These are so damn cute! Which came first the Twitter bird or the egg? Enhance your blog or site with these fun Twitter eggs. Available in PNG format in two sizes: 256 x 256 px and 128 x 128 px.
I’ve recently started taking on some freelance jobs and really just learning more about what is involved in being a freelance designer. It’s been interesting to say the least. I’ve found some really useful tools online that I wanted to share with my readers. I know a lot of designers visit this site looking for themes and social networking icons so hopefully these tools will be useful to some of you.
New set of icons “WHITE MAGIK” in .PNG format. But please link us back if you use it to chethstudios.blogspot.com.White Magik is perfect for white minimalistic sites and can be used with image hover for excellent looks!
30 of the best tutorials on web for converting A PSD to a XHTML & CSS layout. These tutorials you will learn the process on how to create a Photoshop web layout and be able to convert it into a valid XHTML & CSS web page. The tutorials are a step by step process which are easy to follow and keep up with.
I’m always looking for ways to make extra money online because lets face it there’s money to be made! Wether it be by freelancing my web design skills or affiliate marketing or selling stuff on Ebay.. it can be done. Or so I’ve been told. Right?
It’s taken my over a year to get half way to 100 bucks using Google adwords ads. Haha! Not a huge winner.
But.. In March I made something like $350 as an WP Remix Themes Affiliate . Shocking I know. My site was down most of April and half of May so I’ve only made 100 this month but I’m telling you that is a first for me.
I just wish I was WP Remix and not just their affiliate. Their theme is awesome so it’s not shocking that people are snatching them up.
I’ve made a few sales here and there selling other premium themes but nothing like this. So, if you have a design bog I recommend signing up as an affiliate and adding a banner to your site. You might make a few extra bucks.
Have you found anything online that’s brought you luck as far as making money with your site or otherwise? Share!! Please!
Managing web content has always been tricky, but with WordPress, any web designer can have a flexible, free and powerful CMS to use not just on blogging projects, but on all sorts of websites. In How To Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer you will learn step by step how to take a straight HTML site and power it with WordPress.During the course of the book you’ll build THREE WordPress themes, a blog, a portfolio site and a general site with menus and submenus. Each theme demonstrates different aspects of WordPress theming and all three are packaged with the book so you’ll have Photoshop, HTML, CSS and WordPress PHP files to refer to..
The book is aimed at anyone with a solid understanding of HTML/CSS. You don’t need to know PHP, you don’t need to have ever even touched WordPress before. The examples begin from scratch and build on each other, while basic PHP principles that are used are explained in an easy to understand manner.If you’ve ever wanted to get started with WordPress theming, or you’re looking to take your skills to the next level with advanced theming concepts, this is the book for you!
Price: 29.00 USD
You are buying this product directly from Rockable Press. Please contact Rockable Press for ANY questions related to this product or purchase.
212 Pages of Expert
Freelancing Advice
Covering everything from getting started to expanding your business, How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer is the official Freelance Switch book. Written by Collis & Cyan Ta’eed - the founders of the site - it’s packed with new information, advice and insights not covered on the blog.
If you want to start your freelance career the right way, then How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer will give you everything you need to become the best freelancer in town!
NattyWP has recently come out with some really sweet premium designs. I didn’t used to be a very big fan but after checking out this theme and a few of their other new themes.. I’m excited to see what else they have to offer.
Newsday will be a perfect choice for a news site (magazine), a corporate blog, and also as a business template for a company site. NattyWP
WP WooThemes Ultimate Icon Set and the idea is to expand and build on the set (which contains 79 icons at the moment) in the coming months. The free download contains all 79 icons, sized at 256×256 pixels and available in both PNG and GIF formats.
Free icon set - Quant
The set is available in gif format (filesize is smaller than png for two tone images). There are two sizes 36×36 pixels and 16×16 pixels. It is free for non commercial use and free for commercial use if you place a link back to this site.
Coquette Part 4 Icons
These free icons flirt with style! “Coquette” free icon set contains 50 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16×16px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format. Check out Dryicons.com for the other 3 sets.
Grace Free Icon Set
80 High Quality Icons for Web and Application use!
Stylish iPhone & iPod Touch Icon Set
This set contains 29 icons to replace the iPhone/iPod default icons and selected third-party applications, and it’s available exclusively as transparent PNG files. A selection of Dock and Wallpaper images
are also included. Stylish web 2.0 icon style. Free to download
in zip file. Download Now !
Free Icons by Axialis software
Web development icons
Web development icons is a set with 60 free icons in web 2.0 style (24×24). These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.
Michael Flarup of PixelResort has released a developer icon set of 150 32×32 icons called Pixelicious in celebration of his new site.Download the icon set Pixelicious from their site.
Websiteoutlook.com - is the perfect place to evaluate any website. When choosing to buy or sell a website having the proper information about your investment can be crucial to your success. Websiteoutlook is dedicated to finding all pertinent information that may pertain to your personal interest. And it’s FREE!
Google Webmaster Tools - Probably one of the best free tool sites for webmaster. It is Google after all. Free website analytics and tutorials.
scrubtheweb.com - ScrubTheWeb.com™ has been helping Website owners and search engine optimization services worldwide achieve top search engine rankings since 1996! Offers FREE tools such as Meta Tag Builder, Meta Tag Analyzer, Easy Submit and SEO tips and tutorials.
Copyright Generator - free online tool will generate a copyright notice that will automatically update when the year changes! No more having to change the date manually.
Viewstep.com - offer thousands of webmaster resources and webmaster tools for webmasters and developers. Resources include articles, seo tools, design tools, domain tools and other webmaster resources and many more to improve your web site.
Search Engine Position Tool - will check your site’s position on Google, Yahoo, MSN and AltaVista. Just enter the search terms you would like to use, and the URL of the site you wish to check, and click “Submit.”
Wpdesigner - Has a nice collection of free WordPress themes, mostly designed by Small Potato himself. Occasionally he also announces quality WordPress themes designed by others.
WpSnap - Quality over quantity. Unlike a lot of other free WordPress theme showcases out there, Wpsnap has only features high-quality handpicked themes.
Design Disease - Not a huge selection, but what they have is high quality.
Free WP Themes - This site has all of the templates from freecsstemplates.org ported into WordPress.
WordPress.net - Can’t forget the official WordPress theme viewer.
Brian Gardner - A nice collection of very popular free WordPress themes. Also the designer of the popular Revolution Theme.
ThemeShaper - Home of the popular Thematic and Launchpad WordPress themes
plaintxt.org - If you’re into minimalistic design, this is the place to get WordPress themes.
WP Theme Designer - Some very nice magazine-style WordPress themes, designed by ChiQ Montes.
WordPress Galleries
We Love WP - A showcase of the best designed WordPress sites. This stuff really shows all the amazing possibilities one can accomplish with WordPress.
LoopPress - Another WordPress gallery. Maybe I’m a little biased, but they must have good taste.
Gallerific - Yet another web design gallery, with a category for WordPress powered sites.
Other WordPress Sites
How To Spot-Er - Has an amazing collection of WordPress guides and tutorials
JaypeeOnline - This isn’t specifically a WordPress-related blog, but it does feature lots of blogging news, WordPress theme reviews, and a lot of other useful information.
Weblog Tools Collection - One of the top WordPress-related blogs around. They announce any new noteworthy theme or plugin releases for WordPress, along with any other news regarding WordPress.
WP Themes Gallery - A great WordPress-related blog and home of the famous “Top 40″ WordPress blog list.
WordPress Modder - A useful resource with articles and videos on modding your WordPress blogs.
Hack WordPress - Lots of great tips on modifying your WordPress blogs along with other news about the latest WordPress themes and plugins.
WPThemesPlugin - Another great WordPress resource site featuring the latest themes, plugins, and WordPress news.
WPZOOM - A new WordPress blog featuring themes, plugins, tips, and more.
WP Candy - Another WordPress-related site, highlighting some of the best themes, plugins, and WordPress-powered sites.
WP Project - A site offering free WordPress tutorials and tips, along with other WordPress articles and news.
This is pretty damn cool..The Revolution team recently made their whole set of Premium Themes available for free download. Then, they decided to remove the free tag and make them premium themes. Which means you can’t download them for free anymore.
Luckily, I found all the downloaded theme at millionclues.com (downloaded when they were freely available).
I almost feel guilty…but..according to millionclues.com they have confirmed with Brian Gardner that it is legal and kosher to use these themes.
So, Here I present you with the whole set of Revolution Two Premium Wordpress Themes.
All of them are available for Free Direct Download at millionclues.com.
Once again..Since these themes were downloaded from www.revolutiontwo.comwhen they were free to download.
These are legal copies! So, you can save the bitch fest.
A good way to promote your site is by using Feedburner for your RSS Feeds. One of their cooler features is their Headline Animator widget and if your anything like me and you love to design graphics then this can be a fun little project for you to add to your site.
For those of you who are not familiar with Feedburner..First you will have to register at Feedburner and burn your blog.
Once you’ve done that, log into your account, select your feed, click on the “Publicize” tab and look for the Headline Animator service which is listed in the left-hand side bar.
Under “Theme” select “provide your own background” from the drop down list. Required (GIF only).
Create your graphic in Photoshop. I created a .gif that was 243px × 110px pixels and a 468×60px .gif. (view them below)
Your Headline Animator will be the same size (height and width) as the background image. Play around with different shapes and sizes. Once you’ve uploaded the new graphic, feedburner allows you to drag and drop the animated text where it needs to be on the graphic and the length of the animated text box. You can also choose the text color of your font and the size. You don’t have a lot of control but you can play with it to make it look pretty cool if your creative. If you decide to make one..make sure to post your link here so we can all check out your creation.
If you have any questions or if you get stuck feel free to leave your questions here or check out Feedburner’s FAQ.
The following screencast is day #3 which is explained below:
WordPress for Designers: Day 3
Moving right along into day three of our Wordpress for Designers series; today we will start creating our own theme from scratch. We will have a close look at how exactly to go about setting up your themes stylesheet and information, as well as creating the index.php page. In addition, we will examine wordpress template tags, what they are, and how to use them properly.
Dean Robinson has recently released a new version of Fluency Admin 2.0 plugin that could significantly empower you to post with WordPress. The first thing you notice as you install it is the navigation. Really nice and slick space saving menu saves your energy when jumping from one section to another. This plugin makes everything just one click away. READ MORE…
Also “hot keys” for quick access are introduced in this new version. You might find them useful once you get used to them. Oh, I almost forgot about the fixed position of the navigation. No need for scrolling anymore. That’s something I really like about Fluency Admin.
Dean Robinson has recently released a new version of Fluency Admin 2.0 plugin that could significantly empower you to post with WordPress. The first thing you notice as you install it is the navigation. Really nice and slick space saving menu saves your energy when jumping from one section to another. This plugin makes everything just one click away. Also “hot keys” for quick access are introduced in this new version. You might find them useful once you get used to them. Oh, I almost forgot about the fixed position of the navigation. No need for scrolling anymore. That’s something I really like about Fluency Admin.
