HTML-Ipsum – preformatted dummy copy
HTML Ipsum Presents – is a website, as described by Smashing Magazine, “A useful little website created by Chris Coyier. It provides you with the standard Latin text already in HTML tags. Clicking on any of the blocks automatically copies the text to your clipboard!” Here’s one sample copied and pasted, in one click, from [...]
Smashing Magazine: WP Developer’s Toolbox
Dozens of links for those wanting to customize code – or build a theme from scratch: WordPress Developer’s Toolbox. Smashing Magazine. Most of this work is – admittedly – more sophisticated than my skill set – but the outcomes are all beautiful (or otherwise desirable), and, based on my experience with Smashing Magazine, likely to [...]
Blog Design Studio
Blog Design Studio has great explanations (e.g. What is this NoFollow thing all about! – you won’t find a more concise explanation anywhere); free WP themes, some outstanding WP tutorials (particularly about security issues specific to WordPress, an often-ignored subject), and, not least, an impressive portfolio of their own work. One of those was the [...]
WeFunction.com – grossly understated domain name
Found WeFunction via Noupe, another power-tool WordPress and web design site. Maybe not ideally suited for the first day after your first WordPress install, or the code-phobic. Unless what you need is inspiration, which WeFunction can provide in abundance. This is just some of what’s on their front page at the moment: 178 Free Icons: [...]
Design inspiration: 6 Outstanding Logo Sites | Randa Clay Design
Back in 2007 – in dog-years, that’s 14 years ago, in ‘Net years, probably the square of 14, Randa Clay wrote this piece Design inspiration: 6 Outstanding Logo Sites | Randa Clay Design. Suffice it to say that I only knew one of the six – and they all rock. Go see for yourself – [...]
10 Uncommonly Gorgeous Thesis Themes | Pixelita Design Blog
Pixelita Designs has a gallery of 10 Uncommonly Gorgeous Thesis Themes. We’re big fans of the Thesis Theme – (which is in evidence at my primary site, Popular Logistics) and of Pixelita Design as well, a Texas-based design firm that’s done some brilliant work. They’re sufficiently prolific that, in addition to their primary site, they’ve [...]
How to Add Tabs to Your Sidebar – and more from Rubiqube
Adrian at Rubiqube: the excellent WordPress Tutorial: Adding Tabs to Your Blog Sidebar Also don’t miss his Visual WordPress Theme, which I find quite attractive: Visual: The WordPress Theme for Passionate Bloggers. A screenshot, and more after the jump:
25 sources for logo/identity inspiration
If not inspiration, awe. 25 Sources For Logo Design Inspiration. By Dainis Graveris on 1st Web Designer.
ThinkDesign: Typography – 20+ Quality Free Sans Serif Fonts
Typography – 20+ Quality Free Sans Serif Fonts – which is one of a number of useful (and free resources available on ThinkDesign. I particularly liked Quicksand: Also not to be missed: 48 Word Press Resources Lorem Ipsum Test Post Pack One of their own free themes, Versatility Lite: ThinkDesign – Blog of Think Four.
Design Disease: there may be no cure
Design Disease, first of all, are the authors of several deservedly popular free WordPress themes. But they also do very good custom work, some of which can beseen in their portfolio.One of their recent site designs is for HostGator, an excellent hosting company which has recently announced that it has bought renewable energy credits equivalent [...]
The Mighty Mo Design Company
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