Have you heard people complain that Windows computers get more viruses and Apple computers? There are many reasons for that but one of the ones most commonly stated is that there are just so many more Windows computers out there. They make a much more inviting target. The same is true with Wordpress sites. They make up around 2% of all websites and so are a very attractive target. It's common for Wordpress beginners to end up with 100s of spam comments on their posts. The solution? Akismet.com. They provide a great spam-blocking service. You'll need it ... around 83% of all comments are spam. Configuring Akismet in Wordpress There's no installation needed with Akismet as it comes by default with Wordpress. It is owned and operated by the same company that runs Wordpress. Step 1: You'll need a Wordpress.com account: http://en.wordpress.com/signup Step 2: Enter your information. You can just select "Just a username, please." on the last line: Step 3: Once you're registered,...

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It's been a while since we did our last blog design showcase, so this post is a collection of 30 beautiful blogs for your design inspiration. You'll see some that use a minimalist design approach, others that use a grunge-style design, some that are magazine-style, and more. For more blog design inspiration, please see our gallery site Blog Design Heroes. Internet Gentleman

Business cards are a necessary marketing tool for any designer, and they also provide an opportunity for the designer to showcase some creativity and to make a lasting impression. In this post we'll feature 25 examples of double-sided business cards for your own inspiration. There are a lot of different approaches taken by the designers of the cards shown here, but each presents an attractive image to potential clients.

Sticky posts is one of the cool features that WordPress has, but sometimes you do not want to have sticky posts in your loop. In this article, we will show you how to completely exclude sticky posts from the loop in WordPress, and we will also show you how you can take away the sticky feature of the post, so it still shows in their natural order.

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Last week, a post at WRD was announcing the giveaway of a $50 printing credit and 2 * 1000 standard business cards by NextDayFlyers.com. The winners are selected & can be found at the bottom of this post. But before that, let's remember: What is NextDayFlyers.com? NextDayFlyers.com is an online printing service that can cover all your printing [...]

  The hottest new extension in Joomla is K2. Why? Normal Joomla articles provide you with a Title and Body. K2 gives you the flexibility to add much more information. For example, this is part of a K2 article about a camera called the Canon EOS Rebel: More than just an article, you add information about: Price Weight Color A link for more information You can also add tags, videos, photo galleries, comments and many more features. You can see the full Canon EOS Rebel example article here. That is the essential benefit of K2 ... you can create articles with much more information. Installing K2 Go to http://getk2.org and download the file. You'll see a file on your desktop with a name very similar to K2_v2.2.zip Go to the administrator area of your Joomla site, then Extensions >> Install / Uninstall. Click "Browse" to locate the package file and then click "Upload File and Install". Go to Components >> K2 The K2 Dashboard When you go to Components >> K2 you...

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If you’re like me, you graduated from art school and had dreams of working as an art director at a small agency. You envisioned having your own office on the top floor of a loft with 30-foot ceilings. Designers would play ping-pong below; people were allowed to drink beer at work; and [...]

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Strategy. You hear about it all the time. One must have a strategy/work on a strategy/follow a strategy and so on. Business types like to say “strategy” a lot as it sounds big, complicated and important. And it is important, but there is no need for it to be complicated. Quite the opposite. At the heart of [...]

This is a guest article by Ana Paula Rodrigues* recounting her attendance at the Chip Kidd / Milton Glaser lecture recently held in NYC. The Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York hosted a lecture between design royalty Milton Glaser and writer/graphic designer Chip Kidd on March 2. The event, titled “Chip Kidd + Milton [...]

We recommend open source software whenever we can, and the Firefox browser from Mozilla is one of our favorites. Firefox 3.6 recently came out with persona support, allowing users to skin their browsers with favorite designs and brands. WordPress users everywhere seem to love the W symbol (at WordCamps it shows up on everything from [...]

Thanks to tools like WordPress, publishing content online as never been easier. But how many times did you saw your own posts, republished on other websites without your consent? Content theft is definitely a big problem for bloggers. In this article, I’ll show you how to fight back content thieves the best you can. Content scrappers: Why [...]

Even if you are a seasoned professional photographer the chances are you will from time to time need one or maybe all of these cheat-sheets, whether it be to remember a shortcut key when photo editing or it could a simple reminder when taking a difficult or tricky shot. For today’s news we have a [...]

Engineered to make the design process as intuitive as possible, wireframing tools allow designers to construct visual representations of their interface before development begins. In this post, Tom Walker gives readers an overview of 15 of the most widely-used applications available. How does your wireframing tool of choice measure up?

Today we’re releasing another high quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members from the talented people at Go Media. These scrolls are very organic, and have that “old-world” style that you have been looking for. A lot of these were created by hand and leave room for you to type a message on the scroll. [...]

Roughly 3-4% of our readers view this site via a mobile device and that percentage is growing slowly week-to-week. They aren't great percentages but it was certainly high enough to prompt me into action - I started considering a mobile version of this site.

Quite a lot of people weighed in on this poll that went out in January. The question was: Should tags like em and strong go <em>(outside)</em> punctuation characters, or (<strong>inside them</strong>)? Like many polls around here, the question was interesting and stirred up some great conversation, but the question itself was probably flawed. There were only two [...]

In this giveaway, five readers will get a chance to win an XTHML/CSS, Flash, or logo template of their choice from TemplateWire.com.

Finding your way around a majority of the mobile websites that exist has become a nightmare with the lack of proper usability being implemented into their designs.

 

This has caused the quality of designs (especially the mobile usability factor) to decrease on a larger scale when compared to the sites that not only practice good mobile aesthetics, but allow their users a smooth transition between the regular site to an enticing experience on their mobile devices.

Because of the instability in a lot of the mobile web design information that is being distributed on the web, a lot of websites have very poor mobile interface designs. Below, we're going to cover a few simple, yet prominent steps to designing a much more effective interface and increasing the quality of a mobile websites usability.