It is more and more common that web developers use solid and mature multi-purpose CMS platforms, such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, for building professional and easy to maintain websites, web applications and webshops. These solutions are interesting because they are easy to set up, they make it a breeze to publish content and further you… Continue reading 30+ Stunning Joomla Virtuemart Templates
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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
Beginning With WordPress: Editing the Look of Your Site With CSS
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Beginning With WordPress So, now that we have a child theme set up we’re ready to get make some changes to the look and feel of our site. What You’ll Need Web browser – I’m using Chrome Text editor – I’m using Text Wrangler FTP… Continue reading Beginning With WordPress: Editing the Look of Your Site With CSS
20 New Useful Free PSD Templates for Designers
Designers used to create some new PSD templates for every new design. To save time and see some good example they need some free PSDs to help themselves in their new projects. Today I collect 20 New Useful Free PSD Templates for Designers. Blueprint Notice PSD Wooden Drawer Icon Minimal Clock Icon Retro Business… Continue reading 20 New Useful Free PSD Templates for Designers
9 Lightweight & Flexible PHP CMS
I used to write my own CMS (Content Management System) with PHP and MySQL. It’s not an easy task because you need to plan the structure of the CMS, its logic, testing and future enhancement. CMS development can get really complicated if it involves users with different roles. To cut it short, unless you have… Continue reading 9 Lightweight & Flexible PHP CMS
35 Flat Web Design Examples For Inspiration
Have you already caught on to the newest trend – flat web design? If not have a peek at how others have done. A few years ago, the use of effects and gimmicks was prevalent in web design. However, as with everything else design trends changes, and what used to be out of fashion becomes trending… Continue reading 35 Flat Web Design Examples For Inspiration
Beginning With WordPress: First Steps With Your New Website
Well… would you look at at that… a whole new WordPress site! Clever you! Have you logged in yet? If so, you might be sitting looking at the Dashboard wondering what the heck you do next… so, let me help you with that! (Failing that you’re wondering what on earth a Dashboard is, that’s ok,… Continue reading Beginning With WordPress: First Steps With Your New Website
Genesis 2.0 — This WordPress Framework Manages To Impress
When it comes to frameworks for WordPress themes, the options are plenty but few names stand out from the crowd. One such name is Genesis. Genesis is an extremely popular and well-loved WordPress theme framework from the stable of StudioPress. It has its own share of loyal followers and users, which range from theme creators, designers and developers… Continue reading Genesis 2.0 — This WordPress Framework Manages To Impress
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
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
WordPress Help: 25 Blog and Resource Websites
The open source PHP/MySQL WordPress platform is one of the most stable scripts for any webmaster. With the advent of Custom Post Types it is now possible to turn any WordPress website in a full-blown gallery of social network. I have been so impressed with recent advancements that I feel it’s worth cataloging some of… Continue reading WordPress Help: 25 Blog and Resource Websites
Useful Hacks to Make WordPress Work Better
If you came here looking for ways to break into someone’s WordPress site, you choose the wrong definition of the word hack. No, this article is all about ways to make WordPress work better for you and your visitors by getting your hands dirty with WordPress’ actual code, you know the functions.php files, .htaccess and… Continue reading Useful Hacks to Make WordPress Work Better
Applying Categories, Tags and Custom Taxonomies to Media Attachments
Have you ever been frustrated by the fact that WordPress doesn’t let you assign categories or tags to your images or uploaded media? Imagine how useful it could be: you could create dynamic galleries of images from specific places or of specific types (landscapes, abstracts etc.), or you could create listings pages for sites with… Continue reading Applying Categories, Tags and Custom Taxonomies to Media Attachments
WordPress 3.6 Oscar Released
After much delay, WordPress 3.6 has finally been released into the wild. If you are an Elegant Themes users and are wondering whether or not you should upgrade, I am here to tell you to “go for it!” We have tested the latest version of our themes with the 3.6 launch, as well as the release candidates,… Continue reading WordPress 3.6 Oscar Released
20+ New FREE WordPress Themes from August 2013
For this monthly installment, we are going to showcase more than 20+ new free WordPress themes that were released in July 2013. As developers continue to take up the challenge of creating brand new themes for WordPress, we gathered the best and newest among them and presented them in one convenient post that you can… Continue reading 20+ New FREE WordPress Themes from August 2013
The Best Place for WordPress Devs to Get Design Work Done
Envato have recently launched a new service, currently in beta, called Microlancer. It’s a place where people can sell their creative services, or get creative work done. What’s Microlancer? The difference between Microlancer and other freelance job sites is that every Microlancer service is sold at a fixed price. Services are also generally smaller jobs… Continue reading The Best Place for WordPress Devs to Get Design Work Done
New Premium Responsive WordPress Themes
Many Premium WordPress themes are created so that they can earn money. A lot more effort goes into designing these themes and also most of the times premium themes use many features and elements that give a great platform to provide content through the web pages for the web owners. Moreover many times Premium web… Continue reading New Premium Responsive WordPress Themes
25 Free High Quality WordPress Themes
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From our shock family to you: 10 convenient Ready-to-download freebies you should get now
Hi there, fellows. Here at webdesignshock we like providing you with only quality design resources. This week, we bring you a complete list of the latest freebies we’ve been working on and you’ve been able to see in our shock family sites. Handy free resources to enhance your work. Take a look. Free, minimalist magazine… Continue reading From our shock family to you: 10 convenient Ready-to-download freebies you should get now
A Look at the WordPress HTTP API: A Practical Example of wp_remote_get
Free download: CORP responsive WordPress theme
15+ Creative WordPress Themes For Photographers Released June 2013
In this article, we are going to show you more than 15 new WordPress themes for photographers that were released in June 2013. I have written about fresh WordPress themes earlier and in this post I decided to focus on theme designs for photography websites. If you are a photographer, artist or a creative person… Continue reading 15+ Creative WordPress Themes For Photographers Released June 2013
The best Design related articles of the month
A lot of professionals have created in the latest years a strong bond with the web to the point of almost total dependence; designers, programmers, writers, marketers, photographers, illustrators and much more fit in this. We, together, have created a sort of ecosystem by making contributions everyday. Call it design tips, plugins, PSD freebies, tutorials,… Continue reading The best Design related articles of the month