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Elegant Themes has a New Theme Options page

Sep 29

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Options pages are becoming a core part of WordPress themes, particularly in premium ones where the competitive edge it gives is an essential.

Back in June we looked over Elegant Themes who are one of the top premium themes sites around and have just recreated their options page entirely.

This is a sponsored review, and as always, we’ll be focusing more on the design than the functionality to see what we can learn from it.

What Makes It Different?

The design of this page is stunning. It looks every bit as good as the theme itself, take a look and see (Click to see full size).

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Tags: input boxes, Nick, Page, subtle gradients

30 Excellent Websites using WordPress as a CMS

Sep 25

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5bf0e intro 30 Excellent Websites using Wordpress as a CMS

WordPress is the very customizable and developer friendly. You can make just about any website you have in mind with it; blog, portfolio, gallery, e-store, etc.

WordPress is much more than just a blogging platform. If you still see it that way, you will change your point of view after seeing these great sites using WordPress as a CMS.

Click on an image to see the site in full!

1. The Ford Story

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Tags: azteca 13, casa de moneda, cms, Excellent, Jim DeMint, outreach magazine

30 Bad Practices of Web Designers

Sep 22

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Every once in a while you will come across a page that just doesn’t seem ‘right’

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Tags: design habits, gif backgrounds, htmldog, information, search, w3c validator

6 Outstanding Logo Tutorials

Sep 17

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As we said in our previous post, logos have a big impact on how others view your blog or company.

Logo design is one of the hardest parts to execute as it is of great importance in creating brand identity and consistency with your design.

To help with that, we have collected 31 outstanding logo tutorials from around the web.

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Tags: company logo design, creative logo designs, D Encide, D Typography, euro 2008 logo, Logo, logo 3d, Mac OS, quot

Styling Different Posts to be Unique With Post_Class

Sep 15

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1eb46 leader post class Styling Different Posts to be Unique With Post Class

WordPress 2.7 came with the post class function. This gives a set of CSS classes to a post, depending on what’s in the post (e.g. based on what category it is in).

The code that you use in your template to use this is simply like this:

1	<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

While this is a fantastic function for changing a post’s display, the classes that it outputs are actually quite limited. Luckily, we can add our own, and we can also add our own dynamic classes.

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Tags: Alex, compliance category, dynamic classes, Martin, post

Creative 404 Pages Around

Sep 4

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404 pages are a great way to enhance the experience of the website visitors. Yet, it is one of the most neglected part of a web page.

They are also a great way to build trust with your visitor, keep your visitor engaged and obviously, for a better design. We have collected 30+ Creative 404 pages from around the web for your inspiration.

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Tags: Chris Jennings, inspiration, o matic, quot, way, website visitors

Build a Client Development site with WordPressMU

Sep 1

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Ever get tired of installing and setting up WordPress yet again so you can show a client a theme in development? Why yes, there is an easier way.

Enter WordPressMU, the multi-user, multi-blog version of WordPress which will soon be merged into the core. For those of you ready to jump-start some development,
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Tags: Moblogging, Web Developer