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We're starting a new series of blog posts featuring " Case Studies " of unique projects that experiment with the boundaries of the Web and create trends. Most of them have been Site of the Day on Awwwards.

Another month lies behind us and here is April's edition of free WordPress themes for self-hosted websites! April did not see many new free themes being released -- there were several older ones that were updated, though.

Another month lies behind us and here is April's edition of free WordPress themes for self-hosted websites! April did not see many new free themes being released -- there were several older ones that were updated, though.

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.

Want to remove the background from an image and just focus on the subject? That's easy, just Photoshop it. Don't know Photoshop? Well, that's a problem now, isn't it? Not with Clipping Magic, it's not. In fact, by the end of this post, some of us who know Photoshop may even opt to use Clipping Magic instead.

In this tutorial we will take a close look at the technique of creating blend objects that will help us to create smooth color transitions. We'll also talk about the problems you may encounter and about the technique that will allow you to avoid unpleasant artifacts. Using the Blend Tool (W), we can obtain smooth transitions between colors, obtaining the shadows, glares, or simply color spots. Artworks below are examples in which blend objects were mostly used. Source: http://designmodo.com/color-transition-blend-tool/#ixzz2VR9hJtOF

When I started writing this, the idea of a skyscraper construction project came to mind. I thought of a huge skyscraper with restaurants, retail stores, offices, gyms, and residential spaces - a large self-contained, compact community all by itself.

PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework, consisting of a command-line shell, an integrated scripting environment (ISE), a scripting language built on .NET Framework, an API allowing you to host PowerShell in your .NET applications, and it is a distributed automation platform. PowerShell provides full access to COM and WMI, enabling you to perform tasks on both local and remote Windows systems. PowerShell is a new breed platform for automation, in that it solves administration and adaptability challenges by seamlessly integrating the .NET Framework. It's good for developers, administrators, testers and more. Based on .NET, the tool drives down costs, while providing developers and administrators a simple and enterprise-ready way to automate, measure and improve all of their processes.

Make Colloidal Silver for pennies per gallon. Premium Quality! With wearable gadgets like Google Glass and Memoto, taking firsthand videos or snapshots of what you are doing is real easy these days. But today we are going to show you a mind-boggling new way of taking videos, 360 degrees wide. Check out this video (if you want to skip to the gist, go to 0:35).

The World Wide Web gives anyone the chance to reach a truly global audience. But there's a lot more to successfully doing so than simply setting up a single English language site and hoping for the best. English is still the most commonly used language on the internet. An analysis of the technologies used in website construction suggests that over half of all sites on the web today are in English. If we take a look at the languages used by surfers however, English still comes out on top but only marginally. Around 27% of internet users speak English compared to 25% who speak Chinese, while Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish are all experiencing rapid growth. This is due largely to increasing internet penetration rates in developing countries (with Latin America accounting for the large rise in Spanish and Portuguese).

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...............

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.

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.

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.

Photoshop is a powerful tool for creating all sorts of imagery but it does have its limitations. While Photoshop does have some fantastic tools for creating 3D text, there are other applications that are often better suited for the job. That is why many illustrators use a combination of Photoshop and some other 3D application to help create 3D text. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Cinema 4D to create wooden 3D text and then how to use Photoshop to add the final touches. Let's get started!

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…

CSS is a really simple and straightforward language, but when it is getting too long - let's say for a thousand of lines, it turns into a maintenance 'nightmare'. Everything will be too complicated to maintain, and we will get lost with which style rules to keep up with or overwrite. For that reason, a CSS Pre-processor is created to make writing CSS programmable and more maintainable............

So you're a pretty great web developer already. You've got some killer CSS chops (cross browser even), perhaps you've been a Photoshop expert for years, and you've got enough jQuery knowledge to make almost any chained animation go smoothly. But certainly you ask yourself, what's next? In fact, one of the most asked questions about web development is, "how do I stay on the leading edge?" Chris Coyier recently presented a fantastic talk on the subject, and there are sites fully dedicated to staying up to date on the latest web design news. Addy Osmani's roundup on becoming a better front-end engineer sets some great content out on the board for you to consider on the subject; needless to say, a lot of smart people are thinking about this very subject, so you're headed in the right direction.

Back in the days, trains were the primary land transportations that first transported goods, then after a few years the passenger trains. For these vehicles to reach one destination to another, it required railroads to guide the train to its proper track. Today, only a few railroads are being actively used by trains. Nevertheless, they can still be appreciated as wallpapers for our everyday screens. For our next article, we share to you 30 Astonishing Free Railroad Wallpapers for Your Desktop. In this collection, we have included some of the loveliest railroad wallpapers which you can download for free. Enjoy as you scroll down through our list. Come, Take a peek, and choose your pick.

Landing page is considered to be the most viewed page of any website. It usually serves as an intro section that consists of brief information about your business, including such essential stuff as logo, menu, welcoming photo-based or illustration-driven mascotes and, last but not least, tagline. The latter is mainly associated with opening headline which duty is to: Clarify what your agency does; emphasize difference between you and your competitors; encourage users to explore your website further; give a glimpse of your brand; promote your potential; show benefits; build emotions; establish proper atmosphere; add creativity. It's also imperative to take into account psychological side of the issue while choosing emotional background of your headline, since funny and serious statements can reflect on users differently.

Unless you are really HTML-savvy, writing articles directly using HTML is not ideal. First, you have to wrap the content properly with the tags in order to format it, and secondly you will have to go back and forth from your code editor to the browser to see how it looks. If you are a frequent web writer, I think it's better for you to write using Markdown. Markdown allows you to write content in plain text that later can be translated into a valid HTML format, and with the help of a tool, you can instantly see the output.