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  • newHow To Customize The WordPress Admin Easily
       If you're just getting started with WordPress, or have been running with default functionality for a while and now want to dig in with some useful and easy ways to customize your WordPress site, a great place to start is t…
    - 9 hours ago, 18 May 12, 4:15am -
  • Backpack Algorithms And Public-Key Cryptography Made Easy
       E-commerce runs on secrets. Those secrets let you update your blog, shop at Amazon and share code on GitHub. Computer security is all about keeping your secrets known only to you and the people you choose to share them with.…
    - 1 day ago, 17 May 12, 6:21am -
  • Stop Redesigning And Start Tuning Your Site Instead
       In my nearly two decades as an information architect, I’ve seen my clients flush away millions upon millions of dollars on worthless, pointless, “fix it once and for all” website redesigns. All types of organizations are…
    - 2 days ago, 16 May 12, 8:28am -
  • Zocial Button Set: 72 CSS3 Buttons
       The idea behind this project was to produce a consistent set of buttons that could be used for the range of social actions frequently taken in Web applications. These actions are often important goals for users, such as connec…
    - 3 days ago, 15 May 12, 7:39am -
  • Smashing Daily #1: Mobile Device Lab, Browsers and Animated GIFs
       Editor's Note: This post is the first in the new Smashing Daily series on Smashing Magazine, where we highlight items to help you stay on the top of what's going on in the industry. Vasilis van Gemert will carefully pick the m…
    - 3 days ago, 15 May 12, 4:24am -

A List Apart

  • Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point
    Responsible responsive design demands responsive images—images whose dimensions and file size suit the viewport and bandwidth of the receiving device. As HTML provides no standard element to achieve this purpose, serving responsive images has meant…
    - 3 days ago, 15 May 12, 1:44pm -
  • Application Cache is a Douchebag
    We’re better connected than we’ve ever been, but we’re not always connected. ApplicationCache lets users interact with their data even when they're offline, but with great power come great gotchas. For instance, files always come from the Appli…
    - 10 days ago, 8 May 12, 7:00am -
  • Say No to Faux Bold
    Browsers can do terrible things to type. If text is styled as bold or italic and the typeface family does not include a bold or italic font, browsers will compensate by trying to create bold and italic styles themselves. The results are an awkward mi…
    - 10 days ago, 8 May 12, 6:59am -
  • Content Modelling: A Master Skill
    The content model is one of the most important content strategy tools at your disposal. It allows you to represent content in a way that translates the intention, stakeholder needs, and functional requirements from the user experience design into som…
    - 24 days ago, 24 Apr 12, 8:00am -
  • Tinker, Tailor, Content Strategist
    What does content strategy mastery look like? As in any field, it comes down to having master skills and knowing when to apply them. While there are different styles of content strategy (from an editorial and messaging focus to a technical and struct…
    - 24 days ago, 24 Apr 12, 7:59am -

Six Revisions

  • Helping Your Clients Build an Effective Mobile Strategy
    Advertise here with BSAIt can be a challenge convincing clients to add new strategies to their existing Web presence. In a perfect world, a client would simply say, "You’re the expert. You know what’s best. Do whatever needs to be done to make it…
    - 1 day ago, 17 May 12, 5:00am -
  • 10 Excellent Online Payment Systems
    Advertise here with BSAIn this article, we’ll be reviewing my top 10 online payment systems for accepting payments on the Web. While many of the companies on this list have been available to online merchants for years, many are also now getting int…
    - 3 days ago, 15 May 12, 9:34pm -
  • Ultra Sleek Accordion Slider: Free PSD Template
    Advertise here with BSAThis exclusive freebie on Six Revisions, brought to you by www.bestpsdfreebies.com, is a design mockup of an accordion slider that can be used to display content. It comes in 3 variations. Each slider variation has a unique tex…
    - 5 days ago, 13 May 12, 5:00am -
  • 5 Reasons Why Metaphors Can Improve the User Experience
    Advertise here with BSAThere are many ways to experience the world around us. Especially offline, we can make use of our different senses to collect information, interpret our environment and make judgments. On the Web, however, our senses are more l…
    - 7 days ago, 11 May 12, 5:00am -
  • 30 Minimalist Portfolio Website Designs for Inspiration
    Advertise here with BSAThere seems to be a recent trend whereby creatives are aesthetically stripping down their online portfolios to their bare essentials. (UK-based web designer/web developer Kean Richmond recently discussed this trend in an articl…
    - 44 days ago, 4 Apr 12, 5:00am -

Vandelay Design

  • new9 Tips for Staying Focused
    Many designers and developers love their work in part because they can work from home or anywhere else that they choose. While not working in a typical office setting can be a nice perk, it also brings its own set of challenges. Possibly the most sig…
    - 7 hours ago, 18 May 12, 6:18am -
  • Simple Non-Profit WordPress Theme
    With this free WordPress theme any non-profit organization can have an effective website. It includes features to showcase your programs and events, and several elements are easily customizable. Organizations with limited budgets can present a profes…
    - 1 day ago, 17 May 12, 6:02am -
  • 17 Tools For Making Awesome Client Presentations
    Ask five designers how they handle client design presentations and you’ll get five different answers. Some like to do their presentations in person, accompanying their designs with printouts detailing specific highlights. Others prefer utilizing an…
    - 2 days ago, 16 May 12, 6:09am -
  • 21 Awesome Bright and Colorful Websites
    Finding the right color scheme for a website design can often be a real challenge. Bright colors are sometimes not favored by designers, but in the right situation they can be very effective.In this post we'll showcase examples of 21 different brig…
    - 3 days ago, 15 May 12, 1:56pm -
  • Comment to Win PSD to HTML Services from Markup-Service!
    Many designers prefer to outsource some of their coding work in order to free up more of their own time, or maybe to get a higher quality of coding than they can produce on their own. Outsourcing PSD to HTML conversion can be done on a regular basis…
    - 3 days ago, 15 May 12, 5:53am -

Think Vitamin

  • Free Video: iOS Blocks and Categories
    In this 5:30 minute video, you will learn that a category is used to define additional methods of an existing class without subclassing. And blocks are simply a block of executable code that have access to local variables and can be stored or passed…
    - 3 days ago, 15 May 12, 10:42am -
  • Free Video: iOS Property Lists

    - 18 days ago, 30 Apr 12, 9:01am -
  • Free Video: Ruby Hashes
    In this 7:18 minute video, you’ll learn what hashes are, how they work in Ruby, and how to create them yourself.This video is the first video in the Ruby Hashes badge from Treehouse, a high-quality video training site with hundreds of short vide…
    - 23 days ago, 25 Apr 12, 1:45pm -
  • Tony Hsieh and Zach Ware of Zappos – Speaking at FILive!

    - 30 days ago, 18 Apr 12, 10:49am -
  • Free Video: Building Accessible Charts
    In this 6 minute video, you’ll learn how to create a simple bar graph from scratch by using HTML and CSS. This bar graph is made with screen readers in mind, and doesn’t make use of images or browser plugins.This video is the third video in th…
    - 37 days ago, 11 Apr 12, 8:00am -

Developer Drive

  • Giving Users Offline Access with HTML5 Application Cache
    Offline storage is one of the most anticipated features of HTML5. With users browsing to your pages and accessing your Web apps on various devices, often with limited connectivity, the Application Cache utility could prove to be a serious advantage.…
    - 1 day ago, 17 May 12, 2:46am -
  • Clever Problem Solving Techniques for CSS
    With the launch of HTML5 and CSS3 came new ways and techniques of using these advanced tools to resolve development challenges in clever ways. CSS3 can be implemented on websites to improve the browsing experience for users as well as … Continue re…
    - 3 days ago, 15 May 12, 2:14am -
  • Rotating Web Page Elements Using The CSS3 Rotate Transform

    - 4 days ago, 14 May 12, 2:40am -
  • Free, expert website monitoring!
    Knowing if your website is working properly is the first step in catching potential problems before they blow up. But unless you have time to check your site every five minutes or you want to wait for your visitors to … Continue reading →
    - 7 days ago, 11 May 12, 3:17am -
  • A Simple Way to Stop Bandwidth Theft from Your Website
    Boosting online traffic is one of the main goals for virtually every website on the Internet. A conscientious site owner, seeking to optimize performance, will regularly check detailed traffic logs available through their hosting account or a third-p…
    - 8 days ago, 10 May 12, 2:47am -

Onextrapixel

  • newThe Practical Guide to Multiple Relationships Between Posts in WordPress
    With the introduction the custom post type feature, WordPress has made a very important move from just a blogging solution (very powerful but limited with it’s concept) to full-fledged CMS system. All 3.x releases more or less are... Read More
    - 7 hours ago, 18 May 12, 6:30am -
  • Responsive Web Design – Ideas, Technology, and Examples
    The web design industry is constantly evolving, whether that be with the latest trends in design – big header images, large photographic backgrounds, etc, or with the latest technologies – HTML5, jQuery, CSS3, and so on. It's important... Read Mo…
    - 1 day ago, 17 May 12, 6:00am -
  • Artistic, Creative and Imaginative Painted Fingers and Hands
    Boredom or spare 'empty' time can inspire people to do the strangest things with great results! Finger art is just one of those strange but magical pastimes. There is probably more patience than skill required for the majority... Read More
    - 2 days ago, 16 May 12, 6:00am -
  • Betterment: Make Your Money Work Harder for Freelancers
    Studies have shown, that if you can picture your future-self, it’s easier to increase savings – so how do you see yourself in the future? People always have the mindset of working hard for money to secure their... Read More
    - 3 days ago, 15 May 12, 6:00am -
  • Showcase of 50 Stunning Poster Designs
    Although often overlooked, posters are, for sure one of the most excellent ways in which you can effectively communicate your clients’ information to their prospective customers or buyers. Although in the graphics industry designing or printing a p…
    - 4 days ago, 14 May 12, 6:00am -

Web Resources Depot

  • newAggregate Data From Multiple Sources Into A Single HTML – PubwichFork
    Advertise here with BSAPreviously, WRD had shared Pubwich, an open source application that can fetch data from different sources. It is not updated since 2010 and there is a regularly updated fork named PubwichFork. To remind, the application can agg…
    - 10 hours ago, 18 May 12, 2:59am -
  • Juicebox Lite – Free HTML5 Image Gallery (With A Desktop Builder)
    Advertise here with BSAImage galleries are part of almost any website around whether it is about displaying the portfolio, products or personal albums,we simply use them a lot. Juicebox Lite is a free-to-use (branded) and HTML5-powered image gallery…
    - 1 day ago, 17 May 12, 3:03am -
  • A Different JavaScript Calendar – jQuery Verbose Calendar
    Advertise here with BSAjQuery Verbose Calendar is a plugin for creating a calendar that displays the whole months and days of a year at the same time. Once loaded, it auto-scrolls to "today" and displays the day names when hovered to any date in a to…
    - 1 day ago, 17 May 12, 2:15am -
  • Open Source Tool To Backup Gmail Accounts: Gmvault
    Advertise here with BSAGmail is probably the most widely used e-mail provider between creative people. It is always simplistic, modern and always works. Personally, besides my personal e-mail, I use their "custom domain" feature for handling the e-ma…
    - 2 days ago, 16 May 12, 5:54am -
  • Infragistics jQuery Controls – Impressive & Professional jQuery Toolset
    Advertise here with BSAInfo: This is a review of a paid resource. There are lots of jQuery plugins around that handle specific tasks and, for JavaScript-heavy apps, we may end up in using many of them. Working with such many different resources at th…
    - 3 days ago, 15 May 12, 5:30am -

1stWebDesigner

  • newThe Shortest Web Design Guest Posting Guide You’ll Ever Need
    If this message appears to another site than 1stwebdesigner ,it has been stolen, please visit original source!There are a million web designers out there and every seven seconds there is a new blog that goes live. The connection? It’s competition.…
    - 5 hours ago, 18 May 12, 8:00am -
  • The Rise Of Facebook: Path to World Domination
    If this message appears to another site than 1stwebdesigner ,it has been stolen, please visit original source!Facebook. The social media masterpiece all of us, more or less, use for personal or business reasons. Facebook is considered to, again, more…
    - 1 day ago, 17 May 12, 1:27am -
  • Ultimate Restaurant Website Design Guide To Make People Forget About Diet Constantly
    If this message appears to another site than 1stwebdesigner ,it has been stolen, please visit original source!Get a large mug of coffee and brace yourself for a guidebook that you will be forced to bookmark. Dining out with families or friends has ju…
    - 2 days ago, 16 May 12, 8:00am -
  • Great Examples of Interactive Architecture for Your Inspiration
    If this message appears to another site than 1stwebdesigner ,it has been stolen, please visit original source!While you need a lot of creativity to create a website or an advertising campaign, design can also be combined with something else: architec…
    - 3 days ago, 15 May 12, 8:00am -
  • How Colors Help Make Websites Successful
    If this message appears to another site than 1stwebdesigner ,it has been stolen, please visit original source!You might not realize how important colours are in web design. If a website is green, it might as well be blue; it doesn’t matter. And whi…
    - 4 days ago, 14 May 12, 8:00am -

2expertsdesign

  • newGiveaway: 3 Winners Can Win 250 Business Cards Each
    We are happy to give 250 business cards each to 2Experts exclusive readers. Yes, we partnered with one of the top business cards printing company PrintRunner and hosting this giveaway. Simply comment and stay tuned with see your name in winners list.…
    - 5 hours ago, 18 May 12, 8:32am -
  • newCollection Of Websites With Unique Layouts
    When we look at some sites, the layout feature can only attract attention. The layout can be simple or more complicated. Sometimes a designer can break out at an amazing layout in minutes and sometimes the designer can fight for the most part with th…
    - 12 hours ago, 18 May 12, 1:24am -
  • IMcreator: Drag & Drop to Create Your Own HTML Site
    There is a common idea that, if you don’t have a Facebook profile, you don’t exist which is wrong but more and more people adhere to the global movement of being present on the miraculous network. Despite of that, in the near future or even in th…
    - 1 day ago, 17 May 12, 5:02am -
  • 25 Fresh and Clean WordPress Themes
    Today we have a new theme collection for you called Fresh & Clean. These are another wordpress themes that got a very clean and minimal design, created with having the casual blogger in mind. These themes are perfect for all kinds of corporate sites…
    - 2 days ago, 16 May 12, 5:56am -
  • 30 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts
    There is always a new challenge for designers and Web developers. One of the latest is definitely responsive web design, the art of serving the same web page to multiple devices including PCs, mobile phones to the tablet and iPhone that look good on…
    - 3 days ago, 15 May 12, 5:11am -

instantShift

  • newWhat to Know When You Composing and Taking Images
    Before digital cameras, the only way to get a digital image was to take a picture with a film camera, get the film developed, then have the photographic print or slide digitized using a scanner. When digital cameras launch, all you had to do to make…
    - 7 hours ago, 18 May 12, 6:44am -
  • Use an iPad at Your Trade Show Booth to Engage Consumers
    Have you walked into your favorite retail store, restaurant, or mall recently only to see a shiny new iPad staring back at you? Businesses around the world are starting to realize the many benefits putting an iPad in their store offers. iPad, along w…
    - 1 day ago, 17 May 12, 6:21am -
  • Deliver Great Service to Your Client – And See Your Profits Soar
    Great service is the pillar of every business and one can achieve success and maintain it only through quality service. A host of techniques contributes to business success but the foundation of every business is quality work. Only quality can make a…
    - 2 days ago, 16 May 12, 10:30am -
  • How to Design Awesome Infographics
    Even if information is highly out of ordinary and attention-grabbing, if your content contains lengthy plain text without illustration or images whatsoever, the entire page becomes dull and unimaginative. To sort this out, infographics help in routin…
    - 3 days ago, 15 May 12, 6:48am -
  • Writing A Creative Brief: Dragging The Right Information Out Of A Client
    For every assignment, for every project, whether you are a freelancer or work a staff job, it’s of the utmost importance that you document every aspect of what is required to complete the project both correctly and in a timely manner. It’s also i…
    - 4 days ago, 14 May 12, 7:05am -

CrazyLeaf Design Blog

  • Wallpaper Designs #21
    You are reading : Wallpaper Designs #21We are showcasing once a week or so, cool and beautiful wallpapers, free to download and use. If you designed or found an amazing wallpaper and you want to share it, just send it to us. We’d love to feature…
    - 2 days ago, 16 May 12, 3:22am -
  • Weekly Web Design Inspiration #54
    You are reading : Weekly Web Design Inspiration #54This article is part of our “Weekly Design Inspiration” series. We are showcasing  once a week fresh and inspirational website designs. If you think your website belongs here, you can submit it…
    - 4 days ago, 14 May 12, 10:15am -
  • Design Coolness #15
    You are reading : Design Coolness #15This post is part of our “Design Coolness” article series where we are showcasing inspiring and cool design stuff like typography, illustration, digital art and photography. Illustration Print Photography Typo…
    - 7 days ago, 11 May 12, 9:22am -
  • 20 Creative and Appealing Business Card Designs
    You are reading : 20 Creative and Appealing Business Card DesignsIt can be considered as an achievement when you have already established your own business or career that would make you famous and trusted by many. However, being able to grab the peop…
    - 9 days ago, 9 May 12, 5:49am -
  • Top 10 : Websites with Maps
    You are reading : Top 10 : Websites with MapsMaps are often used in web design, but today we’d like to feature top 10 websites with maps definitely worth seeing. And although the sites differ in purpose and style we hope you will find them inspirin…
    - 10 days ago, 8 May 12, 6:22am -