To celebrate the new release of FlashEff 2.0 for Flex, the JumpeyeComponents team has decided to work with Six Revisions to give away FlashEff 2.0 for Flex licenses worth $99 each to five Six Revisions readers.
To celebrate the new release of FlashEff 2.0 for Flex, the JumpeyeComponents team has decided to work with Six Revisions to give away FlashEff 2.0 for Flex licenses worth $99 each to five Six Revisions readers.
In this Photoshop type treatment tutorial for beginners, you’ll discover a quick and easy process for making captivating gradient text.
By Robb Clarke
There are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to social media. People seem to think that every day standards and decency get tossed out the window because of the anonymity of the Internet. Unfortunately for those people, that’s not always the case. First off, the Internet is getting smaller, and by that, [...]
Many bloggers already know that Twitter is one of the best ways to drive traffic to your blog.
When I talked to Guy Kawasaki about my book, he called the Tweetmeme Retweet button “the most important button on the web,” because of the enormous traffic-driving power it possesses. With one click, any of your readers can [...]
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Looking for more design inspiration? See our other galleries: CartFrenzy, Folio Focus, Minimal Exhibit, TypeInspire.
Site search functionality is extremely important for ecommerce websites, especially larger ones. In order for the site to make sales, visitors must be able to find what they are looking for as effectively as possible. While many shoppers will prefer to use the standard navigation on the site, searches are very common from visitors who aren’t able to quickly find what they want.
In this article we’ll take an in-depth look at the trends in site searches of ecommerce websites, and plenty of examples will be included for each point. Of course, not all of these points are going to be relevant to every ecommerce site, but it should help to serve as a guide to those who are designing and developing ecommerce sites.
The most common location for a site search on ecommerce sites is at the top of the page, and generally on the right side. Many ecommerce sites have a site search, user login, and shopping cart info all located in the same general area. Keeping the site search in a location that is pretty common will help it to be easier to find for some of your visitors who are accustomed to this trend.
As the community of WordPress designers and developers continues to grow, and as new versions of WordPress are released, there are more opportunities to learn different techniques and tricks that you can apply in your own work. In these 10 tutorials you will find strategies that should prove to be very useful in your own theme development.
Custom taxonomies in WordPress are similar to tags and categories, but they provide almost endless possibilities. In this tutorial Justin Tadlock shows a practical use for custom taxonomies while working on a movie database website. He shows how to set up custom taxonomies for actor, director, genre, producer, studio, and writer. This will make it easier for visitors to navigate the site as they can click on the actors name and see all of his/her movies. Justin also wrote an introductory post to Custom Taxonomies in WordPress 2.8.
You can also find more about custom taxonomies in Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr’s new book, Digging into WordPress, which I highly recommend.
Do you know that WordPress have a built-in RSS reader? Some time ago, I published a recipe to let you know how to use it. Today, I’m glad to show you an updated version of this very popular hack.
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Street Fighter was unleashed 22 years ago by legendary video-game developer CAPCOM, becoming a worldwide phenomenon and the most popular game in its genre. It set trends in the video game industry, producing dozens of unforgettable characters that have entered pop culture.
Over time, characters such as Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, Vega and Bison have become [...]
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In this web design collection, you will find a fantastic and handpicked selection of creative and successful web designs from “good old Germany”.
While most sites don’t need incredibly deep page navigation there are situations that justify a hierarchy beyond the typical 2 – 3 levels. Unfortunately that can be cumbersome for top navigation drop-downs (more than 1 level of drop down is too much IMHO) so another solution needs to be found. I ran into just such [...]
One color that has been trending lately is teal. In this collection, we share 25 websites displaying great use of the color teal.
This article covers the brief history of the different eras of web design, including a handful of examples of each type of design.
By Cameron Chapman
Discovering what your clients really want is one of the most fundamental steps in creating a good working relationship. If you can figure out exactly what your clients want for their website up front, it will save both of you time and frustration later.
Creating a client questionnaire isn’t complicated, though it can be [...]
In this article, I’ll share a 4-step process to approaching web marketing in a positive and effective manner.
One of my favorite posts from around the web last week came from our own Associate Editor Jon Morrow. He recorded a 20-minute video post for Problogger about how he works with speech recognition software to do all of his blogging.
I do an awful lot of writing every week, and I’ve been thinking about trying [...]
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When you have lots of comments on your WordPress blog, it is a good thing to give a special style to admin comments, like I do on CatsWhoBlog.com. But what about being able to give special styles to editors, contributors and subscribers comments?
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In this article, we review the 15 best places to free stock photos online for designers.
I’ll admit it. I have a soft spot for Thanksgiving.
First, because it’s an excuse for me to bake for three days. (If you need a last-minute recipe for the world’s best chocolate cream pie, I’ve got you covered.)
And second, because it reminds me to quit grumbling and start noticing all of the amazing stuff I’ve [...]
While preparing my previous post on new features in WordPress 2.9, I ran across a ticket in Trac for something I’d been wanting to do for a while: specify a subfolder of the uploads directory for specific plugins, like my Blog Icons plugin, to upload their files to. This way, the blog icons plugin would [...]
Smarter handling of WordPress plugin uploads is a post from Joost de Valk's Yoast – Tweaking Websites.A good WordPress blog needs good hosting, you don’t want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Check out my thoughts on WordPress hosting!
By János Rácz
Some may debate that architecture by itself is art, well, one thing is sure, when visual artists set their mind to illustrate something architectural, there’s no doubt that’s going to result in something incredible.
3D graphics opened a whole new way to architectural visualization, because it’s very intuitive. Thanks to the tools of modern [...]
In this collection, you’ll find extremely grungy and high-quality wallpapers that you can use to beautify your desktop. We hope that you will find a handful that you will absolutely love.
When I first started freelancing I was happy to take any project that came my way. At that time without an established network and even without a portfolio site, most of the clients I picked up came through word-of-mouth referrals from friends and family. When I finally got to the point of getting a significant number of leads and inquiries, one of the most difficult things for me was to determine which projects I should take and which ones I should turn down, or at least delay until another time.
Before long I found out the hard way that just blindly taking projects was causing unnecessary stress (I still had a full-time job at that point and not much time for client projects) and more significantly, it was preventing me from doing my best work and taking the time to learn as much as possible through the experience, which should be a priority for any designer who is just getting started.
One of the best ways to learn is by making mistakes, so I did pick up some valuable knowledge that I have been able to use ever since. However, if you are facing situations where you are unsure about accepting a project or unclear about what factors you should consider, I hope that my mistakes can also be a help to you.
Unfortunately, making decisions on which projects to take (and also on pricing) is not always easy. In this post I’ll cover a number of different factors that I feel should be considered. Keep in mind that each situation is different, so not all of the factors will apply, and in some cases the significance of specific factors will vary greatly.
Looking for more design inspiration? See our other galleries: CartFrenzy, Folio Focus, Minimal Exhibit, TypeInspire.
Looking for more design inspiration? See our other galleries: CartFrenzy, Folio Focus, Minimal Exhibit, TypeInspire.
Thanks to Peter Westwoord’s WordPress Beta Tester plugin, this blog is on the 2.9 development track again, after having been off trunk for a couple of months. That plugin makes it really easy to switch any WordPress install to the development branch, either for the next “point” release (eg. 2.8.6), or the next major version, [...]
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