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There is so much to learn about WordPress theme development. The Internet is home to hundreds of articles about building WordPress themes, to countless theme frameworks that will help you get started, and to endless WordPress themes, some of which are beautiful and professional but not a few of which are (to be honest) a bit crappy.

Adaptive design has evolved from being a strong trend to become a reality of the web today. In a world that has been conquered by mobile devices over the past two decades, no one now understands a website that cannot be viewed on different screen resolutions, or at the very least the minimum provided on smartphones and tablets.

In this video post I will guide you through the whole process of how to create a responsive WordPress site without you touching a single code. Well, at least for the first part. The first video focuses on how to setup a responsive WordPress site using Bluehost as your host, and along with it is a special discount for 1WD readers.

PSD Mockup Designs Boost Your Productivity For most designers, the effort of creating great work comes in the form of working in 2D for hours or days within Photoshop. Brand designs for beverage cans, books, cereal, brochures and even software are painstakingly crafted with excruciating detail.

Scala is one of the most attractive programming languages out right now. There is a lot of hype around it and programmers world-wide are publicly recognizing it as the possible next big thing in programming. Here's why. Scala is all about functional programming in an object oriented context. It tries to take the best of both worlds and combine them into a highly efficient, intelligent, and relatively easy to understand language. Right now it is the leader in today's renaissance of functional programming languages.

You should know by now that we love every shiny product that Apple brings into the market especially the iPhone. Although iOS6 had some let downs, the aluminum body of the iPhone 5 is undoubtedly still one of the best looking smartphones you can buy, with plenty of stylish accessories to keep it looking good...........

We are back with another freebie, the team of Freepik, our friends from sunny Spain, put together exclusively for you, Noupe's readership. Today we have 200 symbols compiled together in a "Flat Icon Set" for you to download. All these little pictograms stick to the principles of flat design, a major trend in design right now. You can use them freely for any type of project, but you can only get them here…

Using LESS to Create Twenty Twelve Child Theme We are going to be creating a child theme for the default Twenty Twelve theme. For those of you who are unfamiliar with creating child themes, the only thing we need to create a child theme is a style.css file. For more info, visit the WordPress Codex...............

You often find interesting pieces of information, from videos, images and articles online that you want to save. There are a number of ways to do this: you can use a bookmarking feature that comes with most today's browsers, or else using social bookmarking sites, like Digg...........

Adaptive images are the current hot topic in conversations about adaptive and responsive Web design. Why? Because no one likes any of the solutions thus far. New elements and attributes are being discussed as a solution for what is, for most of us, a big headache: to provide every user with one image optimized for their display size and resolution, without wasting time, memory or bandwidth with a client-side solution..............

Today's front-end developers don't just need to understand how to write CSS, we need to know how to write it efficiently. And what "efficiently" means can depend on your project and environment. Perhaps you have a team with several members working in the CSS and you need an efficient way to work together. Or maybe you have a huge enterprise site and you need your CSS optimized for speed. You could even be working with a legacy system that restricts access to HTML, which means you need efficient selectors to effectively style elements without ids or classes. You might even face all these situations and more.

One page layout designs have been a popular trend lately especially with freelancers. Many freelancers have decided to opt for single page website design because it is straightforward and easy to maintain. Freelancers can showcase their works in an instant without unnecessary confusion with key information displayed. Today, freelancers get to choose from 20 beautifully designed HTML5 responsive one page website templates built with a parallax effect over at Mighty Deals to effectively showcase their portfolio.

There are 20 important parts one needs to take into account when designing a custom WordPress theme. This guide will introduce you to different areas of theme development. Let's get started.

Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing program that can be used to create works of all kinds - books, newspapers, magazines, flyers, brochures, posters and more. Used with another Adobe product, Digital Publishing Suite, it can also be utilized for publishing content adopted for tablet devices. In certain respects, however, it is not the best of its kind: Each of the ten applications described below is superior to it in one way or another.

Email marketing and newsletters are a critical part of the marketing plan of many businesses large and small. If you're not already using email marketing for your own business or offering services for your clients, this is certainly an area to explore. One of the aspects of email marketing is the design of the email itself. While text-based emails can be effective in certain industries, most businesses prefer to have a newsletter or email template that will present the message in an attractive way. While most email list managers will offer some free templates and/or a WYSIWYG editor for designing your own email, there may be times when these options don't meet your needs. In these situations your options will be to design and code a custom template on your own, outsource the work, or purchase a template that does meet your needs. Custom designs are often preferred, and for good reason, but they don't always fit within the budget.

Flat Social Media Icons is a collection of beautiful icons developed in the flat style. As you already know, we have issued several UI kits in the flat design style, namely Square UI (paid and free versions) and Flat UI (paid and free versions), and we've decided to create free social flat icons, so that the entire design fits the style. In the pack, you will find 35 icons (PNG and PSD formats). Use them in your projects, commercial and non-commercial use if free. Icons included in the pack: Blogger, Delicious, Designbumb, Designfloat, Designmoo, Deviantart, Digg, Dribbble, Drupal, Facebook, Forrst, Foursquare, Friendfeed, Gmail, Google, Google+, HTML5, ICQ, LastFm, LinkedIn, PayPal, Picasa, Pinterest, Reddit, RSS (Feed), Skype, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo, WordPress, Yahoo and YouTube. Source: http://designmodo.com/flat-social-icons/#ixzz2VFUkPHSw

When it comes to the style of a website's design there are all kinds of options. Part of having an effect website involves having a design that helps to prioritize the right content and elements on the website, which results in users/visitors pay more attention to those important elements. One of the best ways to control the parts of the website that will get the most attention from visitors is to remove things that are unnecessary and might cause a distraction. In recent years the minimalist design approach has drawn a lot of attention, especially from designers who appreciate the beauty of simplicity. However, designing a website to avoid clutter and distractions doesn't mean that it has to be completely minimal with very few images and visual elements.

A human face can be a nice inspiration for logo design since it is thought to be among the most noticeable and viewed features that any of us stumble upon in our everyday life. We interact with lots of persons every single day. We come across some of their emotional behavior such as annoyance, joy as well as sadness. All of these emotional expressions can certainly be employed as an image in designing a logo. If you want to develop a brand that illustrate reliability and emotional aspect of business then face logo designs are definitely the ideal choice.

It's that reason why we go about our work so deliberately; we choose colors, fonts, the type of web layout we're going to use, and even the way we write CSS, all in a very purposeful manner. As we craft our designs, we also realize that the result will say something about us, the designer. And these things that our designs are saying are not always good.

A perfect code editor is the only thing a developer needs for joy. When it comes to code editors, developers mainly care about usability and functionality of the tool they're working with, but the era of plain, old, ugly code editors is gone.

A perfect code editor is the only thing a developer needs for joy. When it comes to code editors, developers mainly care about usability and functionality of the tool they're working with, but the era of plain, old, ugly code editors is gone.