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So You Call Yourself A Designer?
- March 10 -
Computer – check. Photoshop – check. Lots of free time – check. It seems that this is all that is necessary to call yourself a ‘designer’ these days. I believe that there is far more to a designer than software, computers and free time. Designers should have critical thinking skills, understanding of design principals, knowledge of grid systems, typography and much more.
3 notes linkNewscast - Premium Wordpress Magazine - $37
- March 8 -
Newscast is a Wordpress Theme, best suited for Magazines and Blogs. It comes with 3 fantastic Image and News slideshows has multiple Page templates and of course gives you the option to choose from 4 Fantastic skins
Key features of the template:
- Valid XHTM Strict1.0, tableless Design
- Multile Page Templates
- Automatical Image resizing for Thumbnails
- Contact Form and News Submission Form
- PSD files included
- Extensive Documentation Included
- jQuery Support:
- 3 different Portfolio/Item slider, supporting unlimited items
- Dropdwon Menu, improved with jQuery
- jQuery 100% unobtrusive wich degrades gracefully if javascript is turned off
- Sleek Image preloader
- Working ajax/php contact form
- Working ajax/php news submission form
- Backend Options for:
- both Menus, the Slideshow, Sidebar, Footer, Mainpage, Contact Page, News Submission Form etc
- Sidebar: set the sidebar to either use 2 small or 1 big sidebar
- Sidebar Widgets: You can set unqiue widget areas for each page or category
20 Beautiful Fonts for Big and Effective Headlines
Headlines are important typography design element. It help users to find out what is most important in content. Headlines must be big, attractive and effective to attract users for more reading and browsing.
In this article you will find 20 beautiful fonts for creating big and effective headlines in your designs.
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Rostar - Free and High Quality WordPress Theme
WordPress Theme with four color schemes, two columns, two widget areas and cool of functions. Automatic post thumbnails, Featured posts, Twitter setup, Google Analytics code input, Dark colors – Light colors and more.
link45 Incredible Retro Robot Inventions Built with Everyday Trash
Creator and inventor Paul Loughridge (pronounced ‘Lok-rij’) from Lockwasher Design, describes his robots as being created from everyday trash, but they are so, so much more.
Built from raw materials, his creations are amazingly choc-full of character, and when brought to life have a retro feel that will have fans of B-Movies from yesteryear and of pulp science-fiction TV shows salivating…
9 Handy FireFox Add-ons For Every Day Use
… I have added my browser options (yes, I’m an addicted Firefox lover) as a project manager and just a human. All the add-ons listed help me in my daily work and I don’t know how much time I would spend if I had to search from all the information they give to me manually…
link75+ Stunning Tiltshift Photography Collection
- March 6 -
“Tilt-shift photography” refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium-format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt for selective focus, often for simulating a miniature scene.
1 note linkMovement - Fresh and Elegant WordPress Theme
Movement WP theme was designed to suits best for the corporate site with integrated blog, gallery section, services section and contact page.
This theme comes with a lot of javascript modules and with 6 predefined styles. Make sure to check screenshots or try clicking on the theme switcher at the demo page.
Theme features:
- HUGE Custom Options panel for easy theme customization (take a look at the screenshots)
- Unique javascript slider
- Auto thumbnail generation
- Twitter integration
- Social profiles integration
- Custom plugins (widgets)
- Widget ready – precise tuning
- prettyPhoto integrated
- Blog section with threaded comments and javascript input validation
- Gallery module to show your images and youtube videos
- Ability to turn off movement
- Valid HTML code
- 6 in 1 package
70+ Fresh and Inspirational Single Page Website Designs
In this presentation, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational designs which is following the same trend of single page designs.
30 Powerful Wordpress Plugins For Blog Administrators
- March 5 -
There are tons of plugins designed to do the job I’ve just mentioned and is pretty difficult to find the plugins you really need. That’s why, in today’s post I’ve selected some of the most powerful administration plugins I know…
Print Magazines for Web Designers, Digital Artists, and Photographers
To that end, to help you fulfill part of your offline research needs, I’ve compiled a list of print magazines that are of interest to professionals in three different categories: Web Designers, Digital Artists, and Photographers…
100+ Resources for WordPress Theme Developers
- March 4 -
In this post we’ll feature a wide selection of resources that are extremely useful for theme designers and developers. If you work on custom themes for clients, themes for your own use, distribute free themes or sell premium themes, these resources may prove to be highly useful for you.
