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18Apr/090

10 Beautiful Non-Blog Websites Powered by WordPress

The time when WordPress was used strictly as a blog platform is long gone. WordPress has evolved into a mature CMS that gives designers and developers the right tools to create amazing non-blog websites for their clients. As proof for that stand these 10 beautiful websites powered by WordPress.

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18Apr/090

60 Beautiful Fractals Created with Apophysis:Part 1

Apophysis is a freeware Windows program for designing and rendering fractal flames. It was created by Mark Townsend and has since been improved and updated by Peter Sdobnov, Piotr Borys and Ronald Hordijk. Fractal Flames were originally developed in 1992 by Scott Draves.

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18Apr/090

Hover Effects in Web Design: Best Practices and Examples

In the following article, I will go over the best practices and techniques for hover effects. I will be using over 30 examples to show good use of hover effects.

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18Apr/090

9 Extremely Useful and Free PHP Libraries

A lot of functionality is shared among applications - like sending emails or preventing spam. In the spirit of reusing the wheel instead of reinventing it, here are nine free web libraries that you can use in your next program which will dramatically increase your efficiency.

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8Apr/090

Huge List Of Highly Extensible Photoshop Plugins

I selected separate plugins and featured them, however there were also many huge collections of plugins, so it didn’t make sense to copy&paste massive loads of text and images - I just put screenshot and link to them in that case.

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8Apr/090

20+ Tutorials for Working with Photoshop’s Tools

This post features more than 20 tutorials that will teach you essential techniques in Photoshop. In addition to tools, we’ll also showcase some tutorials that cover the Photoshop basics of layers and actions.

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8Apr/090

Top 10 Characteristics of a Great WordPress Plugin

 From that experience I have consolidated these good ideas into a checklist that you can follow when reviewing or coding a new WordPress plugin. Here are my picks of the top characteristics that make a great WordPress plugin.

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8Apr/090

10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques

With a “less is more” mentality, we’ve selected 10 very simple and impressive design techniques that can drastically improve the performance and appearance of your designs.

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8Apr/090

8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs

Here are 8 simple ways you can use CSS to improve your typography and hence the overall usability of your designs.

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8Apr/090

50 Excellent Image Galleries You Can Use Today

Here are 50 of our favorite free image galleries that you can quickly plug into a design. They've been built with everything from CakePHP to jQuery to Ruby on Rails. A shout-out to all the developers involved in sharing their work with the community!

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