Designers & Programmers

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.

Web designers have a very stressful job, although admittedly an enjoyable one. Because, hey, you guys are doing what you love and you're earning dollars by the hour! So, how do you combat stress in the office, or home office? Well, let your geek side go out and expand your " creativity" into your office.

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.

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.

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.

These days embedding video in a website is very easy, the <video> element in HTML5 is compatible with almost all current browser versions (see Can I Use video),...

These days embedding video in a website is very easy, the element in HTML5 is compatible with almost all current browser versions (see Can I Use video), which saves us a lot of the old difficulties. Now we can implement video and customize a player without third-party software. element is very simple: the complication is in the browser support, especially in old versions and mobile.

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 ...

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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, ...

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.

There are hundreds of brand new mobile responsive website layouts published every month. The trend has swept through the design world and taken web development to a new level. In the past we have written on some other amazing responsive websites and I want to use this gallery as another comparison.

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.

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.

As WordPress matures into a full-fledged CMS and more and more large online publishers come to rely on the platform, the practice of developing and deploying websites becomes increasingly important. High-profile members of the WordPress community, such as core developer Mark Jaquith and Cristi Burca, have spoken on the topic and built tools such as WP-CLI and WP Stack to improve the professionalism of our administration and deployment.

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.

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.

Responsive web design is undoubtedly a rapidly growing trend right now, the increasing tablet and mobile device usage has definitely been an ingredient in the success of web responsiveness. It would not be surprising to see the majority of popular websites adapt responsive web designs in the near future.