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Adrian Diaconescu, the force behind Rubiqube, has published the first in an eight-part series about designing clean websites that still make a big impact, by using simple layout, beautiful typography and striking photography. The first is Common Sense Tips for Creating Web Design Layouts, and it’s so rich in information and resources that you might [...]
Easy install, easy configuration, works as promised- and if you’ve never used custom fields – this is an easy, non-scary way to find out. From the wonderful people at MightyMo comes the Simple Pull Quote WordPress Plugin (link to MightyMo’s Page – download link here). If you’re using WordPress 2.8.2, you can even install it [...]
Came across SureLogos – which provides remarkably good identity work from $29 to $199. There’s a substantial variety within their portfolio, and a lot of work that I liked a lot. There’s a lot to be said – in the long run – for spending more money and time working through logos and identities. But [...]
We’ll be getting to the clker.com plugin in a moment or two. You need to know that clker.com is an outstanding image resource – wide in its breadth and variety, often deep (many resources on a given subject), and high-quality images. So – with the assistance of one of the AIGA international symbols for “wait,” [...]
Check out TinkerPriest Media for a couple of oustanding WP Themes and a bunch of excellent tutorials. Some posts worth looking at include 10 WordPress Plugins I Couldn’t Run a Site Without Backup, Backup, Backup! The themes I’ve seen and liked include: Magazine Basic Feed Me, Seymour Great Chefs – Great Restaurants Theme Getaway Graphics [...]
Helveticons (“Royalty-free vector icons, glyphs and symbols based on the Helvetica Bold typeface”)is an icon set from Goodbye Horses - a free subset of the entire icon set is available for download here. The free subset are those based on folder icons, like this one: We’ll see if we can show you more samples from [...]
Rubiqube – an essential site by Adrian Diaconescu for WordPress aficionados – has released the Visual theme which is exceptionally reasonable at $25 USD. Here are three screen shots: More screenshots and details after the jump. Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access all those saved [...]
Vladimir Prelovac – among other accomplishments, is the author of the Insights plugin for WordPress (download link) which creates an extra search box within the editing window. So – if we’re posting a list of something/anything – let’s say plugins – sort of abstract, but we want to signal that this post is in the [...]
Keith D’Souza at Techie-Buzz has compiled an Ultimate List of Firefox 3.5 Tips and Tricks Keith and his colleagues have compiled enough lists on Techie-Buzz that a while back they created Damn[ed] Good Lists. Here are two that look particularly helpful for Windows 7 users (I’m hanging on to XP while procrastinating about switching to [...]
Hackadelic shows you how to customize your CSS to create custom text boxes in DIY InfoBoxes – Simple And Consistent. (Since we’re still in setup mode here – the css hasn’t been changed in all of the WordPress themes we’re testing on the site – so if you don’t see them – just read Hackadelic’s [...]