Having the ability to add ratings and polls to your site can really do wonders for your project, by allowing your users to interact it can make them feel more involved.
Wordpress has a great selection of plugins for exactly this purpose, here I have listed some plugins that will allow you to add ratings, polls [...]

Name: Mindy Wagner
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Job Title: Web Designer, Viget Labs
Sites: mindywagner.net, viget.com
Twitter: @graphicsgirl

Today WebM.ag is speaking with Mindy Wagner, Mindy works out of Viget as a Web Designer, her name is frequently mentioned as one of the top female Web Designers in the world and is a role model to up and coming designers [...]

MySQL is an opensource solution for database management, it is one of the most popular options for many developers as it’s free, simple to use and very effective in serving its purpose.
To work on your MySQL database you will benefit from using some kind of “front end” to allow you to view and edit the [...]

IE6 is the bane of many designers lives, it is jam packed full of bugs and as it’s not a standards-compliant browser you have to apply a shed load of fixes and hacks to make it play nice.
Maybe it’s just me, but should I still be writing about fixes for IE6 in 2009? Probably not [...]

It’s every bloggers worst nightmare, waking up and opening your blog to find out it’s been hacked, potentially you could lose all of your articles, themes and even your entire database.
In today’s modern world it certainly pays to be security conscious, regularly backing up your database is a good start, but what is even better [...]

Wireframing can be a very efficient and time saving element of your design process, by wireframing you get a quick feel for your design and save running into issues if you were designing on the fly.
For those who don’t know what wireframing is, basically its laying out a page without colour, images or anything else [...]

Social media can be a fantastic boost to any blog, by submitting your recent articles to sites like Digg, Reddit and Stumbleupon you potentially could receive a surge of traffic.
Adding the social media buttons manually into each article can be time consuming and realistically isn’t a viable option for frequent bloggers, to combat this I [...]