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Migrating Your WordPress Database: A Database Primer

When it comes to working with WordPress-based projects, arguably one of the most frustrating or tedious aspects of deployment is actually getting the databases across your environments in-sync with one another. Sure, there’s something to be said for using test data in development, user data in staging, and actual data in production, but there’s no… Continue reading Migrating Your WordPress Database: A Database Primer

Build a Freshly Squeezed Responsive Grid System

I’d like to talk to you about Lemonade. Not the refreshing citrus drink, but a grid system I created. Lemonade is a grid system that was built in order to give designers and developers the confidence to make fully responsive websites, eliminating the frustration of flicking between browsers looking for bugs and errors. Let’s look… Continue reading Build a Freshly Squeezed Responsive Grid System

Free Premium Files For September 2013

Each month the Envato marketplace brings you free premium standard files. Envato is a web marketplace where you can get premium files for different areas of your website. My favourite marketplaces is the script marketplace CodeCanyon and the theme marketplace ThemeForest. Here are the files which you can get for free for September 2013. Showcase… Continue reading Free Premium Files For September 2013

How to Establish a Modular Typographic Scale

Possibly the most obvious typographic question in the hands of a designer is “which typefaces should I use?” The second question, one which rarely gets the kind of attention it ought, is “at what sizes should I set my type?” Establishing a modular scale is the best way to determine typographic sizes, in fact, it… Continue reading How to Establish a Modular Typographic Scale

15 Cool Infographics For Web Designers and Developers 2013

Today the use of infographic is popular to convert any large and in-depth information and data into graphic visual representations that are easy to understand and much interesting to read. The use of infographics is common today in newspapers, magazines, business presentations, studying statistics, understanding maps, educational fields, etc. to interpret data. But it has… Continue reading 15 Cool Infographics For Web Designers and Developers 2013

Building a Prelaunch “Coming Soon” Site with WordPress

While you might be tempted to keep your site offline prior to its completion, or hold off from creating a web presence until your product or service is ready, it might be a better idea to create a coming soon page to use during your prelaunch phase. Even you if think your site or project… Continue reading Building a Prelaunch “Coming Soon” Site with WordPress

15 Useful and Effective jQuery Lightbox plugins

jQuery is powerful and feature riched JavaScript library with nice event handling system, thus favorite among web designers/developers. Writing and using JavaScript is always a fun with jQuery for developers. jQuery and its plugins have made it possible to make web pages look appealing and user friendly. JQuery Lightbox plugins are used to overlay images… Continue reading 15 Useful and Effective jQuery Lightbox plugins

Incorporating Subtle Patterns and Minimalism into Web Design

Web design used to be about flashy, bright colors, attention-getters and flash animations that were full of movement and activity designed to be extremely noticeable. Front-end design standards have come a long way since those days, with flash quickly becoming a thing of the past and the professional standard for becoming more sophisticated than it… Continue reading Incorporating Subtle Patterns and Minimalism into Web Design

Free Long Shadow Flat Icons

Looking for long shadow style icons? Good, then you came to the right place! Flat design has been continuing virtually unchallenged for some time now, and it’s started to develop sub-styles. One of the most popular new trends is long shadow design, and you’d have to have been living under a rock not to have… Continue reading Free Long Shadow Flat Icons

21 Responsive HTML5 CSS3 Frameworks You’ll Love

Creating a Responsive Website can be daunting for most web designers, Responsive HTML5 CSS3 Frameworks is a quick and easy solution for designers. You should consider having Frameworks in your workflow to simplify your development process. These Frameworks or Boilerplates include the complicated grids, media queries and layouts ready for you to use your own design and… Continue reading 21 Responsive HTML5 CSS3 Frameworks You’ll Love

10 Wicked Freebies That Every Designer Should Download

Sometimes designing your own graphics from scratch can be a timely and daunting task, and going to the professionals can be very costly. In this post I have assembled an amazing collection of well designed free graphic elements that we do think are worth mentioning…for example; Flat icons, Flat design UI Kit, PSD website template… Continue reading 10 Wicked Freebies That Every Designer Should Download

20 Latest Retina Responsive WordPress Theme for 2013

Check out these latest 20 retina responsive wordpress themes from 2013.  The responsive trend has been ongoing since 2012. It is now a pretty standard fare for any themes developed after 2012 to be have a responsive template. At the same time, iPad users have been growing exponentially, which requires wordpress themes to be retina… Continue reading 20 Latest Retina Responsive WordPress Theme for 2013

How To Make a Letterpress Texture Effect in Photoshop

I’ve received a few questions recently about how I create the letterpress style texturing that appears on pretty much every retro/vintage design I make. Today’s tutorial will show you a quick and easy way to give your logos and typography that ink stamp style effect that originated from the old letterpress style printing technique.  … Continue reading How To Make a Letterpress Texture Effect in Photoshop

Improving Layout With Vertical Rhythm

Learning all about the ins and outs of the technical side of typography is good. It will give you a solid grounding when looking for typefaces or fonts and will help you understand a little more about the art of typography itself. You’ll soon realise how much hard work it takes to get type right… Continue reading Improving Layout With Vertical Rhythm

Logo Design Guidelines

Design a logo and a visual identity goes way beyond the free form and artistic side of what most people think. There is all the rational part including proportions, scaleability optical adjustments and reproduction that has to be thought in order to create an efficient and well design logo. The visual design guidelines will provide… Continue reading Logo Design Guidelines

30 Free WordPress Themes

WordPress is a very popular blogging platform and many people choose to host blogs on it. This comes as no surprise since WordPress is a free platform and also very easy to comprehend. Even beginners can create a blog with a beautiful design and get the traffic they are hoping for if they take a… Continue reading 30 Free WordPress Themes

10 Useful Tips For Debugging and Troubleshooting in Programming

With a shiny new file open in the text editor and not a line of code written, every new project seems full of possibility and promise. Several thousands of lines of code later, that same project can seem weighed down by bugs that make adding new features a pain, and drain the enthusiasm of programmers.… Continue reading 10 Useful Tips For Debugging and Troubleshooting in Programming

10 Ways Of Giving Your Website The Retro Look

A few days ago, I was watching the The Artist, a 2011 movie shot in the style of a black and white silent film, which got a lot of critical acclaim and won seven Oscars. While the movie deserved all the accolades it received, one of the reasons for its popularity was that it took people… Continue reading 10 Ways Of Giving Your Website The Retro Look

10 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting Effects

There is an open area in Photoshop to experiment with some amazing effects. You can play with any image in Photoshop creating some Lighting Effects which can be used in your upcoming print or web design. This article provides some Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting Effects.   Advanced Glow Effects Show me the light –… Continue reading 10 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting Effects

Responsive Design / Retina Ready WordPress Themes

Responsive and Multipurpose WordPress themes with modern design are very flexible for all devices. Premium themes are more easily to customize with immense possibilities. All themes are 100% responsive, each element, shortcode, slider and fully responsive, you can disable/enable responsive mode from the theme options. Multi-purpose responsive design themes are best suited for magazine websites, blog websites, and users who want to showcase their work on a… Continue reading Responsive Design / Retina Ready WordPress Themes

Featherweight UI – A free, vector based and retina ready UI kit for web designers

has released Featherweight UI – A free, vector based and retina ready UI kit for web designers. Every element is vector based, retina ready and distributed through layers. Text and colours are easily editable. This kit is completely free for use for personal or commercial projects. The font used is Lato Normal, available from Google Web Fonts for online… Continue reading Featherweight UI – A free, vector based and retina ready UI kit for web designers

Free Download: Flattastic UI kit

Give your flat design a boost with this Flattastic UI kit, designed by Vlade Dimovski, free to download and simple to use. The PSD is properly layered, with intuitive naming, making modifying it for your own projects a synch. The design features four pairs of complimentary colors perfect for any flat design: bittersweet, which is #FC6E51 and… Continue reading Free Download: Flattastic UI kit