Aug 26

Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes

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Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes

This is the first article in our new three-part WordPress series. I want to share with you some hacks that i found to be very useful when i was working on the redesign of Noupe and during the design of my other site Devsnippets. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.

You might be interested to check out our previous four part series, "Powerful guide to master Your WordPress Theme

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Posted in: Wordpress

Aug 25

Noupe´s Fresh Look, BIG Thanks and New Series

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Noupe´s Fresh Look, BIG Thanks and New Series

After one year using that brownish layout the time for a change has come.
With over 10,000 subscribers, it’s been a great year. We’re celebrating with a new look, and some changes to make the new design better.

If you’re reading this in your RSS reader, please click through onto the site to see the new look. Let me know what you think of it!

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Posted in: spotlight

Aug 20

The Showcase of Brilliant Pattern Designs

The Showcase of Brilliant Pattern Designs

Patterns are there, in front of you and me, on the blog you’ve come from, on books and album covers, wallpapers, t-shirts, chocolate boxes, almost everywhere. Every now and again we find a new pattern design which somehow manage to become the main element in catching our eyes, we just don’t know it until we search for it.

In this post we present a showcase of different examples using stunning pattern designs, just open your eyes and watch out for the next pattern.

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Posted in: graphics, photoshop

Aug 17

Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques

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Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques

Designing effective web forms isn’t easy, as we need to figure out more practical styling and functionality techniques to provide a great user experience.

Recently there have been a number of noteworthy techniques such as styling different form fields, live validation, Context highlighting, trading options from field to another, slider controls and more - using CSS and different Javascript libraries. Below we present findings of search to more than 40 tutorials and demos to showcase the capabilities and robustness of CSS and Javascript.


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Posted in: CSS, Tutorial

Aug 13

DevSnippets has Officially Launched with a $4600 Contest Prizes

DevSnippets has Officially Launched with a $4600 Contest Prizes

This week brings two big announcements for the site. First, we’re super excited to launch our new site at Devsnippets.com. As the name suggests Devsnippets.com serves as a public gallery about everything has to do with design and development stages, from HTML/CSS to javascript and ajax to things like WordPress hacks.

And secondly, I’m also pleased to tell you that we are announcing Our First Launch Contest here at NOUPE.

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Posted in: Contest, spotlight

Aug 10

Adobe Photoshop: 50+ High Quality .PSD Files and Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop: 50+ High Quality .PSD Files and Tutorials

It’s always fun to experiment different techniques and learn how to work with various aspects of Adobe Photoshop to spice up boring text or pictures and make them into works of arts and masterpieces. Today we’ve got you a marvelous set of more than 50 high quality Photoshop .PSD files to offer an assortment of techniques for making your next photoshop effect.


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Posted in: Adobe, photoshop

Aug 4

Websites you Shouldn´t have missed in JULY 2008

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Websites you Shouldn´t have missed in JULY 2008

July was a busy month, we have been watching great news, articles, tutorials, scripts, tips and lot of inspiration for web designers popping up everyday so we thought it would be a great idea to wrap all those resources in one package where you can check to fuel your energy for creativity.

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Jul 28

CSS Layouts: 40+ Tutorials, Tips, Demos and Best Practices

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CSS Layouts: 40+ Tutorials, Tips, Demos and Best Practices

The main idea behind CSS-based layouts is offering more flexibility and enhancing the visual experience of visitors. Some important tips and related key-factors can help to learn basics and keep essential techniques in mind. And this is what this article is all about. Finding the perfect Layout that have Total Flexibility, Equal Height Columns and just works fine.

So we’ve decided to take a deep look at articles about CSS-based layouts and the result was a list of 40 tutorials, resources and best practices offering gorgeous and valid CSS-based Layouts.


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Posted in: CSS, Tutorial

 
Beautiful and free social websites icon set for bloggers
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A beautiful and free icon set of the most popular social websites “in a bottle” to use in your blog

4 Ways Consulting Can Help Your Design Business
28th Aug | Jon Phillips

There are 4 main reasons why I do consulting and how I think it helps my design business. Keep in mind that these can also be applied to any other business like writing, blogging, programming, etc…

List of 15 Websites with Wood Background Structure
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CSSCount 15 list of wood background websites, some of this are web design portfolio and others are from a blog and corporate designs.

Elegant glass style navigation bar using CSS and toggle animated effect
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This tutorial illustrates how to design an elegant glass style navigation bar with a nice toggle animation effect, using CSS and MooTools.

Learn Ruby On Rails From Scratch
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ve heard a lot of web developers that know other languages, usually ASP or PHP, that want to learn Ruby on Rails, but just don’t know where to get started. From personal experience, I know it is very different from PHP. Personally, I learned Ruby on Rails less than a year ago, and have had few to no problems with it so far. If you haven’t already

10 Free Ancient Ruins Photoshop Brushes
28th Aug | Ravenfire

A set of 10 free photoshop brushes available for both commercial and non-commercial use.

15 Websites Where to Buy Drupal Themes
28th Aug | Jey

These are the websites you have to visit before deciding on a premium or free drupal theme for your website.

Free Digg-Like Wordpress Theme
28th Aug | Kevin Bowen

This theme is based on the massive social media site Digg, designed by VCARS. There are a range of awesome features, along with step-by-step instructions on how to install all the plugins. We’ve added bonus visual luxuries like Youtube integration, and a Flickr stream.

It’s perfect for any blogger who’s a Digg enthusiast, or for anyone who simply wants a professional looking blog. Download it now for FREE.

Pixel Precision with Diagnostic CSS
28th Aug | Andy Ford

By applying just 2 classes to the HTML element, you can place a design mockup behind a webpage to aid pixel precise development.

What You’re Missing if You Don’t Challenge Your Clients
28th Aug | Zinni

Do you know what can be achieved by taking a proactive stance towards questioning you clients?

31 New Quality Design Blogs
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31 new design blogs on the block

Logo Inspiration For Your Design Blog
28th Aug | Mehmet

If you are planning to open a new blog or change the logo of the existing one, you can have some inspiration from this article.

Six Life-Saving Firefox 3 SEO Extensions
28th Aug | Lauren

List of six great Firefox 3 extensions to make SEO research, link analysis and SERP monitoring easier.

UI is the Killer Feature
27th Aug | Dmitry

The article argues that the user interface (UI) is not only an important element of product design — it’s your product’s most important feature.

How to use WordPress as a Truly Customized CMS (Multiple Headers, Footers, Sidebars and more!)
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Info on using WordPress as a CMS (not just as a blog) with “How to” resource links

12 Things You Should Never Say to a Client
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The way that you talk with your clients can heavily influence their attitude and respect towards you. If you use the right language, and avoid talking yourself into a trap, it’s not too difficult to rid yourself of bad clients forever.

Web Services i can’t live without as a Web designer
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As web designers and internet enthusiasts we tend to use web applications to safely work without the worry of loosing data due to hardware failure. I would like to recommend a few web applications i use as a web designer. Let me know of your favorite web services in the comments.

How To Create An Amazing Style-Switcher With jQuery
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Learn how to create an amazing, and degradable style switcher using jQuery.

If They Come, You Will Build It
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This article has helpful beginner web designer tips from an experienced web designer. Starting out? Learn ways to find new clients, what to avoid, and how to save time and money.

free design studio template
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Free Dally design studio css template. Valid xhtml/css, easy to customize.

10 Sparkling 3-Column Joomla Templates
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Here a collection of 10 newest free 3-column joomla templates is presented. These joomla templates are very varied and you will definitely find the one if you want to start a joomla-based web site.

Top 10 websites that suck but shouldn’t
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I will not ridicule those who just made their graduation site on frontpage with comic-sans and a yellow background, Instead I will show you the 10 crappiest sites of corporations that should have the best designs possible !

Enhance the Quality of Your Design with Our Free Stylish Icon Set for Bloggers!
27th Aug | Tianna

Templates.com, a web designers’ marketplace,presents its new creation - Free Icon Set designed for Bloggers. It consists of 10 unique bottle-shaped icons for: StumbleUpon.com, Ma.gnolia.com, Technorati.com, del.icio.us, DesignFloat.com, Digg.com, RSS, Twitter.com, Facebook.com, and Reddit.com. Each icon is available in three dimensions: 80 ? 80 px, 64 ? 64 px and 32 ? 32 px.

Use these graphic satellites instead of tedious and trite icons to prettify and professionalize your website!

Create a Grid-Based CSS Design With Blueprint
27th Aug | Mark Randall

CSS grid systems have been creating a bit of a stir recently, so in this tutorial I’ll show you how simple and easy it is to utilise the Blueprint grid system when coding up your web pages.

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