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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.

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!

Over the past 10 years there have been hundreds and possibly thousands of new web design blogs launching online. A small handful of these blogs are still online today, and an even smaller number are still publishing great content.

6th May 2013 | Posted by Eko S. | No Comments You're excited- you've just had a great idea for a new blog, and you can't wait to get started. With all the specialized software, online tools, and design-based mobile apps available today, you'd think that pulling together a design project would be simple, right?

WordPress is a good CMS option for anyone who wants to maintain a personal website or blog. It's free, easy to setup with most hosting accounts, offers all the functionality needed for a personal website, and there are plenty of quality themes available.

The days when blogging was just a hobby of teenagers are gone; now, even entrepreneurs want to have their own blogs, but do you know how to talk to clients? What does this mean to freelance web designers? It means that there are a lot of people out there who are willing to spend money on a custom design for their blogs. How can you impress these potential clients and get lucrative jobs? Talk to your potential clients about what is important to THEM!

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!

The quality of users' experience with your website is the deciding factor of its success. If visitors are able to use your site quickly and without problems, they are likely to return. On the other hand, if your site is confusing and frustrating to use, they'll be happy to find a better one.

Photoshop isn't only the popular choice for photo editing, it's also a good choice for designing a website. We have previously shown you how to design a blog layout with Photoshop. With a range of effects and features, Photoshop allowed us to compose a visually rich presentation using drop shadows, ...

I've been using Sketch properly for about a month now and I have to say that I'm really impressed as are a lot of others now using it in the design community. I first found out about it after reading a blog post by Meng To on How To Design Pixel Perfect Assets in which Meng refers to Sketch a few times and explains that it's great while designing for mobile as you can export in 2x even after designing in standard dimensions. Sketch has had a lot of attention lately so here's a few blog posts and freebies that you may have missed: Simple Vector iPhone Sketch Freebie Browser Wireframe iPhone iOS 6 Template for Sketch

The pseudo-classes are used to target elements without having to add extra classes, attributes or ID; that is why it is called in that way, pseudo-class. Throughout our previous posts, we have covered a few new CSS3 pseudo-classes, including :not, :before and :after, :first-of-type and we also use pseudo-classes in ...

With the vast number of information we can get from the internet, it is sometimes hard to stay original especially that it seems that everything you need are already there.

WordPress shortcodes are super handy, especially when handing off a WordPress-based website to a client. The alternative to using shortcodes is creating complicated templates, and even then, you cannot adequately replace what shortcodes can do. I recently needed to implement a new shortcode for the Mozilla Hacks blog and was happy to learn how simple the WordPress API makes creating new shortcodes!

More and more people are using mobile devices to process digital documents since they always seem to have their smartphone and tablet on them all the time. However, having many different file formats means requiring a lot of different apps to open these documents. If we can bank on just ...

Kelvon Yeezy Kelvon is a social psychology enthusiast and the mind behind blogthisout.com. When he isn't writing or reading books, you can find him hanging out on Twitter. Check out his portfolio here.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...