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Archive for July, 2011

Found Friday Vol 63

July 29, 2011

Seems like all we’ve been doing on this here design blog are Found Fridays lately. This is what happens when you get swamped with client work I suppose; our regularly scheduled Monday posts fall by the wayside. Regardless, Found Fridays are all about the awesome design finds of the week, and here’s what we have in store for volume 63: a site designed for non-web-savvy creatives to get web savvy; a cool article showing what happens if well-known brands swapped logos; a great read on creative office cultures – specifically, Mailchimp’s; a good read on the issue with online news design and a proposal on fixing it; and a great WordPress plugin for more user-friendly custom fields.

Don’t Fear the Internet

(via swiss-miss) This site is designed to help those creatives who don’t know anything about HTML/CSS/publishing websites learn about these very things. Check it out if you fall in that category.

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Found Friday Vol 62

July 22, 2011

This week’s Found Friday is all about web development. I’d like to say I planned that, but really it just sort of happened that way. Anywho, this week we have: a tutorial on creating a settings page in WordPress; a tool for real-time CSS editing; a beautifully clean & simple Javascript select plugin; some new fonts; and a boilerplate for responsive & mobile-friendly website design.

Create a Settings Page for Your WordPress Website

This tutorial is long and in-depth, but it’s worth a read. The subject material isn’t simple either – recommended for somewhat experienced WordPress developers.

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Found Friday Vol 61

July 15, 2011

Happy Friday, and welcome to volume 61 of the best design finds of the week: Found Fridays. This week we have: a beautiful icon pack that comes with embeddable @font-face icons; a big list of new jQuery plugins; an article with some good tips on driving traffic to your site; a newly launched site with ‘designy’ temporary tattoos; and a combo iPhone case and bottle opener. Nice.

Tipogram

This sleek & simple icon pack costs $24, and you get the vector icons as well as @font-face icons to embed in your websites. Pretty solid.

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8 Plugins to Improve the WordPress CMS

July 11, 2011

WordPress has grown exponentially from its blogging roots to its current iteration: an open source publishing platform that many web developers use a fairly robust content management system for their clients. We use WordPress for all our client sites, as well as this one, and we regularly blog about it.

8 Must-Have WordPress CMS Plugins

However, WordPress as a base publishing platform doesn’t always cover all the bases when it comes to required CMS functionalities. There are a few plugins we use our custom WordPress sites in order to improve functionality. Let’s have a look at eight plugins to improve the WordPress CMS. Read the whole article >

Found Friday Vol 60

July 8, 2011

Found Friday Vol 60 is here, to see you off into yet another weekend. Hopefully yours is filled with greatness, whether design-related or not. Speaking of design-related greatness, this week’s finds include: a series of awesome gadget covers/cases; a list of great one-page apps for web designers; a jQuery plugin that makes creating custom dropdowns a breeze; a great article on “ego-management” for freelancers; and an article exploring designers who have used giveaways to establish themselves as industry leaders. Read on!