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WordPress 2.9 – Carmen, named after Carmen McRae, the famous American Jazz singer, was released 4 days back on 18th December, 2009. Taking another step further to remain the most popular blogging platform turned CMS, this release included some exceptionally nice features that could make life really easy, other than …
After the mega-collection of Photoshop light effects tutorials, it’s time for another ultimate Photoshop tutorials collection – the ever-essential text effects. These 114 tutorials cover almost all of the amazing text effects that can be produced with Photoshop, so check them out.
It’s theme time again! And this time, inspired by the SRT CSS template, I present a single-column, minimalistic, no-image, fast-loading theme ideal for lots of writing and textual stuffs – wzWhitePaper!
I have been keeping a track of PhotoBlog Themes for WordPress for quite some time now. And it’s true that there are several excellent ones available, mostly for free (I’d be sharing some of my interesting finds at a later post maybe). But I could never come across a thumbnail …
It’s really boring to see the typical page-not-found error on the browser. Not only is it boring, but once you reach there you have no other options but to either press the back button or re-type and url. So everytime a visitor to your site lands on a broken page, …
There are quite a few sketch fonts available on the net, some of them free too, but did you know that you can turn your favorite font into a sketched font with the help of Adobe Illustrator CS versions? Here’s how it goes:
Step 1. Create a new document. With the …
30 September 2009
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We are all probably well aware of the rift between doubleTwist and Apple back in June. Well, doubleTwist – which makes software that lets you use iTunes seamlessly with other devices has launched a fresh new attack against Apple in a spectacular fashion – by remaking the classic 1984 ad …
30 September 2009
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All of us must have come across url shortening and re-directing services like TinyURL or more popularly bit.ly (you can find it all the time while posting long urls in Twitter). So what do these services do? They simply provide small aliases for long web addresses thus making it easier …
29 September 2009
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Whisky lovers across the world, unite and rejoice! Now the world wide web has a special place for whisky drinkers, their very own social network. It started when Jean-Luc Thiébaut, a web developer and whisky enthusiast designed and produced his website Connosr, a place to review whiskies, connect with other …
28 September 2009
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Do you have a WordPress blog that covers various categories of various interests? What happens when visitors subscribe to your blog? They will get updates on all the content whether it interests them or not. So why not create feeds for each of your categories? This way you can offer …
26 September 2009
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The emergence of web 2.0 opened up a new style of web designing. Brighter colors, lots of effects, whitespaces, content designing etc. But one of the most common feature of this new school of designing is the flashy badges / icons. And the most commonly used ones are the social …
25 September 2009
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Highlighting search terms in content is a great way of displaying the relevancy of the page to its viewers. In Wordpress, this can be achieved with the help of a simple tweak. Both title and post contents can be highlighted using the following code snippet.
In the WordPress theme’s function.php file, paste the following code:
function hls_set_query() {
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24 September 2009
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Yet another great DEMO conference is just over. Produced by Chris Shipley and Matt Marshall of VentureBeat, the fall 2009 event in San Diego had 56 demonstrator companies and 14 AlphaPitch start-ups presenting their innovative new products. As usual, each company was given six straight minutes with just the founder …
24 September 2009
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We all know, it is not really possible for all the designers to create every single image for every single website they design. And what’s the requirement for doing so, when the world wide web offers us so many better options. One popular contradiction is that suitable images are not …
23 September 2009
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