How To Display Your Feedburner Count And Twitter Followers Without Chicklets

Posted in Tutorials | On 5th February 2010 | 16 Comments
How To Display Your Feedburner Count And Twitter Followers Without Chicklets

Feedburner offers a great chicklet which allows you to add your subscriber count to your site, and for Twitter you can use a chicklet to display your followers from a service such as twittercounter.com.
What I’m going to show you today is a method of displaying these counts without actually using a chicklet which will allow [...]

10 Top Gothic Fonts

Posted in Fonts | On 4th February 2010 | 6 Comments
10 Top Gothic Fonts

Using Gothic style fonts in your designs can work tremendously well if done correctly, using for a grunge style design can add some flair and could be a major element you build the design around.
There are a good range of free and paid options available for fonts in this particular niche, here we have gathered [...]

A Few Twitter Tools To Monitor Trends And Your Stats

Posted in Tools | On 3rd February 2010 | 12 Comments
A Few Twitter Tools To Monitor Trends And Your Stats

Twitter socially speaking probably contains more data and realtime information than any other resource on the web, you can find pretty much every niche and topic imaginable, as a networking tool you can have some awesome results and really promote your product/project to the masses.
So with all this data Twitter holds its probably beneficial to [...]

350+ Grunge Textures

Posted in Freebies | On 2nd February 2010 | 8 Comments
350+ Grunge Textures

We have spoken about the influence of Grunge in modern web and graphic design a few times before here and have previously covered font and brushes.
Here we have collected over 350 grunge textures for you to use within your designs and projects and really give it that grungy feel.
Please read the authors usage policy in [...]

How To Make Automatic Tr.im Links In Wordpress Posts

Posted in Tutorials, Wordpress | On 1st February 2010 | 4 Comments
How To Make Automatic Tr.im Links In Wordpress Posts

Today I’m going to show you how to automatically add a tr.im link for each post on your Wordpress install using a little PHP, CSS and the tr.im API.
I was recently working on a project for a client when they required this function, to cut a long story short they changed the design specification and [...]

Mimic Design Elements From Some Of The Top Sites

Posted in Tutorials | On 31st January 2010 | 4 Comments
Mimic Design Elements From Some Of The Top Sites

Looking at some of the bigger site’s UI design can give you some inspiration for usability and of course the aesthetic side of things.
These bigger sites have design elements that work and users are comfortable with, so they are a good starting point for your own projects.
The following tutorials mimic these elements and show you [...]

Online Tools For Image Optimization and Resizing

Posted in Tools | On 30th January 2010 | 6 Comments
Online Tools For Image Optimization and Resizing

Website optimization in general is an important factor for any designer as page load times can be crucial, if your page takes 30 seconds to load users will not want to hang around.
What we are covering today is image optimization, basically image optimization is making your images smaller without losing quality so your page loads [...]

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