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WordPress Developer’s Toolbox
Web designers and developers are getting an increasing number of requests from clients for custom theme development, and a growing number of designers are also building their own themes to distribute... More... 209 Comments
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10 Weblog Engines Reviewed
Choosing blogging software can be a scary process, especially if you are new to blogging. There are many different types of engines and content management systems (CMS) that could be used. Picking the... More... 201 Comments
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When To Use Magazine-Style Themes For Blogs?
When designing a custom theme or deciding on an already-existing theme, bloggers have a lot of factors to consider and there is no shortage of options, particularly for WordPress users. A growing number... More... 88 Comments
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30 Free High Quality Wordpress Themes
Free professional WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply... More... 198 Comments
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Notepad Chaos: A Free Wordpress Theme
Over the last years we’ve featured a number of designers and developers who released their work for free — among other things we presented high-quality free fonts, free Wordpress themes,... More... 322 Comments
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Infinity: A Free Wordpress Theme
If you have been following Smashing Magazine for a while you know that we love high-quality freebies. Over the last years we’ve featured a number of designers and developers who released their... More... 298 Comments
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Fervens: A Free Wordpress Theme
If you have been following Smashing Magazine for a while you know that we love to release high-quality freebies. Over the last years we’ve featured a number of designers and developers who... More... 131 Comments
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A Small Study Of Big Blogs: Further Findings
Last week we presented the first results of our study of top blogs. As promised, this week we publish the second part of the survey, including further findings and problem solutions we have found out... More... 58 Comments
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Tigerpress: A Free Wordpress Theme
Following the release of the wordpress.fun theme we are glad to release a new professional Wordpress-theme and offer it for free download. Tigerpress Wordpress theme has 2 columns and provides a simple... More... 94 Comments
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Wordpress Fun: A Free Wordpress Theme
If you have been following Smashing Magazine for a while you know that we love high-quality freebies. Over the last years we’ve featured a number of designers and developers who released their... More... 350 Comments
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WordPress Template Tags Reference Guide
WordPress Function List is a quick cheat sheet and a reference guide to expedite WordPress theme development. More... Be the first to comment!
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Style Switchers Are Back: Ideas, Examples and a Contest
Design a style switcher and win an Apple Cinema 20 Flat Panel Display with 16.7 million colors, 400:1 contrast ratio, 0.258 mm dot pitch, 16 ms response time and 170-degree viewing angles. Yes, that's... More... 169 Comments
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20 More Free First-Class Wordpress Themes
Free professional WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply... More... 177 Comments
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Friday Freebies: Font, Icons and Wallpapers
Free stuff always comes in handy. Particularly if it offers a high quality one would usually expect from a quite costly commercial product. The latter holds particularly when it comes to typefaces and... More... 68 Comments
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The “seekAttention” plugin gracefully gets your users attention by fading out a definable area but leaving the target element.
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This kit contains basic UI design templates (grids, placeholders, tabs, navigation, pagination etc.) and is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Photoshop (PNG). Useful for wireframing.
