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Wordpress Theme News – Woothemes and iThemes go GPL!

// August 9th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blogging, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, webdesign, webmaster


WooThemes - Finally a themes club that is here to stay

For those not following the latest WordPress and GPL theme news lately, some big stuff has happened in the past week or so. First, iThemes announced they were going GPL, and WooThemes followed suit later in the week.
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10 “Hot” Free Wordpress Themes

// August 7th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Geeks, Magazine Theme, Useful, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, webdesign, webmaster


Here are 10  Wordpress themes that I’ve found and thought were well done. Check them out and Enjoy! Remember to digg this post!

nisposamag

Demo / Download

marikit

Demo / Download / More Info

Marikit | Demo | Download Marikit
Marikit – Blue | Demo | Download Marikit – Blue
Marikit – Green | Demo | Download Marikit – Green
Marikit – Red | Demo | Download Marikit – Red
Marikit – Yellow | Demo | Download Marikit – Yellow

cssgallery

Demo / Download / More Info|

Treehouse

Demo / Download / More Info

DemoDownloadMore Info / Custom Field Guidlines

Live Demo | Download | Setup & Installation Documentation | Support

Details | Demo | Download The Clam Shell

skinpress demo
Download theme | Demo
celadon

More Info / Demo / Download


maalaga

Maalaga | Demo | Download Maalaga
Maalaga – Blue |
DemoDownload Maalaga – Blue
Maalaga – Green |
DemoDownload Maalaga – Green
Maalaga – Orange |
DemoDownload Maalaga – Orange
Maalaga – Violet |
DemoDownload Maalaga – Violet





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16 New FREE Magazine Style Wordpress Themes

// August 7th, 2009 // 9 Comments » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Magazine Theme, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, webdesign, webmaster


I did a search tonight for some new Magazine styles Wordpress Themes and I found some really nice ones especially the wpjunction.com themes. Good Stuff! Problem with those is I really had to search to find the download files since the main website is currently under construction and isn’t listing the download files on the website just links to the demo sites. It’s possible he plans on removing them so I’d download them now. Better safe then sorry. I’ve seen this happen before where a designer will offer their themes for free and then change their mind and start selling them as premium themes. Anyway, I’ve posted 14 of them in this post. Enjoy and comment! Digg the post!

Yestilo – Free Wordpress Theme by Jinsona
Yestilo - FREE WORDPRESS THEMES BY JINSONA - Demo

More Info / DemoDownload

Zitizen - Free Wordpress Theme by JinsonaZitizen FREE WORDPRESS THEMES BY JINSONA- Demo

More Info Demo / Download

GenM Free Wordpress Theme

GenM Free Wordpress Theme - Demo

More Info / Demo /  Download

Elegant Designs Simplistic 4 -
Free Elegant and Simplistic Wordpress Theme

Elegent Designs Simplistic 4 Theme - Demo

More Info / Demo / Download

Elegent Designs Translight

More InfoDemoDownload

SoftMag by wpjunction.com

Free Magazine style Wordpress Theme - SoftMag - Premium Quality!!

More Info / Demo / Download

Beachlermag Free Wordpress Theme

beachlermag

More InfoDemo / Download

CianMag Theme by wpjunction.comcianmag demo

More Info / Demo / Download

NatMag Free Wordpress Theme

natmag demo

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ClassicMag Free Wordpress Theme

classicmag demo

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Yagezine
yagezine demo

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Starmag Free Wordpress ThemeStarmag Free Wordpress Theme

More info / Demo / Download

Eldromag Free Wordpress Theme
eldromag demo

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BorisMag Free Wordpress Theme
BorisMag Demo

More InfoDemo Download

StyleIsle Free MagazineTheme for Realtors

More InfoDemoDownload

Corporate Free magazine style Theme

Corporate Demo
More info / Demo / Download





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How to turn off post revision in wordpress and decrease database size.

// August 6th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blogging, Code, Design, For Geeks, Geeks, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, wordpress tutorials


How to turn off post revision in wordpress and decrease database size.

delete_remove_turn_off_wordpress_post_revisionRevisions posts feature was introduced in wordpress 2.6 this feature turned on by default in 2.6+ versions. Revision posts create a lot of extra entries into your database and causes of database growing at very high speed.


So if you are worry about the size of your database or you don’t need hundreds or thousands of revisions posts in you database.

Here is the solution.

Open your wp-config.php into a text editor and add following lines into it.

define(’AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL’, 500 ); // seconds
define(’WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false );

This will increase the auto save time from 60 seconds to 500 seconds
and you will not get auto saved posts.

And if you want to delete already created revision posts from your database than go to your hosting control panel and open

PHPMyAdmin and run this SQL-query:

DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”;

If you don’t want to edit your database there is a plugin Revision Control available for you.




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Don’t Miss Out on Local SEO Opportunities

// July 21st, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Affiliate Networking, Blogging, Code, Design, Featured, For Geeks, Geeks, SEO, Tutorial, free


Don’t Miss Out on Local SEO Opportunities

Local search engine optimization is a great way to charge up your search rankings. It’s a faster method for making sure you’re on the right track, and if optimized properly you can really take advantage of some targeted traffic that will only help your business in the future.

It doesn’t matter if you’re developing websites for a mom and pop local plumber or a multi-million dollar agency that will have thousands of dynamic pages, the same 13 steps to on-site SEO will need to be applied to each.

How to Write Blog Posts to Increase Search Engine Traffic – Here’s an easy formula to follow:

  • In your blog, write a post with keyword A in your title something catchy, more info on that over here at seomoz or copyblogger
  • Write in-depth and informative content related to keyword A
  • Target keyword A in a link from your post to page2.html
  • When appropriate, link out to other authorities that can offer more information about your keyword topic (Use this tip with caution. While you are trying to give the user more info and get the attention of the other site – thus possibly getting a link back to your site – you should try to strike a balance so that the effectiveness of your post is maximized without excessive links out from your site)
  • Remember to vary the way you link keyword A to page2.html (did you target long-tail keywords? Those are very easy to alter)
  • Repeat this process on each post for all pertinent keywords throughout your site

The nice thing about this formula is that you actually tackle quite a few of the common marketing questions that challenge many business owners.

Read this full article at alibiproductions.com

Also check out this blog –  Why No One Links to Your Best Posts (And What to Do About It) – Visit http://www.copyblogger.com/ for some really useful tips on Blogging and getting the attention you need to be successful blogger.





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80+ ridiculously rad social networking icons

// July 14th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, Desktop Icons, Facebook, For Geeks, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, Icons, RSS Feeds, Rss Feed Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, Useful, Wordpress, free, icon sets, webdesign, webmaster


Introducing 80+ ridiculously rad social networking icons, made by deft-fingered Haitian refugees, not really… but really. I’ve developed over 80 refined, amazing social networking icons for the top networks around. They’re all the rage with you crazy newsk00l intarweb kids. Use them on your blogs. Put them on t-shirts, coffee mugs, your face-space or whatevs.

These are just to cute I had to post them..Make sure to check out the website to download the rest of the icon set including the twitter icon and more.. at komodomedia.com!





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How to Make Money Online With Wordpress Themes!

// July 13th, 2009 // 7 Comments » // Affiliate Networking, Blogging, Code, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, I recommend, Magazine Theme, Premium Wordpress Themes, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, blog, free, web tools, webmaster, wordpress tutorials



Making money online. When you hear those words, what’s the first thing that pops into your head? A year ago, I would’ve instantly thought “Google ads on a website”. I’m sure that’s what many of you thought of too.
There are literally hundreds of ways to make money online, and if you can just perfect one of those methods, you’ll be good to go. Maybe not quit-your-day-job rich, but you’ll have a very comfortable amount of secondary income coming in every week. Who wouldn’t want that?
In this post, I’ll be outlining the 3 best ways to make money with Wordpress themes. I’ve used each of these methods myself, and have experimented around in all three. I know what works best for me, and what doesn’t. At the end of the post, I’ll let you guys know my opinion on what I feel is the best technique.

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5 Wordpress Themes that ROCK

// July 13th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, I recommend, Magazine Theme, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, Wp Themes, webdesign, webmaster


Here’s 5 rockin’ and FREE Wordpress themes. Please click on the screenshots to access the themes demos and downloads.

Mobipress Wordpress Theme

Gamezine Wordpress Theme


I’m currently using this theme on my Layne and Demri site. I LOVE it.

Bizzine Wordpress Theme

Rocksolid Wordpress Theme


I love this theme and I’m currently using it on my WeLoveDoodles.com website.

FX Mag Wordpress Theme





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11 Free Wordpress Themes

// July 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Magazine Theme, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes, Wp Themes, webdesign, webmaster


Check out these sweet and FREE Wordpress themes. If you want something simple the Blue Chronicles theme would be perfect if your looking for a magazine style theme make sure to check out Light CSS, Indomagz Magazine and the FourWPTP Theme. If you want be creative go for the Deli theme. Very cute and I can think of a thousand ways to use that theme.

Free Wordpress Themes

Just click on the screenshots below to visit the designers website and download the themes.

Light CSS Wordpress Theme

Blue Chronicles Wordpress Theme

BlunGrey Wordpress Theme

Blue-R Theme Wordpress Theme

Flambeau Wordpress Theme

fourWPTP – 4 Column Widget Ready Wordpress Theme

Deli Store Wordpress Theme

SpaceGloss Wordpress Theme

Roundbox Wordpress Theme

Indomagz Magazine Wordpress Theme

Wpsora Wordpress Theme





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11 Open Source (FREE) Photoshop Alternatives

// June 21st, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Apple, Applications, Design, Design Resources, Featured, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, I recommend, Photoshop, Software, Useful, Windows, art, free, web tools, webdesign, webmaster


I’ve been doing some research online tonight for a FREE alternative for Photoshop – my Photoshop installation recently became corrupt (no clue how but it might have something to do with the fact it was cracked..um yeh) Call me evil, I just call me poor.

Anyway, I can’t seem to completly uninstall Photoshop and so it won’t allow me to re-install it… and since Photoshop cost about USD $649 per copy... I’ll most likely be using an alternative until I can format my hard drive.

Anyway, I can not work with out some type of imaging software. Period. I’ll let you know which one I decide on.

11 Open Source (FREE) Photoshop Alternatives

Artweaver

Artweaver isn’t just a Photoshop alternative like GIMP, but a fair clone of Photoshop itself. While Artweaver lacks the polish and advanced feature sets of Photoshop, the menus are laid out like they are in Photoshop and the tools function close enough that use is intuitive. The programs are so similar, in fact, that seasoned Photoshop users will find themselves wondering why a feature is suddenly missing from the menu. While it isn’t a true replacement for Photoshop, Artweaver’s feature set is robust; it includes layer management, image cloning, a history function, transparency, pen tablet support, and a host of the common filters in Photoshop. Artweaver is available as a full install or in a portable version. Artweaver is a free download for Windows only.

Fotographix Beta 3

Fotografix is an amazing example of what creative developers can accomplish in less than one meg. The 680Kb portable application is a very capable image editor and provides nearly all the same functionality I utilize in Photoshop on a daily basis. It was a no-brainer to include in my list of 40 apps you can download in two seconds. Mirrored on Freeware Files.

GIMP

gimp.org

GIMP stands for “GNU image manipulation program”, and it is one of the oldest and most well known alternatives to Photoshop in existence. Although it doesn’t quite have all of them, you’ll find most of the features included in Photoshop somewhere in GIMP. GIMP is cross platform and supported by a large community.

If just having the feature set isn’t enough for you, there is an alternative based on GIMP known as GIMPShop. It’s the same as GIMP, except the layout has been structured as close to Photoshop as possible, so anyone making the transition should still feel right at home.

Inkscape

Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format.

Krita

Krita has been lauded for ease of use and won the Akademy Award for Best Application in 2006. Part of the Koffice suite for [Linux only] , Krita is slightly less powerful than both Photoshop and GIMP, but does contain some unique features. It has become very popular recently due to its ease of use. While it is not as feature-rich as the Photoshop, or even GIMP, it does contains the necessary tools to create/edit a professional image from scratch. In fact, the latest version contains some features that are not found in both GIMP and Photoshop.

ChocoFlop

ChocoFlop is a design application designed exclusively for [Mac only] , optimized for Mac architecture. It’s quick and fairly well featured. This program won’t always be free, but until a stable version is released (it’s currently in beta) they are allowing free use. The program works pretty well as is, and if you’re the type who doesn’t mind an occasional bug it’s certainly worth a look.

Picnik

Picnik is a web based photo editor that has recently taken off due to a partnership with Flickr. It has all the basic features plus a few advanced ones like layers and special effects. It is cross platform since you only need a browser.

Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe actually has a free web based photo editor of their own. Adobe Photoshop Express has all the basic functionality you’d expect as well as a few advanced features (sadly though, no layers), and interfaces well with a number of photo sharing websites. Again, completely cross platform.

Paint.NET

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

CinePaint 0.23

CinePaint is a deep paint image retouching tool that supports higher color fidelity than ordinary painting tools. One of the advantage that it has over GIMP is that it is able to support 32-bits image (GIMP only supports 8-bits image). Cinepaint is mainly used by developers in the flim industry for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching. The current version runs on Linux, BSD, Mac OSX. Stable version for Windows is not available at the moment.

PhotoPlus


PhotoPlus [Windows only] is the amazing photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance digital photos, create stunning bitmap graphics and even web animations.

Links

There’s also free web services that allows you to perform basic image editing online.
Here’s few examples:





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Hatched! Twitter Eggs – Free Twitter icon set

// June 20th, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Blogging, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, Useful, icon sets, webdesign, webmaster


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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.





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10 New Social Networking Icon Sets

// June 15th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Facebook, Graphic Design, Graphics, Icons, Rss Feed Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, Useful, icon sets, webdesign, webmaster


I’m constantly looking for new social networking icon sets to post but they are few and far between. Good ones at least.

Here are 10 social networking icon sets.  A few of them are new to me and a few are not.But all of them are cool.

Make sure to do a search for social networking icons on my website. I’ve posted a ton of them. Also if you know of any new sets that have not been posted here.. pleeze let me know!

Leave a comment, subscribe to my RSS Feed! Follow me on Twitter!

Curly Vector Social Icons





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My Freelance Suitcase – Useful tools for Freelancers

// June 15th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Admin Tools, Blogging, Cool Links, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Geeks, I recommend, Ipod, free, web tools, webdesign, webmaster


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.

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Web design build questions to ask (yourself) or new clients

// June 11th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Code, Design, Design Resources, For Geeks, Geeks, Tutorial, Useful, webdesign, webmaster


Working Girl

If your a webmaster or web designer I highly recommend you read the rest of this post at www.simonday.com

This is a great resource for anyone who does freelance design or builds websites.

Web design build questions to ask (yourself) or new clients

What do you want the web site to do for your company?
(is it to just promote brand awareness and for people who hear about them and then go to their site, will people be finding them through search engines, is it existing clients looking for support or news, are you selling online, are you offering downloads, company reports etc)

Who is your target audience (age / level of internet experience etc)?
(Do they require a modern, fast paced, highly graphical site to target the younger generation or a more user friendly site for the less experienced or older internet users. )

What image do you want to portray (Professional / Casual / cutting edge etc)?
(Some sites use white space and limited text to give a relaxed feel while others use lots of images and text to give the site a busy feel. Define the feel of the site)

If you have branding what colours, fonts, styles do you use?
(See business cards, letterheads etc). More often that not the sole trader will have no graphics, no logo and no identity so in these cases you need to ask the client for colour schemes they think fit with the ideas but also do market research on the competition because the client may not be right.

CORE QUESTIONS:

What do you absolutely definitely want on the site?
(This list could include blog, shopping cart, members log in, private areas, RSS feeds. Gallery newsletter, contact forms, advertising space, different languages, search facility, etc)

What would you like if possible/within budget?

What absolutely must be on the homepage and what is the order of priority?
(This is a core question and you should allow the client time to ponder and discuss this with you. Their answers here should define the position of the building blocks. The answers could be phone number, email, help icon, downloads, cart total, core product links etc.)

What must be visible at all times?
(Every page has a fold. A fold is below the visual part of the page and requires you to scroll down to see it. I have a height I use but you should decide for yourself where it should be. The client must understand this and agree what can go above and below).

How many links will be needed and how many levels of navigation will there be?
(You need to understand the journey paths and decide how far down the link structure will go (level one, level two, level three etc)





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Mini Social Networking Icon Set – komodomedia.com

// June 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Design, Design Resources, Facebook, For Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, Icons, Rss Feed Icons, Social Network, Social Network Icons, Twitter, Useful, free, google, icon sets


This icon set consists of 30 (16×16) finely crafted social media icons. They are free to use non-commercially. Put them on your blog or on your website to help users bookmark or share your site socially. I hear its all-the-rage these days.
www.komodomedia.com





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