June 2011

What theme options does your WordPress theme need?

June 17, 2011 Wordpress

I recently released a WordPress theme for bands and musicians called Slates, and one of the most difficult aspects to get right when developing the theme was deciding what theme options I should have. Theme options let users adjust elements of a theme. Often, these are appearance elements such as backgrounds, logos and typefaces, but [...]

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Inforgraphic: Social Gaming by the Numbers

June 16, 2011 Social Media

The number of people playing social media games is shocking. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on it every year and that number is expected to top a billion. Social Media Gaming is as Astounding as Social Media Itself. Online social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have become unexpectedly successful new additions to [...]

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40 Yummy and Tasty Food Photography

June 15, 2011 Photography

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism’s cells in an effort to produce energy, maintain life, and/or stimulate [...]

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45 Cool and Unique Examples of Coming Soon Page Designs

June 14, 2011 Web Design

Everybody knows how critical a website for a company while trying to establish a web presence. What a lot of people often overlook though, is the prelude to a website i.e. the coming soon page also called the launch page or the under construction page. Using a coming soon page is a great way to [...]

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TouchSense A New Multipurpose WordPress CMS Theme

June 13, 2011 Wordpress

For some time now I have been truly impressed with some of the wordpress cms theme releases for business sites that have been released on ThemeForest and to be honest this includes the WordPress magazine themes available. I personally think that some of the best WordPress designers have decided to make a living as freelancers [...]

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40+ Simple Tumblr Themes For Your Tumblr Space

June 11, 2011 Tumblr

Tumblr, sometimes styled as tumblr., is a microblogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private. The service emphasizes ease of use. However tumblr provides platform to small bloggers with fully customizable [...]

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40 Best and free useful Mac applications for Web Designers

June 11, 2011 Tools

Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface. The original form of what Apple would later name the “Mac OS” was the integral and unnamed system software first introduced [...]

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30+ jQuery Forms Plugins to Improve Form Usability

June 10, 2011 Javascript

Forms are essential for communication online and they are the single most important interface to collect information from users. Why not spice you forms up a bit and make your site more appealing and user friendly? This post will help you get an idea of what what is possible to achieve with a few lines [...]

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15 Useful Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming Tools

June 8, 2011 Tools

Concept mapping and Mind mapping software are used to create diagrams of relationships between concepts, ideas or other pieces of information. It has been suggested that the mind mapping technique can improve learning/study efficiency up to 15% over conventional note taking. It is also a popular planning technique with applications across all business sectors and [...]

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8 SEO tips for Ecommerce Websites

June 7, 2011 e-commerce

Ecommerce websites have a reputation of being too confusing and too ugly. They are usually cluttered with big bright flashing graphics and a mixture of colours and fonts. This will make a bad first impression and can result in potential customers navigating away from your website for good. That critical initial impression can hold a [...]

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