages

There are two ways you can go when designing a 404 page for your website – you could go the sensible route and make it usable and try to help the reader find exactly what they were looking for or, you could design a 404 page that not only defines… read more

Most Wanted Twitter Hacks and Plugins for WordPress

Most Wanted Twitter Hacks and Plugins for WordPress

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Uncovering Toy Cameras and Polaroid Vintage Effects (With Photoshop Tutorials)

Since its emergence, the digital photography market has gradually supplanted the traditional one. APN and digital SLR cameras entered our lives, and some people announced the death of silver-based images. This is not all lie, and yet old-fashioned images have been particularly popular in the past few years. All we… read more

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HOW TO: Prepare for Disasters Using Social Media

Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be a geek chic chick.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes — lately, it… read more

Best WordPress plugins – February 2010

Today we presents collection of best Wordpress plugins for February 2010. read more

5 Websites & Tools Bloggers Should Know About

While the job is interesting and one gets to discover the latest about the Internet, blogging is no easy task. “Time is money” could not be any truer for bloggers; impossible deadlines put us under harsh time constraints. Due to this constraint, bloggers are always actively on the lookout for… read more

30+ Corporate WordPress Themes

We’ve compiled 30+ excellent corporate WordPress themes from ThemeForest for your next corporate client. Either download the themes and customize them to your client’s needs or use these designs as inspiration to create a unique WordPress template from scratch.

Corporate WordPress Themes

Dark n’ Clean

Agivee

idea Business Shop

Creative.Biz

Universal Business

Spacio WP

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This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.27

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.

Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy, and you’ll be kept up to date with loads of design news… read more

Hootsuite to Integrate with Foursquare and MySpace this Week

Today at the #140tc Twitter Confernece in Seattle, Washington (which I keynoted this morning), Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes announced that its popular Twitter application will be integration with both MySpace and Foursquare, starting this week at the South by Southwest Interactive conference.

Hootsuite is one of the more popular Twitter… read more

Google vs. Yahoo: Who Has the Right Social Strategy?

The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.

Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; YouTube; Wordpress: these companies, built from the ground-up, are mainstays in social media. None of them were created… read more

Daily Inspiration #451

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

Very Useful 65 Wordpress Hacks

You have here in this article a number of 65 interesting Wordpress hacks or articles that will teach you in detail how to edit your WP theme like a Wordpress rockstar. read more

A Private Web: Digital Journal with Penzu

Remember when people used to keep journals and diaries? Okay, maybe some of you still do—but mass sharing has taken over in recent years with platforms like WordPress, Tumblr and Twitter. Every day millions of people share their immediate thoughts and moments of life—to millions of strangers; what happened to… read more

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25 of the Best Non-Profit Websites

In recent years the quality of non-profit websites has improved dramatically. Fortunately, a growing number of organizations are recognizing the need for a quality website and the opportunities that it presents. In this post we’ll showcase 25 well-designed sites of non-profit organizations. If you enjoy this collection please see the… read more

Tumblr Hits Major Milestones, Plans to Start Generating Revenue

Tumblr, one of the simplest blogging platforms around, is doing really well. Situated between Wordpress, which requires a bit more effort to create and organize content, and Twitter, which requires almost no effort but also doesn’t offer many features, Tumblr is the perfect tool for users who want to… read more

Daily Inspiration #450

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

Best of the Week #109

It’s time for our best news of this week, the first one of 2010. 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… read more

55 Latest Examples of Perfect Slideshow Presentation in Web Design

As you already seen in our previous posts about slideshow presentation designs that representing the key information in slideshow presentation is a hot trend now days. There are many reasons to use a slideshow or image slider in your web designs as the key to smart strategic web design is… read more

Xbox LIVE Beats PlayStation Network in Reader Vote

We had a very hotly contested matchup this week in our long-running Faceoff series, with Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE going up against Sony’s PlayStation Network for favorite online console gaming service. After an astounding 35,055 votes we’re ready to declare the winner…

… and Xbox LIVE takes the win! They’ll obviously… read more

Daily Inspiration #449

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

Top 20 Free Windows Mobile Social Media and Networking Apps

There are thousands and thousands of social networking and media apps for the iPhone and for Android, we all know that. But what about all the apps for Windows Mobile? Certainly, Win Mob is no where near as popular within the mainstream of mobile users as the other two, but… read more

Sites of the Week #92

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as FWA and Cog’aoke. Also we’re featuring a wonderful Wordpress Theme called Simplify Business and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

30 Powerful Wordpress Plugins For Blog Administrators

Best WordPress plugins to help you in administration of your WordPress blog. read more

Awesome Wordpress Themes at Woothemes!

Dynamic To Top WordPress Plugin

This plugin for WordPress adds an automatic and dynamic “To Top” button to easily scroll long pages back to the top. read more

The little details: playing with date display

The little details: playing with date display

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70+ Fresh and Inspirational Single Page Website Designs

As you already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and… read more

Daily Inspiration #447

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

WordPress Goes Real-Time With PubSubHubbub

WordPress.com‘ 10.5 million blogs are about to get a whole lot more real-time, thanks to a new behind-the-scenes development.

The WordPress team has announced in a blog post that the company has turned on support for PubSubHubbub (try saying that fast five times), a move that will get blog content… read more

Get Noticed And Grow Your Business With MyTemplateBox

The Internet is filled with useful resources for business owners and especially for web designers and developers. From free icon sets to CSS templates, and from web design inspiration to stock images, websites like these have everything one may need. There are a number of tools, useful pieces of advice,… read more

Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In February’10

A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice Resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures, typography and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. However, When it comes… read more

Daily Inspiration #446

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

Designers: How to Search For, Hire, and Work With a Web-Developer

The market for freelance web design is huge. Being able to design a beautiful site in Photoshop is one thing. Programming a website is a whole other story.

So when clients come knocking at your door asking for web design services, what do you, the non-programmer but rockstar designer,… read more

80+ Incredible Collection Of Inspirations, Tutorials And Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In February

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list… read more

5 Useful Wordpress Plugins for Backup Purposes

Every blogger is aware of the importance of backup, which lets your overcome the unwanted situation of data loss. So, here is a list of Five useful backup plugins for your Wordpress blog. read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.26

This is my weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that I have shared via Twitter in the past week.

Just in case you are not one of my Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy, and you’ll be kept up to date with loads of design news… read more

Online Gaming Faceoff: Xbox LIVE vs. PlayStation Network

It’s time once again to pit two contestants against each other in an all-out battle for the hearts and minds of Mashable readers. In this week’s Web Faceoff, we wanted to get a sense of which online console gaming service Mashable readers prefer: Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE, or Sony’s PlayStation… read more

9 Useful Wordpress Poll And Rating Plugins

Polls are one of the best way to collect your visitors opinion. These useful Wordpress plugins let you create your own polls and ratings system in no time. read more

Google Buzz Gets an Unofficial App Directory

BuzzAware is a new GoogleBuzz-focused app directory that is focused on keeping all Buzz related add-ons, apps and plugins in one place.

Google Buzz launched a few weeks ago, and even without a completed API, somef developers are still building their own tools and apps to take advantage of… read more

Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of February

This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one… read more

Daily Inspiration #445

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

HOW TO: Create a Successful Company Blog

Mark Suster is a Partner at GRP Partners, a Venture Capital firm in Los Angeles. He blogs at Both Sides of the Table and can be found on Twitter at @msuster.

I’m often asked by entrepreneurs and business owners whether it is worth blogging, and if so, what they should… read more

20 WordPress Plugin Solutions for Image Handling

20 WordPress Plugin Solutions for Image Handling

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15 Useful Premium Plugins for WordPress

In the past few years the growth of the premium/commercial WordPress theme market has grown exponentially. While there are also premium plugins available, they generally get far less attention than premium themes. The right plugin will allow you to improve your site through specific functionality that might otherwise take a… read more

The Ultimate Collection Of Brilliant Web Design Tutorials

By Callum Chapman

In this ultimate collection, we bring you a massive selection of great Web design tutorials from all over the design community. All of the tutorials use Photoshop for the main application. By the end, you should have a pretty good idea of where and how to start designing… read more

The Future Of CSS Typography

There has been an increasing and sincere interest in typography on the web over the last few years. Most websites rely on text to convey their messages, so it’s not a surprise that text is treated with utmost care. In this article, we’ll look at some useful techniques and clever… read more

40 Free Black Wordpress Themes

40 Free Black Wordpress Themes

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Daily Inspiration #444

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

6 Free Android Apps That Will Make You Drop Your iPhone

The Android Market may still lag behind the iPhone App Store in terms of variety and quality, but there is something to be said for the Android operating system’s extremely tight integration with existing Google products, and the wide choice of devices and carriers.

There’s no question that the… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2010

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them… read more

Be a Teacher, Not a Douchebag

I’ve been tracking trends and looking deeper into the scenarios that make my company the most money.  That’s why I wrote my previous articles regarding retainers, web cams and other such things that we do that keep our clients close to our sides.

So today I get this new customer’s mobile… read more

HTML5 Knocks Out Adobe Flash in Reader Vote

A few weeks ago, tensions between Adobe and Apple rose to all-time highs after Apple prominently left Flash off of the iPad. A lashing by Steve Jobs, calling Adobe lazy and Flash buggy didn’t help matters at all.

The problem: Apple believes that Flash shouldn’t be part of the… read more

Yelp CEO Denies Extortion Scheme

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppleman has just released a passionate statement denying all wrongdoing on Yelp’s part, addressing a class action lawsuit filed on Tuesday that purports that Yelp is running an “extortion scheme.”

In the statement, Stoppleman begins by addressing “the long history of people accusing Yelp of monkeying around… read more

Daily Inspiration #443

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

Sites of the Week #91

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Skyskraper and Chocomize. Also we’re featuring a wonderful portoflio from Estudio Cora and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more… read more

The Future of the Non-Profit Internet

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.

Earlier this month, Pew Internet released its annual Future of the Internet report. The survey of 900 leaders forecasts the future direction of online media. In turn… read more

Daily Inspiration #442

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

40 New and Trendy Free Social Media Bookmark Icon Sets

Social Media Bookmark Icons serve as significant design touches in websites and blogs. They help visitors bookmark their favorite posts and articles in any social media platform such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and others, ensuring that they can get back to your site directly for future reference. Using… read more

Tune Runner rises to the top on a wave of free

FaceFighter hadn’t been doing badly, but offering it up for free not only increased its downloads to several hundred thousand (which sounds like a lot for Appy), but put the new game in front of a whole bunch of people who otherwise might not have heard about it. And Tune… read more

Daily Inspiration #441

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

The AIDA Marketing Model in Web Design

By Louis Lazaris

If you’ve been formally educated in marketing, more than likely you’ve learned about a marketing model called AIDA. AIDA is an acronym that represents the different steps involved in selling a product or service. Very often, the principles of AIDA are applied naturally when a useful product or… read more

Smashing Newsletter Challenge… And Giveaway!

It’s time for something brand new and exciting on Smashing Magazine. Actually, we have quite a few things in the works, and today we are happy to reveal one of them. Over the years, we have published many lengthy articles, and now we want to write some shorter ones for… read more

Daily Inspiration #440

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

Web Faceoff: Adobe Flash vs. HTML5

Every week, we pit two web apps or companies against each other in our web faceoff series. In the past, we’ve put Android vs. iPhone, Digg vs. Reddit, and Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard order to see which one was truly the people’s choice.

This week, we’re tweaking the… read more

15 Notable Note Taking Apps for Mac

Ever wanted to keep your notes together and not create a bunch of text files which would eventually be strewn across your hard drive? Ever wanted more than just the ability to enter text, but also the possibility to include photos or other media in your notes?

If that’s the case,… read more

Behind the Scenes of the Design Informer Redesign

Are you crazy? Why are you doing a redesign after only 3 months, especially since your design has gotten lots of positive response thus far?

Well, in this blog post, I’d love to answer that question and take you behind the scenes of the Design Informer redesign.

The Goals and Objectives

Redesigning a… read more

Server Issues on the Weekend

Over the weekend and into Monday we unfortunately experienced some pretty severe downtime on all Envato WordPress blogs and here on the FreelanceSwitch Forums. The downtime was due to problems in the data centre of our current hosting company which was out of our control.

It seems to all be resolved… read more

WordPress : 10+ life saving SQL queries

WordPress : 10+ life saving SQL queries

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Mashable’s Weekly Social Media Conference Guide

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s… read more

20 Essential Tips for Graphic Design Blog Management

Whether you work in some corporate office, small studio, or as a freelance designer, chances are you have a lot to do. As blog owners, we many times have multiple tasks to work on, content to manage, writers to handle, research to do, and more, to increase the productivity and… read more

30 Amazing Semi-Photorealistic 3D Cartoon Characters

Since the origin of 3D graphics, designers attempts to create photo-realistic imagery. Although achieving genuine-looking graphics is a difficult challenge, some artists manage to achieve extraordinary results. Photorealism opens up new ways for creativity and innovation.

In this collection we bring you some of the inspiring semi-photorealistic 3D cartoon characters from… read more

Facebook Beats Twitter and Google Buzz in Reader Poll [RESULTS]

It’s been yet another exciting matchup here in our Web Faceoff series, with the newcomer Google Buzz going head to head with Facebook and Twitter for the heady title of Mashable readers’ favorite social network.

Last week we saw free beat out premium in our online dating services head-to-head, and… read more

25 jQuery Tutorials for Creating and Working with Forms

A few weeks ago we published a collection of jQuery plugins for working with forms. While those plugins can be very useful, there may be times where you would rather learn how to code the solution yourself rather than simply using a plugin. There are a number of quality tutorials… read more

16 Interesting Wordpress Plugins to maximize Traffic and Followers from Social Networks

16 Interesting Wordpress Plugins to maximize Traffic and Followers from Social Networks

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Art Manifestos and Their Applications in Contemporary Design

The way you express yourself with words is a crucial extension of your creative identity. Professional designers are usually busy focusing on the visual aspects of their craft, but visual arts and literary arts collide and coincide regularly. The two fields meet not just in typography, but also in press… read more

7 Indispensable Wordpress SEO Plugins

To really get the search engines in awe of your Wordpress install you can install a few plugins which can be of great benefit…

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Free Dark and Clean WordPress Theme: Designpile

In this post we are glad to release DesignPile WordPress Theme, a theme designed by Site 5 and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme comes with 3 color styles and a couple of jQuery-based goodies. It can be used for portfolios and blogs as well as corporate… read more

Wordpress and jQuery: Troubleshooting, Implementing Sidebar Tabs and More

Wordpress and jQuery can work effectively if implemented correctly. It can enhance your blogs functionality and usability. In this post we will look at some wordpress-jQuery troubleshooting tips, techniques and also how to add tabs to your sidebar. read more

6 Tutorials To Help Your Create Your Own Wordpress Plugin

6 Tutorials To Help Your Create Your Own Wordpress Plugin

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60+ Latest High-Quality Free WordPress Themes

WordPress! is an award-winning CMS, which enables you to build Blogs, Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular blog software available. Best of all, WordPress is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

There are… read more

deLuxe: A Premium WordPress Theme

Today we’re releasing another beautiful premium WordPress theme from ThemeShift to our premium members. deLuxe is a warm and elegant WordPress theme. Use it on any site for hotels, restaurants or resorts or for websites about lifestyle and luxury. It makes your site look professional and unique, or simply deluxe…. read more

12 Amazing Buddypress Themes and Getting Started Guides

Out of the box Wordpress is a highly versatile, powerful and feature rich CMS. Add to that, the seemingly endless professionally developed themes and there huge library of powerful plugins and you now have the potential to build anything you could ever possibly conceive without limitation…. Or are… read more

WordPress Down: WordPress.com Experiences Outage

As the tweets pour in, Wordpress confirms that the Wordpress.com hosted service is down.

The company is working on restoring the service as we speak. We’ll update this post with more news about the downtime as it comes in.

Do you have any sites affected by today’s Wordpress.com outage?

Tags: blogging, outage,… read more

Daily Inspiration #436

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

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Jobs in Marketing & Social Media

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to… read more

Exclusive Payment Method Icon Set for our readers

The Speckyboy Payment Method icon set is a collection of popular payment icons, that include: Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, Google Checkout, Check Payment and even icons for Wire-Transfers.
Not only do these icons look awesome, they are also very useful and versatile (there are eight different sizes that range from 12px… read more

Blast from the Past: Vintage Technologies That We No Longer Use

Most of the technologies that we have used in the past have been eclipsed by the remarkable technology that we use today.

Advances in their design have occurred in tandem with the advances in technology in this digital era, with many large products being redesigned and miniaturized into amazingly small sizes.

While… read more

7 Superb Social Plugins for WordPress

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

If you use WordPress for your website or blog, there are lots of ways you can connect it to social media, and connect social media to your site via those nifty… read more

How to Create a Wordpress Options Panel

How to Create a Wordpress Options Panel

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The World Best Designers: Japan

This week it’s mission impossible – Japan!

Masaki Yokobe

Gaku Imai

K3 Studio

Yukako Tanaka

Hisahiro Fukasawa

Maykol Medina

Noritaka Tatehana

Shiiho

Koichi Fuse

Numata Hisashi

Mac Funamizu

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This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.24

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.
Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy.
As always, if you have any cool links that you would… read more

How to Create a Better WordPress Options Panel

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Creating A Quality WordPress Theme: 12 Points to Consider

By Cameron Chapman

Many designers enjoy creating WordPress themes. And creating a theme isn’t that difficult if you have a basic grasp of CSS and can follow directions (WordPress’s Codex has extensive documentation). But that doesn’t mean that every designer out there who can create a theme has created a good… read more

Smashing Network Update: Add Widget To Your Site and New Members

In the last few months, you may have noticed some major changes happening on Smashing Magazine’s front page. Since November 2009, when we launched the Smashing Network, which features manually selected articles from the best design blogs, we’ve been working hard to improve the usability of our website and make… read more