Notepad Chaos - Free Wordpress Theme
Details : 2 columns, sidebar ready, handwritten headings, stick-it-notes, clips and pins, “thumbnail” custom field for post image preview.
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10 Must-Have Plugins If You’re a Wordpress Blogger
Every Wordpress blogger knows how important plugins are for its blog. Getting the right combination of plugins is pretty difficult and involves a lot of trial and error and, of course time. Here are 10 plugins, that in our opinion any Wordpress blog should have.
Akismet, the first barrier against spam, attempts to filter link spam from blog comments and spam TrackBack pings. It comes already installed with every Wordpress blog. Check it
A great anti-spam plugin with a big plus : works with Akismet. Check it
Every blog needs a social bookmarking plugin, and ShareThis makes it easy with a fully customizable button. Check it
One of the best automatic search engine optimization plugins available for Wordpress. Check it
cforms II is a highly customizable, anti-spam contact form deployable in any part of your blog. Check it
Cool Flash Portfolio Showcase Tools
How you showcase your portfolio is very important for any freelancer or design company. It reflects the way you do business, your attention to details and gives an overall feel of professional work. It can mean the difference from getting or losing clients.
To enrich your portfolio showcase you can use Javascripts based on the Prototype or Moo.Fx libraries, scripts such as Litebox, LightBox 2, Highslide JS, ThickBox & many others. These all work just fine, but are a bit too common these days. If you want something special, you have to go the extra distance, XML Flash based gallery scripts.
Here are some resources you can try. They all use XML and ActionScript and are fully customizable.
Featured Designer #8 - Nick La
Nick La is a web and graphic designer based in Canada. You may recognize him by the websites he owns : N.Design-Studio (his portfolio website), Web Designer Wall (a beautiful blog about design trends and tutorials) and Best Web Gallery (one of the best web galleries on the web).
For his great vectorial art, Wordpress design, and web design skills Nickhas received recognition from big design magazines such as : Computer Arts, Digit Magazine and Web Designer Magazine.
40 most beautiful and inspirational website designs of 2008
2008 has brought some big changes in the design trends. One of the major ones was the end of the so called “glossy revolution“, the wrongful design interpretation of the web 2.0 current. You know what I am talking about : the glossy, vivid and colorful logos and website designs, the major usage of reflections and two tone colors. This style is used less and less, and some new design trends are starting to emerge (the vintage style seems to be catching on)
The sites below are the most representative designs, collected by us for our CSS and Flash Web Gallery. Apart from the showcase we added a little description of each website so you can get an idea what’s it about.
Blog Solid is for bloggers and those interested in blogging as an exciting and effective way of communicating. Blogsolid is a growing collection of tips, advice and ideas for better blogging.
Dara’s Garden fashions a fabulous setting for you to make memories you will love and cherish. Whether you’re envisioning an intimate ceremony or a large gathering, Dara’s Garden offers the finest location for any event.
OLDesign is the portfolio of Olof Lönnroth, a webdesigner, musician and soon to be Bachelor of Informatics, living in Gothenburg, Sweden.
FortySeven Media is the portfolio of Jonathan Longnecker and Nate Croft and the do, as described by themselves, kick awesome web design, graphic design and media creation.
Efingo is the portfolio of a romanian designer specialized in Adobe Photoshop, CorelDRAW and 3D Studio MAX.
Caty Design Studio is the portfolio of very talented graphic and web designer Caty Ng from Singapore.
Saizen Media is the portfolio of a very talented design team. They do mainly (spectacular) Flash websites.
N.Design Studio is the portfolio and design resources website of Nick La, the owner of 2 other well-known websites Web Designer Wall and Best Web Gallery.
Larissa Meek is the website of 3D animator, Miss USA finalist, bikini model, actress and reality TV star Larissa Meek.
Kulturbanause is the blog, portfolio and online playground of Jonas Hellwig.
