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Ecommerce designs are great sources of design inspiration, because they have to capture both creative styles of design and core UX principles, and mix them together for a successful result.

One of the most useful aspects of WordPress's design is the ability to build your site around a pre-defined theme, making it possible for you to create a cohesive, experience without any specialist web-design knowledge. This design philosophy means you can create a professional blog or site for practically any purpose with just a laptop and a simple strategic plan. Selecting the correct theme for your site should form the cornerstone of your strategy. While content is what will attract people, an appropriate, easily navigable user-interface is what will make them stick around.

Here are 8 vital CSS tools to speed up your designing process and coding.

Whenever I have a free moment I love to scour through the millions of different designs on Dribbble, personally I think this and DeviantART are some of the best sources of inspiration for web designers. If you are looking for inspiration and you haven't tried these sites then you are really missing out.

20 Crucial Photoshop Features All Web Designers Should Know As web designers it can be easy to fall into a rut or a comfort zone in our daily Photoshop work. Today's article highlights 20 features that are crucial to an effective design workflow in Photoshop. Are you using all of them in your work?

Any developers who are fairly knowledgeable in Wordpress must have toyed around building contact forms. These may be created as a new custom function in your themes folder, or possibly installed as a new plugin. The purpose is to give users a chance for sending questions or feedback on your site - which is commonplace by today's standards.

Web designers, who have fad for bringing novelty and peculiarity in their designs, often bring the revolution in the design realm. Design changes with contemporary trends and tastes of the audiences, and implementing them is good to fly over the stubborn competition.

5th Apr 2013 | Posted by Eko S. | No Comments Nowadays spammers use lots of tricks to populate legitimate websites with links to irrelevant or malicious content (spam, adult, phishing or malware). Internet community and national governments take efforts to disclose and eliminate the major botnets (remember closing Grum botnet in 2012), but this fight probably will never end.

If you're into social networks, you probably are on two of the biggest platforms, Facebook and Twitter. Trying to catch up on tweets can be a time-consuming task, but if you can't help but get your daily dose of tweets, why not try getting them in a different way. Rather ...

In web design there are a lot of combinations that deliver a beautiful page, including the image + text duo. Combining beautiful images and nice/readable text can result in a eye candy touch that will get your user's attention. To show you that, today we gathered some inspiring examples of the image - text duo in action.

A software however good has to improve continuously or will be outdated very soon in this time of fast technological change. WordPress is highly popular and a strong community around it also is enhanced continuously to make it more and more useful to its users.

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.

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.

There's a debate over which technique of creating mobile-ready websites is the best. Google advocates creating responsive web designs, while Jakob Nielsen, a renowned usability consultant, endorses the creation of dedicated mobile sites (but he was subsequently slammed by some web designers).

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.

With so many new trends advancing every year it can be difficult keeping up with the industry. Website designers and frontend developers have been deeply ingrained into the newer CSS3 properties, determining the ultimate browser support and quirky hacks. But there are also brilliant CSS2 code snippets which have been ...

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.

Semi Permanent was started in Sydney in 2003 by Australians Andrew Johnstone and Murray Bell and has since become an international annual conference, spanning across 5 counties and 9 cities including London, Los Angeles and Stockholm. Semi Permanent is now synonymous with assembling industry leaders from all creative fields to present their work, inspirations, processes, insights and to simply share their creative journey with fellow peers over two jam-packed days. As always, there was an impressive showcase of amazing work that spanned across Graphic Design, Film, Animation, Motion Graphics, Architecture and Visual Effects. Illustration, Photography and Graffiti. Photographer Max Doyle showcased his diverse talent by entertaining us with a live jam of one of his songs. And of course it wouldn't be a design conference without the guys from Stab Magazine firing t-shirts into the crowd from a canon.

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.

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.