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80+ High Quality And Useful Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In October

AN Jay — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:41:21 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 80+ High Quality And Useful Resources For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of October which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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50+ High Quality Icon Design Tutorials (Part 2)

55 Terrific Cinema 4D Tutorials and Techniques

Create a Realistic Looking Nokia 5800 in 3ds Max

How to Create Roads and Rail Tracks on a Path

40 Adobe Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials

A Beginners Guide to Digital Textile Printing

Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

75 PSD to HTML Resources for Web Designers

The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials

Design A Killer Fashion Model Poster

How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type In Illustrator CS4

50 Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web

45+ Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Creating Cartoon Character Illustrations

Design a Minimal and Modern Portfolio Layout with Photoshop

How to Create an Icon in Illustrator

30 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Gamers

Blog Headers: 20 Great Examples and Best Practices

Build a Slick Rich User Interface in Photoshop

40 Quality Photoshop UI Design Tutorials

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

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50 Awe-Inspiring Underwater Photos

21 Adorable Pieces Of Manga Art

100+ Clean, Simple and Minimalist Website Designs

15 Fabulous Examples of Origami Inspired logo Designs

39 Astonishing Examples of 3D Typography

35 Smart Logos With Second Thought To Make You look Twice

11 Amazing Photo Manipulated and Digital Art Wallpapers

A Showcase of 35 Beautiful Typographical Illustrations

40 Beautiful HDR Pictures You Would be Amazed

Trends in Pricing Page Design and Layout

14 Bold and Colorful Print Ads from Various Brands

44 Examples of Nature Inspired Website Designs

35 Creative Twitter User Profile Designs

Showcase Of Beautiful Textured Web Designs

Weekly Vector Inspiration #40

23 Eco Friendly Sites that are Using WordPress

30 Superb Examples of Infographic Maps

Website Design Showcase Of 21 Popular Brands

30 Jaw Dropping 3D Character Creations

45 Inspiring Navigation Menus That You Must See

15 Inspirational Single-Page Websites

10 Unforgettable Interactive and Inspirational Business Cards

105 People Photo Manipulation Works You Will Really Marvel

40+ Beautiful Fish Inspired Logos

25 Absolutely Magnificant Landscape Photo Manipulation

Showcase of Social Networking Websites

15 Elegant Cartoon Wallpapers You Can Not Miss

40 Striking Examples of Graffiti Art

24 Awesome Single Page Portfolio Designs

80+ Photo Manipulations Art to Ignite Your Creativity

Javascript and Ajax

How to Build a Simple Content Slider jQuery Plugin

20 Simple jQuery Tricks

35 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins

Curtains Opening Animation with jQuery

xHTML and CSS
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Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started

The Blueprint CSS Framework – Tutorials, How-to Guides and Tools

Purely CSS – Faking Minimum Margins

Resources

90’s Technology

Most Useful Collection of Premium 3d models

1000+ High Quality Free Grunge Textures, Icons, Brushes and Fonts

45 Beautiful Dual-Screen Wallpapers

30 Stunning Fonts To Enhance Your Designs

Collection of 8 Free and Exceptional Icon Sets

80 Stunning Background Patterns For Your Websites

9 Open Source Microblogging Applications

500+ Free Download High Quality Photoshop PSD Files For Designers

24 High Quality Free And Stunning Symbol Fonts

50 Surprisingly Amazing Themes for Blogger

40 Amazing Photoshop Brush Directories and Collections

Miscellaneous Articles

20 Best Wordpress Typography Plugins To Enhance Readability

How to Properly Prepare a Guest Post in 5 Simple Steps

5 Highly Applicable, Yet Easily Overlooked Features in Photoshop

The History and Evolution of Social Media

20 Useful & Nicely Designed Web Applications

24 Useful Tutorials on Creating Photoshop Brushes

30+ Super Secret OS X Features and Shortcuts

15 Most Important Wordpress Plugins To Help You Fight Spam

Guide to a Successful Blog Post

8 Powerful Wordpress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should

9 OpenSource URL shortening apps to make your own services

7 Key Principles That Make A Web Design Look Good

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows 7

20 Handy Photoshop Tips For a Faster Workflow

10 Useful WordPress Coding Techniques

65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In September

AN Jay — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:01:14 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of September which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

You may be interested in these older posts
10 Stunning Photos That Look Like They are Photoshopped But Are Not
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
21 Brilliant Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers
50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects
21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations
15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies
43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not

56 Absolutely Brilliant and Intriguing Photoshop Video Tutorials

45 Tutorials for Learning Pixelmator

27 Excellent Digital Photography Tutorials

40 Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Manipulation

10 Wonderful Letterpress Type Tutorials

6 Different Ways to Make Your Text and Images Glow [Tutorials]

11 Fascinating and Educational Tutorials Teaching You How to Produce Better Photo Effects

How to Effectively Use Contrast, Auto Levels, and Batch Processing

50+ Most Amazing Adobe After Effects Tutorials You Need to Learn

20+ Car Pimping and Tuning Photoshop Tutorials

15 Of The Best Character Illustration Tutorials Online

Photoshop Tutorials You Do Not Want to Miss

Urban Art Tutorial in Photoshop and Illustrator

Top Places to Find Quality Illustrator Tutorials Online

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

Typographic Portraits That Are Absolutely Beautiful

100 Artworks from the Top 20 Designers in The Middle East and Africa

23 Colorful And Smart Examples Of Beautiful Web Designs

70 Fresh and Inspirational Blog Designs

Stunning illustrated typography on dark backgrounds

Best of Best WordPress 404 Error Page Designs

20 Amazing Examples of Vector Artwork

Website Design: Some of the most uniquely designed E-commerce websites

40 Gorgeous Fantasy Wallpapers to Spice Up your Laptop

40 Creative and Inspiring Website Backgrounds Techniques

13 Striking Digital illustrations of Horror Girls by Yoshitaka Kawakami

CSS: Design Out Of The Box

40 Excellent Examples of Interior Designs Rendered in 3D Max

25 Examples of Web 2.0 and Traditional Design Rules Coming Together

33 Creative and Beautiful Logos

50 Inspiring Web Application and Service Web Site Designs

50 Beautiful & Unique Twitter Profile Designs

30 Powerful and Inspiring Street Fighter Characters Artworks

50 Websites (and More) for Your Design Inspiration

20 Creative Illustration Advertisements from behance

40 Breathtaking & Creative Logo Designs Just to Inspire

TOP 35 Grunge Websites

Amazing Character Designs: 75 Brilliant Examples

25 Inspiring Examples of Abstract Vector Design

15 Mind Blowing Dragons Illustrations and Artworks

Javascript and Ajax

40 Super-Neat JavaScript Plugins

25 Useful jQuery Tooltip Plugins and Tutorials

35+ Create Amazing Image Effects and Sliders with These Awesome jQuery Plugins

10 Easy jQuery Tricks for Designers

Create a photorealistic web layout – CSS/XHTML available

CSS Wishlist: New Ideas, Debates and Solutions

51 Form Element Resources and Tutorials Using CSS And Javascript

30 CSS Best Practices for Beginners

Resources
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60+ Totally Free Rusted Metal Textures for Designers

460 Free High Quality Icons For Web Designers

60 High Quality Photoshop PSD Files For Designers

Massive Collection of Stunning Photoshop Actions

27 Best WebSites to Download Free Seamless Patterns

Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets

Style Switchers Showcase and Resources

76 Dirty, Extreme And Creative Free Grunge Fonts

99 High-Quality Free (X)HTML/CSS Templates

Five Free Tools for Multi-Monitor Computer Set-Ups

14 Best Online Typography Tools for Web Designers

16 Free “Premium Quality” Wordpress Magazine Themes

13 Excellent Firefox Add-Ons That Are Absolutely Useful

49 Amazing Resources for Free Vector Graphics

Miscellaneous Articles

20+ Powerful Wordpress Security Plugins and Some Tips and Tricks

10 Revealing Infographics about the Web

30 Incredibly Useful WordPress Hacks

The Only SEO Tools You’ll Ever Need

The Difference Between Art and Design

Must See SEO Guide for All WordPress Bloggers

OWA, An Open Source Web Analytics Framework For Many Popular Applications

AN Jay — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:56:40 +0000

The Open Web Analytics (OWA) framework provides a generic set of PHP and HTTP APIs that application developers can use to integrate web analytics into any application. The OWA framework also comes with built-in support for popular web applications such as Wordpress and MediaWiki. As a generic web analytics framework, OWA can be extended to track and analyze any web application.

To download the latest releases of OWA, please click here.

Tracking/ReportingÂ

Track Page views, visits, and unique visitors over time
Track unique, new, repeat visitors over time
Multiple Web Site Support – track any number of web sites and view statistics in aggregate or by site
Click-streams – view the actual click-stream of each visitor
Click Tracking – Track where exactly on a web page users are clicking and view clicks by browser type
Click Heat Maps – view a heat map of where users are clicking on your web pages
Google Maps – map your visitors on Google Maps
Google Earth (KML) – view your visitors in Google Earth via a KML file export
RSS/ATOM subscription tracking – track unique feed readers, reader types, and feed requests
Visitor Aging – understand the age of your repeat visitors.
Canned and Custom Time Periods – generate reports using pre-defined reporting periods or custom date ranges
Refering Page Analysis – View the title, anchor text, and surrounding text of inbound links from refering web pages
View visits by user agent
Track entry and exit pages
Track pages by custom page types

WordPress Specific Features

Track visitors by WordPress user name or e-mail address they use in comments.
Track all Wordpress Page Types (Posts, Pages, Authors, Archives, Categories, etc.)
Track the number of comments made by visit
Reporting accessable via Admin Dashboard
Track subscribers to RSS/Atom feeds

70+ Ultimate Collection Of Inspirations And Tutorial Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In August

AN Jay — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:04:57 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, â€œDiscover the Best of the Webâ€ on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 70+ Ultimate Collection Of Inspirations And Tutorial Resources For Designers For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of August which our readers/viewers may like.Â Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

53 Amazing Blender Tutorials

11 Mindblowing Digital Painting Tutorials

25+ 3D Text Tutorials to Enhance your Photoshop Skills

30 Creative Illustrator Logo Design Tecniques and Tutorials

40 Incredibly Inspirational Retro & Vintage Photoshop TutorialsÂ

33 Newly Fresh Web Design Layout Tutorials

27 Useful Logo Design Tutorials and Tips

25 Magazine-Style Layouts for Your Design Inspiration

Creating Colorful Disco Lines EffectÂ

Design a creative cosmetics layout with Photoshop

17 Noteworthy Typographic Tutorials

How to Design the Web in a High-Def World

40 (NEW) High Quality Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

How to Create a Fantasy Landscape Photo Manipulation

How to Draw Anime Complete Guide

3d Retro Strip Design

Create a Trendy Galactic Poster Design in Photoshop

Abstract Vector Art

25 Cool Digital Photography Tutorials, Techniques and Effects

Mastering Photoshop With Paths

Design a 3D Box Icon in Photoshop

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

50 Gorgeous Flash Websites You Definitely Should See

45 Inspirational Corporate Website Designs

27 Colorful And Futuristic Innovations In Product Design

20 Beautiful Digital Portraits of Women

25 Beautiful Examples Of Typography Portraits

50 Incredible Examples of Battle Art

30 Creative Examples of Javascript Slider & Scrollers

10 Outstanding 3D Character Designs and Illustrations

40 + simple and elegant business card designs

30 Stunning, Absolutely Magical Photo Manipulations Focusing on Human Eye

A Showcase of Beautiful Packaging Designs

20 Stunning & Surreal Illustrations of Male Characters

25 Amazing Flash Portfolio Sites

100 Artworks From the Top Digital Artists in the USA & Canada

Beautiful Single Page Website Designs: 65 New Examples

45 Amazing Examples of Code Generated and 3D CG Artworks

Amazing Retro Futurism Design Showcase & Tutorials

20 Amazing HDR Photos

50 Beautiful And Creative Logos With Heart

30 Impressive Photo Manipulation Images

35 Hugely Expressive Works of Digital Art

26 Really Amazing Realistic 3D Computer Graphics

Javascript and Ajax

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30 Tutorials Combining Both Wordpress and jQuery

22 Beautiful jQuery Plugins for Web Designers

14 Easy to Implement Drop Down Menu Solutions

50 Really High Quality Photoshop Navigation Menu Tutorials

5 Ways to Make Ajax Calls with jQuery

50 Useful New jQuery Techniques and Tutorials

xHTML and CSS
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25+ Great HTML 5 Resources to Get You Started

50+ Stunning CSS3 Articles, Cheat Sheets and Tutorials Collections

Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools

35 Websites To Teach You How To Use CSS Effectively

250+ Resources to Help You Become a CSS Expert

75 Free Useful Icon Sets for Web Designers and Developers

70+ Awesome Free Textures and Texture Sets

25 Classic Fonts That Will Last a Whole Design Career

60 Useful Photoshop Actions to Enhance your Photos for Free

Free High Resolution Textures for Designers and 3D Artists

35 (NEW) Modern and High Quality Icon Sets

25 Excellent Handwritten Fonts

30 PSDs of Outstanding Digital PaintingsÂ

200+ Excellent Free High Quality Tree Bark Textures

35 Original and Creative Free Twitter Icon Sets

Miscellaneous Articles
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30+New Useful WordPress Tricks & HacksÂ

15 (More) Free Web Tools To Simplify Your Work Life

20 Free Keyword Research Tools â€“ Comprehensive Insight

21 Great Plugins to Manage Multi-Author Blogs Efficiently

10 Tools For Finding, Registering And Managing Domain Names

6 Ways To Improve Your Web Typography

10 WordPress â€˜HOW-TOâ€™ to Give Your Blog the Quality it Deserves

Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin For WordPress

AN Jay — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:53:30 +0000

Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for Wordpress is a plugin that allows you to mobilize your blog in minutes. Every single mobile device is detected and all aspects of your blog are tailored to the visiting handset. Sites aren’t dumbed down to the lowest common denominator but instead use the features and functionality that advanced phones offer.

Devices are detected by using Wapple’s advanced web services instead of relying on inferior 3rd party tools. If you view your blog with a brand new, never before seen handset, it’ll still work perfectly!

Any theme you’ve installed and have styled for web will be carried across to mobile giving you a consistent look and feel for each and every one of your visitors.

Features

Dynamic resizing of images
Retain SEO, preserve your URL structure and promote one single domain
Support for multi-lingual characters – even funny characters that make their way onto your blog (from a copy and paste from Word for example) are handled.
Comment from mobile! Turn on the feature and your visitors can leave comments from their handset.
Upload mobile specific header/footer images – resized on the fly to fit a visitors handset perfectly
Place mobile friendly navigation links around your site to help users browse around your blog
Advanced pagination – split up long posts into manageable chunks that make reading a post on mobile easier
Any theme that you’ve installed will have its styles carried across to mobile giving you a consistent look and feel for all your visitors.
Complete freedom over how you want to style your mobile site. We’ve done our best to make the mobile stylesheet as comprehensive as possible but no doubt there will be a few things you want to change – you can by editing a few settings.
Control over almost every element on your mobile page:- change the size and quality of images on posts and pages, show tags and categories in different sections, you can even change the wording of certain elements on your site!
Plus much much more…

75+ Excellent Collection of Tutorials, Inspirations And Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In July

AN Jay — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:21:28 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, â€œDiscover the Best of the Webâ€ on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 75+ Excellent Collection of Tutorials, Inspirations And Resources For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of July which our readers/viewers may like.Â Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

145 Ultimate Round-Up Of Photoshop Tutorials and Resources

35 Unbelievable Smoke-Themed Designs and Tutorials

Web Design Tutorials: The Ultimate Roundup

40+ Vector Characters Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials

Three Short Tutorials for Photographers and Photography Lovers

Creative Photoshop Animal King Photo Manipulation Tutorial

Tips & Tutorials for Creating Custom Designer Toys

Creating an Abstract Watercolor WallpaperÂ

22 Very Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Design a travel PSD layout with Adobe Photoshop

52 Excellent Cinema 4D Tutorials

50+ Ultimate Collection of Glow and Light Effect Tutorials in Photoshop

How to Quickly and Effectively Clean Out Body Hair in Photoshop

24 Amazing Photoshop Tutorials

Design an E-Commerce Website in Photoshop

How to Create a Photo Manipulation of a Flooded City Scene

20 Amazing Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Creating Icon

70+ incredible HDR images with photoshop and photomatrix tutorials

How To Create a Retro Apple Wallpaper in Photoshop

26 Professional Photoshop Retouching Tutorials

Mastering Illustrator Effects

Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Tutorial Videos

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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40 beautiful and creative typography designs to inspire

25 Large Photo Background Websites

23 Inspiring And Colorful Examples Of Digital Art And Manipulations

110 Fresh Logo Designs For Design Inspiration

27 Inspirational Horizontal Scrolling Websites

100 Artworks from the Top 20 Digital Artists in South America

22 Eye Catching Colourful Logos

20 Inspirational, Clean E-Commerce Website Designs

Business Card Design: 100+ Creative Examples, Useful Tutorials and TemplatesÂ

44 Advertising Posters with Clever IdeasÂ

30 Awesome and Well Designed Mac App Websites

30 Awesome Twitter Inspired Logo Designs

Animating Design Elements: 7 Unique & Creative Practices

Before & After: Alex Justino Photo Manipulation

25 Inspiring Examples of Sign-Up Pages

30 Wonderful Examples of Shoes Advertisements

70 Typographic, Clean And Minimalist Color Scheme Web Designs

15 Cute Cartoon Wallpapers

55 Fresh Examples Of Corporate Website Designs

25 Beautiful Examples Of Typography Portraits

50 Fresh Portfolio Websites for Your Inspiration

20 Incredible Sunrise Wallpapers Caught in Space

55 Niche Web Design Galleries for Your Inspiration

33 Inspirational Illustrations

Javascript and Ajax

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25+ Create Amazing Image Effects with Some of the Best jQuery Plugins Available

25 Fresh and New jQuery Plugins and Tutorials

Making a Content Slider with jQuery UI

MooTools Tutorials and Resources Round-Up

15+ Plugins to Unleash the Invincible Power of jQuery and WordPress

Most Useful Ajax Tools And Tutorials

15 Website for jQuery Enthusiast and Addicts

xHTML and CSS
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Mega CSS Resource Roundup

20+ Resources and Tutorials for Creative Forms using CSS

50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design

21 Absolutely Useful And Inspiring Collection Of Most Desirable Freebies

35 High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs

30 Awesome Textures for Creating Subtle Grunge Designs

10 Great Free Adobe Air Apps that Every Designer and Developer Should Use

19 Free Photo Source Sites for CG Artists

45+ Absolutely Useful Free Fabric Textures

60+ Free Fonts for Big, Bold and Beautiful Headlines

15 Essential WordPress Plugins for Portfolio Sites

5 Awesome Online Photo Editors

27 Color Tools and Resource for Choosing the Right Color PaletteÂ

28 Best Quality Textured Backgrounds Free WordPress Themes

40 Free and Useful GUI Icon Sets for Web Designers

13 Ways to Browser Test and Validate Your Work

Best free PHP learning resources for beginners

The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer

13 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Building WordPress Themes

45+ Useful Resources For Better Torrenting ExperienceÂ

Ultimate Ecommerce Starter Kits for Wordpress Users

30 Handy Cheat Sheets and Reference Guides for Web Professionals

WordPress Resources – 48 Resources, Tips, Tricks & Themes

Smashing Release : Grunge Style, A 3-Column Free Wordpress Theme

AN Jay — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:34:12 +0000

Today, we are releasing our very first wordpress theme Grunge Style, a free WordPress theme designed by Brian from TemplateLite for SmashingApps exclusive readers. The theme will be useful for personal and private blogs. We will appreciate you for your creative usage of this theme and would love to know about your experience with this. This theme will work best with WordPress 2.8+.

It’s prominent features are Right Sidebar, Fixed Width, 3 Columns, Widget Ready, Valid XHtml, Valid CSS, Cross-Browser Compatible, Optimized for SEO, Sticky Post, Gravatar Enabled, Easy Setup of the theme.

Release Note And Usage Policy

This theme is released under GPL lincense. You are allowed to use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions.Â You may modify the theme as you wish but we will love to see the usage of this theme. We will really appreciate you if you would like to spread the word and link to this article.

Theme Support

The Grunge Style theme comes with free support. If you have any issues with the theme, Brian will be glad to help you out. Simply leave your comment here.

Brian, We had a good experience working with you for releasing this theme. Thank you for your great efforts and free Wordpress theme for the community.

13 Simply Useful Wordpress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier

AN Jay — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:57:51 +0000

This is another post about useful wordpress plugins. There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But itâ€™s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.

In this post, I tried to list down 13 Simply Useful Wordpress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier. This list has few of the unlimited wordpress plugins introduction. I hope you will enjoy this.

You are welcome to share if you know and want to share more Useful Wordpress Plugins That Probably Are Essential and our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

You may be interested in these older posts
17 Really Useful Wordpress Plugins That Probably Are Essential
13 Wordpress Plugins You Probably Donâ€™t Use But Should
11 Most Popular Cross-Platform And Free Softwares
13 Most Useful Free Scripts That You Should Know
13 Simplest Free Web Tools That Are Absolutely Useful
5 Useful And Free Photo Viewers For Your Mac OS X
7 New And Useful Free Sites With Unique File Hosting Features
11 Premium But Free And Useful Web Apps For Designers
31 Power Tools For Twitter Lovers To Make Lives Easier
13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes
The 5 Best Free File Hosting Services To Store Your Files
7 New And Useful Free Sites With Unique File Hosting Features

Wordpress Download Monitor

Download Monitor 3 is upon us. Download Monitor is a plugin for uploading and managing downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying links.

Plugin Manager

Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from wordpress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.

Google Analytics for WordPress

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.

Search Everything

Search Everything increases the ability of the default Wordpress Search, options included Search Every Page, Search Every Tag, Search Every Category, Search non-password protected pages only, Search Every Comment and much more…

Advertising Manager

This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your Wordpress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Unsupported ad networks can be used as well.

Featured Content Gallery

Featured Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more.

Subscribe2

Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.

Wordpress Automatic upgrade

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.

TweetMeme Button

The TweetMeme button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.

BuySellAds Wordpress Plugin

This simple plugin helps you easily integrate your BuySellAds zones and includes anti-AdBlock meaures to prevent AdBlock (and similar software) from blocking the advertisement.

Social Bookmarking for WordPress

Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts, and does so easily, and beautifully.Â It will automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites.

User Community

A plugin to build user communities all around WordPress, mainly itâ€™s around having a well integrated profiles system. This plugin will provide all needed functions and widgets to make it easy and flexible the ways to show all information about a user. Also, there is some user privacy settings to permit which information to show in the profile page.

Pretty Link

You can shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Unlike other link shrinking services like tinyurl, budurl, and bit.ly, this plugin allows you to create shortlinks coming from your own domain! Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host.

21 Premium-Like Free Photoblog Themes For Wordpress

AN Jay — Sun, 10 May 2009 09:44:13 +0000

Few days ago, we have been requested to list down some beautiful photoblog themes for wordpress. Today, we are going to deliver the most beautiful collection of photoblog themes for wordpress. This is not the long list with all the available wordpress themes on the internet but this is an exclusive collection of free photoblog wordpress themes that are nice, simple and elegant looking and you may consider any of these themes as per your needÂ if you are searching for your photoblog.

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PhotographerDream Wordpress Theme

PhotographerDream Wordpress Theme was build specially for photographers. Right from the main page visitor will see photographer shots. On the photo page image pan is used, so if the image is extra large user will drag it to view every pixel. Your blog visitors can also press control and drag photo to zoom the image.

AutoFocus

AutoFocus is a Wordpress theme specifically for photographers looking for a simple and elegant way to display their workÂ online.

Grain Theme for WordPress

Grain Theme for WordPress is a fixed-width photoblog theme for WordPress 2.3+. To use it you have to additionally install the Yapb plugin; Recommended versions are 1.9 or newer. Grain comes with an administrative backend and relies heavily on CSS for itâ€™s styling. It uses a mosaic style overview page, has archives, can display exif data, browse to random photos etc.

Fotofolio

Fotofolio is a free wordpress template designed for easy creation online portfolio for Visual Workers; Photography, Graphic Design, Manga, Architect, etc.

Wordpress Theme – Photo Blog

Wordpress Theme – Photo Blog is a simple Wordpress theme. No widget and fix width. Huh! Important here itâ€™s simple, clean and easy to modify.

Wp Foto theme

Wp Foto theme is single layout theme designed for photo blogger. It uses custom fields for displaying thumbnail in home page, archive page, category and tag page.

Sharpfolio

Sharpfolio is a WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio.

The Unstandard

The Unstandard is a split two / three column WordPress 2.6 or 2.7+ compatible theme. The home and archive index pages utilize photos rather than text. The latest update is completely optimized and stripped of any unnecessary code allowing for complete customization

Fotolog WP theme

Fotolog WP theme for photoblog is suitable for those who have huge interest in photography but have no specific template to showcase their high quality photos with wide dimension. It has 1 column, showing 1 photo for each page and showing maximum 800px width photo on main page (can be modified). Previous photo and next photo link on top and bottom of each page, this will help for better/faster navigation.

PhotoBlog Theme for WordPress

PhotoBlog Theme for WordPress uses the jQuery JavaScript-Framework, which has been included with the standard WordPress installation since version 2.1. The plugin uses the standard JS that is part of WordPress, meaning that it does not need to be installed separately. The decision to use jQuery was made on account of its very small file size (20KB)

Free Photo Gallery

Free Photo Gallery is a perfect theme for those photo bloggers who want to display bigger sized images. The simple web page has links to other pages like About and other images and comment section below the image.

Reflection

Reflection is a simple, clean and elegant theme for running your photoblog using WordPress.

Photoblog Dark Portfolio Wordpress Theme

Photoblog Dark Portfolio Wordpress Theme is ajax content sliderDark style, online portfolio premium wordpress theme.

Grace

Grace is a stylish, minimalistic photoblog theme for WordPress. Graceâ€™s muted color scheme and big frame puts your photos right at the center of the blog making colors seem even more vibrant and beautifully complementing those in black and white.

iQ2 is a WordPress photoblog

iQ2 is a WordPress photoblog theme that fully integrates with the PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin. The main features of the theme consists Fixed width, Fully widget compatible, Built-in EXIF support etc.

Ascari

Ascari is a very simple theme so it is perfect for portfolios of any kind. This will also post a coming soon image if you donâ€™t post a image yourself to keep the theme looking professional.

Spotless

Spotless is a Wordpress Theme designed specifically to be used for Photoblogs.Â This is valid XHTML and CSS wordpress them. This is the most simplest free wordpress photoblog theme of its kind.

Linquist

Linquist is a simple, portfolio oriented theme, without the usual blogging garbage. Inspired by and partially based on the fantastic Sharpfolio theme.

WP Pix Free Theme

WP Pix Free Theme is not just another WordPress theme, it’s more to it than meet the eye â€” it’s a real photoblog/portfolio.

Photo-Biyori

Photo-Biyori is a simple yet beautiful wordpress theme that can generate thumbnail automatically. This is widget ready theme with default picture size 500px.

Viewport Free Wordpress ThemeÂ

Viewport Free Wordpress Theme is a 1 column grey photoblog Wordpress Theme. This is very beautiful theme having attractive navigational structure for images.

40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In March

AN Jay — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:01:22 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of March which our readers/viewers may like.Â Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

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