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Simple, Elegant Free WordPress Themes

Dusty — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:09:48 +0000

Designer Marios Lublinski has put together some truly beautiful, free WordPress themes. They are simple while elegant, making use of sharp contrast between black and white.

They are built specifically for designers to showcase their work. This works because the colors palettes are simple and basic. His themes are minimalist in that they don’t draw focus. Rather, they direct the browser to focus on the content. This is why his themes are built for artists and designers. I his words:

I design and develop modern and minimal WordPress themes. My focus for this website is to develop many beautiful WordPress themes for graphic designers, illustrators and mainly artist, to display their amazing artwork.

Here are some of his free themes

Note the attention to typography and minimal font sizes. I also particularly enjoy the ~~strike through~~ mouseover link styling. A couple of these themes return to the left-hand menu layout which was a common trait of designs a few years ago. Personally, I enjoyed the style and would love to see it make a comeback.

Contemporary Design

Studio Dessign

Minimal Dessign

Swiss Dessign

Style Dessign

Check out all of Marios’ free themes here.

Note: This is not a sponsored post. I just really like Marios’ work.

jQuery Powered Sticky Footer Plugin

Dusty — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:30:17 +0000

In a recent post, we hinted at the development of an exclusive jQuery powered WordPress Plugin. Today is the day! We have released the brand new, completely unique WordPress Constant Footer Plugin.

It uses a jQuery plugin combined with the simplicity of a WordPress plugin to create a super-simple sticky footer. The footer sticks to the bottom of the browser window regardless of how/where the user scrolls.

Complete with an easy-to-use dashboard settings page, the WP admin can change the opacity, color and height of the footer. Utilizing a slick fade-in effect, the plugin allows any HTML to be entered by the admin and displayed to the public.

Use the plugin to:

Showcase new content
Display site news
Encourage Twitter, RSS or other social media following
Offer premium, unique advertising space
Flag user attention for breaking news
And anything else you come up with!
(Tell us how you’re using the plugin in the comments belows)

The plugin is completely free, although donations are much appreciated. Here are some helpful links:

Plugin Homepage | Demo | Documentation

Inclusion in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory is pending. Until then, you can download the plugin from the homepage or by clicking here.

This plugin was developed by Pingable.org and released to our community of readers first. We like you that much! As with any new plugin, be patient as we work out any bugs.

Here are some screenshots:

30+ Free Simple WordPress Theme Designs

Simon Ward — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:45:18 +0000

If you are looking to pay for a WordPress theme, the first place I would start is Elegant themes…for $39.95 you get access to 50+ professional themes that are constantly updated and added to.

I was looking for a free minimalist theme for a site I was working on, and I found a whole heap of great options, so I decided to make it into a post. Most are pretty minimalist, others are just simple designs. Hope you find them useful.

First some Premium themes

Modest

Demo | Buy

SimplePress

Demo | Buy

OK….Here’s the 30 FREE Themes…

Equilibrium

Emptiness

Fotofolio

Enormous

MagZine

Modern Clix

Undedicated

Excel

Grace

The Essayist

Go Green

Berita Business

Folio Elements

Nerdpress

Meta-Morphosis

Bookish

Bpress

UNA

Vivee

OneRoom

Black Belt

Empty Canvas

Aligned

FREEmium

Designredux

Business Tunes

Helium

Fresh Tweet

Dodo

Vigilance

Monochrome

Freestyle

If you are looking to pay for a WordPress theme, the first place I would start is Elegant themes…for $39.95 you get access to 50+ professional themes that are constantly updated and added to.

25 Amazing Free Photoshop Graphics

Simon Ward — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:31:01 +0000

I have put together a list of Photoshop resources for you guys. All of the resources link to PSD files that are free to download. Please check the authors’ sites for licences. Some are free for personal use others are free for whatever. Have fun.

Vista Flare Orb
Party Crowd
Film Frame
Grunge City
Dj Design
iPhone GUI PSD
Plastic DVD Cover
Old School Retro Cassette Tape
Glossy Icon Pack
Shiny little icons
Web 2.0 peeling sticker
Buttons PSD
Aero Avatar and Sig
Star Sticker
Cool Junk for Web Designers
Green Leaf Icon Pack
Precious Heart
Icey Styles
Batman
Lots of Badges
Ipod Touch
Zune

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"350" alt="Zune" src="http://173.199.141.152/~pingabl/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/zune11.jpg" width="275" border="0">
Playstation 3
Slurpee
Orb

15 Cool Web Services Which You May Not have Used Yet

Simon Ward — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:41:49 +0000

With new Web 2.0 sites and services popping up every day, it’s hard work just keeping track of the cool stuff you can do online – let alone having the time to browse use any of them. So what you need a someone to do the hard work for you, and waste their free time checking this sort of stuff out.

Sociagami - Allows you to monitor and update most of your social networking accounts from one spot.
Startupping - A community for Internet entrepreneurs.
Sproutbuilder – Create your own widgets for your blog or Facebook to add viral marketing to your arsenal.
Ask 500 People – Make questions – and find out what people think.
Reshade – Make Small Images large.
Tipit – Create great content and post this button to your site. It allows people to “tip” you.
Dipity – Create and share interactive timelines to inject life into your older blog posts and more.
Social Marker – Semi Automatic social bookmarking tool is easy to use and ensures you actually get your sites submitted. Use Do follow option – sign up accounts at each – go to school getting backlinks.
Posty – Post to all your microblogging services at once with Posty an Adobe Air client that puts it all in one place. Download the desktop tool and access Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr, Friendfeed, and Identi.ca for posting, images, and videos in one place.
Pikistore – Create an online T-Shirt shop in seconds. Has a built in editor.
Spot Merchant – Web 2.0 style e commerce stores.
Predictify – Predict the future and make money. Great for research.
Free Tell A Friend – A free tell a friend widget to add to your sites.
Tubemogul – Free video submitter – It submits your videos to the 12 top video sharing sites and tracks how much traffic they get. This would be a great tool to use to promote your videos. Check out my How to Make money on Youtube post to find out how this site will help you make some dosh.
Mixx – A site where you can post interesting content (including yours).

If you didn’t find what you were looking for:

Update:
Reader Nigel also suggests you check out Hubdub.

Free Web 2.0 Services Vector Package

Simon Ward — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:36:56 +0000

Here are some vector images of useful social media services that I have made. Hopefully you will find them useful for your sites and blogs.

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I am releasing them under the CC Attribution license. Please include a link back to this post if you use these images. The icons in the package are copyrighted by their original websites.

Social Media + Google to Find Free Blog Resources Easily

Simon Ward — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:26:58 +0000

Using Google with some basic knowledge on advanced searching techniques you can find some high quality free resources which have typically been set up as digg bait on social media sites. The results of using Google over searching through the sites individually are much better, try for yourself by typing some of the following terms.

To search popular posts on digg type the following into Google:

site:Digg.com Free Icons
site:Digg.com Free Vectors
site:Digg.com Free Clipart
site:Digg.com Free graphics

This also works for other social media sites:

site:stumbleupon.com Free graphics
site:del.icio.us free icons
site:reddit.com free icons

The “site:” part of the search term specifies the site that you are asking Google to search and the rest is the specific search you want it to look for. Good Luck.

Free Stock Image Sites

Simon Ward — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:30:29 +0000

It’s quite a difficult task to find clean, crisp, relevant, yet legal images to use on a Website. If you understand what copyright is you will know that you can’t just grab any old image you see on the web and place it on your own site. So where do you get images from? Stock photography is the answer for many web designers – well those that aren’t the sort that carry around a digital SLR in their bag anyway. The problem here for most small sites is that a good stock image doesn’t come cheap, and I hear you saying…”why pay when I can just download free images from the net”. Good question. To get to the point, your main concern here should be legality. I am certainly not going to trust any old “Free Clip-art download site” where you don’t so much as even see a legal notice or licence for the image you are getting. However I have found a few sources of free legal downloads of stock images where the licensing of the images is very clear. These photos are sometimes referred to as public domain images.
Free Stock Image sites:
SXC <- Has many free images, with some extra sharp premium paid images which cost.
Morgue File <- All free, a good source for images.
Dreamstime <- Has some free images, mostly pay images.
Image After <- All free images.
Vecteezy <- Very cool site with some free vector images, and sorted by licence type (source of bikini image above).

Good luck pic hunting.