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Principles to Become (and stay) Strong in the Search Engine Rankings
Here we will look into a few factors that will help you stay strong in search engine rankings.9 Best Modern Web Design Tutorials and Articles
Web Design field is growing very fast and as a modern web designer you should know new design techniques such as CSS3 and Web 2.0 . A visitor to your website is going to decide to stay or leave your website in just a few seconds. If the design looks out of date,Web Design: 40 Fantastic Examples
In many of my previous posts on website design I have always categorized the style of websites that I was showcasing. In this post, I have decided to compile some of the most visually appealing websites from all kinds of different design styles that are out there today. From retro inspired designs to the very creative. So if you are looking for some inspiration this article will absolutely get the job done. Enjoy!Top 15 SEO Extensions For Your Joomla CMS
We need Joomla SEO Extensions to help us tweak our websites so that it ranks higher and beat the competition.9 Useful Wordpress Poll And Rating Plugins
These useful Wordpress plugins let you create your own polls and rating system to receive your reader's feedback.Digital Art: Most Beautiful CG girls On The Web (Part 1)
I have said it in the past and I will say it again, the talented artists and their outstanding works that I showcase on designrfix.com never cease to amaze me. Today I have assembled an amazing collection of beautiful CG girls in 2d, most of these great works are created in Photoshop and Painter. This article is a two part series on digital art. Enjoy and stay tuned for part 2.10 Firefox Addons Every Web Designer Should Know
If you are web designer you absolutely use firefox because of Firefox has some cool add-ons which make the job of website designers much easier and fast. We’ve selected 10 helpful add-ons for web designers hope it will benefit.50 Useful Cartoon Character Design Tutorials
With these cartoon character design tutorials, you can easily get started and arm yourself with intermediate skills for character designs.Inspiration: 27 Great Logo Design Galleries
There are many sources of inspiration that designers utilize when trying to get their creative juices flowing. If you are working on a logo design for a client or just for fun, this is a must see article. In this post I have assembled a great list of logo design galleries that will definitely inspire you to bring your logo design to the next level. Enjoy and happy surfing!Beautiful Olympic Inspired Designs
With the Olympics in full swing many of us are glued to the TV cheering our country on to win those Gold medals. Keeping with the Olympic spirit, I have decided to compile a beautiful collection of Olympic inspired designs from various artists from around the globe. I hope that these works will inspire you to create your own Olympic designs. Enjoy!CSS Graphs And Charts: 11 Hand-picked Tutorials And Solutions
CSS Graphs and Charts are best way to visualize and present your data. Here we share 11 solutions for that.Google Olympic Logos from Past To Present
Google has for many years doodled on their homepage. These doodles are decorative changes that Google makes to their cooperate logo to celebrate certain holidays and other world events. In keeping with the decade long tradition, Google has doodled Olympic events on their website to commemorate this special global event.Giveaway: Win 1000 Business Cards!
We have a nice giveaway for card lovers this week! 1000 Free Business Cards to Giveaway to 4 lucky people (each winner gets 1000) courtesy of Allbusinesscards.com11 Fresh Google Buzz wordpress plugins
Google Buzz is growing rapidly these times, its more of a necessity to have Buzz integrated to your bog theme right now for more interacting with your readers and fans.I hope these Buzz tools will help you integrate Google Buzz in your wordpress blog50 Awesome Website Design Galleries
For the longest time, one of my best sources of inspiration has been web design galleries. My favourite being The FWA: Favourite Website Awards which was founded in 2000. The FWA showcases the most cutting edge website designs. Since then there have been many web design galleries that have been popping up. In this post you will find 50 website design galleries that showcase the best websites from around the world. Happy surfing!15 Essentials of a Successful Website with Examples
When hundreds of web sites are designed up every other day, your website need to have something special to attract your potential customers. This time, Bestpsdtohtml decided to work upon the successful websites and its essential characteristics.Get Your Clients to Stop Comparing Rates
You are the best at what you do. No other freelancer can do what you do as well as you do it. The problem, however, lies in getting clients to understand this. This is particularly hard if you’re still in the start-up stage, where you’re having to find the clients, instead of them coming to you. In certain industries, like design, it’s easier to get the client to understand the difference in quality and rates (although designers still get rate-comparing clients), but if you’re a developer or writer, it’s tougher to get the client to understand the difference.Google Buzz Free Icons And PSD Files
Google Buzz is a new way to Start conversations about the things you find interesting. Share updates, photos, videos and more with your friends.It is the best social product launched by Google compared to orkut and google wave20 Best PSD to Wordpress Service Providers
A quick website setup is what everybody loves these days. The level of competition has been raised so much that no webmaster can afford to let their prospects wait for his website to stand and run.23 Wordpress E-commerce Plugins To Set Up Online Store
In the last few years Wordpress improves itself so much and every day and maybe every hour new plugins are being released for Wordpress.When Wordpress was first released it was hard to imagine to use wordpress platform as a shopping platform or selling anything from the blog but as you see below,many plugins are released for shopping,e-commerce solutions or even for donations.A Compilation of Free Retro Fonts for Designers
As designers, fonts play an important role to our designs. Choosing the correct font helps create the design more creative, artistic and unique.Website Design: 30+ Beautifully Designed T-Shirt Sites
Everybody knows how trendy t-shirts are. There are some really creative and fun designs out there. Last November I wrote a post about t-shirt designs titled: T-shirt Design: 50+ Awesome Examples. When coming up with this post, I said to myself why not create a post that focuses on both the design of the website along with some really cool t-shirt designs. So here you have it, the best of both worlds…cool websites and even cooler t-shirts. Enjoy!20 Great Project Management Tools
Project Management Tools can help us organize and manage project especially for team members that located at different locations.11 Popular Wordpress Plugins for Designers
WordPress Plugins as you know allow you easy modification, customization, and enhancement to a WordPress blog. Instead of changing the theme.So I've collected several WordPress plugins to help designers in enhancing of their wordpress.It has been almost two months since our last post on business cards. Since then I have assembled an amazing collection of fresh and creative business cards. I am confident that these new business card designs will stimulate your creative juices for your own beautiful designs. Enjoy!A Collection of Free iPad Icons, Tutorials and PSDs
Since its controversial release, the iPad has been both criticized and admired by the design community. In this post we have compiled a list of great resources, that teach you how to create your own iPad icons, as well as a collection of ready made icons and PSDs.Common Misconceptions about Web Designers
As a web designer, I’m proud to be a part of an Apple-loving, forward thinking, technologically advanced group of people that devour tutorials and web design blogs, hoping to create a stellar design that that gets posted in every CSS gallery out there. Yep, we’re a group of people that works hard, plays hard and strives to meet our deadlines, while learning something new along the way. We’re also a misunderstood group of people, viewed as gothic creatures that shun the daylight because we’re just tragic artists. Well, I’m here to set things straight. Here are some common misconceptions about being a web designer that just aren’t true.50 Fantastic Examples Of Origami Art Work
Origami,from oru meaning “folding“, and kami meaning “paper” is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object using geometric folds and crease patterns preferably without gluing or cutting the paper, and using only one piece of paper10 Ways To Make Your Blog Load Faster and Save Bandwidth
I have been tweaking my blog to make it load faster, but nothing seems to be helping. And eventhough I don’t have heavy traffic to my blog, often times it goes down And I am hosting my blog with basic hosting package, so is that the problem?10 Must See CSS Sprites Tutorials
CSS sprites are a way to reduce the number of HTTP requests made for image resources referenced by your site so it will increase page loading speed.This post looks at useful tutorials for CSS Sprites.Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks has a three-part video series for downloading and installing WordPress, all the way through everything else involved with designing a custom theme.Get Smart: 12 Free Educational Resources for Web Workers
Knowledge is a web worker’s number one advantage in an industry where ideas and technologies move fast. Although the internet is full of sites promising such knowledge, there are few quality tutorials or lessons out there. And if you want such lessons for free, then your options are even fewer. Here are 12 multimedia resources for expanding your skillset and staying in front of your competition.Styling Your Wordpress Comments
A fun part of customizing WordPress themes is designing a comments format which complements the rest of the site. Darrenhoyt has shared his three examples from recent projects, including code samples and downloads to the original .PSDs on ‘Styling Your WordPress Comments’. All of them looks stunning, are you ready to customize your comments template now?Multiple WordPress Loops Explained
The Loop is the heart of Wordpress. Creating multiple loops is the way to go if you want to display your content in inspiring and novel ways. Featured posts, portfolio listings, different styled categories, they are all created using multiple Wordpress Loops.I’ve had a few pagination scripts over the years but I thought i’d share the one that i’m currently using as it’s a useful script to have in your toolbox. As a developer you’ll soon find a need to paginate data when displaying contents from the database, and rather than use JavaScript which could require all the data to be loaded into the page on load, we can use PHP to ensure that we’re only requesting the data that we need from the database.Build a Bare-Bones WordPress 2.8+ Widget
With the release of WordPress 2.8, developers have a brand new widget API that makes creating widgets for WordPress a little bit easier. This tutorial will use the new system for developing our barebones “Hello World” widget.Optimizing WordPress for Search Engines
So, you have this amazing WordPress site, but for some reason the search engines just don’t show you much love. You post killer content, make it easy for users to share via their social networks, and people are subscribing to your RSS feed, indicating that they’re like what they’re reading. If you’ve tried everything to drive traffic to your website, and search engines still ignore your site, maybe you need to evaluate how search engine friendly your website is.10+ Brilliant On-line Tools for Freelancers
It’s amazing how many great free tools one can find on-line. If you’re a freelancer with a limited budget some of the free on-line tools listed below may be just what you’re looking for.Tips for Dealing with Competition as a Designer
Part of the struggle from the business aspect involves knowing how to encourage clients to use your services when there are a million other options out there. In this post we’ll take a look at the subject of competition for freelancers, and discuss some things that you can do to thrive in this competitive industry.49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009
What a year it has been for Photoshop… so many new techniques, so many fresh ideas and so many new and creative web sites offering free tutorials. In this post we have collected the best of them, focusing on photo manipulation, design and drawing, poster design, caricature design and finally, illustration within Photoshop. We have purposely omitted icon design, text effects and GUI tutorials, these will be following in the coming weeks, keep an eye out for them.How to Change the Default Gravatar in Wordpress
As much as I love seeing the mystery man appear in Wordpress comments across the internet, your blog deserves better. In this tutorial we’ll take a custom image and add it as the default gravatar to give your comment section a more personalized touch.How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch Part 1 2 3
Tutorial showing you how to create a wordpress theme from scratchThe photographic studio ArtLuz Studio, headed by photographer Alexandre Salgado, has been active in the publicity market for the past 25 years.How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial
In only 11 individual lessons this WordPress Theme Tutorial is going to show you how to build a powerful, up-to-date, WordPress Theme from scratch.Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks has a three-part video series for downloading and installing WordPress, all the way through everything else involved with designing a custom theme.Get Smart: 12 Free Educational Resources for Web Workers
Knowledge is a web worker’s number one advantage in an industry where ideas and technologies move fast. Here are 12 resources for expanding your skill set and staying in front of your competition.How to Create a Wordpress Theme from Scratch
This tutorial will look at taking a HTML/CSS template and turning it into a functioning WordPress theme. Looking at how themes are structured,... the core files and splitting up that index.html file.13 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Building WordPress Themes
Choosing a favorite cheat sheet for Wordpress is a good idea. Here you will find a good collection.Create an Awesome WordPress Theme Options Page
This is a multi-part part tutorial on how to create an options page for your WordPress Theme to give it premium elements... Once you have the technique it is possible to use it for other theme optionsHow to Make a Control Panel for Your WordPress Theme
While there are plenty of good tutorials for designing and coding themes, there are very few that touch on the process of creating a control panel. This one takes you through the process.One of the (many) nice updates the comes bundled in Wordpress 2.8 is with the_author_meta() template tag. This tag allows a developer to pull and display specific parts of any user’s information within a theme. Even though variations of this have been included in previous releases, this version has simplified it to a much easier syntax.Today we’re excited to announce our new Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking Code snippet If you want to improve the speed of your website and the increase accuracy of your Analytics data, then we think you’ll love this new option. Learn more about this new tracking code in our Google Code developer docs and get started with our migration guide.