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Apr

12 Essential Plugins Every WordPress Blog Should Have

Plugins help make the development and design of sites easier and more fun. Here are 12 of my favorite plugins that I believe should be installed on every Wordpress blog.

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22
Apr

15 Great Places to Find Design and Development Screencasts

Screencasts, in the design and development industry, are primarily focus on tutorials and methodology used in designing, coding, or organizing a website (or element of a website). They offer an alternative to those pages and pages of steps and diagrams found in your typical print tutorial. I’ve rounded up 15 of my favorite places to watch screencasts about design and development.

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12
Apr

30 Free Professional Light Fonts

If you are looking for a nice font, but need something not too dominant, using a light font or it’s light version would be the way to go.

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25
Mar

75 RSS Feeds Every Designer Should Follow: Design Community Connect (Part 2)

Last week we started on a series geared towards new designers getting connected to the design community. This week we continue the series with a look at great design blog RSS feeds to follow as well as some tips to consuming large amounts of content.

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10
Mar

10+ Tools to Determine Your Website’s Rockstar Status

Determining a website’s popularity can be beneficial when you’re looking for areas of growth or sizing up the competition. Use these 10+ tools to help determine a website’s popularity and figure out if your site has a Rockstar status that you can show off to your friends.

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19
Feb

16 Blogs To Help You Master the Business of Design

When starting out as a designer, especially a freelance designer, it is easy to focus solely on expanding your design skill set. Learning about design, working on design, and showing off your designs comes natural because that’s what a designer’s suppose to do, right? But many times you may be required to take your creative hat off and put on some business pants in order to become a successful freelancer. I’ve compiled several of the best in the business of talking about the business of design, especially freelance design.

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25
Jan

8 Essential Tools for Website Redesign Efficiency

Redesigning a website takes time and energy. Having the right tools at hand can help speed up your redesign and get you back to your real work. Here are 8 tools to maximize website redesign efficiency.

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07
Jan

7 of the Best Free Vector Image Resources

A compilation of some of the best places to find free vector images and artwork for your next design. Bookmark for your design resource folder.

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29
Dec

Best of the Best in Web Design 2009

We’ve compiled a Best of List of all the Best of Lists for Web Design in 2009. It’s your one stop for looking back on what was great in the design community in 2009!

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18
Dec

12 Days of Christmas: Gifts for the Web Designer

12 last minute gift ideas for the web designer in your life. No geese-a-laying or maids-a-milking here.

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