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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.

This update covers really useful tutorials, tips and techniques that you should have read in June 2010. Featured publications include: Justin Tadlock, Nettuts+, David Walsh Blog, Smashing Magazine, Tutorialzine, A List Apart, Perishable  Press, Carsonified, Marcofolio, Nicolas Gallagher, Codrops, Onextrapixel, Digging into WordPress, Six Revisions, Line25, 1stWebDesigner, Alex Marandon, and Voosh Themes.

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!

In this video post I will guide you through the whole process of how to create a responsive WordPress site without you touching a single code. Well, at least for the first part. The first video focuses on how to setup a responsive WordPress site using Bluehost as your host, and along with it is a special discount for 1WD readers.

E-books about principles of design, and specifically about web design, are getting more and more popular. Years ago these kind of information can only be found on universities, but now they're everywhere and people are taking them in like hungry lions. If you don't know this, well, seriously, what rock have you been living under last year? Sacha Greif wrote "Step by Step UI design" Jarrod Drysdale wrote "Bootsrapping Design" Nathan Barry wrote three e-books, "App Design Handbook", "Designing Web Applications" and "Authority".

The Monstroid WordPress theme review lets you take a closer look at one of the bestselling WordPress themes.

Feeling blue? Here is our huge compilation of web designer jokes from around the web.

Ever wonder what material design is? Here's an ultimate guide about the topic including resources where you can learn more about it.

There are essential tools for a mobile app designer when creating mockups. Here is a list of some very helpful UI kits for mobile to get you inspired.

These days the whole world is progressing towards the web. From small businesses to big firms to online schools, universities etc., all are pushing hard to make a big online impact because this is almost free advertisement for their brand and results in it reaching a wider  range of audience than using other manual ways to do so. One big aspect of Website Design is a "Mobile Version" of the website because these days mobile phones with internet facilities are becoming too common and thus everyone wants to remain connected to their favourite websites on the go.

HTML5 and CSS3 are bringing new features to us and in this article you'll be able to find some great tools, cheat sheets and much more you could need to master these new features.

This article brings you back to classic values. If you're tired of all those grunge, sleek new fonts, go back and check out these simple pixel fonts. Pixel fonts come in handy, when you need to write really small, solid, easy readable text.