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Work on WordPress 3.6 commenced in January this year, and with Beta 3 being announced on 11th May 2013, we can expect a Release Candidate and hopefully the final stable release in June. This release is an exciting development for a number of reasons.

AtContent plugin helps content owners to reach new audiences, provides backlinks for their posts and gains content control across the Internet. With this plugin, professionals are able to prevent plagiarism, monetize reposts and sell their work: articles, books, magazines, files.

The thing about design patterns is that there is a wide variety of them and it would be near impossible to do justice to each of the patterns in a series here on the blog. Nonetheless, hopefully taking a look at these three have helped kickstart your interest in using design patterns in your work.

Playground is a Prague-based production studio that often mixes 3D renders, photography, and concept art to create really amazing composite images. In this article, we will show a few of our favorite works from their portfolio, as well as a few progress images for some of the pieces.

I do a lot of things, but I'm guessing you want to know more about my professional life. I mostly keep myself busy designing interactive and digital stuff, and I've been doing that for about 6 years. I also like to look over other people's shoulders and tell them they need to align something or make something or other red. Aside from that I like to do explorations with abstract geometry, patterns and typography. Some call it art, or at least want to put it on their walls or albums covers. It' s a lot of fun, and it gives some variety to my usual work of designing menus and layouts.

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.

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.

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.

Today we are going to look over the shoulders of quite a few professional designers. Using their original PSDs with open layers, we will be able to exactly reconstruct, what has been done and how. If you are like me, this way of learning by doing proves more effective than working through step-by-step tutorials. The following files come with lots of layers to be examined, as we are going to dissect a camera, a sports shoe, a cell phone and lots more. Have fun looking through the eyes of the most able Photoshop professionals. Before I forget: watch out for some layer-related Photoshop tips, I may have left for you throughout the collection…

We're going to cover some incredibly practical, basic tips that you can apply in order to create your own cost-effective photo manipulations from scratch. Not everyone has access to professional photography studios, and today you'll learn how you can product high-end looking results on a very limited budget. This includes everything from correctly setting up a photo shoot, to moving into Photoshop and covering post-production essentials. You'll work with lighting, detail removal, color correction and photo manipulation.

Good landing pages are indispensable from a marketing point of view. They are the entry points for valuable visitors, and every business wants pages that can funnel users in the right direction. A lot is riding on landing pages - they have to be perfect. As a graphic designer working on a corporate landing page, I felt a trifle stifled at first. We had to do a conversion-centered design and there were a dozen components that had to be there: USP headline and sub header, a section detailing the benefits, a picture representing our services, a prominent call-to-action, social and other contact points, etc. Designing a successful and attractive page was not difficult. After all, the structure of the page was driven by the different elements that had to be accommodated. The wireframe I created for the page looked too much like an infographic - it served its purpose, but there wasn't anything special or creative about it. In order to find inspiration for creating innovative and graphical landing pages, I trawled hundreds of pages on the web. Here are fifteen of the most innovative landing pages on the Internet.

Although, it is widely believed that every project calls for unique solution, there are long established and time-tested approaches that can effectively arrange content on your website and work perfectly well for vast number of cases. For example, grid-based layouts are fairly common and are involved in almost every second project.

Blogging, or more specifically writing, is a daily routine for us, here in hongkiat.com. In the process, we've accumulated a lot of resources that would be real helpful in jumpstarting one's blogging career. If you want to start writing your own blog, you can always check out the tons of materials we have on blogging, plus this amazing list of cheatsheets, infographics & resources you don't want to miss. The cheatsheets here help you write and promote your content, understand how to work better with free blogging services such as WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr, and we also have cheatsheets on basic HTML, CSS and Markdown to help you create beautiful blog themes. Now, let's get started!

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