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CSS Type Set - Create custom CSS type styles with this tool.
CSS Superdouche - Strip unneeded content and redundant calls from your CSS, reducing its size and complexity.
Code Beautifier - Format and optimize your CSS code.
CSSFly - In-browser [...]

It’s not easy finding nice themes for photoblogs..believe me, I’ve been on the search and so here are the 8 themes that pass the my stringent geek test. All are 100% geek approved. Plus I’ve added 3 Wordpress plugins that have been developed specifically made for photo-blogs.

Here are two really cool hand drawn social networking icon sets that I think would really help your blog stand out in the crowd. Add some chic to your geek and Visit the artists websites to download these sets

Heart: A Free Social Icon Set - Download at Smashingmagazine.com

64×64 Examples:

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Your design could win up to $3,500 plus residuals!

This is such a cool site! You can submit your own designs and win mola!
Win Shirt of the Day, Shirt of the Week & Shirt of the Month!

How it Works

Five new Shirt of the Day winners are chosen each week. Each wins $750 ($500 cash, $250 credit).

http://www.IconLook.com

I found this website today it’s called IconLook.com which basically uses a search engine style navigation of a huge icon database. So, If your looking for icons to use in your designs, or if your looking for the elusive bullet.. check out the IconLook.com. Try their tag page to start. Very useful, huge database!

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What makes a reader want to subscribe to a blog? Simply put, they understand what your blog is about, your brand, and they are attracted to it. If a reader doesn’t understand what you are serving at your blog, then they won’t know if they will like your future content.
Read more about how to Brand your blog…

Vervephoto — Documentry Photography — (RSS)

Positive-Negative.com (RSS)

The Daily Dose of Imagery - (RSS)

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The Hottest Wordpress theme designers online..this is the topic.

Here you’ll find a list of the best and the brightest Wordpress designers who offer free themes. Their themes might just help you make your blog look a little bit niftier then the rest. Not “Just another Blog”…These designers really know how to make use of nifty……

Take a look inside to find out who rules the school..

I love these little rounded social networking icons by Vikiworks.com and I’ve also included 8 more sets after the cut tag. Just click the Read More link below to view them. Instructions on how to add social networking icons to your blog posts without a plugin.
Build your own little icons with this icon generator like [...]

Here you’ll find over 50 links to Wood, paper and concrete textures. I love when designers use the wood and paper texture in their designs. I was thinking cardboard might look cool too. Like a will work for food sign? Haha! There are some really great free textures available on Flickr.com and [...]

Modern Oak Theme - Beautiful, dark Wood background, 2 column, widget ready and ad ready. Originally in dutch with English version available.
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Blue Jeans: Kind of a cute idea, a theme that uses a blue jean look and feel. This theme is available in both two-column and three-column style.
Preview & Download

Grunge by Ithemes Grunge [...]

Gotta Love the bloggie awards! Below you’ll find a short list of 2008 winners and nominees..presented by The 2008 Bloggie Awards.

Best Website/Blog Award Web Sites:
Bloggerschoiceawards.com - Blogger’s Choice Awards, is a user-generated blog voting site, Awards are presented to blogs currently making an impact in the blogosphere. Now accepting final nominations for the 2008 competition.
Webbyawards.com [...]

Announcing the Beautiful Agregado Lifestream Theme. This is the best theme I’ve seen so far and I’ve tested out..I’d have to say close to 100 Wordpress themes over the past year. This theme has a lot of really unique features and qualities that I haven’t see in any of the other themes that I think [...]

Gallery Description:

Free Dynamic Flash Gallery template is basically a dynamic Flash website with a Gallery section added in as an additional section with a navigation bar.

The gallery itself contains a set of images arranged in the order you prefer (rows of small pictures, previews of a larger image) which also has a Zoom button for a very large close-up view of the image.

Websites with a Dynamic Flash Gallery of this kind will definitely be a great help for photographers or artists who want to display their works on the Internet and want this to be done in the most elegant and attractive way.