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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.

Responsive Web design has been around for some years now, and it was a hot topic in 2012. Many well-known people such as Brad Frost and Luke Wroblewski have a lot of experience with it and have helped us make huge improvements in the field. But there's still a whole lot to do.

Responsive Web design has been around for some years now, and it was a hot topic in 2012. Many well-known people such as Brad Frost and Luke Wroblewski have a lot of experience with it and have helped us make huge improvements in the field. But there's still a whole lot to do.

Organic website design is a style of design that uses natural textures such as wood and paper, as well as scenic or floral imagery. There are many, many sites that could be considered organic in their design, and in this collection we have selected 30 of the best we could find that are beautifully presented and use organic elements to their very best effect.

We are gradually getting used to the fact that professional designers don't have limits; they just simply push boundaries of general conceptions and recreate whatever comes to their minds. One of the best examples confirming this notion is website design with depth perception. Despite the fact that initially it is a two-dimensional medium, nowadays, designers [...]

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.

If you are in search of wallpapers brimming with splashes of colors to liven up your desktop background screen then this post will offer you something that attracts your eyes. Today, we have collected some wallpapers consisting of different visible colors from red to violet which can really cheer you up and make you feel good - the spectrum wallpapers.

Just in time for Google's annual I/O developers conference, the web giant launched a pretty dramatic redesign to its Google+ social networking arm and Google Maps. And Google is on-trend. The design scheme, while not completely flat, is almost flat and could evoke a whole new design trend of its own.

Final Product What You'll Be Creating The new version of Photoshop is finally here! Adobe Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) was finally announced at the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles. In the keynote address, Adobe announced several new features including Camera Shake Reduction, Camera RAW improvements, Image Upsampling, Properties Panel Improvements, Behance Integration, Sync Settings, and many more useful features.

Final Product What You'll Be Creating In this tutorial, we will explain how to create a magma hot text effect using layer styles and textures in Photoshop. Let's get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.

Tutorial Details Estimated Completion Time: 9 Minutes Difficulty: Beginner Apps Used: Adobe Photoshop CS6 Final Product What You'll Be Creating This entry is part 28 of 35 in the Shortcuts on Psdtuts Session " Previous Next " If you have been working with Photoshop for a while, chances are you've developed some custom settings that you prefer to work with.

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 ...

Things are going downhill fast for RSS. First Google shut down Feedburner's API in 2012, then they announced the closure of Google Reader earlier this year (2013). The future isn't looking too bright for the Feedburner service as a whole and chances are it will also be completely shut down sometime in the near future.

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.

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 want to share a fantastic little tool that I've only recently come across; Live.js, written by Martin Kool. This JavaScript file automatically checks for changes to your CSS and JavaScript files, and refreshes them. That means you can have your text editor in one half of the screen, and a web browser in the other. When you save changes in the editor, the updates are reflected immediately in your browser. It really helps to speed up your development time. A lot of text editors offer HTML previews and such, but they only work for plain .html pages. The great thing about Live.js is that it works on any webpage, including a working WordPress theme...............(.read more.)

Work on WordPress 3.6 commenced in January this year, and with Beta 3 being announced on 11th May 2013, we can expect a Release Candidate and hopefully the final stable release in June. This release is an exciting development for a number of reasons.

Transitions (basic animations) are one of the most popular additions in CSS3, and one of the easiest to implement for big gains on your site. A transition is simply an animation from one set of CSS properties to another. So for example; whilst before you may have had links with blue text, which suddenly turned orange when you hovered on them, you would now replace that sudden jump with a more graceful animation.

With WordPress powered website, it is possible you can instantly transform your site into a powerful learning management system with different WordPress Plugins and Themes. With a click of a button you can create and sell courses, set-up quizzes, automatically award certificates, and download robust user activity reports. In the following list you will find WordPress Plugins and Themes to run your own LMS on your own.

Have you ever wondered what it takes to power your favorite websites? In this inforgraphic we take a look at some datacenter history, today's largest datacenteres, and some of today's greenest datacenters. A datacenter is a facility that is designed and built specifically to house computers, storage arrays, and telecommunications (networking) systems. Some datacenters have incredible security measures to protect what is inside, and the largest datacenters are known to use more electricity than entire towns. Exact locations of datacenters are generally kept secret for security, but here are some interesting facts about them.

WordPress themes have become popular across the world, as it is best suited for building websites with attractive themes and templates. To make WordPress even more lucrative and user friendly, Bootstrap framework is utilized which helps in developing innovative and creative applications and websites. With different bootstrap frameworks, it has become easy to create a website, which is responsive and comprehensive in every manner. Amidst different bootstrap frameworks, twitter bootstrap framework has become quite popular.