Effective Communication: Getting All You Can Out of What You’ve Got

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HOW TO: Get Started with the Less Framework

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For the past few years, CSS grid systems have become increasingly popular with web designers. Thanks to efforts like Nathan Smith’s 960.gs, designing with a grid is… read more

Why Instapaper & Read It Later Apps Can Boost Your Productivity

Long ago, when writing material was scarce and Gutenberg was perfecting his printing press, one could easily complain that there was not enough content to read. Books where cherished and even newspapers were stored to be read and reread months later. In today’s gadget crazed world, where nearly 500 tweets are sent each second and… read more

40 Typography Designs that will Tickle Your Imagination

There is no better way to highlight your headline, or any text for that matter, than to make that particular text an artwork by itself. Aside from choosing the right font, an artist or a designer could spice it up by putting in other elements. When we say… read more

Mobile Toolbox for WordPress (Tutorials, Plugins and Themes)

Mobile browsing clearly does have its limitations, mainly from its smaller physical design, but it also limited by web sites not having a mobile version tailored for the smaller screen. Current mobile web browsing stats stands at 4.5% of total world-wide internet usage and, with the prediction for the next… read more

Daily Inspiration #771

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 Art of Painting in Water

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JumpBox: The Virtual Machine Factory

When you’re into software development, a lot of work is involved in building the environment to program the app. It’s not just the hardware; you need to build every block of the software required before starting the project. One economical way to tackle this situation is by using virtual machines…. read more

Automatically Activate Plugins in WordPress

Automatically Activate Plugins in WordPress

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Daily Inspiration #770

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

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.77)

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

HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Subcontracting With Freelancers

Shane Pearlman tweets about his misadventures in running a 100% freelance driven agency at @justlikeair.

Every person on a career path has a dream. Musicians want Grammys, startups want acquisitions and surfers want world titles. When I chat with freelancers, the most common aspiration I hear is, “I… read more

Have you “Lo-Fi”’d a photo?

a Guest Post by Mary Andrade from Pam Photography.

After discovering the fast, easy and creative effects available via iphone camera apps, I have been searching for similar software to creatively modify photos I take with my DLSR and my pocket camera. I stumbled upon Lo-Fi, which was recently launched…. read more

Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed

A lot of designers seem to be talking about user experience (UX) these days. We’re supposed to delight our users, even provide them with magic, so that they love our websites, apps and start-ups. User experience is a very blurry concept. Consequently, many people use the term incorrectly. Furthermore, many… read more

Common Elements Used in Wooden UI Design

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Interview with Comic Artist and Illustrator Edu Medeiros

Being a Comic artist is a really tough job, there are many talented artists and it’s a really competitive business. Today we’re going to interview and show the artworks of one of the most successful brazilian Comic artist nowadays, Eduardo Medeiros.

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If you want to know more about Eduardo, please… read more

27 of the Best WordPress Themes for Photographers

27 of the Best WordPress Themes for Photographers

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Eureka Free WordPress Theme

Eureka Free WordPress Theme

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Daily Inspiration #769

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

Google’s Blogger Is About to Get an Overhaul

Blogger, the 11-year-old blog publishing service acquired by Google in 2003, has begun teasing a complete revamp of its blogging platform.

Blogger is one of the world’s top 10 biggest websites, far larger than WordPress.com, Tumblr or Posterous. Yet these blogging platforms have secured the most hype over the years…. read more

Absolutely Incredible Collection Of High-Quality Design Freebies For Designers

Today, we have made a list of  incredible collection of high-quality design freebies. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible that are fresh and must have for designers.

You are welcome if you want to share more… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 2, March

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

8 Powerful & Inexpensive Desktop Design Apps

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One of the most costly and… read more

A Brief History of Blogging

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30 Fresh Examples of Single Page Websites

Single page websites have been a hot trend for a while now, and their popularity doesn’t seem to be losing any momentum. Going this route isn’t right for every project, but there are times when it’s fitting and just makes sense. For instance, when a site doesn’t have a lot… read more

Aurelios Free WordPress Theme

Aurelios Free WordPress Theme

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Linkswitch #60: Spec Requests, Productivity, WordPress Plugins

10 Productivity-Enhancing Apps from the Chrome Web Store

Google launched their Chrome Web Store last year to some well-received notice. But in reality, it serves only as a glorified directory for web apps accessible on any standards-compliant browser. And that isn’t necessarily a downer. In fact, with little intervention needed to… read more

Platform for Concertgoers Launches Android App in Time for SXSW

Music fans, you have T-minus four days to finalize your schedule for SXSW Music. Luckily, concertgoing platform SuperGlued is out with a brand new Android app to help users plan their jams.

SuperGlued is a New York-based service that launched in 2009, and it’s basically a slicker version… read more

Technetiumastic Free WordPress Theme

Technetiumastic Free WordPress Theme

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Daily Free Blogging WordPress Theme

Daily Free Blogging WordPress Theme

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Run a Website or Blog? You Can Help Japan With One Code Snippet

If you run your own site — and we know lots of you do — you can use your pageviews and influence to help Japanese people struggling to recover from yesterday’s devastating natural disasters. All you need is a couple lines of code from the Hello Bar.

We… read more

Best Free WordPress Themes

Best Free WordPress Themes

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Convore: Free, Real-Time Forums For Your Groups

Today, it’s easy to create a new blog in seconds with WordPress.com, Tumblr, or Posterous. You can start publishing and get your content online quickly, and many software firms today consist of little more than a website and apps in an App Store. But what if you want an easy… read more

Prestige Free WordPress Theme

Prestige Free WordPress Theme

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Daily Inspiration #767

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: Add Social Sharing Buttons to Your Website

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

If you run a blog or website of any kind, chances are you’re always trying to encourage more people to talk about and share… read more

Sites of the Week #144

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as re:play and TestingScrum. Also we’re featuring the Martin Karásek’s portfolio and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than happy… read more

8 Tips to Boost Your Business Website’s Conversion Rate

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Posterous Groups: Get Your Group On

Blogging tools are getting more sophisticated and feature rich every few months or so. Platforms like WordPress have so many features they’ve stopped being blogging platforms and transformed into Content Management Systems. Even Tumblr has a learning curve. For an average user with or without the knowledge of technology, so… read more

How to Submit & Optimize WordPress Blog Post for SERPs

How to Submit & Optimize WordPress Blog Post for SERPs

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Genoa Free WordPress Theme

Genoa Free WordPress Theme

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Daily Inspiration #766

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

BlogNotes Free WordPress Theme

BlogNotes Free WordPress Theme

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Why Everyone Is Talking About Node

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On the 20th floor of a San Francisco skyscraper, a handful of developers are working on a new technology that’s changing the way real-time web apps are… read more

iConcept Free WordPress Theme

iConcept Free WordPress Theme

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Daily Inspiration #765

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 Fancy JQuery Tooltip for Your WordPress Post Title

How to Create Fancy JQuery Tooltip for Your WordPress Post Title

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Thriving on a Code Marketplace

The Simple Newsletter System

Hi folks. My name is Dave; I’m currently in my mid 20’s, and am living in Australia. I went straight from High School into a Bachelor of IT at University, and then worked full-time in the IT industry for four years. Over the past two years, however,… read more

Exclusive Freebie: “Funkies Patterns”

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Website Speed Part 1: Write More Efficient CSS

As part of my new position as CTO of SpeckyBoy I’ve decided to write a series of articles that will help you understand what it takes to make a truly fast site. As you may have noticed SpeckyBoy just got a shot in the arm recently and is running a… read more

The Best Combination of Plugins To Revamp Your WordPress Blog

The Best Combination of Plugins To Revamp Your WordPress Blog

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GameWorld Free WordPress Theme

GameWorld Free WordPress Theme

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Daily Inspiration #764

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

11 Unconventional Uses of WordPress

11 Unconventional Uses of WordPress

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15 nice and professional “from PSD to HTML” services

Psd2html

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WordPress +$195
Drupal +$295
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Xhtmlslicing

Starting price $65
WordPress +$199
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Codemyconcept

Starting price $79
WordPress +$119
Drupal +$249
Magento +$279

xhtmlchop

Starting price $45
WordPress $99
Drupal +$249
Magento +$299

xhtmlteam

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w3-markup

Starting price $192
WordPress +$231
Drupal +$279

markup-service

Starting price $136
WordPress +$229
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pixelcrayon

Starting price $99
WordPress +$199
Drupal +$299

cssninjas

Starting price $249

snobbyslice

Starting price $299

convert2xhtm

Starting price $45
WordPress $99
Drupal +$229

rapidxhtml

Starting price $50

htmlrockstars

Starting price $149
WordPress $289
Tumblr theme $309

frontenders

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Ten Things Every WordPress Plugin Developer Should Know

Plugins are a major part of why WordPress powers millions of blogs and websites around the world. The ability to extend WordPress to meet just about any need is a powerful motivator for choosing WordPress over other alternatives. Having written several plugins myself, I’ve come to learn many (but certainly… read more

40 Tutorials for Outstanding Text Effects in Illustrator

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Solo: A Single Page Portfolio WordPress Theme

Last month here on WDL, I announced the release of Filtered, a portfolio WordPress theme. Now, I’m back to let you know about another new theme that I just launched at Theme Trust. It’s another sleek portfolio theme, called Solo.

You’ll notice the same clean, minimal style found in Filtered,… read more

What You Missed in Photography This Week

Keeping up with everything in the world of photography is a full time job. Luckily, you have Light Stalking! Here’s what’s happening around the photography internets this week.

photo © 2010 Courtney Carmody | more info (via: Wylio)

Photography Tutorials

How to Use the Healing Brush and Patch Tool in Photoshop… read more

12 Premium WordPress Theme for Real Estate Agents

12 Premium WordPress Theme for Real Estate Agents

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Daily Inspiration #763

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 Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 1, March

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

What’s New for Web Designers – Mar 2011

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Footer Designs For Your Inspiration

The days when Web elements were thought to be unimportant and were mostly neglected, are over. Web designers have discovered how important a website’s footer can be to successfully catch any visitor’s attention when only given a bit more thought.

Here are just a few examples of some… read more

March 2011 Wallpaper

March 2011 Wallpaper

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Use Ifttt to Make the Internet Work for You

If you’re anything like me, you have a whole lot of online accounts to manage. Between Facebook, Twitter, my blog, Delicious, and various RSS feeds I check, it can be hard to manage. I like to share links everywhere, which can get a bit repetative if I want to… read more

WordPress Theme Design An HTML Alternative

WordPress Theme Design An HTML Alternative

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Useful Plugins and Resources for Improving User Interactivity with WordPress

If there is a sense of community and vibrant life surrounding a blog it tends to be successful and ultimately popular – that is a fact. So, if you own a WordPress blog and you are looking for an effective way to create a real sense of user interactivity on… read more

Essential Plugins for Every WordPress Installation

One of the reasons why people gravitate toward WordPress is the seemingly unlimited numbers of open source plugins available. Today, I’d like to go over a few plugins that I think absolutely warrant your attention. I’m sure I’ve missed some, though, so make sure to chime in within the comments!… read more

Best of the Week #161

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

Projeqt Is an Online Storytelling Engine for Creatives [INVITES]

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Projeqt

Quick Pitch: Projeqt is a creative storytelling platform.

Genius Idea: The art of online… read more

50+ Best WordPress Tips and Tutorials of February 2011

50+ Best WordPress Tips and Tutorials of February 2011

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8 Essential Web Typography Resources

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Over the last eighteen months, the world of web fonts and web typography has absolutely exploded. Modern browsers — on the desktop and on mobile devices —… read more

Daily Inspiration #761

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

In Search Of The Perfect CAPTCHA

CAPTCHAs, or Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, exist to ensure that user input has not been generated by a computer. These peculiar puzzles are commonly used on the Web to protect registration and comment forms from spam. To be honest, I have mixed feelings… read more

Sites of the Week #143

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Themes Kingdom and KickStarter. Also we’re featuring the Büro Maisengasse’s portfolio and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than… read more

Happy Birthday to Us! Light Stalking Turns Two

Light Stalking turns two today and it’s been two very short years of absolute fun.

In that two years, we have had 376 free photography articles, lessons and collections and two free downloadable photography guides!

photo © 2008 John Haslam | more info (via: Wylio)

The community here has gone from… read more

Daily Inspiration #760

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 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

Internal Linking Optimization of WordPress Blog Posts Without Plugins

Internal Linking Optimization of WordPress Blog Posts Without Plugins

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Basics of WordPress Theme Design

Basics of WordPress Theme Design

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Inside One Man’s Kickstarter Quest to Build True Artificial Life

Virtual worlds have long been populated by creatures that interact, reproduce, compete, evolve and die. But by and large, they do so because their behavior is programmed by developers. These efforts can produce complex virtual ecosystems, but they’re not quite the digital reflections of what happens in… read more

Communicating Through Infographics

With so many diverse infographics out there there’s always something aptly for everyone. A big shout out to all the artists, illustrators, designers, researchers and writers who made these educational wonderful infographics possible. Today we present to you a nice roundup of infographics — there should be one for all… read more

40 Splendid Premium Magazine Style WordPress Themes

40 Splendid Premium Magazine Style WordPress Themes

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WordPress PowerPack – Everything You Need To Run A Blog

WordPress PowerPack – Everything You Need To Run A Blog

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Daily Inspiration #759

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

Outstanding New features of WordPress 3.1

Outstanding New features of WordPress 3.1

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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

25+ Beautiful WordPress Portfolio Themes

25+ Beautiful WordPress Portfolio Themes

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iBusiness Free WordPress Theme

iBusiness Free WordPress Theme

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10 Excellent Mobile Friendly WordPress Themes

WordPress with its progressive nature presents itself as an ideal platform for creating blogs or websites. Its efficiency as a CMS keeps on increasing with introduction of new themes, plug-ins and applications thereby making it more popular. Now that people are getting inclined to use mobile phones for internet browsing,… read more

Best Grid WordPress Themes

Best Grid WordPress Themes

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Daily Inspiration #758

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

Split Testing in WordPress

Split Testing in WordPress

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Scaling WordPress for High-Traffic

Just because you didn’t get to go to that awesome conference doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! Each week, we feature one recommended web development lecture on Nettuts+. This talk, presented by Envato’s very own developer extraordinaire, Ryan Allen, will detail some of the potential pitfalls and… read more

How to Remove the Admin Bar from WordPress 3.1

You may have noticed that there is a new admin bar add to WordPress 3.1 that shows up when you are logged in as a subscriber or above. While I can see that this might be useful on some sites, for most this is just an annoyance and makes… read more

Smashing Email Newsletter Turns One Year Old: Comment and Win!

As most of you may already know, every second Tuesday of a month we send out an email newsletter to our subscribers (over 50,000 at the moment). Every newsletter issue contains exclusive, short articles that present recent design techniques, freebies as well as useful resources and tools. We work hard… read more

Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of February 2011

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… read more

ThemeFuse WordPress Themes Giveaway: Winners!

A weeks ago, we created a contest at instantShift called Win One of the Three Original WordPress Themes from ThemeFuse had announced the 3 winners of theme vouchers from Themefuse to InstantShift readers.

We’ve got more than 100 response comments. After voiding spam and non-legit comments we have left with more… read more

50+ New WordPress Themes: March 2011

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