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Articles with pictures accompanying them are proven to get clicked on at a higher rate than text-only articles. Our eyes gravitate to the imagery we spot when we land on a page. This has always been true, dating back centuries. When news was delivered daily inside of newspapers, the papers always featured a prominent and attractive photo on their covers. Today, on the internet, a primarily visual medium, the raw communicative power of imagery has increased exponentially. Picking the right photo, though, can be daunting, difficult, or time-consuming.............................

The trend of blogging is at its peak, these days' people are establishing blogs for personal and professional reasons. Individuals create blog to share information, to communicate with the users and to have an online presence as compare to that professional organization set up blog to interact with their customers and share latest news about the company, so everyone has its own reasons. WordPress is the most powerful blogging tool so far, it offers variety of features to support bloggers. It is an open source CMS developed in PHP and has the largest community online.

MadL toys are one type of vinyl toys where its design can be customized according to the taste of its designer. It has a square shaped head and a semicircular ears on both sides. It can be bought in different sizes depending on how big or small you want it. For this post, we will be featuring 30 Cool MadL Toy Designs for Inspiration. This includes some of the coolest designs made by different talented artists. With the of skill, talent, and playful imagination, they were able to create their own awesome designs they could be proud of. So come, take a peek, and enjoy.

Whoops is a small library, available as a Composer package, that helps you handle errors and exceptions across your PHP projects. Out of the box, you get a sleek, intuitive and informative error page each time something goes pants-up in your application. Even better, under all that is a very straight-forward, but flexible, toolset for dealing with errors in a way that makes sense for whatever it is that you're doing. The library's main features are: Detailed and intuitive page for errors and exceptions Code view for all frames Focus on error/exception analysis through the use of custom, simple middle-ware/handlers Support for JSON and AJAX requests Included providers for Silex and Zend projects through the bundled providers, and included as part of the Laravel 4 core Clean, compact, and tested code-base, with no extra dependencies

WordPress plugins have made our lives so, so much easier. In fact, there are already nearly 25,000 plugins developed. And there are plenty of articles all over the internet featuring the most popular and the most known WordPress plugins that will turn your website into a powerful CMS, blog, forum, etc.

27th Apr 2013 | Posted by Yahya | No Comments Every month we presented you with a showcase of beautiful WordPress websites. Last month we have Green WordPress Websites and today we bring 22 beautiful WordPress websites featuring the color brown. Brown represents simplicity, friendliness and dependability.

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...........

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.

Packaging is always inspirational. It's one of our favorite subjects, perhaps because it's about real materials, something web designers don't get to enjoy so often. Packaging selections didn't used to be a regular feature on our blog, but we've decided to make a monthly selection thanks to the number of visually outstanding projects that are out there. The creativity to be found in this area is admirable, with such unexpected, aesthetically strong and practical solutions constantly being invented to improve the quotidian objects that surround us.

For most web developers, delivering the images to the low-bandwidth mobile devices could not be less than any brain teaser, where they feel like they have been stuck in a complex task, just like searching a needle in the dry haystack! Well, it could screw-up the brain! Even the developers, who are well-acquainted with responsive web design techniques, know that by setting the max-width of the images up to 100%, can't resolve this issue as the server will still render big size image to the user's phone. The mobile optimized web applications are designed to run smoothly for the low bandwidth connection with formatting according to the screen of the device.

High-quality usability has been the center of discussions in the industry in the past ten years, as it becomes more and more important for users. Good usability can also help build brand awareness and can generally improve a user's opinion of a website and even a company. There is so much focus on usability today because big and small companies showed how important a good usability strategy can turn out to be. Good usability has been in the past couple of years at the heart of successful start-ups. Simple ideas are most of the time the most innovative and this is mainly what usability is about: making a feature or a product easy to use, while still keeping the product quality at a high level. Today's article comes a lot down to common sense. It seems that after years and years of discussing this issue, web designers still have a hard time understanding it. Usability is not a joke anymore and the advices below should be printed out and pinned on the wall in front of your desk.

How're you all doing mates? In this post we will be featuring a little bit of Graffiti Art. Technically, Graffiti is defined as any writings or drawings that are usually sprayed, illegitimately, on public places. Although detested for its unapproved activities, graffiti artists find this kind of art as a way to show their artistic expression for their emotion, opinions, and personal messages. It is said that graffiti originated way back the ancient times and with no doubt, is still alive and sprayin' until today. To share to you some cool works, we have gathered 30 Awesome and Creatively Expressive Graffiti Artworks. Have a glimpse on some of the amazing artworks made by different graffiti artists around the world. You might want to have a pair of artistic eyes and open mindedness to appreciate these daring works of art. Come, take a peek, and your mind be sprayed. Enjoy!

In this tutorial, we will show you how to combine Photoshop with Filter Forge to create a glowing 3D text effect. We will begin by showing you how to create basic shapes in Photoshop, we'll then show you how to convert them to 3D, and finally how to add the final touches using Filter Forge and a few of Photoshop's basic features. Let's get started!

WP RSS Aggregator version 3.1 is out now! There are some bug fixes and enhancements. As for new features, these are: Option to set the number of feed items imported from every feed (default 5) Import and Export aggregator settings and feed sources Debugging page allowing manual feed refresh and feed reset I hope you like how the plugin is developing, and as usual feedback is welcome. An official release of the thumbnails and excerpts premium add-on will follow soon.

My sponsor Treehouse has not only an excellent video tutorial service, but also an insightful blog. I wanted to feature a few of the posts I found most useful -- hopefully you get something out of them!

Communicating visually is one of the most effective ways to explain complex concepts and relationships, and can be a great way to explain your services/products and create valuable site content. I often use diagrams and whiteboarding in order to communicate new features and concepts internally with my team.

Personal Mission Statement: To serve others through my gifts of listening/speaking @ http://www.ericpapp.com/new/ Eric Papp has delivered more than 400 hundred professional programs to corporate and private clients. He is the president of Results-Based Seminars LLC. Eric has been featured in the N.Y Times, USA Today, Dallas Morning News, and many other publications. He is the author of "Leadership by Choice" (John Wiley and Sons June 2012) He was voted in the top 1% of Management trainers in 2010. Partial Client List: *Million Dollar Round Table *American Dental Association *Homeland Security *Holzer Health Systems *FL, GA, and LA Realtors *Nationwide he received his B.A. at the University of Notre Dame. In addition to speaking and consulting, Eric has produced over 9 business educational programs available on audio cd, cd rom, and DVD. Mission To develop leaders in organizations through world class keynote speaking, training, and consulting. Vision To be the world's source for leadership solutions. Please visit for more about Management Training Tampa,http://www.ericpapp.com or call this number (800)849-8121