You may remember a previous article I wrote here on JungleJar.com called Using Custom Fields To Post Your Images, but if not, I'm going to reintroduce a few of the code snippets and methods I wrote about in the tutorial about how to save and display image data from custom fields within Wordpress. In this article I'm also going to cover a few of the small yet robust code block methods I myself tend to practice quite a bit that I didn't previously touch on. So, if you're looking for a solid tutorial on how to use Wordpress Custom Fields to display blog post thumbnails in an easy and flexible manner, then this article is for you.

Do you ever find yourself sitting in front of Photoshop for hours trying to mock up a decent navigation menu, or searching the web for the most aesthetically pleasing color palettes for your users to click on that doesn't remind them of McDonalds or a funeral parlor? Face it, sometimes we all lose our mojo for a moment or two, and then we are forced to validate ourselves not just to the W3C, but also to our website visitors, design clients and portfolio piranhas. And then we remember that through the general kindness of a group of web designers and/or developers, and through organizations such as The Creative Commons who work to guarantee that kind freedom, we don't always have to be the Picaso of style sheets.

DeviantArt.com has recently launched its very own online web-application based portfolio creation service, and they even host it for you as well. Users have the choice of either signing up for a free account or a premium account. In this article I'm going to cover the free account portfolio service they offer, show you a few images of the user interface and give my honest opinion on its worth -- for better or worse.

When developing Wordpress Templates, we sometimes overlook the small easy things we can do to make our theme much better. When you're days into a project, any project, developing developers tunnel vision isn't hard to do. This article serves not as the ultimate go-to guide for Wordpress shortcodes, but instead it serves to remind us of a few small and easy things we can incorporate into our themes within seconds and they function with robust and flexible ease.

ProFolio is a professional ready to go portfolio that is perfectly suitable for both a personal portfolio or a more professionally oriented portfolio. Essentially anyone that wants an easy yet customizable way to display their graphical presentations such as photographs, digital art, web designs, etc would most likely be content with this software. Currently ProFolio is free, but the developers behind the software have been saying for as long as I've been aware of ProFolio that at some point in the somewhat near future they will be charging for further downloads. So, I wouldn't drag my feet too long before I gave this one a try.

We've got 3 free Photoshop website templates for you guys in the .PSD format, and hopefully these templates will serve some of you well in designing your own websites. Set contains 1 blogging/news structured template, 1 e-commerce structured template, and another blogging based template.

This is an extremely cool and useful web application, and if it hasn't been thought of before, I'm absolutely shocked, because it makes so much sense. Essentially, PHPanywhere is a web based free Integrated Development Environment or IDE for the PHP language. In other words it is a web based application that provides PHP developers a PHP code editor that mocks a desktop application, and it does so very well.

From time to time you'll probably want to send a website visitor who tries to access a page that has moved, been deleted, etc to a brand spanking new page of which quite possibly will have the content they were looking for. In this article I'll introduce you to the 301 re-direct, show you how to create one, and you'll see why sometimes just depending on the 404 page isn't practical. I'll also show you various methods to create one by using PHP, ASP, and HTML.

I've put together a nice list of websites offering free color resources for the internet masses. Most of these sites offer some sort of online web application for you to use in your creating process, but they all offer something of value for the graphic designer, web designer, photographer, etc.

This is a clean Wordpress template capable of displaying large amounts of content without suffering aesthetically nor functionally.

This is a list of 25 free color related web applications to create color palettes, edit color palettes, create color themes, test colors and color palettes against a myriad of variables, find color palettes from images, and more.

This is a nice collection I've put together of both online CSS web applications and desktop applications to assist the web developer with his/her project. Both the CSS veterans and beginners should find these tools useful and at least worth a bookmark or quick download.

I've put together a list of 5 free web tools that are extremely useful for web designers and/or developers. Web Development Project Estimator, Loading Animated Icon Generators, Dummy Text Generators…

These icon sets were created with the Web Application Developer in mind. What separates these icon sets from others is the ease of which they can be integrated into the GUI (Graphic User Interface) of applications. They also work well for just about any other use you might come up with.

This is a collection of completely free online logo, icon, and button creators and/or editors. A couple of these have been around for a number of years now, but not that many people know about them. All websites have been tested prior to the posting of this article.

All of these feeds come from my own personal RSS subscription list. With these 28 Web Design and/or Web Development related RSS Feeds, you absolutely have an immense amount of resources and quality content automatically delivered to you, and the posts stay nice and fresh.

In this article I'll feature four CSS 2.1/XHTML 1.0 based templates created by me. These templates adhere to current web standards and validate as such by the w3.org. I'll also teach you exactly how I created these website frameworks. This tutorial would be great for someone who would like a quick and easy way to introduce themselves to CSS/XHTML with the focus being on typical website layouts.

This article features three of the more useful and robust online web applications and/or services I've come across that are free of charge. These tools are especially useful for the web designer / web developer.

This template is based on another free Wordpress Template we released here on JungleJar called "graphii"; However, graphii.2 is very much different in its own right and features a totally different color palette as well as a 'sticky' post option.

Andhika Nugraha is an artist/web designer from Indonesia whose work has been featured on various mediums including a t-shirt currently for sale at DesignGive.com, and he was kind enough to give JungleJar an interview.