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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.

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.

Whoah, been a while since I've posted something! Yet, I wanted to mess around with some fun CSS3 stuff and wanted to share the results with you. Today, we're going to create CSS animated profile cards. Although there are four different kind or animations ( Push, Slide, 3D Flip and Explode), they all share the same kind of HTML structure.

The WordPress Loop is a core feature of WordPress that is designed to display content dynamically on a page. It is the liaison between WordPress and it's MySQL Database counterpart and determines what database queries are ran.

Last week I was working on a new project and needed some buttons that I would prefer to create using CSS3. I decided to look around and see what was available and ready to be used on a project and at same time I decided to create a post listing the ones I liked the most so you can also benefit from this quest.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

When you work on your freelance jobs each day, you would go to your work station and see the usual place which you consider your own spot. But is your working environment healthy and positive? Does it affect your work performance? Well, we only hear of working environment if we speak of office work where co-workers exist and the bosses are there. You could picture a scene where everyone are in business suit and are working on their own cubicles or tables. In a big office, work environment would include good relationship with co-workers and a happy environment no matter how busy each one is. It also includes respect to each member of the company.

Whenever I have to develop a specific and focused library like this, I like to start with the outcome of, how do I want this to work? So, we can begin by writing down some of the features that we'd like it to have: The ability to load different pages according to the URI Reading parameters from the URI (placeholders) Keeping the pages dynamic as per the Meteor standard That looks pretty good. Now after looking over these features, you may think they are pretty similar to a 'router' type of library and I agree. So, let's take a look at how our 'router' library would work in action:

Over the last three years, responsive web design has been gaining popularity and is now considered to be one of the best ways to design websites that look great on any device: from smartphones to smart TVs. In this hand-picked collection, you'll find dozens of beautiful responsive sites in every category, and I hope you'll find them as inspiring as our team does. The screenshots on the left were taken on a tablet and the ones on the right were taken on a smartphone.

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).

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.

There are 20 important parts one needs to take into account when designing a custom WordPress theme. This guide will introduce you to different areas of theme development. Let's get started.