OCZ Vertex 120gb SSD
Yes that is one of the nicknames I have gotten in the past year when working with my partners on WooThemes… part because I designed a theme called Flash News, but also because I don’t hang around to answer e-mails, support and comment on stuff on BaseCamp.
Now I’ve added to my name and bought a piece of kit for my PC that is just sooooo fast; A 120gb OCZ SSD (Solid State Drive), which I’ve installed the latest beta of Windows 7. It is expensive co... Read Full Story
Part of being a web designer (or any other type of service provider for that matter) is dealing with the reality that deadlines are going to be a part of your job. Deadlines often have a negative stigma, but they actually freelancers and independent designers to keep themselves on track and to promote efficiency and productivity, which will lead to a profitable business.
Last week I wrote about some various steps to achieving a productive workday, and in many cases your days will invol... Read Full Story
It was very interesting step taken by Yahoo! Inc. to give one of its acquired service i.e. Blo.gs (one of the coolest domain one can think of) to Automattic Inc. Blo.gs is a blog ping update service and here’s how they’ve explained themselves -
This is a directory of recently updated weblogs and tools for tracking interesting weblogs, in the spirit of services like weblogs.com and blogtracker and blogrolling.com.
Ma.tt announced this on his blog and interestingly wrote that Y... Read Full Story
Knowing the roles and capabilities of the WordPress users is a must if you plan on allowing users to register, or password protect your WordPress site. Make sure you don't give the wrong people access to your vital WordPress dashboard settings.
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With the growing popularity of Twitter, the diversity of applications increases around the popular micro blogging service. wpTweety expands the range of available applications and sees itself as Twitterwall - as virtual bulletin board - for the latest Tweets about WordPress.
wpTweety collects messages about WordPress within Twitter and put them on a website, bundled and free from delay.
Twitterwall for activity around WordPress
wpTweety is simple. Also, the underlying principle and the tech... Read Full Story
A WordPress plugin that interacts with an instance of the Solr search engine. This plugin allows you to index pages and posts, perform advanced queries and enable faceting on fields such as tags, categories, and author. Adds special template tags so you can create your own custom result pages to match your theme. Configuration options allow you to select pages to ignore, features to enable/disable, and what type of result information you want output. Read Full Story
Wordsteel is a dark and stylish Wordpress theme with a look based on a metalic look.
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In this Photoshop web design tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a full web page layout that combines the sleek and textured look-and-feel using a combination of beginning to intermediate Adobe Photoshop techniques.
Final Result
Here’s what you’ll be working to create. You can view the large version here.
Download
You can download the source files of this tutorial (PSD and stock photos).
photoshop_sleek_textured.zip (ZIP file, 9.3 MB)
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Commenting on other people’s blogs is a great way to have interesting discussions, learn from others - and publicize yourself and your own site.
The content of your comments is crucial to achieving all of these, but there’s one aspect that is often over-looked: having a good profile on blog commenting systems. Suppose, for example, that you comment on a site that requires yo... Read Full Story
