30Aug

DepositPhotos.com is a stock photos and illustrations marketplace and started its activities just last November. However, they’ve been doing their homework and gathered an incredible amount of high quality photographs at incredible low prices as well. Today we’re going to start a contest to give away 2 accounts, each one with $30 credit!!
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Tags: contest, illustration
1Sep
SEO is one of those we’ve come to love and hate at the same time. Many agencies boast about their SEO services and they don’t even swap columns to put the main content at the top, one of the most easiest and simplest SEO techniques. However, the SEO war gets tougher every time with more attention paid to things like canonical URLs, microformats, geolocation, sitemaps, domain age, and a long etcetera. In this post we will check 10 tools that will help you to analyze your blog and get some feedback about how you can optimize it. We will also explore 5 WordPress plugins that will improve the SEO friendliness of your site.
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Tags: google, resources, seo
1Sep

The team at Type Together, creators of the extremely popular Bree font, is offering Rue Display, designed by Winnie Tan, as a free download.
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Tags: resources, type foundry, typeface
31Aug
If Aptana is your IDE of choice and you love every single feature forgiving any weakness, but your eyes after 8 hours coding just can’t tolerate the default bright theme, this is your post. These dark color themes for Aptana will bring some rest to your eyes.
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Tags: aptana, development
27Aug
Patipat Asavasena is an artist from Thailand showcasing his incredible artwork on DeviantArt. He recently published his first artbook, Everyday Fantasy.
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Tags: book, illustration, showcase
26Aug
Back in April 3rd, 2009, I wrote a small script to create tabs with jQuery. Many readers liked its simplicity and asked for some more features, like the ability to automatically rotate between each tab and those were into the second incarnation of the tabs. Many more asked through the comments or by email about the posibility to include multiple instances of the rotating tabs and that’s what this release is about.
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Tags: development, javascript, resources
20Aug
TDO Mini Forms is one of the best plugins for WordPress to allow visitors or users to publish posts and upload files without having to access the admin area. You can select categories for the post, add tags, title, content, etc. However, even after WordPress introduced UIs for custom taxonomies in version 2.8, TDO Mini Forms (or tdomf for short) won’t allow you to select custom taxonomies. In this post you will find how to modify the categories widget for TDOMF to enable custom taxonomies.
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Tags: development, plugin
2Aug

Let’s imagine this scenario. We have a group of speakers and we want to show a few lines about who they are and what they do, followed by a large chunk of information. But, we want this block to remain hidden until visitors click on a More Info link. We’re going to create this using WordPress’ shortcodes a bit of jQuery magic.
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Tags: development, usability
27Jul
There can never be enough fonts. Sure, you can do awesome stuff with one or two fonts, but in the end, after 564,123 projects with the same font, it will start to look weary. In this post we have 9 fonts recently released for all genres on this round up, from grunge and retro style to clean and crisp typefaces, plus one very special typeface that you might have missed since 2006.
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Tags: resources, typeface
27Jul

You might be familiar with sites like Dribbble or Creattica where they show, along with the usual text tag, another tag which is simply a coloured rectangle for Dribbble or a square in Creattica. Not only do they look good but they are an effective interface element. In this tutorial we will learn how to output the tags of a post with specific classes for each tag using WordPress.
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Tags: tutorials