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Custom Colors on WordPress.com

Now that’s an awesome way to leverage the WordPress 3.4 theme customizer! The Custom Design upgrade on WordPress.com gets a Custom Colors update — it allows you to color your blog to your taste, with those awesome predefined color palettes, color matching recommendations, or complete control with manual color picking. Let’s hope the whole Custom Design package makes it into...

Automattic.com Goes Mobile Friendly

Those clever devils at Automattic done launched a new responsive site: /via @kristastevens — Responsive Design (@RWD) June 10, 2012 Yes, so now we’re cool, just like everybody else in town :) By the way, the new Twitter embeds are working like a charm in WordPress 3.4 (as you can see), so I had to disable my Twitter Embed plugin, which you can still use if you want to embed tweets...

Wilhelm Joys Andersen: Responsive Web Design

From WordCamp Norway 2012, earlier this year, an awesome presentation by Wilhelm, who takes us through the world of responsive wed design. It isn’t something new, I agree, and as he mentions media queries have been around for over 10 years. However, it’s very nice to catch up on things, since a lot of WordPress theme developers are still overlooking all of this. One important aspect...

5 Websites To Get Feedback For Your Design Concepts

I was thinking of launching a similar startup in October. I thought of making it easier for designers and photographers to share their work online with their friends, co-workers and people they don’t know in order to receive good feedback. I did some research and spoke to some of my friends online about where and how they share their work. It turns out that designers don’t really like...

Creating Mockups with Mockingbird

Everyone these days knows that creating any user interface should start with a mockup. Whether it’s something drawn on a piece of paper or almost designed in Photoshop. When speaking about application UI, software like Borland Delphi or Microsoft Visual Basic would be just fine, especially if you need to create some simple click events. The web though is slightly different, and creating...

Inspired: Web Design Showcase October 2009

Browsing the Internet, reading Twitter streams, RSS feeds… I see billions of websites everyday (kidding) and there’s lots of stuff out there that inspires me everyday, so I’ve decided to run a new series called “Inspired” where I’ll post the most interesting stuff I come across (monthly, weekly, yearly, I don’t know yet, maybe I’ll close this down...

Powered by Delicious: Web Design, Coding & HTML5

This is my first “Powered by Delicious” post, but I plan on writing similar posts at least once a month or so, depending how many links I bookmark. Here’s a list of some of my latest delicious bookmarks, with goodies on web design, coding, html5, photoshop, javascript and a bunch of other stuff. The Most 10 Common Mistakes Web Designers Make | Noupe 50+ Top Free Icon Resources...

WordPress: Theme Design Tips & Tricks

Greets. If you never did a WordPress theme before, then this post is for you. As you may already know, I released my very first wordpress theme a couple of weeks ago and it’s the one you’re looking at right now (unless you’re reading this from last year’s archive). I can’t say it was very easy developing it, but I noted down some tips that would make the process...

Blog Redesigned: Hi, This is the New Me!

Done! Wohooo! That seemed to take forever but my brand new WordPress theme is now complete and polished. Apperantly this is my first ever WordPress theme done from scratch. I started sketching like a week ago in Corel PaintShop Pro X2 (btw I don’t like to do Photoshop ’cause I’ve been using PaintShop Pro for around 6 years and got pretty much used to it. Looking forward to Adobe...